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Year
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Author
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Book
|
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1800
|
Horatio Smith
|
A Family Story
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1801
|
Samuel Coleridge, William wordsworth
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Lyrical Ballads
|
|
1802
|
Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
|
Rene
|
|
1803
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Jane Porter
|
Thaddeus of Warsaw
|
|
1804
|
Francis Holt
|
The Land We Live In
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1805
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Jan Potocki
|
The Manuscript Found in Sargossa
|
|
1806
|
Charlotte Darce
|
Zofloya
|
|
1807
|
Anna Maria Porter
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The Hungarian Brothers
|
|
1808
|
Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
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Faust
|
|
1809
|
Richard Cumberland
|
John De Lancaster
|
|
1810
|
Jane Porter
|
The Scottish Chefs
|
|
1811
|
Jane Austen
|
Sense and Sensibility
|
|
1812
|
Brothers Grimm
|
Hansel and Gretel
|
|
1813
|
Jane Austen
|
Pride and Prejudice
|
|
1814
|
Jane Austen
|
Mansfield Park
|
|
1815
|
Jane Austen
|
Emma
|
|
1816
|
Benjamin Constant
|
Adolphe
|
|
1817
|
Jane Austen
|
Persuasion
|
|
1818
|
Mary Shelley
|
Frankenstein
|
|
1819
|
Washington Irving
|
Rip Van Winkle
|
|
1820
|
Sir Walter Scott
|
Ivanhoe
|
|
1821
|
Percy Bysshe Shelley
|
Adonais
|
|
1822
|
John Gibson Lockhart
|
Adam Blair
|
|
1823
|
James Fenimore Cooper
|
The Pioneers
|
|
1824
|
Washington Irving
|
The Devil and Tom Walker
|
|
1825
|
James Sheridan Knowles
|
William Tell
|
|
1826
|
James Fenimore Cooper
|
The Last of the Mohicans
|
|
1827
|
James Fenimore Cooper
|
The Red Rover
|
|
1828
|
Susanna Rowson
|
Lucy Temple
|
|
1829
|
Edgar Allan Poe
|
Tamerlane
|
|
1830
|
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
|
Paul Clifford
|
|
1831
|
Victor Hugo
|
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
|
|
1832
|
Alexander Pushkin
|
Dubrovsky
|
|
1833
|
Lord Alfred Tennyson
|
The Lady of Shalott
|
|
1834
|
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
|
The Last Days of Pompeii
|
|
1835
|
Hans Christian Andersen
|
The Princess and the Pea
|
|
1836
|
Alexander Pushkin
|
The Captain's Daughters
|
|
1837
|
Hans Christian Andersen
|
Emporers New Clothes
|
|
1838
|
Charles Dickens
|
Oliver Twist
|
|
1839
|
Edgar Allan Poe
|
The Fall of the House of Usher
|
|
1840
|
William Harrison Ainsworth
|
Guy Fawkes
|
|
1841
|
Edgar Allan Poe
|
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
|
|
1842
|
Ralph Waldo Emerson
|
|
|
1843
|
Edgar Allan Poe
|
The Tell-Tale Heart
|
|
1844
|
Alexandre Dumas
