WATERSTONE'STOP 100 BOOKS OF THE CENTURYJ.R.R. TOLKIENWaterstone' is a bookstore chain with more than 200 stores in the United Kingdom,Republic of Ireland and Europe. In January 1997, Waterstone's announced theresults of its Books of the Century poll to find out what the public consideredto be the hundred greatest books of the twentieth century. Over 25, 000 peopletook part in the poll and the Book of the Century was revealed as J.R.R. Tolkien'sThe Lord of the Rings. All 100 of the books selected by the public are listedbelow in rank order. (Thanks to Iain MacDonald for suggesting this list.){IF YOU WISH TO BUY NEW OR USED BOOKS CLICK HERE}1 J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings2 George Orwell 19843 George Orwell Animal Farm4 James Joyce Ulysses5 Joseph Heller Catch-226 J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye7 Harper lee To Kill a Mocking Bird8 Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude9 John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath10 Irvine Welsh Trainspotting11 Jung Chan Wild Swans12 F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby13 William Golding The Lord of the Flies14 Jack Kerouac On the Road15 Aldous Huxley Brave New World16 Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows17 A.A. Milne Winnie the Pooh18 Alice Walker The Colour Purple19 J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit20 Albert Camus The Outsider21 C.S. Lewis The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe22 Franz Kafka The Trial23 Margaret Mitchell Gone With the Wind24 Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy25 Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children26 Anne Frank The Diary of Anne Frank27 Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange28 D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers29 Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse30 Primo Levi If This Is a Man31 Vladimir Nabokov Lolita32 Iain Banks The Wasp Factory33 Marcel Proust A la Recherche du Temps Perdu(Remembrance of Things Past)34 Roald Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory35 John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men36 Toni Morrison Beloved37 A.S. Byatt Posession38 Joseph Conrad The Heart of Darkness39 E.M. Forster A Passage to India
40 Richard Adams Watership Down41 Jostein Gaarder Sophie's World42 Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose43 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in a Time of Cholera44 Daphne du Maurier Rebecca45 Kazuo Ishiguri The Remains of the Day46 Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being47 Sebastian Faulks Birdsong48 E.M. Forster Howard's End49 Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited50 Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy51 Frank Herbert Dune52 John Irvine A Prayer for Owen Meaney53 Patrick Suskind Perfume54 Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago55 Mervyn Peake Gormenghast56 Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie57 Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar58 Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale59 Vera Brittain Testament of Youth60 John Fowlws The Magus61 Graham Greene Brighton Rock62 Robert Tressell The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists63 Mikhail Bugakov The Master and Margarita64 Armistead Maupin Tales from the City65 John Fowles The French Lieutenant's Woman66 Louis de Bernieres Captain Corelli's Mandolin67 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five68 Robert Persig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance69 E.M. Forster A Room with a View70 Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim71 Stephen King It72 Graham Greene The Power and the Glory73 Stephen King The Stand74 Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front75 Roddy Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha76 Roald Dahl Matilda77 Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho78 Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas79 Stephen Hawking A Brief History of Time80 Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach81 D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover82 Tom Wolfe The Bonfire of the Vanities83 Delia Smith Complete Cookery Course84 Brian Keenan An Evil Cradling85 D.H. Lawrence The Rainbow86 George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London87 Arthur C. Clarke 2001 - A Space Odyssey88 Gunter Grass The Tin Drum89 Alexander Solzhenitsyn A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich90 Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom91 Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene92 Michael Crichton Jurassic Park93 Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet94 Alan Paton Cry the Beloved Country95 Nick Hornby High Fidelity96 Roddy Doyle The Van97 Roald Dahl The BFG98 Anthony Burgess Earthly Powers99 Robert Graves I, Claudius
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