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The Books of the Century by Waterstones & C4

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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
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