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Overview
as published in 2025:
"To do this, we trawled through the most popular books on Goodreads and sorted by publication date, from 1925 to 2024. Then we picked out one title from at or near the top of each year. We didn’t always grab the top book for a few reasons. Repeats, for one—some eras are very Agatha Christie, for instance. Other years had multiple good contenders for the top spot and we resorted to metaphorical arm wrestling to determine which book made it in."
"To do this, we trawled through the most popular books on Goodreads and sorted by publication date, from 1925 to 2024. Then we picked out one title from at or near the top of each year. We didn’t always grab the top book for a few reasons. Repeats, for one—some eras are very Agatha Christie, for instance. Other years had multiple good contenders for the top spot and we resorted to metaphorical arm wrestling to determine which book made it in."
100 Years of Popular Books on Goodreads
18 participants (100 books)
Overview
as published in 2025:
"To do this, we trawled through the most popular books on Goodreads and sorted by publication date, from 1925 to 2024. Then we picked out one title from at or near the top of each year. We didn’t always grab the top book for a few reasons. Repeats, for one—some eras are very Agatha Christie, for instance. Other years had multiple good contenders for the top spot and we resorted to metaphorical arm wrestling to determine which book made it in."
"To do this, we trawled through the most popular books on Goodreads and sorted by publication date, from 1925 to 2024. Then we picked out one title from at or near the top of each year. We didn’t always grab the top book for a few reasons. Repeats, for one—some eras are very Agatha Christie, for instance. Other years had multiple good contenders for the top spot and we resorted to metaphorical arm wrestling to determine which book made it in."
Challenge Books
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1928
