There’s a mini-trend going around on some online discussion boards where posters pick a favorite album that debuted for every year they’ve been alive.  I got to thinking about it, by modified for books published. 

There’s a whole lot of holes in my list; it’s pretty hard figuring out your favorite book for each year you were born, but Wikipedia sure helps (if you type in the year, you can search for books published that year, although the lists are by no means exhaustive).  Please feel free to post yours!

1984 – Sandra Cisneros, “The House on Mango Street”
1985 – Margaret Atwood, “Handmaid’s Tale”
1987 – Toni Morrison, “Beloved”
1989 – Kazuo Ishiguro, “The Remains of the Day”
1990 – Hanif Kureishi, “The Buddha of Suburbia”
1991 – Jane Smiley, “A Thousand Acres”
1992 – Julia Alvarez, “How the Garcia Girls Lost the Accents”
1993 – Irvine Welsh, “Trainspotting”
1994 – Rick Moody, “The Ice Storm”
1995 – Richard Ford, “Independence Day”
1996 – Edwidge Danticat, “Krik? Krak!”
1997 – Melanie Rae Thon, “First, Body”
1999 – Annie Proulx, “Close Range: Wyoming Stories”
2000 – Philip Roth, “The Human Stain”
2002 – Ian McEwan, “Atonement”
2006 – Cormac McCarthy, “The Road”
2007 – Don DeLillo, “Falling Man”