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The most popular books on Goodreads so far this year

Hi everyone!

Above is what one of my book spaces looked like a few months ago, more books added since then.

In case you haven’t seen it, I’m sharing the following information with you that is on Goodreads. None of my books shown above are on included in it.

They compiled a list of 9 of the most popular books in 9 categories (so far this year in Goodreads), so 81 titles. The selections are based on the total number of reader reviews and the titles that Goodreads members marked as “want to read.”

CONTEMPORARY FICTION:

  1. Hello Beautiful – by Ann Napolitano
  2. Yellowface – by R.F. Kuang
  3. Someone Else’s Shoes – by Jojo Moyes
  4. Maame – by Jessica George
  5. Pineapple Street – by Jenny Jackson
  6. The Collected Regrets of Clover – by Mikki Brammer
  7. Big Swiss – by Jen Beagin
  8. Birnam Wood – by Eleanor Catton
  9. Adelaide – by Genevieve Wheeler

HISTORICAL FICTION:

  1. Weyward – by Emelia Hart
  2. The House of Eve – by Sadeqa Johnson
  3. River Sing Me Home – by Eleanor Shearer
  4. The Covenant of Water – by Abraham Verghese
  5. The House is on Fire – by Rachel Beanland
  6. Hang the Moon – by Jeannette Walls
  7. Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? – by Crystal Smith Paul
  8. The Trackers – by Charles Frazier
  9. Lady Than’s Circle of Women – by Lisa See

MYSTERY:

  1. All The Dangerous Things – by Stacy Willingham
  2. The Housemaid’s Secret – by Freida McFadden
  3. What Lies in The Woods – by Kate Alice Marshall
  4. I Have Some Questions For You – by Rebecca Makkai
  5. Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers – by Jesse Q. Sutanto
  6. Homecoming – by Kate Morten
  7. The Maid’s Diary – by Loreth Anne White
  8. I Will Find You – by Harlan Corben
  9. The Bandit Queens – by Parini Shroff

FANTASY:

  1. Fourth Wing – by Rebecca Yarros
  2. Hell Bent – by Leigh Bardugo
  3. A Day of Fallen Night – by Samantha Shannon
  4. Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries (book #1) – by Heather Fawcett
  5. Tress of the Emerald Sea – by Brandon Sanderson
  6. Atalanta – by Jennifer Saint
  7. Witch King – by Martha Wells
  8. Victory City – by Salman Rushdie
  9. Clytemnestra – by Costanza Casati

SCIENCE FICTION:

  1. In The Lives of Puppets – by T.J. Klune
  2. The Ferryman – by Justin Cronin
  3. Chain-Gang All-Stars – by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
  4. Ascension – by Nicholas Binge
  5. The Marriage Act – by John Marrs
  6. Some Desperate Glory – by Emily Tesh
  7. Children of Memory – by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  8. Meru – by S.B. Divya
  9. The Endless Vessel – by Charles Soule

HORROR:

  1. How to Sell a Haunted House – by Grady Hendrix
  2. Lone Women – by Victor Lavalle
  3. A House With Good Bones – by T. Kingfisher
  4. Don’t Fear The Reaper – by Stephen Graham Jones
  5. Sisters of The Lost Nation – by Nick Medina
  6. Natural Beauty – by Ling Ling Huang
  7. Bad Cree – by Jessica Johns
  8. The Haunting of Alejandra – by V. Castro
  9. Looking Glass Sound – by Catriona Ward

ROMANCE:

  1. Happy Place – by Emily Henry
  2. Romantic Comedy – by Curtis Sittenfeld
  3. Yours Truly – by Abby Jimenez
  4. Final Offer – by Lauren Asher
  5. Things We Hide From The Light – by Lucy Score
  6. Exes and O’s – by Amy Lea
  7. Meet Me at The Lake – by Carley Fortune
  8. True Love – by Christian Lauren
  9. The Right Move – by Liz Tomforde

YOUNG ADULT:

  1. The Stolen Heir – by Holly Black
  2. Chain of Thorns (The Last Hour, book #3) – by Cassandra Clare
  3. Song of Silver Flame Like Night – by Emelie Wen Zhao
  4. Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute – by Talia Hibbert
  5. These Infinite Threads – by Tahereh Mafi
  6. The Davenports – by Krystal Marquis
  7. Divine Rivals – by Rebecca Ross
  8. Warrior Girl Unearthed – by Angeline Boulley
  9. Forget Me Not – by Alyson Derrick

NONFICTION:

  1. Spare – by Prince Harry
  2. The Wager: a Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder – by David Grann
  3. Poverty, By America – by Matthew Desmond
  4. A Fever in The Heartland – by Timothy Egan
  5. The Creative Act: a Way of Being – by Rick Rubin
  6. You Could Make This Place Beautiful – by Maggie Smith
  7. Quietly Hostile – by Samantha Irby
  8. A Living Remedy: a memoir – by Nicole Chung
  9. King: a Life – by Jonathan Eig

I am sad to say that I have read NONE of these yet! I own a copy of Hang the Moon which I have yet to get into, and I want to read Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, The Housemaid’s Secret, Homecoming, The Wager, A Fever in The Heartland.

