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The 200 most-read

Book	Author	Median pages	Reading time	Editions
It Ends With Us	Colleen Hoover	384	6 h 46 min	8
Rich Dad, Poor Dad	Robert T. Kiyosaki	207	3 h 59 min	11
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	J. K. Rowling	309	5 h 27 min	41
Think and Grow Rich	Napoleon Hill	266	5 h 07 min	82
How to Win Friends and Influence People	Dale Carnegie	275	5 h 18 min	48
A Game of Thrones	George R. R. Martin	820	14 h 28 min	20
It	Stephen King	1,138	20 h 04 min	19
The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho	198	3 h 29 min	21
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind	Joseph Murphy	224	4 h 19 min	36
A Court of Mist and Fury	Sarah J. Maas	640	11 h 17 min	9
Nineteen Eighty-Four	George Orwell	314	5 h 32 min	144
Shatter Me	Tahereh Mafi	408	7 h 12 min	6
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People	Stephen R. Covey	384	7 h 24 min	14
Diary of a Wimpy Kid	Jeff Kinney	224	3 h 57 min	12
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	354	6 h 14 min	1298
The Lightning Thief	Rick Riordan	384	6 h 46 min	18
The Art of War	孙武 (Sun Tzu)	70	1 h 21 min	413
The Hunger Games	Suzanne Collins	436	7 h 41 min	28
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	J. K. Rowling	341	6 h 01 min	39
Fifty Shades of Grey	E. L. James	514	9 h 04 min	11
Twilight	Stephenie Meyer	481	8 h 29 min	20
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	320	5 h 38 min	47
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder	Holly Jackson	409	7 h 13 min	6
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	J. K. Rowling	759	13 h 23 min	27
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	J. K. Rowling	435	7 h 40 min	36
Thinking, Fast and Slow	Daniel Kahneman	499	9 h 37 min	8
The Art of Seduction	Robert Greene	468	9 h 01 min	5
Sapiens	Yuval Noah Harari	450	8 h 39 min	12
The Silent Patient	Alex Michaelides	336	5 h 55 min	5
Animal Farm	George Orwell	119	2 h 06 min	109
The Hobbit	J.R.R. Tolkien	304	5 h 22 min	102
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	J. K. Rowling	640	11 h 17 min	36
Le Petit Prince	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	96	1 h 42 min	72
The Intelligent Investor	Benjamin Graham	332	6 h 24 min	16
Dune	Frank Herbert	535	9 h 26 min	29
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	J. K. Rowling	816	14 h 23 min	27
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	172	3 h 02 min	54
Charlotte's Web	E. B. White	184	3 h 15 min	60
The Fault in Our Stars	John Green	318	5 h 36 min	9
A Little Life	Hanya Yanagihara	736	12 h 58 min	6
The Power of Positive Thinking	Norman Vincent Peale	276	5 h 19 min	31
A Court of Thorns and Roses	Sarah J. Maas	440	7 h 45 min	10
No Longer Human	太宰治	177	3 h 07 min	9
The Song of Achilles	Madeline Miller	388	6 h 50 min	6
Man's Search for Meaning	Viktor Emil Frankl	165	3 h 11 min	43
Metamorphosis	Franz Kafka	78	1 h 22 min	91
The Power of Now	Eckhart Tolle	216	4 h 10 min	12
The Shining	Stephen King	464	8 h 11 min	25
Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë	315	5 h 33 min	1127
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	J. K. Rowling	652	11 h 30 min	23
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	225	3 h 58 min	150
The Richest Man in Babylon	George S. Clason	114	2 h 12 min	89
The Eye of the World	Robert Jordan	750	13 h 13 min	13
Wonder	R. J. Palacio	341	6 h 01 min	13
The Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown	467	8 h 14 min	38
Lord of the Flies	William Golding	243	4 h 17 min	46
Heartstopper, Volume 1	Alice Oseman	288	5 h 05 min	6
Crime and Punishment	Fiódor Dostoievski	520	9 h 10 min	441
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	182	3 h 12 min	183
L’étranger	Albert Camus	127	2 h 14 min	89
Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	319	5 h 37 min	64
