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• ▢ · 1998 the poisonwood bible, barbara kingsolver
• ▢ · 1999 the perks of being a wallflower, stephen chbosky
• ▢ · 2000 house of leaves, mark z. danielewski
• ▢ · 2001 life of pi, yann martel
• ▢ · 2002 everything is illuminated, jonathan safran foer
• ▢ · 2003 the kite runner, khaled hosseini
• ▢ · 2004 the plot against america, philip roth
• ▢ · 2005 the book thief, markus zusak
• ▢ · 2006 world war z, max brooks
• ▢ · 2007 a thousand splendid suns, khaled hosseini
• ▢ · 2008 the graveyard book, neil gaiman
• ▢ · 2009 a short history of women, kate walbert
• ▢ · 2010 the veins of the ocean, patricia engel
• ▢ · 2011 thinking, fast and slow, daniel kahneman
• ▢ · 2012 behind the beautiful forevers, katherine boo
• ▢ · 2013 the goldfinch, donna tartt
• ▢ · 2014 all the light we cannot see, anthony doerr
• ▢ · 2015 a little life, hanya yanagihara
• ▢ · 2016 night sky with exit wounds, ocean vuong
• ▢ · 2017 exist west, mohsin hamid
• ▢ · 2018 circe, madeline miller
• ▢ · 2019 the testaments, margaret atwood
• ▢ · 2020 a promised land, barack obama
• ▢ · 2021 project hail mary, andy weir
• ▢ · 2022 tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, gabrielle zevin
• ▢ · 2023 birnam wood, eleanor catton
• ▢ · 2024 intermezzo, sally rooney
• ▢ · 2025 onyx storm, rebecca yarros

some titles are close to my heart while others may just be the single title i’ve seen or remember from that year so i guess, it’s time to watch more!

i researched most of these titles, while a few were selected from nytimes.