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Popular One-Hit Wonder Novels

Some of the most beloved novels ever written marked the beginning and end of a literary career. Today we're rounding up the most popular of these one-hit wonders.
For this list, we defined a one-hit wonder as the only well-known novel published by an author (which means they could have gone on to publish short story collections, works of nonfiction, or poetry and still be included in this roundup). Then we narrowed it down to the books that have been added the most to Goodreads members' shelves.
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein
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The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
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Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
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Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
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Black Beauty
Black Beauty
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Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
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The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
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The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
10
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
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Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
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The Picture of Dorian Grey (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Grey (Oscar Wilde)
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
15
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
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The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
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All Quiet on the Western Front (German Title: Im Westen Nichts Neues) (Enrich Maria Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front (German Title: Im Westen Nichts Neues) (Enrich Maria Remarque)
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Watership Down (Richard Adams)
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
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The Phantom Tollbooth
The Phantom Tollbooth
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The Neverending Story
The Neverending Story
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr.)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr.)
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
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Pedro Páramo
Pedro Páramo
24
Battle Royale (Koushun Takami)
Battle Royale (Koushun Takami)
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The Monk
The Monk
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Fat City (Leonard Gardner)
Fat City (Leonard Gardner)
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Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon
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The Outsiders
The Outsiders
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The Leopard
The Leopard
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Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
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Solaris (Stanislaw Lem)
Solaris (Stanislaw Lem)
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Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
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The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
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Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (Susanna Clarke)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (Susanna Clarke)
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The Library at Mount Char (Scott Hawkins)
The Library at Mount Char (Scott Hawkins)
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The Last Unicorn
The Last Unicorn
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Geek Love Katherine Dunn
Geek Love Katherine Dunn
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The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji
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Nightwood (Djuna Barnes)
Nightwood (Djuna Barnes)
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