My Twenty Favorite Books

1.
Boy's Life
Boy's Life 4.40 avg rating — 39,724 ratings
2.
The Bottoms
The Bottoms 4.19 avg rating — 9,487 ratings
2.
Speaks the Nightbird (Matthew Corbett, #1)
Speaks the Nightbird (Matthew Corbett, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 14,688 ratings
4.
Cat's Cradle
Cat's Cradle 4.15 avg rating — 428,365 ratings
4.
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1) 4.31 avg rating — 1,449,705 ratings
4.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,250 ratings
7.
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler 1)
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler 1) 4.06 avg rating — 179,473 ratings
8.
Johnny Got His Gun
Johnny Got His Gun 4.21 avg rating — 47,417 ratings
9.
Perfume
Perfume 4.04 avg rating — 530,056 ratings
10.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction 3.36 avg rating — 683 ratings
10.
Misery
Misery 4.23 avg rating — 815,556 ratings
12.
The Winter of Our Discontent
The Winter of Our Discontent 4.01 avg rating — 52,143 ratings
13.
The Pigeon
The Pigeon 3.71 avg rating — 22,173 ratings
14.
The Autumn Dead (Jack Dwyer, #5)
The Autumn Dead (Jack Dwyer, #5)
by: Ed Gorman
3.90 avg rating — 41 ratings
15.
Song of Kali
Song of Kali 3.61 avg rating — 15,305 ratings
16.
Hunger
Hunger 4.04 avg rating — 62,396 ratings
17.
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces 3.89 avg rating — 291,768 ratings
18.
The Child Buyer: A Novel in the Form of Hearings Before the Standing Committee on Education, Welfare, and Public Morality of a Certain State Senate
The Child Buyer: A Novel in the Form of Hearings Before the Standing Committee on Education, Welfare, and Public Morality of a Certain State Senate 3.81 avg rating — 381 ratings
19.
Walden Two
Walden Two 3.52 avg rating — 7,745 ratings
20.
Rain
Rain 3.54 avg rating — 523 ratings
21.
Final Cut: Dreams and Disaster in the Making of Heaven's Gate
Final Cut: Dreams and Disaster in the Making of Heaven's Gate 4.01 avg rating — 974 ratings
22.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,356,054 ratings
23.
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 3.95 avg rating — 46,969 ratings
24.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,800,335 ratings