List of favorite fiction by year

This is a list of my favorite fiction stories by year. This doesn't necessarily mean every book in this list is great; there are several years where I still haven't read anything that impressive, so my "favorite" wins by default. Also, when I've read several amazing novels published in the same year, I could only pick one, so some books I liked better will not be on this list.

Year	Title	Author
1819	Rip Van Winkle	Washington Irving
1820	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	Washington Irving
1839	The Fall of the House of Usher	Edgar Allan Poe
1842	The Masque of the Red Death	Edgar Allan Poe
1843	A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens
1845	The Little Match Girl	Hans Christian Andersen
1863	My Contraband	Louisa May Alcott
1865	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll
1870	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea	Jules Verne
1872	Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There	Lewis Carroll
1882	The Lady, or the Tiger?	Frank R. Stockton
1883	Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson
1886	A White Heron	Sarah Orne Jewett
1890	The Revolt of "Mother"	Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
1897	The Open Boat	Stephen Crane
1900	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	L. Frank Baum
1904	Peter Pan	J. M. Barrie
1905	The Gift of the Magi	O. Henry
1908	Anne of Green Gables	Lucy Maud Montgomery
1912	The Lost World	Arthur Conan Doyle
1922	The Velveteen Rabbit	Margery Williams
1924	The Boxcar Children	Gertrude Chandler Warner
1926	Winnie-the-Pooh	A. A. Milne
1927	The Colour out of Space	H. P. Lovecraft
1928	The House at Pooh Corner	A. A. Milne
1932	Little House in the Big Woods	Laura Ingalls Wilder
1933	Farmer Boy	Laura Ingalls Wilder
1935	Little House on the Prairie	Laura Ingalls Wilder
1937	Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck
1939	By the Shores of Silver Lake	Laura Ingalls Wilder
1939	The Long Winter	Laura Ingalls Wilder
1941	Little Town on the Prairie	Laura Ingalls Wilder
1943	These Happy Golden Years	Laura Ingalls Wilder
1945	Animal Farm	George Orwell
1947	Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank
1949	Nineteen Eighty-Four	George Orwell
1950	I, Robot	Isaac Asimov
1951	Foundation	Isaac Asimov
1952	Charlotte's Web	E. B. White
1953	Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury
1954	The Horse and His Boy	C. S. Lewis
1955	The Magician's Nephew	C. S. Lewis
1956	The Last Battle	C. S. Lewis
1959	Starship Troopers	Robert Heinlein
1960
1961	Stranger in a Strange Land	Robert Heinlein
1962	A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L'Engle
1963	Way Station	Clifford Simak
1964	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Roald Dahl
1965	Dune	Frank Herbert
1966	Flowers for Algernon	Daniel Keyes
1967
1968	2001: A Space Odyssey	Arthur C. Clarke
1969	Dune Messiah	Frank Herbert
1970	Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.	Judy Blume
1971	To Your Scattered Bodies Go	Philip José Farmer
1972	Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great	Judy Blume
1973	The Princess Bride	William Goldman
1974	The Dispossessed	Ursula Le Guin
1975
1976	Very Far Away from Anywhere Else	Ursula Le Guin
1977	Bridge to Terabithia	Katherine Paterson
1978	Sideways Stories from Wayside School	Louis Sachar
1979	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams
1980	The Restaurant At the End of the Universe	Douglas Adams
1981	Tiger Eyes	Judy Blume
1982	Life, the Universe and Everything	Douglas Adams
1983	The Color of Magic	Terry Pratchett
1984	So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish	Douglas Adams
1985	Contact	Carl Sagan
1986	Howl's Moving Castle	Diana Wynne Jones
1987	The Magic of Krynn	Various
1988	Zodiac	Neal Stephenson
1989	Hyperion	Dan Simmons
1990	Good Omens	Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
1991
1992	Snow Crash	Neal Stephenson
1993	Guilty Pleasures	Laurell K. Hamilton
1994	Interface	Neal Stephenson, George Jewsbury
1995	High Fidelity	Nick Hornby
1996	Neverwhere	Neil Gaiman
1997	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	J. K. Rowling
1998	About a Boy	Nick Hornby
1999	Cryptonomicon	Neal Stephenson
2000	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	J. K. Rowling
2001	American Gods	Neil Gaiman
2002	Coraline	Neil Gaiman
2003	Quicksilver	Neal Stephenson
2004	The System of the World	Neal Stephenson
2005	A Long Way Down	Nick Hornby
2006	The Lies of Locke Lamora	Scott Lynch
2007	M Is for Magic	Neil Gaiman
2008	The Graveyard Book	Neil Gaiman
2009
2010
2011	Ready Player One	Ernest Cline
2012	Redshirts	John Scalzi
2013
2014	Funny Girl	Nick Hornby
2015	In the Unlikely Event	Judy Blume

See Also

• Book Publishing Years
• List of favorite non-fiction by year