Which books have you read of the 81 listed above? Did you like or dislike them? Which ones do you want to read?

Thanks for visiting! I appreciate you, And … Creative Musings! – Lynn

A List: 64 most-liked books

“The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” ~Dr. Seuss

I like to read — but I think you knew that. 😉 

I also like checking out lists. If you do, too, here is one you might enjoy. Scholastic believes you are what you read. They compiled a list of sixty-four most-liked books, and even though these are included in the adult books list, a few are children’s books. You will notice that some on this list are complete sets and a few of those in the sets are also listed as single books.

  1. To Kill a Mockingbird – by Harper Lee
  2. The Hunger Games – by Suzanne Collins
  3. Harry Potter Boxed Set – by J. K. Rowling
  4. Pride and Prejudice – by Jane Austen
  5. The Giving Tree – by Shel Silverstein
  6. Charlotte’s Web – by E. B. White; Garth Williams (Illustrator)
  7. The Bible – “unknown”
  8. The Diary of Anne Frank – by Anne Frank
  9. The Giver – by Lois Lowry
  10. The Great Gatsby – by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  11. Harry Potter and The Sorcerer – by J. K. Rowling
  12. Twilight – by Stephenie Meyer
  13. Gone With The Wind – by Margaret Mitchell
  14. A Wrinkle In Time – by Madeleine L’Engle
  15. The Catcher In The Rye – by J. D. Salinger
  16. The Help – by Kathryn Stockett
  17. The Lord of The Rings – by J.R.R. Tolkien
  18. Jane Eyre – by Charlotte Brontë
  19. The Hobbit – by J. R. R. Tolkien
  20. The Outsiders – by S. E. Hinton
  21. Where The Sidewalk Ends – by Shel Silverstein
  22. Little Women – by Louisa May Alcott
  23. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – by by J. K. Rowling
  24. Catching Fire – by Suzanne Collins
  25. The Secret Garden – by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  26. Green Eggs And Ham – by Dr. Seuss
  27. Where The Red Fern Grows – by Wilson Rawls
  28. Where The Wild Things Are – by Maurice Sendak
  29. The Twilight Saga Collection – by Stephenie Meyer
  30. Anne of Green Gables – by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  31. Of Mice and Men – by John Steinbeck
  32. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – by C.S. Lewis
  33. Wuthering Heights – by Emily Bronte
  34. The Book Thief – by Markus Zusak
  35. Mockingjay – by Suzanne Collins
  36. The Kite Runner – by Khaled Hosseini
  37. 1984 – by George Orwell
  38. Love You Forever – by Robert N. Munsch; Sheila McGraw (Illustrator)
  39. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn – by Betty Smith
  40. Fahrenheit 451 – by Ray Bradbury
  41. The Little Prince – by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Illustrator); Katherine Woods (Translator)
  42. Nancy Drew series – by Carolyn Keene
  43. Night – by Elie Weisel
  44. Lord of the Flies – by William Golding
  45. The Chronicles of Narnia complete collection – by C. S. Lewis
  46. Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass – by Lewis Carroll
  47. Eat, Pray, Love – by Elizabeth Gilbert
  48. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – by J. K. Rowling
  49. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy – by Douglas Adams
  50. Little House on the Prairie – by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  51. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – by J. K. Rowling
  52. The Alchemist – by Paulo Coelho
  53. Eclipse – by Stephenie Meyer
  54. Oh, the Places You’ll Go! – by Dr. Seuss
  55. Matilda – by Roald Dahl
  56. The Shack – by William P. Young
  57. New Moon – by Stephenie Meyer
  58. Breaking Dawn – by Stephenie Meyer
  59. The Five People You Meet in Heaven – by Mitch Albom
  60. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – by J. K. Rowling
  61. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – by J.K. Rowling
  62. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
  63. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret – by Judy Blume
  64. The Stand – by Stephen King

How many on the list were you able to check off? Are your favourites on there; if not, what would you add? Are any of these books on your to-be-read list?

Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