The Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week

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The top five most read books on Goodreads this week are familiar titles, so I thought I’d use this space to host a little quiz. The complete Goodreads list has 50 titles. Which author do you think is on it the most times? Okay, here are the authors that have three or more titles in the top 50 this week:Elle Kennedy (3)Rebecca Yarros (3)Carley Fortune (3)Freida McFadden (4)Matt Dinniman (4)And the winner, by a large margin: Sarah J. Maas (7)Two New Books Out This Week You Should Know AboutUnfortunately, the most read books on Goodreads tend not to be diverse by any definition of the word. So, here are a couple of new books out this week that deserve wider readership.