Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

for
Johnny Brock and Clare Gorst
and all other Arlingtonians
for tea, sympathy, and a sofa

[100% Friends]




Richard Adams
Watership Down

To Juliet and Rosamond, remembering the road to Stratford-on-Avon

[100% Daughters]




Isabel Allende
The House of Spirits

To my mother, my grandmother,
and all the other extraordinary women
of this story.

[33% Mother, 33% Grandparent, 33% Other]




Dorothy Allison
Bastard Out of Carolina

For Mama Ruth Gibson Allison 1935-1990
[100% Mother]




Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility

[100% None]




Iain Banks
The Wasp Factory

For Ann

[100% Significant Other]




L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

[100% None]




Alan Bradley
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

For Shirley

[100% Significant Other]




Anne Bronte
Agnes Grey


[100% None]




Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre


[100% None]




Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights

[100% None]




Elizabeth C Bunce
A Curse Dark as Gold

Weaving this tale was by no means a solitary endeavor. For their help and support along the way, I must thank my own Friendly Society: Barb Stuber, Christine Taylor-Butler, Diane Bailey, Judith Hyde, C. R. Cook, and the other amazing women of Juvenile Writers of Kansas City. Thanks to my parents, for never once uttering the phrase "fallback career," and to my first critique partner, my brother, Scott. Special thanks to Cheryl Klein and the team at Scholastic (especially for bearing with my affected period spelling). Extra-special thanks to Erin Murphy. And lastly, to my husband, Christopher, for always being there. If I wrote you into a story, no one would believe you were real.

[20% Friends, 20% Parents, 20% Brother, 20% Other, 20% Significant other]




Gail Carriger
Soulless

Tremendous thanks to the ladies of the WCWC and their multicolored Pens of Doom: with criticism comes wisdom and, hopefully, tea. To Mum and Dad, who had the brilliant parental idea that good behavior be rewarded with trips to the bookshop. And to G and E: purveyors of fine feelings and patrons of the scribbling beast, however fiendish she may be.

[67% Friends, 33% Parents]




Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

[100% None]




Kristin Cashore
Graceling

For my mother,
Nedda Previtera Cashore,
who has a meatball Grace,
and my father,
]



J. Michael Cashore,
who is Graced with losing (and finding) his glasses

[50% Mother, 50% Father]




Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep

[100% None]




Agatha Christie
The Mysterious Affair at Styles

To my mother

[100% Mother]




Cassandra Clare
City of Bones

For my grandfather

[100% Grandfather]




Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Stranger & Mr. Norrell

In memory of my brother, Paul Frederick Gunn Clarke, 1961-2000

[100% Brother]




Michael Connelly

The Black Echo

This is for W. Michael Connelly and Mary McEvoy Connelly

[50% Father, 50% Mother]




Mark Z. Danielewski
House of Leaves

This is not for you.

[-100% You, 100% Other]




Andrew Davidson
The Gargoyle

[100% None]




Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Elizabeth de Léon

[100% Significant Other]




Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers


[100% None]




Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet

[100% None]




Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie


TO MY FRIEND

ARTHUR HENRY

WHOSE STEADFAST IDEALS AND SERENE
DEVOTION TO TRUTH AND BEAUTY
HAVE SERVED TO LIGHTEN THE METHOD
AND STRENGTHEN THE PURPOSE OF
THIS VOLUME.

[100% Friend]




Umberto Eco

The Name of the Rose

[100% None]




George Eliot
Adam Bede

[100% None]




Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man

To Ida

[100% Significant Other]




Laura Esquivel
Like Water for Chocolate


[100% None]




Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides


For Gus and Wanda

[50% Father, 50% Mother]




Jasper Fforde
The Eyre Affair

For my father
John Standish Fforde
1920-2000

Who never knew I was to be published but would have been most proud nonetheless
—and not a little surprised.

[100% Father]




Janet Fitch
White Oleander

To the man from Council Bluffs

[100% Father]




Becca Fitzpatrick
Hush, Hush

For Heather, Christian, and Michael. Our childhood was nothing if not imaginative. And to Justin. Thanks for not choosing the Japanese cooking class--love you.

