Born in the 1950s - What we've read in 2017

101.
Night Sky Dragons
Night Sky Dragons
by: Mal Peet
3.96 avg rating — 117 ratings
101.
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime 4.13 avg rating — 22,715 ratings
101.
My Family & Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
My Family & Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 61,504 ratings
104.
King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian
King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian 4.22 avg rating — 27,694 ratings
104.
SS-GB
SS-GB 3.75 avg rating — 8,639 ratings
104.
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 4.14 avg rating — 9,094 ratings
107.
The Actor and the Housewife
The Actor and the Housewife 3.15 avg rating — 9,522 ratings
107.
Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain
Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain 3.67 avg rating — 122 ratings
107.
The Hanging Tree (Rivers of London, #6)
The Hanging Tree (Rivers of London, #6) 4.22 avg rating — 39,013 ratings
107.
The Guilty (Will Robie Series, 5)
The Guilty (Will Robie Series, 5) 4.21 avg rating — 62,067 ratings
111.
The Wind Is Not a River
The Wind Is Not a River 3.76 avg rating — 4,282 ratings
111.
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 3.96 avg rating — 8,811 ratings
111.
The Rook (The Checquy Files, #1)
The Rook (The Checquy Files, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 62,195 ratings
114.
The Dark Pond
The Dark Pond 3.37 avg rating — 377 ratings
114.
Florence Foster Jenkins
Florence Foster Jenkins 2.83 avg rating — 358 ratings
114.
Caleb's Crossing
Caleb's Crossing 3.86 avg rating — 70,930 ratings
114.
The Genius of Birds
The Genius of Birds 4.04 avg rating — 13,009 ratings
118.
Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale
Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale 4.18 avg rating — 354 ratings
118.
The Mother of All Questions
The Mother of All Questions 4.19 avg rating — 8,853 ratings
120.
The Ugly Duckling
The Ugly Duckling 4.12 avg rating — 43,086 ratings
120.
The Republic
The Republic
by: Plato
3.96 avg rating — 220,237 ratings
120.
Say You're One of Them
Say You're One of Them 3.55 avg rating — 16,254 ratings
123.
Fugletribunalet
Fugletribunalet 3.73 avg rating — 5,445 ratings
123.
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle 3.66 avg rating — 104,111 ratings
123.
The Moonshine War
The Moonshine War 3.88 avg rating — 2,351 ratings
126.
On the Ragged Edge of Medicine: Doctoring Among the Dispossessed
On the Ragged Edge of Medicine: Doctoring Among the Dispossessed 4.27 avg rating — 96 ratings
126.
America Again
America Again 3.85 avg rating — 13,066 ratings
128.
The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, and Death in Nineteenth-Century America
The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, and Death in Nineteenth-Century America 3.85 avg rating — 153 ratings
128.
Exiles
Exiles 3.63 avg rating — 566 ratings
130.
Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield Country
Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield Country 4.14 avg rating — 102 ratings
130.
The Retreat of Western Liberalism
The Retreat of Western Liberalism 4.01 avg rating — 2,942 ratings
132.
Dancing With the Enemy: My Family's Holocaust Secret
Dancing With the Enemy: My Family's Holocaust Secret 4.11 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
132.
Kubo and the Two Strings: The Junior Novel
Kubo and the Two Strings: The Junior Novel 3.93 avg rating — 54 ratings
134.
The Final Days
The Final Days 4.17 avg rating — 6,374 ratings
135.
Tree of Smoke
Tree of Smoke 3.60 avg rating — 14,879 ratings
135.
The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)
The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 260,240 ratings
137.
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash 4.08 avg rating — 2,551 ratings
137.
The Worst Journey in the World
The Worst Journey in the World 4.19 avg rating — 8,229 ratings
139.
Annals of the Parish
Annals of the Parish
by: John Galt
3.35 avg rating — 89 ratings
140.
The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family
The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family 4.05 avg rating — 772 ratings
140.
Memory Wall
Memory Wall 4.08 avg rating — 9,250 ratings
142.
Edna the Inebriate Woman
Edna the Inebriate Woman 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
143.
Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces
Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces 3.98 avg rating — 565 ratings
143.
Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War
Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War 4.18 avg rating — 564 ratings
145.
An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming: Teen Edition
An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming: Teen Edition
by: Al Gore
3.84 avg rating — 680 ratings
145.
Uncovering Trump: The Truth Behind Donald Trump's Charitable Giving
Uncovering Trump: The Truth Behind Donald Trump's Charitable Giving 3.67 avg rating — 69 ratings
147.
Diana's Story
Diana's Story 4.46 avg rating — 382 ratings
147.
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy 3.81 avg rating — 7,574 ratings
149.