|
The Three Musketeers
|
|
1845
|
Edgar Allan Poe
|
The Raven
|
|
1846
|
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
|
Poor Folk
|
|
1847
|
Charlotte Bronte
|
Jane Eyre
|
|
1848
|
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
|
The Communist Manifesto
|
|
1849
|
Charles Dickens
|
David Copperfield
|
|
1850
|
Nathaniel Hawthorne
|
The Scarlett Letter
|
|
1851
|
Herman Melville
|
Moby Dick
|
|
1852
|
Harriet Beecher Stowe
|
Uncle Tom's Cabin
|
|
1853
|
Charlotte Bronte
|
Villette
|
|
1854
|
Lord Alfred Tennyson
|
The Charge of the Light Brigade
|
|
1855
|
Walt Whitman
|
Leaves of Grass
|
|
1856
|
Harriet Beecher Stowe
|
A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
|
|
1857
|
Gustave Flaubert
|
Madame Bovary
|
|
1858
|
Elizabeth Gaskell
|
My Lady Ludlow
|
|
1859
|
Charles Dickens
|
A Tale of Two Cities
|
|
1860
|
Nathaniel Hawthorne
|
The Marble Faun
|
|
1861
|
Charles Dickens
|
Great Expectations
|
|
1862
|
Victor Hugo
|
Les Miserables
|
|
1863
|
Leo Tolstoy
|
The Cossacks
|
|
1864
|
Jules Verne
|
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
|
|
1865
|
Lewis Carroll
|
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
|
|
1866
|
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
|
Crime and Punishment
|
|
1867
|
Thomas William Robertson
|
Caste
|
|
1868
|
Louisa May Alcott
|
Little Women
|
|
1869
|
Leo Tolstoy
|
War and Peace
|
|
1870
|
Jules Verne
|
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
|
|
1871
|
George Eliot
|
Middlemarch
|
|
1872
|
Jules Verne
|
Around the World in 80 Days
|
|
1873
|
Thomas Hardy
|
A Pair of Blue Eyes
|
|
1874
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
|
|
1875
|
William Harrison Ainsworth
|
Preston Fight
|
|
1876
|
Mark Twain
|
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
|
|
1877
|
Jules Verne
|
Hector Cervadac
|
|
1878
|
Leo Tolstoy
|
Anna Karenina
|
|
1879
|
Henrik Ibsen
|
A Doll's House
|
|
1880
|
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
|
The Brothers Karamazovt
|
|
1881
|
Henry James
|
The Portrait of a Lady
|
|
1882
|
George Bernard Shaw
|
Cashel Byron's Profession
|
|
1883
|
Robert Louis Stevenson
|
Treasure Island
|
|
1884
|
Mark Twain
|
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
|
|
1885
|
Lewis Carroll
|
A Tangled Tale
|
|
1886
|
Leo Tolstoy
|
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
|
|
1887
|
Arthur Conan Doyle
|
A Study in Scarlet
|
|
1888
|
Thomas Hardy
|
Wessex Tales
|
|
1889
|
Anton Chekhov
|
The Bet
|
|
1890
|
Oscar Wilde
|
The Picture of Dorian Gray
|
|
1891
|
Herman Melville
|
Billy Budd
|
|
1892
|
Mary Freeman
|
Young Lucretia
|
|
1893
|
Oscar Wilde
|
Salome
|
|
1894
|
Rudyard Kipling
|
The Jungle Book
|
|
1895
|
Stephen Crane
|
Red Badge of Courage
|
|
1896
|
Anton Chekhov
|
The Seagull
|
|
1897
|
Bram Stoker
|
Dracula
|
|
1898
|
Henry James
|
The Turn of the Screw
