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  


1933 — Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen

  via : Amazon  


1934 — Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton

  via : Amazon  


1935 — Green Light by Lloyd C. Douglas

  via : Amazon  


1936 — Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

  via : Amazon  


1937 — Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

  via : Amazon  


1938 — The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  via : Amazon  


1939 — The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

  via : Amazon  


1940 — How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn

  via : Amazon  


1941 — For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

  via : Amazon  


1942 — The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel

  via : Amazon  


1943 — A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

  via : Amazon  


1944 — Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith

  via : Amazon  


1945 — Forever Amber by Kathleen Winson

  via : Amazon  


1946 — The King’s General by Daphne du Maurier

  via : Amazon  


1947 — The Miracle of Bells by Russell Janney

  via : Amazon  


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

  via : Amazon  


1949 — The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

  via : Amazon  


1950 — The Cardinal by Henry Morton Robinson

  via : Amazon  


1951 — From Here to Eternity by James Jones

  via : Amazon  


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

  via : Amazon  


1953 — The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas

  via : Amazon  


1954 — Not As a Stranger by Morton Thompson

  via : Amazon  


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

  via : Amazon  


1956 — Eloise by Kay Thompson

  via : Amazon  


1957 — Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

  via : Amazon  


1958 — Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

  via : Amazon  


1959 — Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

  via : Amazon  


1960 — To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  via : Amazon  


1961 — Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

  via : Amazon  


1962 — Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

  via : Amazon  


1963 — The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris West

  via : Amazon  


1964 — You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming

  via : Amazon  


1965 — Herzog by Saul Bellow

  via : Amazon  


1966 — Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

  via : Amazon  


1967 — Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

  via : Amazon  


1968 — Couples by John Updike

  via : Amazon  


1969 — Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

  via : Amazon  


1970 — Love Story by Erich Segal

  via : Amazon  


1971 — The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

  via : Amazon  


1972 — Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

  via : Amazon  


1973 — Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

  via : Amazon  


1974 — Jaws by Peter Benchley

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1975 — Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

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1976 — Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie

  via : Amazon  


1977 — The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

  via : Amazon  


1978 — Fools Die by Mario Puzo

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1979 — Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

  via : Amazon  


1980 — The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

  via : Amazon  


1981 — Cujo by Stephen King

  via : Amazon  


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

  via : Amazon  


1983 — The Color Purple by Alice Walker

  via : Amazon  


1984 — The Sicilian by Mario Puzo

  via : Amazon  


1985 — Secrets by Danielle Steel

  via : Amazon  


1986 — The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

  via : Amazon  


1987 — Patriot Games by Tom Clancy

  via : Amazon  


1988 — The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice

  via : Amazon  


1989 — The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

  via : Amazon  


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

  via : Amazon  


1991 — The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

  via : Amazon  


1992 — Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan

  via : Amazon  


1993 — The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

  via : Amazon  


1995 — High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

  via : Amazon  


1996 — The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard

  via : Amazon  


1997 — Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

  via : Amazon  


1998 — Paradise by Toni Morrison

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2000 — The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks

  via : Amazon  


2001 — The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

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2002 — The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

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2003 — The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

  via : Amazon  


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

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2005 — The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

  via : Amazon  


2006 — Marley & Me by John Grogan

  via : Amazon  


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

  via : Amazon  


2008 — Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

  via : Amazon  


2009 — My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

  via : Amazon  


2010 — The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

  via : Amazon  


2011 — The Help by Kathryn Stockett

  via : Amazon  


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

  via : Amazon  


2013 — Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

  via : Amazon  


2014 — The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

  via : Amazon  


2015 — The Girl On the Train by Paula Hawkins

  via : Amazon  


2016 — Hamilton by Ron Chernow

  via : Amazon