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Novels featuring Orphans

Rank Title Author Added

1

by Charlotte Brontë

67,839 members

1,017 reviews

4.2

5 Members: codewell, Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)

by J. K. Rowling

153,670 members

2,213 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: KimarieBee, codewell, Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

3

James and the Giant Peach

23,671 members

386 reviews

3.9

4 Members: Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

by J. K. Rowling

125,519 members

1,090 reviews

4.2

4 Members: codewell, Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

5

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

by J. K. Rowling

113,096 members

1,000 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: codewell, Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

6

47,446 members

1,050 reviews

3.9

3 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

43,956 members

478 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

42,069 members

612 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Graveyard Book

24,884 members

1,313 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

18,279 members

232 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

17,717 members

215 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by Johanna Spyri

14,341 members

175 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963

13

Pippi Longstocking

by Astrid Lindgren

12,807 members

174 reviews

4

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

by J. K. Rowling

122,057 members

1,080 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

15

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

by J. K. Rowling

113,695 members

935 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

16

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling

108,480 members

1,640 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

17

11,284 members

318 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

18

The Boxcar Children

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

11,182 members

116 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Rudyard Kipling

10,187 members

216 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thorold, aulsmith

20

Daughter of Fortune

by Isabel Allende

9,573 members

203 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, KimarieBee

21

by Louisa May Alcott

9,188 members

73 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

22

by Eleanor H. Porter

5,838 members

78 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

23

by Louisa May Alcott

5,314 members

67 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

24

Citizen of the Galaxy

by Robert A. Heinlein

3,358 members

73 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, codewell

25

by Louisa May Alcott

3,038 members

37 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

26

A Redbird Christmas

by Fannie Flagg

1,799 members

91 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, KimarieBee

27

Jane Eyre [unidentified version]

329 members

9 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

28

Anne of Green Gables [abridged - Puffin Audiobooks]

by L. M. Montgomery

15 members

1 review

½ 4.3

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

29

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

by J. K. Rowling

115,742 members

961 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

30

by Charles Dickens

28,386 members

273 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

31

The Bad Beginning

by Lemony Snicket

25,190 members

525 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

32

The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

18,331 members

931 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

33

The Cider House Rules

12,583 members

164 reviews

4.1

Member: thorold

34

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

by Brian Selznick

10,992 members

685 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

35

by Cornelia Funke

10,174 members

197 reviews

3.8

Member: cej1027

36

by Laurie Halse Anderson

7,732 members

248 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

37

by Marilynne Robinson

7,077 members

235 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

38

by Christina Baker Kline

7,073 members

474 reviews

4

Member: dara85

39

Crispin: The Cross of Lead

by Avi

6,501 members

134 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: cej1027

40

Pictures of Hollis Woods

by Patricia Reilly Giff

4,988 members

112 reviews

4

Member: cej1027

41

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

by Kate Douglas Wiggin

4,729 members

52 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

42

Meet Samantha: An American Girl

by Susan S. Adler

4,558 members

36 reviews

4

Member: cej1027

43

Understood Betsy

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

3,568 members

40 reviews

4.2

Member: dara85

44

by Karin Slaughter

3,022 members

87 reviews

4

Member: dara85

45

This Tender Land

by William Kent Krueger

2,913 members

153 reviews

4.2

Member: dara85

46

by Gwyn Hyman Rubio

2,773 members

32 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

47

The Shakespeare Stealer

by Gary Blackwood

2,764 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: cej1027

48

The Last Dragonslayer

by Jasper Fforde

2,547 members

140 reviews

3.8

Member: cej1027

49

by Kirby Larson

2,128 members

104 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

50

Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy

1,954 members

120 reviews

4.1

Member: codewell

51

The Orphan's Tale

1,934 members

100 reviews

4

Member: dara85

52

The Turn of the Screw / The Aspern Papers

1,788 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thorold

53

Mistress Masham's Repose

1,502 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

54

The Redemption of Sarah Cain

by Beverly Lewis

1,385 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

55

Secrets of Eden

by Chris Bohjalian

1,173 members

92 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

56

1,131 members

80 reviews

4

Member: dara85

57

The Song of the Quarkbeast

by Jasper Fforde

1,096 members

68 reviews

3.9

Member: cej1027

58

The Rescuers (Disney's Wonderful World of Reading)

by Disney Book Club

845 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: cej1027

59

The Night Ferry

by Michael Robotham

614 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

60

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

587 members

7 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

61

by Margery Sharp

537 members

6 reviews

4

Member: cej1027

62

Fireflies in December

by Jennifer Erin Valent

370 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

63

The Christmas Tree

by Julie Salamon

365 members

13 reviews

4.2

Member: dara85

64

by George D. Shuman

334 members

13 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

65

The Journey Home

by Isabelle Holland

214 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: dara85

66

by Peggy Brooke

190 members

2 reviews

3.2

Member: dara85

67

Missing Sisters

by Gregory Maguire

136 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aulsmith

68

133 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

69

by Susan Beth Pfeffer

21 members

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

70

When We Were Orphans

by Kazuo Ishiguro

6,356 members

140 reviews

½ 3.5

71

Motherless Brooklyn

by Jonathan Lethem

5,277 members

113 reviews

4

72

The Orphan Master's Son

by Adam Johnson

4,434 members

300 reviews

4.1

73

News of the World

by Paulette Jiles

3,426 members

253 reviews

4.1

74

582 members

44 reviews

4.1

75

Guests on Earth

509 members

80 reviews

½ 3.5

76

The Orphan of Salt Winds

by Elizabeth Brooks

155 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

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