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Have Your Read the Most Popular Book from the Year You Were Born?

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July 30, 2021 at 9:19 AM

Have Your Read the Most Popular Book from the Year You Were Born?

1945 - ‘Forever Amber’ by Kathleen Winson

1946 - ‘The King’s General’ by Daphne du Maurier

1947- ‘The Miracle of the Bells’ by Russell Janney

1948 - ‘The Big Fisherman’ by Lloyd C. Douglas

1949 - ‘The Egyptian’ by Mika Waltari

1950 — 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' by C.S. Lewis

1951 — ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ by J.D. Salinger

1952 — 'Charlotte's Web' by E.B. White

1953 — 'The Crucible' by Arthur Miller

1954 — 'Lord of the Flies' by William Golding

1955 — ‘Lolita’ by Vladimir Nabokov

1956 — 'The Fall' by Albert Camus

1957 — 'The Cat in the Hat' by Dr. Seuss

1958 — ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ by Truman Capote

1959 — 'A Separate Peace' by John Knowles

1960 — 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee

1961 — 'Catch-22' by Joseph Heller

1962 — 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' by Ken Kesey

1963 — ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ by Maurice Sendak

1964 — 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' by Roald Dahl

1965 — 'Dune' by Frank Herbert

1966 — ‘Valley of the Dolls’ by Jacqueline Susann

1967 — 'The Outsiders' by S.E. Hinton

1968 — 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' by Philip K. Dick

1969 — 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut

1970 — 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' by Judy Blume

1971 — ‘Angle of Repose’ by Wallace Stegner

1972 — 'Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day' by Judith Viorst

1973 — 'Breakfast of Champions' by Kurt Vonnegut

1974 — 'Carrie' by Stephen King

1975 — ‘Humboldt’s Gift’ by Saul Bellow

1976 — 'The Selfish Gene' by Richard Dawkins

1977 — 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison

1978 — ‘The Stand’ by Stephen King

1979 — 'Sophie's Choice' by William Styron

1980 — 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole

1981 — 'Rabbit is Rich' by John Updike

1982 — 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker

1983 — 'The Color of Magic' by Terry Pratchett

1984 — 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' by Milan Kundera

1985 — 'White Noise' by Don DeLillo

1986 — 'Love You Forever' by Robert Munsch

1987 — 'Beloved' by Toni Morrison

1988 — ‘The Alchemist’ by Paulo Coelho

1989 — 'The Joy Luck Club' by Amy Tan

1990 — ‘The Things They Carried’ by Tim O’Brien

1991 — 'A Thousand Acres' by Jane Smiley

1992 — 'The Pelican Brief' by John Grisham

1993 — 'The Giver' by Lois Lowry

1994 — 'One for the Money' by Janet Evanovich

1995 — ‘Wicked: Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West’ by Gregory Maguire

1996 — 'Into the Wild' by Jon Krakauer

1997 — 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' by J.K. Rowling

1998 — 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver

1999 — 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky

2000 — 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius' by Dave Eggers

2001 — 'Life of Pi' by Yann Martel

2002 — ‘Middlesex’ by Jeffrey Eugenides

2003 — 'The Da Vinci Code' by Dan Brown

2004 — 'Gilead' by Marilynne Robinson

2005 — 'The Year of Magical Thinking' by Joan Didion

2006 — 'The Emperor's Children' by Claire Messud

2007 — 'Thirteen Reasons Why' by Jay Asher

2008 — ‘The Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins

2009 — 'The Help' by Kathryn Stockett

2010 — 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' by Rebecca Skloot

2011 — 'Fifty Shades of Grey' by E.L. James

2012 — 'The Fault in Our Stars' by John Green

2013 — 'The Goldfinch' by Donna Tartt

2014 — 'All the Light We Cannot See' by Anthony Doerr

2015 — 'The Girl on the Train' by Paula Hawkins

2016 — 'The Underground Railroad' by Colson Whitehead

2017 — 'Little Fires Everywhere 'by Celeste Ng

2018 — 'An American Marriage' by Tayari Jones

2019 — 'The Silent Patient' by Alex Michaelides

Have Your Read the Most Popular Book from the Year You Were Born?

From prestigious Pulitzer Prize winners to books that have been praised by Oprah herself, we scoured several best-seller lists and award archives to find the most popular book published every year since 1945. What did we find? The past six decades have brought us some truly riveting tales.

Whether you prefer to take a story slowly, or can't finish it quickly enough, you'll be sure to add some of these all-time favorites to the top of your reading wish list.

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How many of these 70 best-sellers have you read?

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