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The Books of the Century by Waterstones & C4
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The Books of the Century by Waterstones & C4
entered by Pat
In September 1996 Waterstone's, in association with Channel4, launched a poll to find the nations favourite books. Over 4,000 were nominated and the final list of 100, plus the next 50, was published in 1997
1.
The Lord of the Rings series
by J. R. R. Tolkien
2.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
3.
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
4.
Ulysses
by James Joyce
5.
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
6.
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
7.
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
8.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
9.
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
10.
Trainspotting
by Irvine Welsh
11.
Wild Swans
by Jung Chang
12.
The Great Gatsby
by F Scott Fitzgerald
13.
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
14.
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
15.
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
16.
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
17.
Winnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
18.
The Colour Purple
by Alice Walker
19.
The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
20.
The Outsider
by Albert Camus
21.
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
by C S Lewis
22.
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
23.
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
24.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
25.
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
26.
The Diary of Anne Frank
by Anne Frank
27.
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
28.
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
29.
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
30.
If This is a Man
by Primo Levi
31.
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
32.
The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
33.
In Search of Lost Time series
by Marcel Proust
34.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
35.
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
36.
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
37.
Possession
by A. S. Byatt
38.
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
39.
A Passage to India
by E M Forster
40.
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
41.
Sophie's World
by Jostein Gaarder
42.
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
43.
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44.
Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
45.
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
46.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
47.
Birdsong
by Sebastian Faulks
48.
Howards End
by E M Forster
49.
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
50.
A Suitable Boy
by Vikram Seth
51.
Dune
by Frank Herbert
52.
A Prayer For Owen Meany
by John Irving
User has read 52 out of the 52 books in this list.