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1937:
1. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
5. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
1938:
1. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
*2. Anthem by Ayn Rand
3. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
4. Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
5. Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina
1939:
1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
2. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
3. Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
5. By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1940:
2. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
1941:
1. Curious George by H.A. Rey
2. Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
3. Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
4. The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
5. Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
1942:
1. The Stranger by Albert Camus
2. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
* 3. The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
4. The Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowrey
5. The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
1943:
1. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
3. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
4. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
5. The Plague by Albert Camus
1944:
2. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
3. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
4. Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
5. The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
1945:
1. Animal Farm by George Orwell
*2. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
4. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
5. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
1946:
4. Hiroshima by John Hersey
1947:
1. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
2. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
*3. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
*4. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
*5. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
1948:
1. Corduroy by Don Freeman
2. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
4. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
*5. Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
1949:
1. 1984 by George Orwell
*2. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
*3. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
1950:
1. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
2. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
*5. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
1951:
1. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
2. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
4. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
5. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
1952:
1. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
2. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
3. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
*5. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
1953:
1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
2. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
3. The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
*4. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
5. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
1954:
1. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
3. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
1955:
*1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
2. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
3. The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
*4. Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
*5. Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary
1956:
1. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
2. The Last Battle
*3. Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
4. The Fall by Albert Camus

1957:
1. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
3. The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
4. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
5. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
1958:
1. Night by Elie Wiesel
2. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
3. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
5. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
1959:
*2. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
4. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
*5. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
1960:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
3. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
4. Are You My Mother? P.D. Eastman
1961:
1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
2. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
4. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
5. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
1962:
1. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
3. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
1963:
1. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
2. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
3. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
5. Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
1964:
1. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
5. Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
1965:
1. Dune by Frank Herbert
3. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
1966:
1. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
*3. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
*4. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
1967:
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
2. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
3. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
4. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
5. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
1968:
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
3. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
5. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
1969:
1. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
5. The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
1970:
*1. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
2. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
4. Ringworld by Larry Niven
1971:
1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
*3. The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
*4. The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom by Corrie ten Boom
1972:
1. Watership Down by Richard Adams
*3. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
5. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
1973:
2. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
*3. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
5. A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
1974:
1. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
1975:
2. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
3. Shōgun by James Clavell
1976:
5. Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

1977:
2. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
3. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
4. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
1978:
2. The World According to Garp by John Irving
3. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
*5. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
1979:
1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
1980:
2. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
5. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
1981:
1. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
1982:
1. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
3. The BFG by Roald Dahl
5. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
1983:
3. The Witches by Roald Dahl
1984:
1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
1985:
2. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
5. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
1986:
3. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
4. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
1987:
1988:
1. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
1989:
2. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
3. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
5. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
1990:
2. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
3. Oh, The Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
1991:
2. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
5. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
1992:
1.Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
1993:
1. The Giver by Lois Lowry
3. The Client by John Grisham
1994:
3. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt
1995:
1. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
1996:

1997:
1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
1998:
1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
2. Holes by Louis Sachar
3. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
1999:
1. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
2000:
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
3. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
2001:
4. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
2002:
5. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
2003:
1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
2004:
*4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
5. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
2005:
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by
4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
5. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
2006:
5. The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
2007:
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
2008:
1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2009:
2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
2010:
3.* Room by Emma Donoghue
2011:
2012:
2013:
* 5.The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
2014:
1. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
*2.The Martian by Andy Weir
2015:
1. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
2016:
1. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
2017:

1987: Russia's Second Revolution: The February 1917 Uprising in Petrograd by E.N. Burdzhalov
1996: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
2010: Raising Orion by Lesley Choyce
2011: Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
2012: Naples Declared by Benjamin Taylor
2013: The House of Hades by Rick Riordan (replaced by book from the top 5)
2017: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

5.Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Update 1955
4. Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

3. Room by Emma Donoghue
Update 1978
5. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
Update 1972
3. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

Der Prozess by Franz Kafka
Update 1949
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Update 1966
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

1917: 8 points
1. Anne's House of Dreams
2. His Last Bow
3. Summer
5. Growth of the Soil
1918: 7 points
1. My Ántonia
3. The Magnificent Ambersons
4. The Land That Time Forgot
1919: 10 points 🤗
1. Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
2. My Man Jeeves
3. Rainbow Valley
4. Winesburg, Ohio
5. The Moon and Sixpence
Total: 25 points

1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
4. The Story of Doctor Dolittle
1921: 8 points
1. Mrs. Dalloway
2. We
3. Rilla of Ingleside
4. The Forsyte Saga
1922: 8 points
1. Siddhartha
2. The Velveteen Rabbit
3. Ulysses
5. The Waste Land and Other Poems
1923: 5 points
2. Whose Body?
3. Emily of New Moon
4. Bambi
5. The Murder on the Links
1924: 10 points 🤗
1. The Man in the Brown Suit
2. A Passage to India
3. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
4. The Most Dangerous Game
5. The Magic Mountain
1925: 6 points
1. The Great Gatsby
2. The Trial
1926: 8 points
1. The Sun Also Rises
2. Winnie-the-Pooh
3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
4. The Castle
1927: 10 points 🤗
1. To the Lighthouse
2. Steppenwolf
3. Death Comes for the Archbishop
4. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
5. The Big Four
1928: 10 points 🤗
1. Lady Chatterly's Lover
2. Orlando
3. The House at Pooh Corner
4. The Call of Cthulhu
5. The Mystery of the Blue Train
1929: 7 points
1. All Quiet on the Western Front
4. A Room of One's Own
5. Letters to a Young Poet
Total: 78 points

