Based on this list, I pulled Goodreads ratings for over 350 original Star Wars fiction releases and re-ranked them by the cube of the rating (expressed as a percentage) times the log of the number of raters.

By that metric, here are the 50 most popular Star Wars novels:

 1. Timothy Zahn, The Last Command (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #3)
 2. Timothy Zahn, Dark Force Rising (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #2)
 3. Timothy Zahn, Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
 4. Drew Karpyshyn, Path of Destruction (Star Wars: Darth Bane, #1)
 5. Drew Karpyshyn, Dynasty of Evil (Star Wars: Darth Bane, #3)
 6. Karen Traviss, True Colors (Star Wars: Republic Commando, #3)
 7. Karen Traviss, Order 66 (Star Wars: Republic Commando, #4)
 8. Karen Traviss, Hard Contact (Star Wars: Republic Commando, #1)
 9. Karen Traviss, Triple Zero (Star Wars: Republic Commando, #2)
10. Drew Karpyshyn, Rule of Two (Star Wars: Darth Bane, #2)
11. Timothy Zahn, Vision of the Future (Star Wars: The Hand of Thrawn, #2)
12. Aaron Allston, Wraith Squadron (Star Wars: X-Wing, #5)
13. Timothy Zahn, Specter of the Past (Star Wars: The Hand of Thrawn, #1)
14. Michael A. Stackpole, I, Jedi
15. Karen Traviss, Sacrifice (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, #5)
16. Michael A. Stackpole, Rogue Squadron (Star Wars: X-Wing, #1)
17. Aaron Allston, Iron Fist (Star Wars: X-Wing, #6)
18. Aaron Allston, Solo Command (Star Wars: X-Wing, #7)
19. Michael A. Stackpole, Wedge's Gamble (Star Wars: X-Wing, #2)
20. Matthew Stover, Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)
21. Karen Traviss, 501st
22. Michael A. Stackpole, The Bacta War (Star Wars: X-Wing, #4)
23. Timothy Zahn, Allegiance
24. Aaron Allston, Starfighters of Adumar (Star Wars: X-Wing, #9)
25. Troy Denning, Star by Star (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #9)
26. James Luceno, The Unifying Force (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #19)
27. James Luceno, Darth Plagueis
28. Troy Denning, Invincible (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, #9)
29. Michael A. Stackpole, Isard's Revenge (Star Wars: X-Wing, #8)
30. Karen Traviss, Revelation (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, #8)
31. Aaron Allston, Fury (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, #7)
32. Troy Denning, Inferno (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, #6)
33. Michael A. Stackpole, The Krytos Trap (Star Wars: X-Wing, #3)
34. Timothy Zahn, Survivor's Quest
35. Troy Denning, Abyss (Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi, #3)
36. Karen Traviss, Bloodlines (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, #2)
37. A.C. Crispin, Rebel Dawn (Star Wars: The Han Solo Trilogy, #3)
38. Timothy Zahn, Outbound Flight
39. Aaron Allston, Outcast (Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi, #1)
40. Steve Perry, Shadows of the Empire
41. A.C. Crispin, The Hutt Gambit (Star Wars: The Han Solo Trilogy, #2)
42. A.C. Crispin, The Paradise Snare (Star Wars: The Han Solo Trilogy, #1)
43. Troy Denning, Apocalypse (Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi, #9)
44. Aaron Allston, Betrayal (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, #1)
45. Aaron Allston, Backlash (Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi, #4)
46. Christie Golden, Allies (Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi, #5)
47. R.A. Salvatore, Vector Prime (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #1)
48. Timothy Zahn, Choices of One
49. Troy Denning, Vortex (Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi, #6)
50. Aaron Allston, Exile (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, #4)

Based on this list plus some hunting around on Goodreads for the omnibus editions, I pulled 199 Goodreads ratings for various Warhammer Fantasy fiction releases and re-ranked them by the square of the rating (expressed as a percentage) times the log of the number of raters. The results require finer distinctions than usual to describe them, because of the omnibus editions and the way that series ratings are inflated the deeper you go into the series.

As a follow-up to messing around with Goodreads and Project Gutenberg last week, I wondered what the top 100 list would look like with no duplicate authors, so I generated the list below, removing works by authors who have work higher on the list. What I like about the result is how dense it is with different themes, concerns, styles, etc. It’s an intriguing condensation of Project Gutenberg’s fiction collection and perhaps a better reading list for absorbing common literary reference points among works available in English.

