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the best 50 books ever - emma

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The top 50 book list of the wildly popular reading influencer known as emma (@emmareadstoomuch). Check out her thoughts on the books below in her substack: https://substack.com/home/post/p-190558582

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Books in this Challenge(50)

1
Alice in Wonderland

Jane Carruth2004

2
Conversations with Friends

Sally Rooney2017

3
Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney2018

4
Beloved

Toni Morrison1987

5
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson

6
Sula

Toni Morrison1973

7
East of Eden

John Steinbeck1952

8
Emma

Jane Austen2015

9
Know My Name

Chanel Miller2019

10
Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi2016

11
The Secret History

Donna Tartt1992

12
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad2025

13
Heart the Lover

Lily King2025

14
The Starless Sea

Erin Morgenstern2019

15
Happy All the Time

Laurie Colwin1978

16
Persuasion

Jane Austen2003

17
Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

18
Native Son

Richard Wright1940

19
Every Moment Is a Life

Susan Abulhawa2021

20
The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison1970

21
My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh2018

22
The Color Purple

Alice Walker

23
Middlemarch

George Eliot2003

24
Anne of Green Gables

L.M. Montgomery2003

25
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Carmen Maria Machado

26
Intimacies

Katie Kitamura2021

27
Old Flame

Molly Prentiss2023

28
Minor Detail

Adania Shibli2017

29
Franny and Zooey

J.D. Salinger1961

30
Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston1937

31
On Human Slaughter

Elizabeth Bruenig2023

32
A Million Junes

Emily Henry2017

33
Tom Lake

Ann Patchett2023

34
Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison1977

35
Writers & Lovers

Lily King2020

36
Minor Black Figures

Brandon Taylor2025

37
Intermezzo

Sally Rooney2024

38
The Most Fun We Ever Had

Claire Lombardo2019

39
Foster

Claire Keegan2010

40
Biting the Hand

Julia Lee2023

41
Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel2022

42
All About Love

bell hooks2000

43
The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald1925

44
Conversations on Love

Natasha Lunn2022

45
Recognizing the Stranger

Isabella Hammad2024

46
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

47
In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado2019

48
Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner2021

49
Ninth House

Leigh Bardugo2019

50
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

Emily Austin2021