If you're searching for a book that will be a hit with your book club, look no further. We have the inside scoop on must-reads that are sure to please.

Over the past few weeks, dozens of BCC book clubs have sent in reading recommendations in the genres of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama.

We've compiled and tabulated to find the most popular picks. Here's what came out on top in fiction.

The five most-recommended novels:
"The Help," Kathryn Stockett, 2009
"Olive Kitteridge," Elizabeth Strout, 2008
"The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society," Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows, 2008
"The Elegance of the Hedgehog," Muriel Barbery, 2006
"Sarah’s Key," Tatiana de Rosnay, 2007

More recent fiction recommendations:
"Half of a Yellow Sun," Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2006
"Portrait in Sepia," Isabel Allende, 2001
"The Women," T.C. Boyle, 2009
"People of the Book," Geraldine Brooks, 2008
"Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters," Mark Dunn, 2001
"Middlesex," Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002
"Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood," Alexandra Fuller, 2001
"Still Alice," Lisa Genova, 2007
"The Widow of the South," Robert Hicks, 2005
"A Thousand Splendid Suns," Khaled Hosseini, 2007
"The Poisonwood Bible," Barbara Kingsolver, 1998
"The Namesake," Jhumpa Lahiri, 2003
"Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons," Lorna Landvik, 2003
"Passing," Nella Larsen, 2002
"Shutter Island," Dennis Lehane, 2003
"The Glass Room," Simon Mawer, 2009
"The Road,"Cormac McCarthy, 2006
"A Fine Balance," Rohinton Mistry, 1995
"Too Much Happiness," Alice Munro, 2009 (short stories)
"Suite Francaise," Irene Nemirovsky, 2006
"Out Stealing Horses," Per Petterson, 2003
"My Sister's Keeper," by Jodi Piccoult, 2004
"Driftless," David Rhodes, 2008
"When You Are Engulfed in Flames," David Sedaris, 2008 (short stories)
"Snow Flower and the Secret Fan," Lisa See, 2005
"Land of Marvels," Barry Unsworth, 2009

Earlier fiction recommendations:
"Humbolt's Gift," Saul Bellow, 1975
"Fahrenheit 451," Ray Bradbury, 1953
"The House on Mango Street," Sandra Cisneros, 1984
"I Heard the Owl Call My Name," Margaret Craven, 1973
"Sister Carrie," Theodore Dreiser, 1958
"To Kill a Mockingbird," Harper Lee, 1960
"The Razor's Edge," W. Somerset Maugham, 1944
"Housekeeping," Marilynne Robinson, 1980
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," Betty Smith, 1943
"Twilight Sleep," Edith Wharton, 1927

Tomorrow: Synopses of the top five fiction recommendations.

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