1. As I Lay Dying
2. Murder at the Vicarage
3. The Maltese Falcon
4. The Little Engine That Could
5. The Secret of the Old Clock
1931: 7 points
1. The Good Earth
3. The Story of Babar
5. At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
1932: 8 points
1. Brave New World
2. Little House in the Big Woods
3. Light in August
4. Cold Comfort Farm
1933: 10 points 🤗
1. Down and Out in Paris and London
2. The Red Pony
3. Farmer Boy
4. The Story About Ping
5. Lord Edgware Dies
1934: 8 points
1. Murder on the Orient Express
2. Tender Is the Night
3. Mary Poppins
5. I, Claudius
1935: 10 🤗points
1. Little House on the Prairie
2. Tortilla Flat
3. Caddie Woodlawn
4. Jamaica Inn
5. Death in the Clouds
1936: 8 points
1.Gone with the Wind
3. The Story of Ferdinand
4. The A.B.C. Murders
5. Anne of Windy Poplars
1937: 8 points
1. The Hobbit
2. Of Mice and Men
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God
5. Death on the Nile
1938: 10 points 🤗
1. Rebecca
2. Anthem
3. Nausea
4. Out of the Silent Planet
5. Mr. Popper's Penguins
1939: 10 points 🤗
1. The Grapes of Wrath
2. And Then There Were None
3. Madeline
4. The Big Sleep
5. By the Shores of Silver Lake
Total: 87 points

2. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
5. The Problem of Pain
1941: 10 points 🤗
1. Curious George
2. Little Town on the Prairie
3. Make Way for Ducklings
4. The Black Stallion
5. Chess Story
1942: 10 points 🤗
1. L'Étranger
2. The Screwtape Letters
3. The Boxcar Children
4. The Poky Little Puppy
5. The Runaway Bunny
1943: 10 points 🤗
1. The Little Prince
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
3. The Fountainhead
4. These Happy Golden Years
5. Johnny Tremain
1944: 5 points
2. Ficciones
3. The Razor's Edge
4. The Hundred Dresses
5. Huis Clos
1945: 10 points 😊
1. Animal Farm
2. Pippi Longstocking
3. The Great Divorce
4. The Glass Menagerie
5. Cannery Row
1946: 2 points
4. Hiroshima
1947: 10 points 🤗
1. The Diary of a Young Girl
2. Goodnight Moon
3. A Streetcar Named Desire
4. The Pearl
5.La Peste
1948: 10 points🤗
1. I Capture the Castle
2. Blueberries for Sal
3. Cry, the Beloved Country
4. The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
5. The Lottery
1949: 7 points
1. 1984
2. Death of a Salesman
5. Crooked House
Total: 77 points

1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2. I, Robot
4. The Martian Chronicles
5. A Town Like Alice
1951: 10 points 😊
1. The Catcher in the Rye
2. Foundation
3. Prince Caspian
4. The Day of the Triffids
5. The Illustrated Man
1952: 10 points🤗
1. Charlotte's Web
2. The Old Man and the Sea
3. East of Eden
4. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
5. Mere Christianity
1953: 10 points 🤗
1. Fahrenheit 451
2. The Crucible
3. The Silver Chair
4. Nine Stories
5. Second Foundation
1954: 8 points
1. The Fellowship of the Ring
2. Lord of the Flies
3. The Two Towers
4. The Horse and His Boy
1955: 8 points
1. Lolita
2. The Return of the King
3. The Magician's Nephew
5. Harold and the Purple Crayon
1956: 7 points
1. The Last Battle
2. Howl and Other Poems
4. La Chute
1957: 10 points 🤗
1. Atlas Shrugged
2. The Cat in the Hat
3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
4. Doctor Zhivago
5. Little Bear
1958: 8 points
1. Night
2. Things Fall Apart
3. Breakfast at Tiffany's
4. The Witch of Blackbird Pond
1959: 10 points 🤗
1. A Separate Peace
2. Starship Troopers
3. The Sirens of Titan
4. The Haunting of Hill House
5. A Canticle for Leibowitz
Total: 89 points
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1917-1936
1917:
1. Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery
*3. Summer by Edith Wharton
5. Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
1918:
1. My Ántonia by Willa Cather
*3. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
*4. The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
1919:
1. Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend by Hermann Hesse
*2. My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
3. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
4. Rainbow Valley by L.M. Montgomery
5. The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
1920:
2. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
4. The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
1921:
1. Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery
2. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
3. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
4. The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
5. Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
1922:
1. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
2. Ulysses by James Joyce
3. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
*5. The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
1923:
2. Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
3. Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery
4. Bambi by Felix Salten
5. The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
1924:
1. The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
2. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
3. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
*4. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
5. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
1925:
1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
*3. Der Prozess by Franz Kafka
1926:
1. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
*2. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
5. The Castle by Franz Kafka
1927:
1. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
2. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
4. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
1928:
1. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
2. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
3. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
*4. The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
*5. The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
1929:
1. All Quiet on the Western Front
*4. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
1930:
*1. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
2. Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
*3. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
4. The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
*5. The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
1931:
1. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
*3. The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff
*5. At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror by H.P. Lovecraft
1932:
1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
4. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
1933:
1. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
*2. The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
3. Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
*4. The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack
5. Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie
1934:
1. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
2. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
5. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
1935:
1. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
3. Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
4. Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
5. Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie
1936:
3. The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
4. The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie