"Bookcrossing Top 100 Books" (Global) _The ones I've gotten around to

Submitted by cheeky42 on Mon, 06/26/2006 - 05:34
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  1. The Lord Of The Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
  2. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  3. Pride And Prejudice – Jane Austen
  4. The "Harry Potter" Series – J.K. Rowling
  5. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
  6. The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
  7. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  8. 1984 – George Orwell
  9. A Prayer For Owen Meany – John Irving
  10. One Hundred Years Of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  11. The Stand – Stephen King
  12. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
  13. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
  14. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
  15. Life Of Pi – Yann Martel
  16. Anne Of Green Gables (Book 1) – Lucy Maud Montgomery
  17. The Name Of The Rose – Umberto Eco
  18. The Mists Of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
  19. The Catcher In The Rye – J.D. Salinger
  20. Watership Down – Richard Adams
  21. The Pillars Of The Earth – Ken Follett
  22. Perfume – Patrick Suskind
  23. The Davinci Code – Dan Brown
  24. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint–Exupery
  25. The Grapes Of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  26. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
  27. The Narnia Chronicles – C.S. Lewis
  28. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone (Sorcerer's Stone) – J.K. Rowling
  29. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
  30. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
  31. Diary Of A Young Girl – Anne Frank
  32. Dune – Frank Herbert
  33. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
  34. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
  35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
  36. Memoirs Of A Geisha – Arthur Golden
  37. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  38. A Wrinkle In Time – Madeleine L'engle
  39. The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
  40. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
  41. Lord Of The Flies – William Golding
  42. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  43. Angela's Ashes – Frank Mccourt
  44. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
  45. The House Of The Spirits – Isabel Allende
  46. Clan Of The Cave Bear – Jean M. Auel
  47. Ender's Game – Orson Scott Card
  48. Good Omens – Neil Gaiman And Terry Pratchett
  49. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  50. Animal Farm – George Orwell
  51. Of Mice And Men – John Steinbeck
  52. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
  53. The Neverending Story – Michael Ende
  54. Faust – Johnann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  55. Blindness – Jose Saramago
  56. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
  57. East Of Eden – John Steinbeck
  58. Charlotte's Web – E. B. White
  59. The "Little House" Series – Laura Ingalls Wilder
  60. Bridget Jones' Diary – Helen Fielding
  61. Sophie's World – Jostein Gaarder
  62. Catch–22 – Joseph Heller
  63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
  64. Girl With A Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier
  65. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
  66. The "His Dark Materials" Series – Phillip Pullman
  67. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn – Betty Smith
  68. Sense And Sensibility – Jane Austen
  69. The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
  70. Crime And Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  71. The Count Of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
  72. American Gods – Neil Gaiman
  73. The Ciderhouse Rules – John Irving
  74. She's Come Undone – Wally Lamb
  75. Winnie-The-Pooh – A.A. Milne
  76. The "Anne Of Green Gables" Series – Lucy Maud Montgomery
  77. Northern Lights/The Golden Compass – Phillip Pullman
  78. Interview With The Vampire – Anne Rice
  79. Romeo And Juliet – William Shakespeare
  80. The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
  81. The Picture Of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
  82. The Shadow Of The Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  83. Emma – Jane Austen
  84. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  85. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
  86. Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle–Stop Cafe – Fannie Flagg
  87. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  88. The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
  89. The Secret Life Of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
  90. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being – Milan Kundera
  91. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
  92. Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal – Christopher Moore
  93. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
  94. The "Discworld" Series – Terry Pratchett
  95. Where The Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawls
  96. The God Of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
  97. War And Peace – Leo Tolstoy
  98. The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde
  99. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
  100. Tess Of The D'urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
  101. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
  102. High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
  103. Ulysses – James Joyce
  104. Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
  105. Atonement – Ian Mcewan
  106. Lonesome Dove – Larry Mcmurtry
  107. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
  108. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
  109. A Midsummer Night's Dream – William Shakespeare
  110. Dracula – Bram Stoker
  111. The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
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As voted by members of Bookcrossing. Some titles are repeated as voters could nominate a single book or a series.

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"Bookcrossing Top 100 Books of 2004"
kenji06/26/2006

Well, that's quite an accessible, not stuffy, list. Good to see The Little Prince on it. Do read Love in the Time of Cholera. But why does Harry Potter get different entries, when the whole series is mentioned?