"Bookcrossing Top 100 Books of 2005"

Submitted by ukaunz on Tue, 08/29/2006 - 08:16
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  1. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – JK Rowling
  3. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
  4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
  5. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
  6. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
  7. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  8. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon
  9. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
  10. My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
  11. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  12. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
  13. The Stand – Stephen King
  14. The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown
  15. 1984 – George Orwell
  16. Anne of Green Gables – Lucy Maud Montgomery
  17. The Chronicles of Narnia (series) – CS Lewis
  18. The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
  19. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
  20. The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
  21. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
  22. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
  23. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
  24. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  25. Ender's Game – Orson Scott Card
  26. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
  27. The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde
  28. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
  29. No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (series) – Alexander McCall Smith
  30. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
  31. Watership Down – Richard Adams
  32. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer – Patrick Suskind
  33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
  34. His Dark Materials (series) – Philip Pullman
  35. Girl with a Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier
  36. Good Omens – Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman
  37. Animal Farm – George Orwell
  38. Lamb, the Gospel According To Biff – Christopher Moore
  39. The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
  40. Persuasion – Jane Austen
  41. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn – Betty Smith
  42. Angels and Demons – Dan Brown
  43. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
  44. Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire – JK Rowling
  45. The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
  46. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
  47. Year of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks
  48. Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
  49. Eragon – Christopher Paolini
  50. 100 Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  51. 84 Charing Cross Road – Helene Hanff
  52. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  53. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint Exupéry
  54. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
  55. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  56. Dune – Frank Herbert
  57. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
  58. Artemis Fowl (series) – Eoin Colfer
  59. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (series) – Douglas Adams
  60. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
  61. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
  62. The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
  63. Discworld series – Terry Pratchett
  64. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  65. Stephanie Plum (series) – Janet Evanovich
  66. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
  67. The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
  68. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
  69. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
  70. To Say Nothing of the Dog – Connie Willis
  71. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
  72. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
  73. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
  74. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  75. The Neverending Story – Michael Ende
  76. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  77. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  78. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
  79. A Series of Unfortunate Events (series) – Lemony Snickett
  80. Atonement – Ian Mcewan
  81. American Gods – Neil Gaiman
  82. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  83. Emma – Jane Austen
  84. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone – JK Rowling
  85. Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice
  86. Little House series – Laura Ingalls Wilder
  87. Possession – AS Byatt
  88. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  89. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  90. Sabriel – Garth Nix
  91. Saturday – Ian McEwan
  92. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
  93. Stones from the River – Ursula Hegi
  94. The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
  95. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
  96. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L'Engle
  97. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
  98. Angela's Ashes – Frank Mccourt
  99. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
  100. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
  101. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
  102. Doomsday Book – Connie Willis
  103. East of Eden – John Steinbeck
  104. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
  105. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – JK Rowling
  106. I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
  107. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
  108. Outlander series – Diana Gabaldon
  109. Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
  110. Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
  111. Small Island – Andrea Levy
  112. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
  113. Wicked – Gregory Maguire
  114. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
  115. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
  116. Tomorrow, When the War Began – John Marsden
Author Comments: 

This list was devised by a poll of BookCrossing members in early 2006. Some 228 members took part by submitting a list of their twenty favorite books of all time. Some people voted for a specific book, and some for a series. Where both the series and a separate book made the top 100, both were included. Where a book or series would not have made the list without combining the two, the two were combined. Although imperfect, it seemed to the compilers as the fairest way to go. The titles were collated and votes tabulated, resulting in the following list of top vote getters. There were several ties, resulting in a list of 116 books rather than 100 even. Many thanks to BookCrossing member WhiteRaven13 for taking on the monumental task of running the poll.