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Gordon Korman Rocks!
📚Current Book:POP by Gordon Korman🏈
📚Current Book:POP by Gordon Korman🏈
Huge Thank You to Barnes & Noble
Huge Thank You to Barnes & Noble
Please give a HUGE thank you to Barnes & Noble (Frandor st. location) for generously giving us a 20% OFF discount for our current book written by Gordon Korman!!!
The Gordon Korman Book Club is Moving
The Gordon Korman Book Club is Moving
Our 4th grade founders and executive members are graduating elementry school and going to Kinawa Middle School!
Our 4th grade founders and executive members are graduating elementry school and going to Kinawa Middle School!
Goodbye OPM, we'll miss you 👋
Goodbye OPM, we'll miss you 👋
Fun Fact: almost all of club members have read this book.
Restart is the #1 most popular Gordon Korman Book. How many people have read it?
Restart is the #1 most popular Gordon Korman Book. How many people have read it?
There isn’t an exact public number for how many people have read Restart, but we can estimate pretty well using available data:
📊 What we do know:
📊 What we do know:
The book has 50,000+ ratings on Goodreads, which usually represents only a small fraction of total readers
It’s a New York Times bestseller, meaning it sold a lot of copies
Gordon Korman’s books overall have sold 30–35 million+ copies worldwide
🧠 Realistic estimate:
🧠 Realistic estimate:
A common rule:
👉 For every 1 Goodreads rating, there are often 20–50 actual readers
So:
50,000 ratings × 20–50 readers
➡️ ≈ 1 million to 2.5 million people have likely read Restart
👍 Bottom line:
👍 Bottom line:
👉 While there’s no official number, it’s very safe to say millions of people have read it.
Top 10 most Popular Gordon Korman Books:
Top 10 most Popular Gordon Korman Books:
🥇 1. Restart
🥇 1. Restart
One of his most assigned school books
Award-winning and widely read
Known for its powerful “can people change?” theme
🥈 2. Swindle
🥈 2. Swindle
One of his biggest-selling books
Started a super popular 8-book series
Ranked #1 on library “top Korman books” lists
🥉 3. Ungifted
🥉 3. Ungifted
Very popular in schools
High ratings and lots of fans
Mix of humor + school life
4. The Unteachables
4. The Unteachables
Huge classroom favorite
Funny but also very meaningful
5. Schooled
5. Schooled
One of his most talked-about older hits
Frequently appears on reading lists
6. Masterminds
6. Masterminds
One of his most exciting, suspenseful books
Popular trilogy
7. This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall!
7. This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall!
His very first book (written at age 14!)
Still widely read and loved
Ranked high on library lists
8. No More Dead Dogs
8. No More Dead Dogs
Award-winning book
Very popular with middle school readers
9. I Want to Go Home!
9. I Want to Go Home!
Classic Korman comedy
Longtime fan favorite
10. Losing Joe's Place
10. Losing Joe's Place
One of his most loved older books
Ranked near the top on library lists
🧠 Quick takeaway:
🧠 Quick takeaway:
Most famous overall: Restart
Most fun/adventure: Swindle
Most classic: Macdonald Hall
Most suspenseful: Masterminds
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