The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood	336	5 h 55 min	35
Matilda	Roald Dahl	240	4 h 14 min	31
The Catcher in the Rye	J. D. Salinger	218	3 h 51 min	45
November 9	Colleen Hoover	320	5 h 38 min	6
Fourth Wing	Rebecca Yarros	517	9 h 07 min	5
Romeo and Juliet	William Shakespeare	191	3 h 22 min	409
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]	Arthur Conan Doyle	312	5 h 30 min	221
Misery	Stephen King	384	6 h 46 min	20
The Giver	Lois Lowry	205	3 h 37 min	24
Coraline	Neil Gaiman	182	3 h 12 min	17
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Roald Dahl	162	2 h 51 min	54
The Hate U Give	Angie Thomas	453	7 h 59 min	11
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	370	6 h 32 min	24
A Brief History of Time	Stephen Hawking	212	4 h 04 min	14
Carrie	Stephen King	245	4 h 19 min	23
Meditations	Marcus Aurelius	210	4 h 03 min	363
Little Women	Louisa May Alcott	506	8 h 55 min	291
The Book Thief	Markus Zusak	568	10 h	16
The Lord of the Rings	J.R.R. Tolkien	1,168	20 h 35 min	36
Dracula	Bram Stoker	390	6 h 52 min	708
The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Stephen Chbosky	224	3 h 56 min	12
Pet Sematary	Stephen King	423	7 h 27 min	21
The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank	283	5 h 27 min	71
The Fellowship of the Ring	J.R.R. Tolkien	432	7 h 37 min	69
Bible	Bible	1,504	28 h 58 min	3215
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus	Mary Shelley	247	4 h 21 min	360
And Then There Were None	Agatha Christie	224	3 h 57 min	38
Emotional Intelligence	Daniel Goleman	355	6 h 50 min	6
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	215	3 h 47 min	25
Dog Days	Jeff Kinney	224	3 h 57 min	16
A Thousand Splendid Suns	Khaled Hosseini	384	6 h 46 min	12
Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck	118	2 h 05 min	86
The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	127	2 h 14 min	47
Divergent	Veronica Roth	487	8 h 35 min	10
Mindset	Carol S. Dweck	282	5 h 26 min	6
The Lost Hero	Rick Riordan	562	9 h 54 min	9
The Sea of Monsters	Rick Riordan	279	4 h 55 min	14
The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath	240	4 h 14 min	35
Six of Crows	Leigh Bardugo	496	8 h 45 min	7
Holes	Louis Sachar	240	4 h 14 min	22
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	130	2 h 18 min	595
They Both Die at the End	Adam Silvera	373	6 h 35 min	5
The Four Agreements	Don Miguel Ruiz	168	3 h 14 min	5
Catching Fire	Suzanne Collins	438	7 h 44 min	22
Kama Sutra	Vatsyāyana	186	3 h 35 min	173
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	253	4 h 28 min	460
Dog Man	Dav Pilkey	240	4 h 14 min	6
The Outsiders	S. E. Hinton	192	3 h 23 min	15
Hatchet	Gary Paulsen	195	3 h 26 min	28
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel García Márquez	422	7 h 26 min	32
The Prince	Niccolò Machiavelli	148	2 h 37 min	180
Steve Jobs	Walter Isaacson	630	12 h 08 min	7
Moby Dick	Herman Melville	507	8 h 56 min	541
Foundation	Isaac Asimov	227	4 h	27
Throne of Glass	Sarah J. Maas	432	7 h 37 min	9
Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe	192	3 h 23 min	40
Hamlet	William Shakespeare	210	4 h 03 min	691
The Secret Language of Birthdays	Gary Goldschneider	832	16 h 01 min	5
The Invisible Man	H. G. Wells	178	3 h 08 min	191
Ender's Game	Orson Scott Card	328	5 h 46 min	26
Tuesdays with Morrie	Mitch Albom	192	3 h 42 min	16
The Magic of Thinking Big	David Joseph Schwartz	246	4 h 44 min	15
Angels & Demons	Dan Brown	620	10 h 56 min	30
The Titan's Curse	Rick Riordan	312	5 h 30 min	9
American Psycho	Bret Easton Ellis	399	7 h 02 min	8
Rodrick Rules	Jeff Kinney	224	3 h 57 min	7
I, Robot	Isaac Asimov	218	3 h 51 min	27
Eat That Frog!	Brian Tracy	129	2 h 29 min	9
The Secret History	Donna Tartt	559	9 h 51 min	9
The Eyes of Darkness	Dean Koontz	369	6 h 30 min	10
Games People Play	Eric Berne	192	3 h 23 min	17