[50% Siblings, 50% Significant Other]




Gillian Flynn
Sharp Objects

For my parents, Matt and Judith Flynn
[50% Father, 50% Mother]




Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything is Illuminated

Simply and impossibly: For My Family

[100% Family]




Ariana Franklin
Mistress of the Art of Death

TO HELEN HELLER,
MISTRESS OF THE ART OF THRILLERS

[100% Creative Inspiration]




Charles Frazier
Cold Mountain

--for Katherine and Annie

[50% Significant Other, 50% Daughter]




Tana French
In the Woods

For my father, David French,
and my mother, Elena Hvostoff-Lombardi

[50% Father, 50% Mother]




Diana Gabaldon
Outlander

To the Memory of My Mother,
Who Taught Me to Read —
Jacqueline Sykes Gabaldon

[100% Mother]




Kami Garcia

Beautiful Creatures

For
Nick & Stella
Emma, May & Kate
and
all our casters & outcasters, everywhere.
There are more of us than you think.

[50% Children, 50% Others]




Lisa Genova
Still Alice

In Memory of Angie

For Alena

[50% Grandmother, 50% Child]




Elizabeth George
A Great Deliverance

For Natalie in celebration of the growth of the spirit and the triumph of the soul.

[100% Friend]




William Gibson
Neuromancer

for Deb
who made it possible
with love

[100% Significant Other]




Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

This book is dedicated to Sos

[100% Significant Other]




Steven Hall
The Raw Shark Texts

For Stanley Hall
1927-1998
A gentleman and a scholar

[100% Grandfather]




Cynthia Hand
Unearthly
For John

[100% Significant Other]




Joseph Heller
Catch-22


To my mother
and to Shirley
and my children, Erica and Ted

[33% Mother, 33% Significant Other, 33% Children]




Mark Helprin
Winter’s Tale

FOR MY FATHER
No One Knows the City Better

[100% Father]




Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises

This book is for Hadley and for John Hadley Nicanor

[50% Significant Other, 50% Son]




Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner

This book is dedicated
to Haris and Farah,
both the noor of my eyes,
and to the children of Afghanistan.

[50% Children, 50% Other]




PD James
Cover Her Face

[100% None]




James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

[100% None]




Julie Kagawa
The Iron King

For Nick, Brandon and Villis. May we continue to beat those dead horses unto the ground.
[33% Significant Other, 67% Friends]




Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs.

[100% Friend]




Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees

For my son, Bob, and Ann and Sandy with all my love.

[67% Children, 33% Significant Other]




Stephen King
Carrie

This is for Tabby, who got me into it— and then bailed me out of it.

[100% Wife]




Elizabeth Kostova
The Historian

For my father,
who first told me
some of these stories

[100% Father]




Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

[100% None]




Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

For Mr. Lee and Alice in consideration of Love & Affection

[50% Father, 50% Sister]




Astrid Lindgren
Pippi Longstocking

[100% None]




Scott Lynch
The Lies of Locke Lamora

For Jenny, this little world that was blessed
to have you peeking over my shoulder
while it took shape--
Love Always.

[100% Significant Other]




Carson McCullers
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

To Reeves McCullers and to Marguerite and Lamar Smith

[50% Significant Other, 50% Parents]




Ian McEwan
The Cement Garden

For Penny

[100% Significant Other]




Stephenie Meyer
Twilight

For my big sister, Emily,
without whose enthusiasm this story might still be unfinished.

[100% Sister]




Margaret Mitchell
Gone With the Wind

To J. R. M.

[100% Significant Other]




LM Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables

To the memory of my Father and Mother

[50% Father, 50% Mother]




Erin Morgenstern
The Night Circus



[100% None]




Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye

To the two who gave me life
and the one who made me free

[50% Parents, 50% Significant Other]




Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveler's Wife

For ELIZABETH HILLMAN TAMANDL May 20, 1915—December 18, 1986
and NORBERT CHARLES TAMANDL February 11, 1915—May 23, 1957

[100% Grandparents]




Naomi Novik
His Majesty's Dragon

For Charles, sine qua non

[100% Significant Other]




Flannery O’ Connor
Wise Blood

For Regina

[100% Mother]




Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar

for Elizabeth and David

[100% Friends]




Thomas Pynchon
V.

