History quiz
Best-selling books by year published
This list ranks 86 entries by year. First on the list is Where the Crawdads Sing (2018); last is Pride and Prejudice (1813). Right in the middle sits The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969).
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| # | Name | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens | 2018 |
| 2 | Becoming Michelle Obama | 2018 |
| 3 | It Ends with Us Colleen Hoover | 2016 |
| 4 | The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins | 2015 |
| 5 | All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr | 2014 |
| 6 | The Fault in Our Stars John Green | 2012 |
| 7 | Gone Girl Gillian Flynn | 2012 |
| 8 | Me Before You Jojo Moyes | 2012 |
| 9 | Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari | 2011 |
| 10 | The Help Kathryn Stockett | 2009 |
| 11 | The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins | 2008 |
| 12 | The Secret Rhonda Byrne | 2006 |
| 13 | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne | 2006 |
| 14 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson | 2005 |
| 15 | The Book Thief Markus Zusak | 2005 |
| 16 | The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown | 2003 |
| 17 | The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini | 2003 |
| 18 | The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold | 2002 |
| 19 | The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón | 2001 |
| 20 | Life of Pi Yann Martel | 2001 |
| 21 | The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson | 1999 |
| 22 | Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson | 1998 |
| 23 | Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom | 1997 |
| 24 | Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding | 1996 |
| 25 | Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela | 1994 |
| 26 | The Giver Lois Lowry | 1993 |
| 27 | Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder | 1991 |
| 28 | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey | 1989 |
| 29 | The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett | 1989 |
| 30 | The Alchemist Paulo Coelho | 1988 |
| 31 | A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking | 1988 |
| 32 | Matilda Roald Dahl | 1988 |
| 33 | Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami | 1987 |
| 34 | Perfume Patrick Süskind | 1985 |
| 35 | The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco | 1980 |
| 36 | Cosmos Carl Sagan | 1980 |
| 37 | The Neverending Story Michael Ende | 1979 |
| 38 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams | 1979 |
| 39 | The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough | 1977 |
| 40 | Jaws (novel) Peter Benchley | 1974 |
| 41 | Momo Michael Ende | 1973 |
| 42 | Watership Down Richard Adams | 1972 |
| 43 | Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach | 1970 |
| 44 | The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle | 1969 |
| 45 | The Godfather (novel) Mario Puzo | 1969 |
| 46 | One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez | 1967 |
| 47 | The Outsiders S. E. Hinton | 1967 |
| 48 | Dune Frank Herbert | 1965 |
| 49 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl | 1964 |
| 50 | Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak | 1963 |
| 51 | A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle | 1962 |
| 52 | James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl | 1961 |
| 53 | Catch-22 Joseph Heller | 1961 |
| 54 | To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee | 1960 |
| 55 | Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe | 1958 |
| 56 | The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss | 1957 |
| 57 | Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury | 1953 |
| 58 | Charlotte's Web E. B. White | 1952 |
| 59 | The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway | 1952 |
| 60 | The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger | 1951 |
| 61 | The Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank | 1947 |
| 62 | Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown | 1947 |
| 63 | The Plague Albert Camus | 1947 |
| 64 | Man's Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl | 1946 |
| 65 | The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 1943 |
| 66 | The Stranger Albert Camus | 1942 |
| 67 | And Then There Were None Agatha Christie | 1939 |
| 68 | The Grapes of Wrath (novel) John Steinbeck | 1939 |
| 69 | Rebecca Daphne du Maurier | 1938 |
| 70 | The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien | 1937 |
| 71 | How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie | 1936 |
| 72 | Gone with the Wind (novel) Margaret Mitchell | 1936 |
| 73 | The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 |
| 74 | The Prophet Kahlil Gibran | 1923 |
| 75 | Kokoro Natsume Sōseki | 1914 |
| 76 | Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery | 1908 |
| 77 | The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame | 1908 |
| 78 | The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter | 1902 |
| 79 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain | 1885 |
| 80 | The Adventures of Pinocchio Carlo Collodi | 1881 |
| 81 | Heidi Johanna Spyri | 1880 |
| 82 | Black Beauty Anna Sewell | 1877 |
| 83 | War and Peace Leo Tolstoy | 1869 |
| 84 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll | 1865 |
| 85 | A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens | 1859 |
| 86 | Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen | 1813 |
Questions
What is the newest on this list?
Where the Crawdads Sing, with 2018.
What is the oldest on this list?
Pride and Prejudice, with 1813.
Where do these numbers come from?
Each year links to its source.