|
|
1899
|
Joseph Conrad
|
Heart of Darkness
|
|
1900
|
Joseph Conrad
|
Lord Jim
|
|
1901
|
Beatrix Potter
|
Peter Rabbit
|
|
1902
|
W. W. Jacobs
|
The Monkey's Paw
|
|
1903
|
Jack London
|
The Call of the Wild
|
|
1904
|
Anton Chekhov
|
The Cherry Orchard
|
|
1905
|
Upton Sinclair
|
The Jungle
|
|
1906
|
Jack London
|
White Fang
|
|
1907
|
Arthur Machen
|
The Hill of Dreams
|
|
1908
|
Lucy Maud Montgomery
|
Anne of Green Gables
|
|
1909
|
Lyman Frank Baum
|
The Road to Oz
|
|
1910
|
Hermand Hesse
|
Gertrud
|
|
1911
|
Frances Hodgson Burnett
|
The Secret Gardes
|
|
1912
|
George Bernard Shaw
|
Pygmalion
|
|
1913
|
Marcel Proust
|
In Search of Lost Time
|
|
1914
|
James Joyce
|
The Dead
|
|
1915
|
Franz Kafka
|
The Metamorphosis
|
|
1916
|
Robert Frost
|
The Road Not Taken
|
|
1917
|
Edith Wharton
|
Summer
|
|
1918
|
Willa Cather
|
My Antonia
|
|
1919
|
Lyman Frank Baum
|
The Magic of Oz
|
|
1920
|
Sinclair Lewis
|
Main Street
|
|
1921
|
Luigi Pirandello
|
Six Characters In Search of an Author
|
|
1922
|
James Joyce
|
Ulysses
|
|
1923
|
Aldous Huxley
|
Antic Hay
|
|
1924
|
Thomas Mann
|
The Magic Mountain
|
|
1925
|
F. Scott Fitzgerald
|
The Great Gatsby
|
|
1926
|
Adolf Hitler
|
Mein Kampf
|
|
1927
|
Virginia Woolf
|
To the Lighthouse
|
|
1928
|
Erich Maria Remarque
|
All Quiet on the Western Front
|
|
1929
|
Ernest Hemingway
|
A Farewell to Arms
|
|
1930
|
Samuel Hammett
|
The Maltese Falcon
|
|
1931
|
Pearl Buck
|
The Good Earth
|
|
1932
|
Aldous Huxley
|
Brave New World
|
|
1933
|
Laura Ingalls Wilder
|
Farmer Boy (Little House)
|
|
1934
|
Agatha Christie
|
Murder on the Orient Express
|
|
1935
|
Laura Ingalls Wilder
|
Little House on the Prairie
|
|
1936
|
William Faulkner
|
Absalom, Absalom!
|
|
1937
|
Zora Neale Hurston
|
Their Eyes Were Watching God
|
|
1938
|
Thornton Wilder
|
Our Town
|
|
1939
|
John Steinbeck
|
The Grapes of Wrath
|
|
1940
|
Ernest Hemingway
|
For Whom the Bell Tolls
|
|
1941
|
H. A. Rey
|
Curious George
|
|
1942
|
Albert Camus
|
The Stranger
|
|
1943
|
Antione de Saint-Exupery
|
The Little Prince
|
|
1944
|
Tennessee Williams
|
The Glass Menagerie
|
|
1945
|
George Orwell
|
Animal Farm
|
|
1946
|
Robert Warren
|
All the King's Men
|
|
1947
|
Tennessee Williams
|
A Streetcar Named Desire
|
|
1948
|
Shirley Jackson
|
The Lottery
|
|
1949
|
George Orwell
|
1984
|
|
1950
|
Isaac Asimov
|
I, Robot
|
|
1951
|
JD Salinger
|
Catcher in the Rye
|
|
1952
|
Ralph Ellison
|
Invisible Man
|
|
1953
|
Arthur Miller
|
The Crucible
|
|
1954
|
William Golding
|
Lord of the Rings
|
|
1955
|
Vladimir Nabokov
|
Lolita
|
|
1956
|
C. S. Lewis
|
The Chronicles of Narnia, The Last Battle
|
|
1957
|
Dr. Suess
|
The Cat in the Hat
|
|
1958
|
Chinua Achebe
|
Things Fall Apart
|
|
1959
|
Lorraine Hansberry
|
A Raisin in the Sun
|
|
1960
|
Harper Lee
|
To Kill A Mockingbird
|
|
1961
|
Wilson Rawls
|
