My Sister's Keeper
by Jodi Picoult
★ Top 25 book of 2004 · #12 on Best Books of 2004
Anna was conceived to be a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, and she has endured countless medical procedures. Now she makes a choice that threatens her family, raising hard questions about parenthood and morality.
Best for: Readers who enjoy emotional family dramas built around difficult moral dilemmas
My Sister's Keeper is #12 on BookWard's Best Books of 2004, out of 48 2004 books that cleared our data bar.
What My Sister's Keeper is about
Anna Fitzgerald was conceived to help save her older sister Kate, who has leukemia, and she has given what her sister needed since birth. At thirteen she is told she must give a kidney, and she decides to say no. With the help of a lawyer named Campbell Alexander, she petitions for control over her own body, setting her against her mother Sara, who argues the case herself.
Jodi Picoult tells the story through several voices, including a court-appointed guardian trying to decide what is best for Anna, and a brother whose troubles have gone unnoticed in the family's crisis. There is no easy villain here, only people who love each other and want different things. Readers who enjoy emotional, morally tangled family drama will find plenty to argue over.
My Sister's Keeper on the Best Books of 2004
My Sister's Keeper came out in 2004. Of the 48 books first published in 2004 that met BookWard's data bar, it ranks #12 on our Best Books of 2004 list.
Why it made the list: 439 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 3.7 out of 5 (35 ratings). The list ranks each year’s books on how many readers have picked them up, how highly readers rate them, and how many are reading them right now.
Nearby on the 2004 list
- The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! Mo Willems, #10
- The Last Kingdom Bernard Cornwell, #11
- The Definitive Book of Body Language Allan Pease, #13
- The Darkest Hour Erin Hunter, #14
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The numbers behind it
- Readers: 344 want to read it, 19 are reading it now and 76 have read it, according to Open Library.
- Ratings: 3.7 out of 5 from 35 Open Library ratings.
| Signal | This book (0 to 100) | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Reach | 85 | 55% |
| Reader love | 17 | 25% |
| Being read right now | 85 | 20% |
Questions about My Sister's Keeper
When was My Sister's Keeper published?
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult was first published in 2004.
Was My Sister's Keeper one of the best books of 2004?
My Sister's Keeper is #12 on BookWard's Best Books of 2004, out of 48 2004 books that cleared our data bar. 439 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 3.7 out of 5 (35 ratings).
Why is My Sister's Keeper on the Best Books of 2004 list?
439 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 3.7 out of 5 (35 ratings).
More of the best books of 2004
- Darkly Dreaming Dexter Jeffry P. Lindsay, #1
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad for Teens Robert T. Kiyosaki, #2
- The Ruins of Gorlan John Flanagan, #3
- Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow, #4
- Blink Malcolm Gladwell, #5
- She Comes First Ian Kerner, #6
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How we know
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