The Time Machine	H. G. Wells	122	2 h 09 min	175
Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus	John Gray	316	6 h 05 min	14
Me Before You	Jojo Moyes	503	8 h 52 min	7
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë	518	9 h 08 min	258
The Color Purple	Alice Walker	262	4 h 37 min	32
Normal People	Sally Rooney	273	4 h 49 min	7
Murder on the Orient Express	Agatha Christie	242	4 h 16 min	46
The Way of the Superior Man	David Deida	224	4 h 19 min	5
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Mark Haddon	260	4 h 35 min	27
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari	Robin S. Sharma	210	3 h 42 min	8
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	C. S. Lewis	186	3 h 17 min	51
Ready Player One	Ernest Cline	384	6 h 46 min	7
Looking for Alaska	John Green	272	4 h 48 min	16
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child	Jack Thorne	331	5 h 50 min	6
The Green Mile	Stephen King	474	8 h 22 min	18
Jurassic Park	Michael Crichton	400	7 h 03 min	13
Mein Kampf	Adolf Hitler	600	11 h 33 min	85
The Name of the Wind	Patrick Rothfuss	672	11 h 51 min	9
Mockingjay	Suzanne Collins	416	7 h 20 min	17
Red Queen	Victoria Aveyard	388	6 h 50 min	7
The Deal	Elle Kennedy	375	6 h 37 min	5
The Duke and I	Julia Quinn	432	7 h 37 min	8
Elon Musk	Ashlee Vance	392	7 h 33 min	5
A Child Called "it"	David J. Pelzer	163	3 h 08 min	14
Slaughterhouse-Five	Kurt Vonnegut	186	3 h 17 min	36
A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens	407	7 h 10 min	480
The BFG	Roald Dahl	209	3 h 41 min	29
Cabin Fever	Jeff Kinney	217	3 h 50 min	9
Double Down	Jeff Kinney	224	3 h 57 min	13
Eragon	Christopher Paolini	522	9 h 13 min	12
Who Moved My Cheese?	Spencer Johnson	94	1 h 39 min	7
'Salem’s Lot	Stephen King	427	7 h 32 min	28
The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle	25	26 min	31
The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas	621	10 h 57 min	88
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	350	6 h 10 min	531
The Three-Body Problem	刘慈欣	424	7 h 28 min	6
The Last Olympian	Rick Riordan	376	6 h 37 min	10
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	132	2 h 20 min	107
Beloved	Toni Morrison	321	5 h 40 min	35
The Martian	Andy Weir	376	6 h 38 min	10
The Battle of the Labyrinth	Rick Riordan	364	6 h 25 min	9
The Final Empire	Brandon Sanderson	612	10 h 47 min	10
The Long Haul	Jeff Kinney	224	3 h 57 min	7
Influence	Robert B. Cialdini	272	5 h 14 min	14
A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L'Engle	212	3 h 44 min	31
The Secret Garden	Frances Hodgson Burnett	270	4 h 46 min	288
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	L. Frank Baum	159	2 h 48 min	361
The Two Towers	J.R.R. Tolkien	398	7 h 01 min	74
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas	John Boyne	216	3 h 48 min	22
James and the Giant Peach	Roald Dahl	144	2 h 32 min	27
Speak	Laurie Halse Anderson	197	3 h 28 min	11
Anne of Green Gables	Lucy Maud Montgomery	323	5 h 42 min	220
Wrecking Ball	Jeff Kinney	224	3 h 57 min	7
Rich Dad, Poor Dad for Teens	Robert T. Kiyosaki	132	2 h 33 min	5
Fantastic Mr Fox	Roald Dahl	90	1 h 35 min	21
The War of the Worlds	H. G. Wells	221	3 h 54 min	156
The Stand	Stephen King	834	14 h 42 min	20
The Cat in the Hat	Dr. Seuss	63	1 h 07 min	20
Unravel Me	Tahereh Mafi	480	8 h 28 min	5
Autobiography of a Yogi	Yogananda Paramahansa	500	9 h 38 min	56
Macbeth	William Shakespeare	140	2 h 28 min	595
Freakonomics	Steven D. Levitt	320	6 h 10 min	13
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes	Suzanne Collins	517	9 h 07 min	6
Marketing Management	Philip Kotler	771	14 h 51 min	24
All the Light We Cannot See	Anthony Doerr	544	9 h 35 min	11
Catch-22	Joseph Heller	463	8 h 10 min	50
Guess How Much I Love You	Sam McBratney	32	34 min	33
Project Hail Mary	Andy Weir	496	8 h 45 min	8

Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).