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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon ChakrabortyThe Mighty Red by Louise ErdrichWhat the River Knows by Isabel IbañezJames by Percival EverettThe Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Your Top 5 Reads in 2024
484 books — 136 voters
Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White by Amélie Wen ZhaoSong of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amélie Wen ZhaoA War of Swallowed Stars by Sangu MandannaA House of Rage and Sorrow by Sangu MandannaMoon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice
2024: What Women Born In The 1970s Read in 2024
6,108 books — 353 voters

Rogue Protocol by Martha WellsArtificial Condition by Martha WellsThe Madness of Crowds by Louise PennyAll Systems Red by Martha WellsA Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
2023: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2023
6,950 books — 517 voters
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth AcevedoAnxious People by Fredrik BackmanThe Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster BujoldThe Oleander Sword by Tasha SuriShards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold
2022: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2022
6,696 books — 580 voters

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Memoir Published in Year: 2021
362 books — 202 voters
The Iron Knight by Julie KagawaThe Iron Queen by Julie KagawaThe Iron Daughter by Julie KagawaIn the Dream House by Carmen Maria MachadoUnDivided by Neal Shusterman
2020: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2020
6,368 books — 848 voters

There There by Tommy OrangeSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardThe Best We Could Do by Thi BuiSo You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma OluoHow Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
Your Top 5 Reads in 2018
640 books — 263 voters
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi AdeyemiHero at the Fall by Alwyn HamiltonThe Poet X by Elizabeth AcevedoTrail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
YA Novels of 2018
1,024 books — 5,019 voters

How Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra UwiringiyimanaHero at the Fall by Alwyn HamiltonBrown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline WoodsonSolo by Kwame AlexanderShadowhouse Fall by Daniel José Older
2018: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2018
6,938 books — 978 voters
The Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinThe Shadowed Sun by N.K. JemisinTears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric DysonThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasA Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir
Your Top 5 Reads in 2017
750 books — 361 voters

Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn HamiltonThe Fireman by Joe HillWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieGet in Trouble by Kelly Link"Multiplication Is for White People" by Lisa D. Delpit
2017: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2017
5,954 books — 756 voters
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. WhiteNancy Drew by Carolyn KeeneCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteLittle House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Favorite books from my childhood
4,515 books — 7,703 voters

Seveneves by Neal StephensonThe Marauders by Tom CooperThe Absent One by Jussi Adler-OlsenAll Our Names by Dinaw MengestuIlluminae by Amie Kaufman
2016: What Women Born In The 1970s Read in 2016
6,038 books — 684 voters
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWittAt Night We Walk in Circles by Daniel AlarcónThe Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira JacobThe Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony
2015: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2015
6,204 books — 1,529 voters

The Martian by Andy WeirThe Invention of Wings by Sue Monk KiddWool Omnibus by Hugh HoweyStill Alice by Lisa GenovaFourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
Your Top 5 Reads in 2014
1,603 books — 1,246 voters
Too Much Happiness by Alice MunroAllegiant by Veronica RothThe Jump-Off Creek by Molly GlossThe Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana MathisInsurgent by Veronica Roth
2014: What Women Born In The 1970s Read in 2014
4,495 books — 1,047 voters

Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria SempleWonder by R.J. PalacioFlight Behavior by Barbara KingsolverA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
2013: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2013
2,957 books — 684 voters
The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternWonder by R.J. Palacio
What's the Book You Can't Wait to Read This Summer?
14,940 books — 15,493 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
2011: What the Over 35s Have Read So Far
1,801 books — 439 voters
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Best Books Ever
78,962 books — 294,059 voters

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsWool Omnibus by Hugh HoweyThe House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
4,037 books — 26,774 voters
Just Like Us by Helen ThorpeThe Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan BoyleThe Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
Novels about Undocumented Immigrants
50 books — 88 voters