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The Wedding People by Alison EspachAtmosphere by Taylor Jenkins ReidJames by Percival EverettThe Frozen River by Ariel LawhonAll the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
2025: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2025
5,752 books — 341 voters
Say You'll Remember Me by Abby JimenezFirst-Time Caller by B.K. BorisonBeg, Borrow, or Steal by Sarah AdamsScythe & Sparrow by Brynne WeaverThe Love Haters by Katherine Center
2025 Contemporary Romance Releases
460 books — 811 voters

The Maid by Nita ProseMalibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins ReidLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie GarmusThe Lincoln Highway by Amor TowlesThe Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
2022: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2022
6,696 books — 580 voters
Ariadne by Jennifer SaintThe Dating Plan by Sara DesaiWell Played by Jen DeLucaClap When You Land by Elizabeth AcevedoUnder the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
3,029 books — 5,543 voters

Love & Other Disasters by Anita KellyThe Neighbor's Secret by L. Alison HellerThe Sweetest Remedy by Jane IgharoWe Are the Brennans by Tracey LangeThe Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Book of the Month's Picks
361 books — 141 voters
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. SchwabHamnet by Maggie O'FarrellThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverDear Edward by Ann NapolitanoAnd the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Booktube Recommends 2022
210 books — 124 voters

Anxious People by Fredrik BackmanThe Push by Ashley AudrainThe House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. KluneGreenlights by Matthew McConaugheyOutlawed by Anna North
2021: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2021
6,717 books — 696 voters
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2021
123 books — 212 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,877 books — 49,844 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenPersuasion by Jane Austen
Best Books of the Decade: 1810s
144 books — 331 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionWhere'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,754 books — 14,424 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Best Historical Fiction
8,041 books — 26,712 voters

A Woman Is No Man by Etaf RumMiracle Creek by Angie Kim
Best Books of 2019
1,442 books — 1,956 voters
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia OwensEducated by Tara WestoverLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasLess by Andrew Sean Greer
2019: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2019
6,621 books — 867 voters

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferEverything I Never Told You by Celeste NgWhen Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
2018: What the Over-35s Are Reading
2,747 books — 301 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,624 books — 70,146 voters

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinWatership Down by Richard Adams
Cult Classics
1,576 books — 2,165 voters
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho1Q84 by Haruki MurakamiStiff by Mary Roach
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,710 books — 13,277 voters

Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh
A Buddhist Reading List
929 books — 1,218 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Odyssey by Homer
Best Books Ever
79,001 books — 294,179 voters