Where The Red Fern Grows
|
|
1962
|
Madeline L'Engle
|
A Wrinkle in Time
|
|
1963
|
Maurice Sendak
|
Where the Wild Things Are
|
|
1964
|
Irene Hunt
|
Across Five Aprils
|
|
1965
|
Frank Herbert
|
Dune
|
|
1966
|
Daniel Keyes
|
Flowers for Algernon
|
|
1967
|
S. E. Hinton
|
The Outsiders
|
|
1968
|
Arthur Hailey
|
Airport
|
|
1969
|
Kurt Vonnegut
|
Slaughterhouse Five
|
|
1970
|
Judy Blume
|
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
|
|
1971
|
Dr. Suess
|
The Lorax
|
|
1972
|
Richard Adams
|
Watership Down
|
|
1973
|
Kurt Vonnegut
|
Breakfast of Champions
|
|
1974
|
Robert Cormier
|
The Chocolate War
|
|
1975
|
Natalie Babbitt
|
Tuck Everlasting
|
|
1976
|
Brian Garfield
|
Gundown
|
|
1977
|
Stephen King
|
The Shining
|
|
1978
|
Stephen King
|
The Stand
|
|
1979
|
William Styron
|
Sophie's Choice
|
|
1980
|
Douglas Adams
|
The Resteraunt at the End of the Universe
|
|
1981
|
Andrew Lloyd Weber
|
Cats
|
|
1982
|
Alice Walker
|
The Color Purple
|
|
1983
|
Stephen King
|
Christine
|
|
1984
|
William Gibson
|
Neuromancer
|
|
1985
|
Chris Van Allsburg
|
The Polar Express
|
|
1986
|
Gary Paulsen
|
Hatchet
|
|
1987
|
Toni Morrison
|
Beloved
|
|
1988
|
Roald Dahl
|
Matilda
|
|
1989
|
Lois Lowry
|
Number the Stars
|
|
1990
|
Michael Crichton
|
Jurassic Park
|
|
1991
|
Diana Gabaldon
|
Outlander
|
|
1992
|
Toni Morrison
|
Jazz
|
|
1993
|
Lois Lowry
|
The Giver
|
|
1994
|
Janet Evanovich
|
One for the Money
|
|
1995
|
Gregory Maguire
|
Wicked
|
|
1996
|
George R. R. Martin
|
Game of Thrones
|
|
1997
|
J. K. Rowling
|
Harry Potter and the Philisopher's Stone
|
|
1998
|
J. K. Rowling
|
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
|
|
1999
|
J. K. Rowling
|
|
2000
|
J. K. Rowling
|
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
|
|
2001
|
Yann Martel
|
Life of Pi
|
|
2002
|
Neil Gaiman
|
Coraline
|
|
2003
|
Khaled Hosseini
|
Kite Runner
|
|
2004
|
Dan Brown
|
The Da Vinci Code
|
|
2005
|
J. K. Rowling
|
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
|
|
2006
|
Stephenie Meyer
|
New Moon
|
|
2007
|
J. K. Rowling
|
Harry Potter and the Dealthly Hallows.
|
|
2008
|
Suzanne Collins
|
The Hunger Games
|
|
2009
|
Suzanne Collins
|
Catching Fire
|
|
2010
|
Suzanne Collins
|
Mockingjay
|
|
2011
|
Veronica Roth
|
Divergent
|
|
2012
|
John Green
|
The Fault in our Stars
|
|
2013
|
Donna Tartt
|
The Goldfinch
|
|
2014
|
Bessel van der Kolk
|
The Body Keeps the Score
|
|
2015
|
Kristin Hannah
|
The Nightingale
|
|
2016
|
J. K. Rowling
|
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
|
|
2017
|
R. J. Palacio
|
Wonder
|
|
2018
|
Michelle Obama
|
Becoming
|
|
2019
|
Alex Michaelides
|
The Silent Patient
|
|
2020
|
Matt Haig
|
The Midnight Library
|
|
2021
|
Dav Pilkey
|
Mothering Heights
|
|
2022
|
Freida McFadden
|
The Housemaid
|
|
2023
|
Colleen Hoover
|
It Ends with Us
|
|
2024
|
Hannah Kristin
|
The Women
|