If you finish reading another book and the question “What to read” arose, take a look at this amazing selection of the most popular books from 1950 to 2005. Find your year of birth and find out which book saw the world at the same time as you. Have you read it? And if not, be sure to correct this annoying misunderstanding.
1950 – “Across the River, in the Shade of the Trees,” Ernest Hemingway
1951 – From Now and Forever, James Jones
1952 – The Catcher in the Rye by Jerome Salinger
1953 – “East of Eden,” John Steinbeck
1954 – The Lord of the Rings, John R.R. Tolkien
1955 – “Hello, sadness!” Françoise Sagan
1956 – “Eloise”, Kay Thompson
1957 – Peyton Place, Grace Metallius
1958 – Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
1959 – Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1961 – Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
1962 – “Franny and Zooey”, Jerome Salinger
1963 – Fisherman’s Shoes, Morris West
1964 – You Only Live Twice, Ian Fleming
1965 – The Hotel by Arthur Haley
1966 – “Valley of the Dolls”, Jacqueline Suzanne
1967 – Rosemary’s Baby, Ira Levin
1968 – Married Couples, John Updike
1969 – The Godfather, Mario Puzo
1970 – “Crystal Grotto”, Mary Stewart
1971 – The Exorcist by William Blatty
1972 – “Seagull named Jonathan Livingston”, Richard Bach
1973 – “Odessa” file, Frederick Forsyth
1974 – Jaws, Peter Benchley
1975 – Curtain, Agatha Christie
1976 – Farce, or Down with Loneliness, Kurt Vonnegut
1977 – The Thorn Birds by Colin McCullough
1978 – “Blood Ties”, Sydney Sheldon
1979 – Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
1980 – “Smiley Team”, John le Carre
1981 – “Kujo” by Stephen King
1982 – “House of Spirits”, Isabel Allende
1983 – The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
1984 – “First Among Equals,” Jeffrey Archer
1985 – “Perfumer”, Patrick Suskind
1986 – It, Stephen King
1987 – The Keepers, Alan Moore
1988 – Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice
1989 – “Satanic Poems”, Salman Rushdie
1990 – “Jurassic Park”, Michael Crichton
1991 – Scarlett, Alexandra Ripley
1992 – City Walk, Mary Higgins Clark
1993 – “Chocolate on steep boiling water”, Laura Esquivel
1994 – Politically Correct Tales, James Finn Gardner
1995 – “Hi-Fi”, Nick Hornby
1996 – Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
1997 – “Miso-soup”, Ryu Murakami
1998 – Breakfast on Pluto Patrick McCabe
1999 – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
2000 – “Salvation”, Nicholas Sparks
2001— “The Secret Life of Bees,” Sue Monk Kidd
2002 – Life of Pi, Yann Martel
2003 – The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
2004 – “Cloud Atlas”, David Mitchell
2005 – “Don’t Let Me Go”, Kazuo Ishiguro
Enjoy reading!