   1 Pride and Prejudice (Austen, Jane)
   2 Jane Eyre (Brontë, Charlotte)
   3 Little Women (Alcott, Louisa May)
   4 Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud))
   5 The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas, Alexandre)
   6 The Secret Garden (Burnett, Frances Hodgson)
   7 Les Misérables (Hugo, Victor)
   8 Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky, Fyodor)
   9 The Velveteen Rabbit (Bianco, Margery Williams)
  10 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain, Mark)
  11 The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde, Oscar)
  12 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll, Lewis)
  13 Dracula (Stoker, Bram)
  14 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir)
  15 Anna Karenina (Tolstoy, Leo, graf)
  16 Wuthering Heights (Brontë, Emily)
  17 A Christmas Carol (Dickens, Charles)
  18 The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Potter, Beatrix)
  19 Siddhartha (Hesse, Hermann)
  20 Peter Pan (Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew))
  21 Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft)
  22 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank))
  23 The Scarlet Pimpernel (Orczy, Baroness Emmuska)
  24 Black Beauty (Sewell, Anna)
  25 The Trial (Kafka, Franz)
  26 Heidi (Spyri, Johanna)
  27 The Phantom of the Opera (Leroux, Gaston)
  28 North and South (Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn)
  29 Treasure Island (Stevenson, Robert Louis)
  30 The Time Machine (Wells, H. G. (Herbert George))
  31 The Wind in the Willows (Grahame, Kenneth)
  32 A Room with a View (Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan))
  33 The Woman in White (Collins, Wilkie)
  34 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Christie, Agatha)
  35 The Age of Innocence (Wharton, Edith)
  36 The Call of the Wild (London, Jack)
  37 The Gift of the Magi (Henry, O.)
  38 Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne, Jules)
  39 Middlemarch (Eliot, George)
  40 Don Quixote (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de)
  41 Candide (Voltaire)
  42 Dubliners (Joyce, James)
  43 Uncle Tom's Cabin (Stowe, Harriet Beecher)
  44 Of Human Bondage (Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset))
  45 Swiss Family Robinson (Wyss, Johann David)
  46 Just So Stories (Kipling, Rudyard)
  47 Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Hardy, Thomas)
  48 Right Ho, Jeeves (Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville))
  49 Swann's Way (Proust, Marcel)
  50 The Yellow Wallpaper (Gilman, Charlotte Perkins)
  51 Moby Dick (Melville, Herman)
  52 Dead Souls (Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich)
  53 The Pilgrim's Progress (Bunyan, John)
  54 Madame Bovary (Flaubert, Gustave)
  55 Little Brother (Doctorow, Cory)
  56 The Jungle (Sinclair, Upton)
  57 Pollyanna (Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman))
  58 The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Lofting, Hugh)
  59 The Awakening (Chopin, Kate)
  60 Vanity Fair (Thackeray, William Makepeace)
  61 The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne, Nathaniel)
  62 Robinson Crusoe (Defoe, Daniel)
  63 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Brontë, Anne)
  64 Hunger (Hamsun, Knut)
  65 My Father's Dragon (Gannett, Ruth Stiles)
  66 A Hero of Our Time (Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich)
  67 Daddy-Long-Legs (Webster, Jean)
  68 Anthem (Rand, Ayn)
  69 The Railway Children (Nesbit, E. (Edith))
  70 Ivanhoe (Scott, Walter, Sir)
  71 Gulliver's Travels (Swift, Jonathan)
  72 Heart of Darkness (Conrad, Joseph)
  73 Three Men in a Boat (Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka))
  74 A Girl of the Limberlost (Stratton-Porter, Gene)
  75 The Forsyte Saga (Galsworthy, John)
  76 In His Steps (Sheldon, Charles Monroe)
  77 Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ (Wallace, Lew)
  78 Pinocchio (Collodi, Carlo)
  79 A Princess of Mars (Burroughs, Edgar Rice)
  80 Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Sidney, Margaret)
  81 Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated) (Abbott, Edwin Abbott)
  82 The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 (Cooper, James Fenimore)
  83 O Pioneers! (Cather, Willa)
  84 This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott))
  85 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith)
  86 Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life (Anderson, Sherwood)
  87 The Decameron (Boccaccio, Giovanni)
  88 King Solomon's Mines (Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider))
  89 Captain Blood (Sabatini, Rafael)
  90 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Bierce, Ambrose)
  91 The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von)
  92 The Fall of the House of Usher (Poe, Edgar Allan)
  93 History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Fielding, Henry)
  94 Sister Carrie: a Novel (Dreiser, Theodore)
  95 Stepping Heavenward (Prentiss, E. (Elizabeth))
  96 The Way We Live Now (Trollope, Anthony)
  97 The Turn of the Screw (James, Henry)
  98 Sons and Lovers (Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert))
  99 L'Assommoir (Zola, Émile)
 100 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Sterne, Laurence)

Here’s a list of Shakespeare’s plays, sorted by this formula: ((($rating – 1)/4) ** 2) * log($raters), where $rating is the Goodreads rating, $raters is the number of people contributing ratings, and ** 2 means raised to the power of 2. Anyway, as usual, the Goodreads data itself has been eliminated, and only the order remains.

