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Orwell's Roses by Rebecca SolnitI'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason ParginSame As It Ever Was by Claire LombardoHow to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
2025: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2025
5,752 books — 337 voters
The Husbands by Holly GramazioEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather FawcettI Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie SueEveryone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin StevensonThe Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
2024: What Women Born In The 1970s Read in 2024
6,108 books — 352 voters

People Person by Candice Carty-WilliamsA Life's Work by Rachel CuskNow Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin WilsonRest Is Resistance by Tricia HerseyStay True by Hua Hsu
2023: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2023
6,950 books — 516 voters
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl GonzálezEither/Or by Elif BatumanLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie GarmusOur Missing Hearts by Celeste NgSea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2022
100 books — 41 voters

When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O'NeillFight Night by Miriam ToewsA Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky ChambersSankofa by Chibundu OnuzoNightbitch by Rachel Yoder
2022: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2022
6,696 books — 580 voters
All Adults Here by Emma StraubThe Vanishing Half by Brit BennettThe Four Winds by Kristin HannahThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. SchwabThe Push by Ashley Audrain
2021: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2021
6,717 books — 695 voters

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. HarrowMy Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan BraithwaiteThe Starless Sea by Erin MorgensternThe Turn of the Key by Ruth WareThe Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
2020: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2020
6,368 books — 848 voters
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane MoriartyTell Me More by Kelly CorriganWhen They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-CullorsThis Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps
2019: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2019
6,621 books — 866 voters

The Hate U Give by Angie ThomasArtemis by Andy WeirLilac Girls by Martha Hall KellySing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardAmerican War by Omar El Akkad
2018: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2018
6,938 books — 978 voters
Dark Matter by Blake CrouchHomegoing by Yaa GyasiCommonwealth by Ann PatchettBefore the Fall by Noah HawleyToday Will Be Different by Maria Semple
2017: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2017
5,954 books — 758 voters

Swing Time by Zadie SmithShrill by Lindy WestMoonglow by Michael Chabon
Globe & Mail - The Globe 100 - Best Books of 2016
112 books — 21 voters
Lab Girl by Hope JahrenThe City of Mirrors by Justin CroninEligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2017
522 books — 2,011 voters

Cinder by Marissa MeyerMorning Star by Pierce BrownMe Before You by Jojo MoyesScarlet by Marissa MeyerA Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab
2016: What Women Born In The 1970s Read in 2016
6,038 books — 684 voters
Why Not Me? by Mindy KalingThe Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsSeveneves by Neal StephensonFuriously Happy by Jenny LawsonGolden Son by Pierce Brown
Amazon's 2015 Best Books of the Year: The Top 100
100 books — 113 voters

The Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsBig Little Lies by Liane MoriartyAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Bone Clocks by David MitchellAnnihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
2015: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2015
6,202 books — 1,527 voters
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil GaimanThe Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttA Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
Amazon's 2013 Best Books of the Year: The Top 100 in Print
103 books — 69 voters

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony MarraThe Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2013 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 817 voters
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelThe Round House by Louise ErdrichBeautiful Ruins by Jess WalterBilly Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben FountainThis Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 505 voters

My Life in France by Julia ChildDown and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellThe Most Beautiful Walk in the World by John Baxter
Books About Paris
724 books — 576 voters
State of Wonder by Ann PatchettThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternThe Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesThe Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Kirkus Best Books of 2011
88 books — 171 voters

The Flying Troutmans by Miriam ToewsThe Marriage Plot by Jeffrey EugenidesState of Wonder by Ann PatchettThe Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Powell's Indiespensable
92 books — 155 voters
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Imperfectionists by Tom RachmanHow to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles YuOne Day by David Nicholls
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 663 voters

Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Lacuna by Barbara KingsolverThe Lost City of Z by David Grann
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2009 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 118 voters
The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,182 books — 1,913 voters

Ghosts of Spain by Giles TremlettHokkaido Highway Blues by Will FergusonLearning to Bow by Bruce FeilerGetting Stoned with Savages by J. Maarten Troost
Favorite Travel Books
2,050 books — 3,973 voters
Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth ReichlTender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
Best Memoirs/Autobiography/Travel
1,414 books — 1,273 voters

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Best Books of 2009
1,768 books — 6,927 voters
Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiWolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Booker Prize Winners
73 books — 2,016 voters


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