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Novels featuring Orphans

Rank Title Author Added

1

by Charlotte Brontë

68,131 members

1,019 reviews

4.2

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

2

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

by J. K. Rowling

154,212 members

2,219 reviews

½ 4.3

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

3

James and the Giant Peach

23,722 members

386 reviews

3.9

4 Members: Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

by J. K. Rowling

125,990 members

1,093 reviews

4.2

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

5

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

by J. K. Rowling

113,401 members

1,002 reviews

½ 4.4

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

6

47,579 members

1,051 reviews

3.9

3 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

43,954 members

480 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

42,276 members

611 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Graveyard Book

24,953 members

1,316 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

18,385 members

232 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

17,731 members

215 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by Johanna Spyri

14,431 members

175 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963

13

Pippi Longstocking

by Astrid Lindgren

12,872 members

174 reviews

4

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

by J. K. Rowling

122,459 members

1,084 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

15

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

by J. K. Rowling

114,092 members

935 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

16

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling

108,746 members

1,642 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

17

11,345 members

318 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

18

The Boxcar Children

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

11,245 members

116 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Rudyard Kipling

10,226 members

217 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thorold, aulsmith

20

Daughter of Fortune

by Isabel Allende

9,597 members

203 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, KimarieBee

21

by Louisa May Alcott

9,243 members

73 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

22

by Eleanor H. Porter

5,868 members

78 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

23

by Louisa May Alcott

5,344 members

67 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

24

Citizen of the Galaxy

by Robert A. Heinlein

3,365 members

72 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, codewell

25

by Louisa May Alcott

3,043 members

37 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

26

A Redbird Christmas

by Fannie Flagg

1,806 members

91 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, KimarieBee

27

Jane Eyre [unidentified version]

331 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

116,184 members

965 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

30

by Charles Dickens

28,504 members

273 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

31

The Bad Beginning

by Lemony Snicket

25,290 members

526 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

32

The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

18,374 members

932 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

33

The Cider House Rules

12,615 members

165 reviews

4.1

Member: thorold

34

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

by Brian Selznick

11,031 members

685 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

35

by Cornelia Funke

10,203 members

197 reviews

3.8

Member: cej1027

36

by Laurie Halse Anderson

7,773 members

248 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

37

by Christina Baker Kline

7,111 members

474 reviews

4

Member: dara85

38

by Marilynne Robinson

7,102 members

235 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

39

Crispin: The Cross of Lead

by Avi

6,514 members

134 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: cej1027

40

Pictures of Hollis Woods

by Patricia Reilly Giff

4,982 members

112 reviews

4

Member: cej1027

41

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

by Kate Douglas Wiggin

4,740 members

52 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

42

Meet Samantha: An American Girl

by Susan S. Adler

4,585 members

36 reviews

4

Member: cej1027

43

Understood Betsy

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

3,586 members

40 reviews

4.2

Member: dara85

44

by Karin Slaughter

3,038 members

88 reviews

4

Member: dara85

45

This Tender Land

by William Kent Krueger

2,948 members

153 reviews

4.2

Member: dara85

46

by Gwyn Hyman Rubio

2,777 members

32 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

47

The Shakespeare Stealer

by Gary Blackwood

2,770 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: cej1027

48

The Last Dragonslayer

by Jasper Fforde

2,551 members

140 reviews

3.8

Member: cej1027

49

by Kirby Larson

2,132 members

104 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

50

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

1,959 members

120 reviews

4.1

Member: codewell

51

The Orphan's Tale

1,951 members

100 reviews

4

Member: dara85

52

The Turn of the Screw / The Aspern Papers

1,791 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thorold

53

Mistress Masham's Repose

1,506 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

54

The Redemption of Sarah Cain

by Beverly Lewis

1,388 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

55

Secrets of Eden

by Chris Bohjalian

1,172 members

92 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

56

1,133 members

80 reviews

4

Member: dara85

57

The Song of the Quarkbeast

by Jasper Fforde

1,099 members

68 reviews

3.9

Member: cej1027

58

The Rescuers (Disney's Wonderful World of Reading)

by Disney Book Club

850 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: cej1027

59

The Night Ferry

by Michael Robotham

616 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

60

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

589 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

371 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

63

The Christmas Tree

by Julie Salamon

366 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

216 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: dara85

66

by Peggy Brooke

191 members

2 reviews

3.2

Member: dara85

67

Missing Sisters

by Gregory Maguire

137 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aulsmith

68

134 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

6,385 members

140 reviews

½ 3.5

71

Motherless Brooklyn

by Jonathan Lethem

5,288 members

113 reviews

4

72

The Orphan Master's Son

by Adam Johnson

4,449 members

300 reviews

4.1

73

News of the World

by Paulette Jiles

3,404 members

253 reviews

4.1

74

582 members

44 reviews

4.1

75

Guests on Earth

512 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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