Pat And Margaret
Pat And Margaret 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
149.
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World 3.62 avg rating — 1,590 ratings
151.
The Brotherhood of the Rose (Mortalis, #1)
The Brotherhood of the Rose (Mortalis, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 7,708 ratings
151.
Salt: A World History
Salt: A World History 3.75 avg rating — 75,182 ratings
153.
Midwinter Break
Midwinter Break 3.62 avg rating — 5,307 ratings
153.
The Cat's Table
The Cat's Table 3.62 avg rating — 27,177 ratings
155.
The Train to Glasgow
The Train to Glasgow 3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
156.
Two Gentlemen of Rome: The Story of Keats and Shelley
Two Gentlemen of Rome: The Story of Keats and Shelley really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
156.
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War 3.76 avg rating — 16,838 ratings
158.
In the Dark
In the Dark 3.87 avg rating — 4,562 ratings
158.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Braiding Sweetgrass 4.52 avg rating — 158,544 ratings
160.
Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (Geopolitics in the 21st Century)
Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (Geopolitics in the 21st Century) 4.24 avg rating — 1,076 ratings
160.
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution 3.98 avg rating — 3,555 ratings
162.
JFK: The Book of the Film (Applause Books)
JFK: The Book of the Film (Applause Books) 4.11 avg rating — 129 ratings
162.
The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women
The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women 3.68 avg rating — 887 ratings
164.
Alexander II: The People's Will
Alexander II: The People's Will really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
164.
Fifth Business
Fifth Business 4.06 avg rating — 20,129 ratings
166.
The Shocking Tale of Margaret Seddon
The Shocking Tale of Margaret Seddon 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
166.
Bangkok 8 (Sonchai Jitpleecheep, #1)
Bangkok 8 (Sonchai Jitpleecheep, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 11,003 ratings
168.
Alexander I: Into the Woods
Alexander I: Into the Woods 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
168.
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America 4.19 avg rating — 14,289 ratings
170.
Iphigenia in Crimea
Iphigenia in Crimea liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
171.
Tinsel Girl and the Support Worker
Tinsel Girl and the Support Worker 2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
171.
A Small Death in Lisbon
A Small Death in Lisbon 3.86 avg rating — 7,072 ratings
173.
The Progress of the Soul of Lizzie Calvin
The Progress of the Soul of Lizzie Calvin liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
173.
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II 3.98 avg rating — 12,184 ratings
175.
The Untold History of The United States
The Untold History of The United States 4.20 avg rating — 2,750 ratings
175.
This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President 3.99 avg rating — 1,962 ratings
177.
Bitter Water (Douglas Brodie, #2)
Bitter Water (Douglas Brodie, #2) 4.14 avg rating — 1,307 ratings
177.
The Marriage of Opposites
The Marriage of Opposites 3.93 avg rating — 61,925 ratings
179.
Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity 4.06 avg rating — 27,757 ratings
179.
Between the Assassinations
Between the Assassinations 3.38 avg rating — 6,404 ratings
181.
Deathwatch Journal
Deathwatch Journal 3.67 avg rating — 138 ratings
181.
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating — 109,975 ratings
183.
Ten Days that Shook the World
Ten Days that Shook the World
by: John Reed
3.94 avg rating — 7,552 ratings
183.
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 317,274 ratings
185.
The Poisoned Chocolates Case
The Poisoned Chocolates Case 3.78 avg rating — 3,579 ratings
185.
The Blind Assassin
The Blind Assassin 3.96 avg rating — 161,173 ratings
187.
Bear Island
Bear Island 3.60 avg rating — 3,946 ratings
187.
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book)
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book) 4.15 avg rating — 9,826 ratings
189.
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris 3.93 avg rating — 5,329 ratings
189.
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition 3.82 avg rating — 1,272 ratings
191.
Russia's Dead End: An Insider's Testimony from Gorbachev to Putin
Russia's Dead End: An Insider's Testimony from Gorbachev to Putin 3.33 avg rating — 18 ratings
191.
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom 4.06 avg rating — 5,498 ratings
193.
The Langoliers (TV Miniseries)
The Langoliers (TV Miniseries) 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
193.
Queen of the South
Queen of the South 3.95 avg rating — 15,567 ratings
195.
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (World of Beatrix Potter, #12)
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (World of Beatrix Potter, #12) 4.05 avg rating — 13,999 ratings
195.
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2) 4.29 avg rating — 187,582 ratings
197.
No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics
No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics 4.10 avg rating — 10,395 ratings
198.
The Butterfly
The Butterfly 3.35 avg rating — 519 ratings
199.
Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes
Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes 3.86 avg rating — 783 ratings
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Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples 4.29 avg rating — 921 ratings
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