Here Is The Most Popular Book From the Year You Were Born

There are books that stick with you for your entire life, but do you know what book was most popular on the year that you were born?

Find out what people were reading the year that you entered the world.

How many of the top books from the past 87 years have you read?

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1930 — Cimarron by Edna Ferber

  via : Amazon  


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1931 — The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

  via : Amazon  


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1932 — The Fountain by Charles Morgan

  via : Amazon  


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1933 — Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen

  via : Amazon  


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1934 — Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton

  via : Amazon  


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1935 — Green Light by Lloyd C. Douglas

  via : Amazon  


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1936 — Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

  via : Amazon  


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1937 — Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

  via : Amazon  


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1938 — The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  via : Amazon  


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1939 — The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

  via : Amazon  


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1940 — How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn

  via : Amazon  


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1941 — For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

  via : Amazon  


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1942 — The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel

  via : Amazon  


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1943 — A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

  via : Amazon  


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1944 — Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith

  via : Amazon  


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1945 — Forever Amber by Kathleen Winson

  via : Amazon  


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1946 — The King’s General by Daphne du Maurier

  via : Amazon  


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1947 — The Miracle of Bells by Russell Janney

  via : Amazon  


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1948 — Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl translated by B.M. Mooyaart

  via : Amazon  


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1949 — The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

  via : Amazon  


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1950 — The Cardinal by Henry Morton Robinson

  via : Amazon  


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1951 — From Here to Eternity by James Jones

  via : Amazon  


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1952 — Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

  via : Amazon  


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1953 — The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas

  via : Amazon  


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1954 — Not As a Stranger by Morton Thompson

  via : Amazon  


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1955 — The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson

  via : Amazon  


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1956 — Eloise by Kay Thompson

  via : Amazon  


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1957 — Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

  via : Amazon  


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1958 — Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

  via : Amazon  


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1959 — Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

  via : Amazon  


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1960 — To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  via : Amazon  


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1961 — Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

  via : Amazon  


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1962 — Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

  via : Amazon  


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1963 — The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris West

  via : Amazon  


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1964 — You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming

  via : Amazon  


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1965 — Herzog by Saul Bellow

  via : Amazon  


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1966 — Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

  via : Amazon  


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1967 — Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

  via : Amazon  


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1968 — Couples by John Updike

  via : Amazon  


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1969 — Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

  via : Amazon  


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1970 — Love Story by Erich Segal

  via : Amazon  


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1971 — The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

  via : Amazon  


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1972 — Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

  via : Amazon  


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1973 — Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

  via : Amazon  


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1974 — Jaws by Peter Benchley

  via : Amazon  


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1975 — Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

  via : Amazon  


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1976 — Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie

  via : Amazon  


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1977 — The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

  via : Amazon  


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1978 — Fools Die by Mario Puzo

  via : Amazon  


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1979 — Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

  via : Amazon  


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1980 — The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

  via : Amazon  


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1981 — Cujo by Stephen King

  via : Amazon  


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1982 — E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial by William Kotzwinkle

  via : Amazon  


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1983 — The Color Purple by Alice Walker

  via : Amazon  


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1984 — The Sicilian by Mario Puzo

  via : Amazon  


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1985 — Secrets by Danielle Steel

  via : Amazon  


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1986 — The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

  via : Amazon  


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1987 — Patriot Games by Tom Clancy

  via : Amazon  


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1988 — The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice

  via : Amazon  


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1989 — The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

  via : Amazon  


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1990 — The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos

  via : Amazon  


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1991 — The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

  via : Amazon  


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1992 — Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan

  via : Amazon  


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1993 — The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

  via : Amazon  


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1994 — Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

  via : Amazon  


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1995 — High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

  via : Amazon  


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1996 — The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard

  via : Amazon  


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1997 — Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

  via : Amazon  


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1998 — Paradise by Toni Morrison

  via : Amazon  


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1999 — Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

  via : Amazon  


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2000 — The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks

  via : Amazon  


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2001 — The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

  via : Amazon  


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2002 — The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

  via : Amazon  


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2003 — The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

  via : Amazon  


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2004 — The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom

  via : Amazon  


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2005 — The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

  via : Amazon  


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2006 — Marley & Me by John Grogan

  via : Amazon  


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2007 — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

  via : Amazon  


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2008 — Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

  via : Amazon  


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2009 — My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

  via : Amazon  


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2010 — The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

  via : Amazon  


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2011 — The Help by Kathryn Stockett

  via : Amazon  


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2012 — Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

  via : Amazon  


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2013 — Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

  via : Amazon  


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2014 — The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

  via : Amazon  


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2015 — The Girl On the Train by Paula Hawkins

  via : Amazon  


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2016 — Hamilton by Ron Chernow

  via : Amazon  


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