The 150 Best Books by Waterstone's Booksellers

Submitted by Pukky on Fri, 10/05/2007 - 04:29
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  1. The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy- Douglas Adams
  2. Watership Down- Richard Adams
  3. Little Women- Louisa M. Alcott
  4. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings- Maya Angelou
  5. Blind Assassin- Margaret Atwood
  6. The Handmaid's Tale- Margaret Atwood
  7. Persuasion- Jane Austen
  8. Pride And Prejudice- Jane Austen
  9. The New York Trilogy- Paul Auster
  10. The Wasp Factory- Iain Banks
  11. Stalingrad- Antony Beevor
  12. Midnight In The Graden Of Good And Evil- John Berendt
  13. Captain Corelli's Mandolin- Louis de Bernieres
  14. Earth From The Air- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  15. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls- Peter Biskind
  16. The Magic Faraway Tree- Enid Blyton
  17. Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
  18. Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
  19. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee- Dee Brown
  20. Notes From A Small Island- Bill Bryson
  21. The Master And Margarita- Mikhail Bulgakov
  22. A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess
  23. The Secret Graden- Frances Hodgson Burnett
  24. The Outsider- Albert Camus
  25. The Very Hungry Caterpillar- Eric Carle
  26. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass- Lewis Carroll
  27. Wild Swans- Jung Chang
  28. Girl With A Pearl Earring- Tracy Chevalier
  29. Tell No One- Harlan Coben
  30. What A Carve Up!- Jonathan Coe
  31. The Alchemist- Paulo Coelho
  32. Artemis Fowl- Eoin Colfer
  33. The Complete Sherlock Holmes- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  34. The Dark Is Rising- Susan Cooper
  35. The Modern Antiquarian- Julian Cope
  36. Girlfriend In Coma- Douglas Coupland
  37. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory- Roald Dahl
  38. Danny Champion Of The World- Roald Dahl
  39. The B.F.G.- Roald Dahl
  40. The Twits- Roald Dahl
  41. The Deptford Trilogy- Robertson Davies
  42. Bleak House- Charles Dickens
  43. Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
  44. Stone Junction- Jim Dodge
  45. Crime And Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  46. Rebecca- Daphne Du Maurier
  47. The Count Of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas
  48. Pawn Of Prophecy- David Eddings
  49. A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius- Dave Eggers
  50. Middlemarch- George Eliot
  51. American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis
  52. American Tabloid- James Ellroy
  53. The Black Dahlia- James Ellroy
  54. Birdsong- Sebastian Faulks
  55. Magician- Raymond Feist
  56. The Eyre Affair- Jasper Fforde
  57. The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  58. Everything Is Illuminated- Jonathan Safran Foer
  59. A Room With A View- E.M. Forster
  60. The Magus- John Fowles
  61. American Gods- Neil Gaiman
  62. The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen- Alan Garner
  63. Cold Comford Farm- Stella Gibbons
  64. Carter Beats The Devil- Glen David Gold
  65. Memoirs Of A Geisha- Arthur Golden
  66. The Wind In The Willows- Kenneth Grahame
  67. The End Of The Affair- Graham Greene
  68. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time- Mark Haddon
  69. Round Ireland With A Fridge- Tony Hawks
  70. Catch 22- Joseph Heller
  71. Dune- Frank Herbert
  72. I Am David- Anne Holm
  73. Dogger- Shirley Hughes
  74. A Prayer For Owen Meany- John Irving
  75. A Widow For One Year- John Irving
  76. The Hotel New Hampshire- John Irving
  77. The World According To Garp- John Irving
  78. The Remains Of The Day- Kazuo Ishiguro
  79. Three Men In A Boat- Jerome K. Jerome
  80. The Phantom Tollbooth- Norton Juster
  81. The Trial- Franz Kafka
  82. An Evil Cradling- Brian Keenan
  83. On The Road- Jack Kerouac
  84. The Dharma Bums- Jack Kerouac
  85. The Stand- Stephen King
  86. The Poisonwood Bible- Barbara Kingsolver
  87. Immortality- Milan Kundera
  88. To Kill A Mockingbird- Harper Lee
  89. If This Is A Man- Primo Levi
  90. The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe- C.S. Lewis
  91. The Magician's Nephew- C.S. Lewis
  92. Atonement- Ian McEwan
  93. Enduring Love- Ian McEwan
  94. Goodnight Mister Tom- Michelle Magorian
  95. One Hundred Years Of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  96. Life Of Pi- Yann Martel
  97. I Am Legend- Richard Matheson
  98. The Snow Leopard- Peter Matthiessen
  99. Tales Of The City- Armistead Maupin
  100. All Quiet On The Orient Express- Magnus Mills
  101. Winnie The Pooh- A.A. Milne
  102. A Fine Balance- Rohinton Mistry
  103. Anne Of Green Gables- L.M. Montgomery
  104. Watchman- Alan Moore
  105. Stupid White Men- Michael Moore
  106. Beloved- Toni Morrison
  107. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle- Haruki Murakami
  108. Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
  109. Sabriel- Garth Nix
  110. The Third Policeman- Flann O'Brien
  111. Animal Farm- George Orwell
  112. Down And Out In Paris And London- George Orwell
  113. Nineteen Eighty Four- George Orwell
  114. Fight Club- Chuck Palahniuk
  115. The Gormenghast Trilogy- Mervyn Peake
  116. Tom's Midnight Garden- Philippa Pearce
  117. An Instance Of The Fingerpost- Iain Pears
  118. The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath
  119. Good Omens- Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
  120. Remembrance Of Things Past- Marcel Proust
  121. His Dark Materials- Philip Pullman
  122. Mortal Engines- Philip Reeve
  123. The Dice Man- Luke Rhinehart
  124. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone- J.K. Rowling
  125. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban- J.K. Rowling
  126. Holes- Louis Sachar
  127. The Little Prince- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  128. The Catcher In The Rye- J.D. Salinger
  129. Lucky- Alice Sebold
  130. The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold
  131. Where The Wild Things Are- Maurice Sendak
  132. A Suitable Boy- