The online used book retailer’s list includes modern classics, children’s books and BookTok staples
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- ThriftBooks released a list of its top 250 books, chosen from over 19 million titles
- The list from the online retailer includes a variety of books across genres, from children’s literature to nonfiction
- Among the list are books by Toni Morrison, Suzanne Collins, Virginia Evans and more
If you need some summer reading inspiration, ThriftBooks has your back.
On June 11, the web-based used book retailer shared a list of its top 250 books.
The list was selected from over 19 million titles, and was determined beyond a simple bestseller ranking, per ThriftBooks' website. The retailer took into account which books readers continuously bought, rated, recommended and returned to over a period of time. The list was also limited to one book per genre.
“The result is a list of reader favorites with real staying power, from classics and classroom staples to modern favorites, book club picks and genre-defining series,” ThriftBooks continued.
The list's highest-ranked books confirmed that variety, with Viktor E. Frankl's nonfiction classic Man's Search for Meaning taking the top spot. Among the top 10 were Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling, 1984 by George Orwell, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
A selection of children's books made the cut too, including The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, Charlotte's Web by E.B. White and Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. Additional classics like The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, along with recent bestsellers like The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, were also among the top titles.
ThriftBooks divided the books into categories for easy browsing, including books that inspired screen adaptations, like Homer's The Odyssey and Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures, along with BookTok favorites, like The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
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ThriftBooks' list is just one more initiative from the online retailer to get people talking about literature. In January, the organization launched the 500 Billion Page Challenge, which aimed to encourage Americans to fall in love with reading again.
"If you enjoy it, your brain will come back to it — and when your brain comes back, you read more," author Jon Levy said in a statement shared with PEOPLE at the time. "That's the point."
To see the full list of ThriftBooks' 250 top titles, visit its website.
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