Edit: see also 100 Books with 100 Authors, an abbreviated ranking of fiction available at Project Gutenberg.

1	Hamlet
2	Much Ado About Nothing
3	A Midsummer Night's Dream
4	Romeo and Juliet
5	Macbeth
6	Twelfth Night
7	Othello
8	King Lear
9	The Taming of the Shrew
10	The Tempest
11	The Merchant of Venice
12	Richard III
13	As You Like It
14	Henry V
15	Julius Caesar
16	Henry IV, Part 1
17	The Comedy of Errors
18	Titus Andronicus
19	Henry IV, Part 2
20	The Winter's Tale
21	Antony and Cleopatra
22	Measure for Measure
23	Richard II
24	All's Well That Ends Well
25	Henry VIII
26	Love's Labour's Lost
27	The Merry Wives of Windsor
28	Coriolanus
29	Henry VI, Part 3
30	Henry VI, Part 2
31	The Two Noble Kinsmen
32	The Two Gentlemen of Verona
33	Cymbeline
34	Henry VI, Part 1
35	Troilus and Cressida
36	Pericles, Prince of Tyre
37	Timon of Athens
38	King John

Taking just the top 1000 works of fiction in English at Project Gutenberg, here’s a list of authors who have more than 2 titles on the list, ranked by the average rank of their work. The number of works they have in the top 1000 is also given.

Obviously, authors are penalized substantially by having even one weak success among their other titanic successes. I guess you could look at it as a prediction about how likely someone would be to enjoy literally a random popular work by a prolific author, but really, this is just for fun.

61.4	7	Austen, Jane
95.3	3	Joyce, James
97.2	6	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
123.0	3	Brontë, Charlotte
146.9	11	Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
202.1	20	Dickens, Charles
242.5	4	Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
252.8	4	Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
256.3	10	Dumas, Alexandre
258.0	4	Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
265.5	4	Defoe, Daniel
273.2	6	Potter, Beatrix
302.2	4	Dreiser, Theodore
312.6	12	Tolstoy, Leo, graf
313.2	4	Orczy, Baroness Emmuska
317.0	4	Flaubert, Gustave
326.0	10	Alcott, Louisa May
327.8	8	Eliot, George
331.2	18	Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
342.0	4	Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
348.1	9	Nesbit, E. (Edith)
365.1	11	Kipling, Rudyard
365.5	8	Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
373.2	4	Woolf, Virginia
376.1	16	Hardy, Thomas
376.5	4	Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
390.7	7	Melville, Herman
399.6	5	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
413.0	4	Cather, Willa
416.3	10	Wharton, Edith
416.5	4	MacDonald, George
417.4	8	Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
422.6	14	Verne, Jules
432.9	25	Burroughs, Edgar Rice
445.7	23	Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
451.0	6	Cooper, James Fenimore
456.6	8	Burnett, Frances Hodgson
458.3	7	Stratton-Porter, Gene
461.0	3	Galsworthy, John
466.1	14	Conrad, Joseph
480.0	3	Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
493.0	4	Stoker, Bram
493.9	19	Twain, Mark
494.6	5	Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
494.7	19	London, Jack
495.1	11	Stevenson, Robert Louis
497.2	4	Grahame, Kenneth
500.0	3	Norris, Frank
513.0	3	Smith, E. E.
515.0	3	Lewis, Sinclair
523.7	3	Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)
525.3	15	Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
534.7	6	Tarkington, Booth
536.2	4	Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
538.5	19	James, Henry
563.8	4	Buchan, John
569.8	5	Henry, O.
582.9	18	Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
583.8	32	Trollope, Anthony
588.6	5	Leblanc, Maurice
588.9	14	Grey, Zane
591.0	5	Thackeray, William Makepeace
593.2	6	Sabatini, Rafael
594.4	5	Norton, Andre
597.9	8	Balzac, Honoré de
603.0	3	Chopin, Kate
616.5	12	Scott, Walter, Sir
616.6	5	Hope, Laura Lee
617.0	5	Sidney, Margaret
622.8	4	Gissing, George
623.7	6	Piper, H. Beam
637.0	3	Marryat, Frederick
661.0	5	Dick, Philip K.
665.8	20	Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider)
675.5	4	Wright, Harold Bell
681.6	20	Collins, Wilkie
689.8	4	Morris, William
690.0	3	Terhune, Albert Payson
699.9	9	Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
709.0	3	Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
713.0	3	Howells, William Dean
719.8	19	Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
729.5	4	Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
732.7	3	Seton, Ernest Thompson
735.0	3	Saki
736.2	4	Brown, Charles Brockden
779.0	4	Rohmer, Sax
791.3	3	Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
793.8	8	Rinehart, Mary Roberts
807.3	3	Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
814.2	4	Bruce, Mary Grant
825.7	3	Ferber, Edna
833.3	3	France, Anatole
861.2	5	Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
878.3	3	Meredith, George