[100% None]




Anne Rice
Interview with the Vampire

For Stan Rice, Carole Malkin,
and Alice O'Brien Borchardt

[33% Significant Other, 67% Friends]




Patrick Rothfuss
The Name of the Wind

To my mother, who taught me to love books, and opened the door to Narnia, Pern, and Middle Earth.

And to my father, who taught me that if I was going to do something, I should take my time and do it right.

And lastly, to Mr. Bohage, my high school history teacher. In 1989 I told him I’d mention him in my first novel. I keep my promises

[33% Mother, 33% Father, 33% Other]




Veronica Roth
Divergent

To my mother,
who gave me the moment when Beatrice realizes how strong
her mother is and wonders how she missed it for so long

[100% Mother]




JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

For Jessica, who loves stories, for Anne, who loved them too, and for Di, who heard this one first.

[33% Child, 33% Mother, 33% Sister]




Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things

For Mary Roy, who grew me up. Who taught me to say "excuse me" before interrupting her in Public. Who loved me enough to let me go. For LKC, who, like me, survived.

[50% Mother, 50% Brother]




JD Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye

To my mother

[100% Mother]




Dorothy Sayers
Whose Body?

To M. J.

[100% Friend]




Marry Ann Shaffer
Annie Barrows
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Lovingly dedicated to my mother, Edna Fiery Morgan,
and to my dear friend Julia Poppy
—M. A. S.

And to my mother, Cynthia Fiery Barrows
—A. B.

[67% Mother, 33% Friend]




Mary Shelley
Frankenstein

TO
WILLIAM GODWIN
Author of Political Justice, Caleb Williams, &c.
THESE VOLUMES
Are respectfully inscribed
by
THE AUTHOR

[100% Father]




Leslie Marmon Silko
Ceremony

This book is dedicated to my grandmothers, Jessie Goddard Leslie and Lillie Stagner Marmon, and to my sons, Robert William Chapman and Cazimir Silko

[50% Grandparents, 50% Sons]




Dodie Smith
I Capture the Castle

[100% None]




Zadie Smith
White Teeth

To my mother and my father
And for Jimmi Rahman

[50% Parents, 50% Significant Other]




Lemony Snicket
The Bad Beginning

To Beatrice—darling, dearest, dead.

[100% Other]




Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island

To S.L.O., an American gentleman, in accordance with whose classic taste the following narrative has been designed, it is now, in return for numerous delightful hours, and with kindest wishes, dedicated by his affectionate friend, THE AUTHOR

[100% Son]




Maggie Stiefvater
Shiver

For Kate, because she cried

[100% Sister]




Kathryn Stockett
The Help

To Grandaddy Stockett, the best storyteller of all

[100% Grandfather]




Michael Sullivan
The Crown Conspiracy

To my wife, Robin, (my biggest fan, critic, contributer, and publicist)
whose hard work and dedication made it all possible.

And to my daughter, Sarah, who would not read
the story until published.

 [50% Significant Other, 50% Daughter]




Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club

To my mother and the memory of her mother. You asked me once what I would remember. This, and much more.

[100% Mother]




Donna Tartt
The Secret History

For Bret Easton Ellis, whose generosity will never cease to warm my heart; and for Paul Edward McGloin, muse and Maecenas, who is the dearest friend I will ever have in this world.

[100% Friends]




JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit

[100% None]




John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces

[100% None]




PL Travers
Mary Poppins

To My Mother
1875-1928

[100% Mother]




Kurt Vonnegut
Player Piano

FOR JANE - GOD BLESS HER

[100% Significant Other]




Adelle Waldman
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P

To my parents, Edward and Jacqueline Waldman

[100% Parents]




Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House in the Big Woods

[100% None]




David Wroblewski
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

For Arthur and Ann Wroblewski

[100% Parents]






*I used the list as it was in July 2016. I excluded any book on the list with less than 10,000 ratings. I am aware that some of the books listed may not technically be the author’s first novel (depending on what you consider a novel) but I did not make any alterations of my own to the list. I used the dedication as it appeared in the first edition. The dedications to Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanuette Winterson and The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield were not included because I could not confirm their relations and representatives never responded to my e-mail requests sent months ago. The 101st and 102nd book to meet my criterion were included. Thanks to the following authors (or their representatives) who and let me fill in gaps in the data: Gail Carriger, Kami Garcia, Elizabeth George, Julie Kagawa, and Steven Hall.