Here are some title suggestions based on the year you were born to help you get started with the January challenge!
| Year | Suggested Titles |
| 1925 | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie |
| 1926 | Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers |
| 1927 | One Summer, America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf |
| 1928 | All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse |
| 1929 | The sound and the Fury by Williams Faulkner
Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury |
| 1930 | The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Native Son by Richard Wright |
| 1931 | Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer |
| 1932 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
This Tender Land by William Krueger |
| 1933 | The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Lost Horizon by James Hilton |
| 1934 | Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Four Winds by Kristin Hannah |
| 1935 | The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis |
| 1936 | The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell |
| 1937 | Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck |
| 1938 | Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Our Town by Thornton Wilde |
| 1939 | The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak |
| 1940 | The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers |
| 1941 | The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Dragonfly by Leila Meacham |
| 1942 | The Stranger by Albert Camus
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei |
| 1943 | The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith |
| 1944 | The Stolen Marriage by Diane Chamberlain
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham |
| 1945 | The Shadow of the Wind by Carlo Ruiz Zafon
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams |
| 1946 | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie by Mary Ann Shaffer
Members of the Wedding by Carson McCullers |
| 1947 | Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank |
| 1948 | The Lottery by Shirley Jackson |
| 1949 | Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller |
| 1950 | The Spectacular by Fiona Davis
Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis |
| 1951 | Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Duoig |
| 1952 | Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison |
| 1953 | Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath |
| 1954 | Lord of the Flies by William Golding |
| 1955 | Meet me in Monaco by Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith |
| 1956 | Night by Elie Weisel
The Innocent by Ian McEwan |
| 1957 | On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers |
| 1958 | Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Once and Future King by T.H. White |
| 1959 | The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
In cold Blood by Truman Capote |
| 1960 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Don’t Forget to Write by Sara Goodman Confino |
| 1961 | Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus |
| 1962 | The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The London Bookshop Affair by Louise Fein |
| 1963 | 11/22/63 by Stephen King |
| 1964 | The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Mockingbird Summer by Lynda Rutledge |
| 1965 | The Women by Kristin Hannah
The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain |
| 1966 | Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes |
| 1967 | The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Greatest Beer Run Ever by John “Chick” Donohue & J.T. Molloy |
| 1968 | The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke |
| 1970 | The Paris Agent by Kelly Rimmer
The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls |
| 1971 | Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty |
| 1972 | The Heaven & Earth Grocery Story by James McBride
Watership Down by Richard Adams |
| 1973 | The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
| 1974 | The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis
The Perfumist of Paris |
| 1975 | Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
Where are the Children? By Mary Higgins Clark |
| 1976 | A Happier Life by Kristy Harvey
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice Roots by Alex Haley |
| 1977 | Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson
Such a Pretty Girl by T. Greenwood |
| 1978 | The World According to Garp by John Irving
The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck |
| 1979 | Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in history by Antonio Mendez & Matt Baglio
1979 by Val McDermid |
| 1980 | The Prettiest Star by carter Sickels
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum |
| 1981 | Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving |
| 1982 | The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
The Color People by Alice Walker |
| 1983 | Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton |
| 1984 | The Address by Fiona Davis
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera |
| 1985 | The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Small things Like These by Claire Keegan |
| 1986 | American spy by Lauren Wilkinson
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford As You Wish by Cary Elwes |
| 1987 | Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
Beloved by Toni Morrison Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg |
| 1988 | The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking A Ladder in the Sky by John Boyne |
| 1989 | A Time to Kill by John Grisham
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan |
| 1990 | Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman High Fidelity by Nick Hornby |
| 1991 | Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger |
| 1992 | The Secret History of Donna Tartt
The Pelican Brief by John Grisham |
| 1993 | The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis
We burn Daylight by Anthony Johnston The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Along Came a Spider by James Patterson |
| 1994 | One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
The People we Keep by Allison Larkin Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt |
| 1995 | The Idiot by Elif Batuman
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman Wicked by Gregory Maguire A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer |
| 1996 | This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks |
| 1997 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Writers and Lovers by Lily King |
| 1998 | Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar |
| 1999 | Bridget Jone’s Diary by Helen Fielding
The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Attachments by Rainbow Rowell |
| 2000 | Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella |
| 2001 | The Only Plane in the sky by Garrett M. Graff
Life of Pi by Yann Martel The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares The Whole World Over by Julia Glass Girl at War by Sara Novic |
| 2002 | Tell Me Everything by Erika Krouse
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer |
| 2003 | The Heirloom Garden by Viola Shipman
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Devil wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger |
| 2004 | Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season by Stewart O’Nan & Stephen King |
| 2005 | Home Front by Kristin Hannah
Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Looking for Alaska by John Green |
| 2006 | The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn |
| 2007 | The Pearl that Broke its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini |
| 2008 | The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty |
| 2009 | Me Before you by JoJo Moyes
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin |
| 2010 | Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot |
| 2011 | A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
As Long as the Lemon Tree Grows by Zoulfa Katouh The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern |
| 2012 | The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rolwing
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn The Fault in our Stars by John Green A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman |
| 2013 | The Storied life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan |
| 2014 | The Circle by Dave Eggers
Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty |
| 2015 | The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkal
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh The beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefheri |