53. The Swap – Robyn Harding
52. The Long Weekend – Gilly MacMillan
51. The Nowhere Child – Christian White
50. Into the Web – Thomas H. Cook
49. The First Part Last – Angela Johnson
48. Never Look Back – Alison Gaylin
47. Sorrow and Bliss – Meg Mason
46. Five Little Indians – Michelle Good
45. Behind the Red Door – Megan Collins
44. Messiah – Boris Starling
43. His & Hers – Alice Feeney
42. All These Beautiful Strangers – Elizabeth Klehfoth
41. Our Kind of Cruelty – Araminta Hall
40. Near the Bone – Christina Henry
39. A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara
38. First Born – Will Dean
37. The Paper Palace – Miranda Cowley Heller (reread)
36. Heartstopper – Alice Oseman
35. Magpie – Elizabeth Day
34. The House Next Door – Anne Rivers Siddons
33. Empire of the Vampire – Jay Kristoff
32. Orbiting Jupiter – Gary D. Schmidt
31. Dark Rooms – Lili Anolik
30. Seven Days in June – Tia Williams
29. Writers & Lovers – Lily King
28. Sex/Life – BB Easton
27. Every Summer After – Carley Fortune
26. The Nothing Man – Catherine Ryan Howard
25. Reader, Come Home – Maryanne Wolf
24. Alone Time – Stephanie Rosenbloom
23. Searching for John Hughes – Jason Diamond
22. The Bed I Made – Lucie Whitehouse
21. The Missing Years – Lexie Elliott
20. Cascade – Craig Davidson
19. Blood Innocents – Thomas H. Cook
18. In Pieces – Danielle Pearl
17. Everything We Didn’t Say – Nicole Baart
16. The Last Thing to Burn – Will Dean
15. Malibu Rising – Taylor Jenkins Reid
14. Our Chemical Hearts – Krystal Sutherland
13. The Maid – Nita Prose
12. The Kiss Quotient – Helen Hoang
11. You Will Know Me – Megan Abbott
10. Saint X – Alexis Schaitkin
9. Consent – Nancy Ohlin
8. Breathless – Jennifer Niven
7. Migrations – Charlotte McConaghy
6. The Lying Room – Nicci French
5. All the Things We Do in the Dark – Saundra Mitchell
4. All Her Little Secrets – Wanda M. Morris
3. The Return – Rachel Harrison
2. The Reading List – Sara Nisha Adams
1. Fire Keeper’s Daughter – Angeline Boulley
The Ludic Reader 
My vote is for the admittedly sentimental DOCTOR ZHIVAGO — if for no other reason to suspend disbelief and enjoy the good doctor’s choices in women. Lara deserves more than a theme, I’ll tell you. I’d call Julie Christie “comrade” any day of the week.
Droctor Zhivago is one of my favourite movies – but I have never read the book. I always loved that scene where the palace (or whatever it was) was covered in ice. And I think this movie is one of the reasons I have the whole kink for star-crossed, angsty love affairs.