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1. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
2. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
4. Ringworld
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox
1971: 7 points
1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
2. The Lorax
4. The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
1972: 7 points
1. Watership Down
3. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
5. All Creatures Great and Small
1973: 4 points
2. Breakfast of Champions
3. Rendezvous with Rama
5. A Wind in the Door
1974: 6 points
1. Where the Sidewalk Ends
5. The Forever War
1975: 4 points
2. Tuck Everlasting
3. Shōgun
5. Strega Nona
1976: 2 points
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4. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
5. Children of Dune
1977: 4 points
2. Bridge to Terabithia
3. The Thorn Birds
4. The Silmarillion
1978: 4 points
2. The World According to Garp
3. The Westing Game
5. Eye of the Needle
1979: 6 points
1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
3. The Neverending Story
Total: 52 points

2. The Name of the Rose
5. The Clan of the Cave Bear
1981: 5 points
1. A Light in the Attic
1982: 7 points
1. The Color Purple
3. The BFG
5. The House of the Spirits
1983: 2 points
3. The Witches
1984: 6 points
1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
5. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
1985: 3 points
3. Love in the Time of Cholera
5. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
1986:3 points
2. Hatchet
5. Love You Forever
1987: 5 points
1.Watchmen
1988: 6 points
1. The Alchemist
2. Matilda
1989: 7 points
2. The Pillars of the Earth
3. The Joy Luck Club
5. Number the Stars
Total: 47 points

1. Jurassic Park
3. The Eye of the World
4. Oh, The Places You'll Go!
1991: 2 points
5. Sophie's World
1992: 1 point
Not on list: The Children of Men
1993: 6 points
1. The Giver
3. The Client
1994: 2 points
3. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1995: 5 points
1. The Golden Compass
1996: 1 point
Not on list: Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
1997: 5 points
1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
1998: 7 points
1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2. Holes
4. The Poisonwood Bible
1999: 5 points
1. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Total: 41 points

2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
3. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
2001: 2 points
4. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
2002: 1 point
Not on list: Prey
2003: 7 points
1. The Kite Runner
2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2004: 3 points
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
5. Cloud Atlas
2005: 4 points
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
4. The Book Thief
5. The Lightning Thief
2006: 1 point
Not on list: The Sea of Monsters
2007: 5 points
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
2008: 5 points
1. The Hunger Games
2009: 2 points
2. The Help
Total: 33 points

3. Room
2011: 1 point
Not on list: The Son of Neptune
2012: 1 point
Not on list: The Mark of Athena
2013: 2 points
5. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
2014: 5 points
1. All the Light We Cannot See
2015: 5 points
1. The Girl on the Train
2016: 5 points
1. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2
2017: 1 point
Not on list: Norse Mythology
2018: 1 point
Not on list: Outcasts of Order
2019: 1 point
Not on list: The Unteachables
Total: 23 points

1920s: 76
1930s: 86
1940s: 73
1950s: 87
1960s: 75
1970s: 51
1980s: 47
1990s: 41
2000s: 33
20teens: 23
Total points on July 14, 2019: 617
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1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Green Eggs and Ham
3. Island
4. Are You My Mother?
5. One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
1961: 8 points
1. Catch-22
2. James and the Giant Peach
4. Stranger in a Strange Land
5. The Phantom Tollbooth
1962: 3 points
2. A Clockwork Orange
4. Something Wicked This Way Comes
1963: 8 points
1. Where the Wild Things Are
2. The Bell Jar
3. Cat's Cradle
4. Amelia Bedelia
1964: 7 points
1. The Giving Tree
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
5. Harriet the Spy
1965: 6 points
1. Dune
3. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
1966: 8 points
1. Flowers for Algernon
2. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
3. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
5. Wide Sargasso Sea
1967: 10 points 🤗
1. The Outsiders
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude
3. The Master and Margarita
4. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
5. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
1968: 8 points
*1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. A Wizard of Earthsea
4. Corduroy
1969: 8 points
1. Slaughterhouse-Five
2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
5. The Andromeda Strain
Total: 76 points