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Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgCrazy Rich Asians by Kevin KwanPachinko by Min Jin Lee
[ATY 2023] Asian Diaspora
325 books — 91 voters
The Girl Who Left by Jenny Blackhurst
[ATY 2023] Returning Home
228 books — 69 voters

Circe by Madeline MillerShe's Up to No Good by Sara Goodman ConfinoCrave by Piper LawsonNoughts & Crosses by Malorie BlackmanThe Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
[ATY 2023] Non-Horizontal Text on Cover
865 books — 78 voters
There Will Be Lies by Nick Lake
[ATY 2023] Character with a Disability
318 books — 124 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bigamist by Mary Turner ThomsonFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyPicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayBody of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell
[ATY 2023] Popular Author First Names of 1923
501 books — 62 voters
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
[ATY 2022] Latin American Authors
189 books — 103 voters

The Anomaly by Michael Rutger
Best Books with Underground Setting
233 books — 85 voters
Queen Bee by Nina ManningThe Queen's Gambit by Walter TevisQueenie by Candice Carty-WilliamsBeauty Queens by Libba BrayA Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
[ATY 2023] Related to a Chess Piece
720 books — 100 voters

The Storyteller by Dave GrohlLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
[ATY 2023] School Subject in Title
740 books — 110 voters
The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia QuinnThe Spy Who Loved Me by Ian FlemingThe 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas JonassonThe Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen KingThe Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz by Denis Avey
[ATY 2023] Who, What, When, Where, Why in Title
969 books — 114 voters

She's Up to No Good by Sara Goodman ConfinoGlamour by Louise Bagshawe
[ATY 2023] Sun, Moon, or Stars on Cover
719 books — 107 voters
His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae BurnetBilly Summers by Stephen KingThe Best Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleRose Madder by Stephen KingMeet Clara Morgan by Lacey London
[ATY 2023] Full Name in Title
677 books — 122 voters

The Redbreast by Jo NesbøClara Meets The Parents by Lacey LondonQueen Bee by Nina ManningLadies Who Launch by Milly JohnsonThe Forgotten Girl by Rio Youers
[ATY 2023] Birds, Bees, and Bunnies
686 books — 127 voters
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneThe Little Flower Shop by the Sea by Ali McNamaraThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwaySalt to the Sea by Ruta SepetysThe Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey
[ATY 2023] Body of Water in Title
690 books — 126 voters

You Love Me by Caroline KepnesYou by Caroline KepnesMurder at the Lakeside Library by Holly Danvers
[ATY 2023] Books are Important!
461 books — 152 voters
Red Dragon by Thomas HarrisThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonA Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinThe Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
[ATY 2022] Here Be Dragons
241 books — 127 voters

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne CroninThe Last Letter from Your Lover by Jojo MoyesThe Thing About Jellyfish by Ali BenjaminThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeDon't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her by Daisy May Cooper
[ATY 2022] 22 Letters in Title
681 books — 87 voters
The Sanatorium by Sarah PearseThe Shining by Stephen King
[ATY 2022] Related to Inclement Weather
268 books — 116 voters

They Both Die at the End by Adam SilveraMe by Elton JohnThe Receptionist by Kate MylesThe Idea of You by Robinne LeeThe Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
[ATY 2022] Related to Glass
306 books — 101 voters
Dead Man's Mirror by Agatha ChristieMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne CroninThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe One You Really Want by Jill Mansell
[ATY 2022] Handwriting on Cover
377 books — 93 voters

Project Hail Mary by Andy WeirPostmortem by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
[ATY 2022] Women in STEM
354 books — 175 voters
Greenlights by Matthew McConaugheyNormal People by Sally RooneyThe Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn BarnesConstance by Matthew FitzSimmonsLies We Bury by Elle Marr
[ATY 2022] Two Sets of Double Letters in Author Name
710 books — 100 voters

Dead Head by C.J. SkuseThe Rosie Result by Graeme SimsionYou Love Me by Caroline KepnesMidnight Sun by Stephenie MeyerIn Bloom by C.J. Skuse
[ATY 2022] Next in Series
308 books — 57 voters
The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart TurtonDevil's Day by Andrew Michael HurleyDevil's Peak by Deon MeyerThe Devil Wears Prada by Lauren WeisbergerRevenge Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
[ATY 2022] Related to a Tarot Card
445 books — 109 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiApples Never Fall by Liane MoriartyDead Head by C.J. SkuseThe Cherry Tree Café by Heidi SwainThe Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion
[ATY 2022] Flora & Fauna
570 books — 125 voters
Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart TurtonLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Wave by L.E. LuttrellMadhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton
[ATY 2022] Set On or Near a Body of Water
492 books — 130 voters

The Vanishing Half by Brit BennettThe One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne CroninFangirl by Rainbow Rowell
[ATY 2022] Loving LGBTQIA+ Relationship
166 books — 112 voters
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonMadhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian SanctonRevenge Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
[ATY 2022] Monopoly Token on Cover
297 books — 96 voters

The Lido by Libby PageThe Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Di... by Jonas JonassonThe One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne CroninMurder at the Lakeside Library by Holly DanversThe Switch by Beth O'Leary
[ATY 2022] Aging, or The Golden Years
212 books — 123 voters
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenSchoolgirl Missing by Sue Fortin
The Shoes Make the Book
98 books — 75 voters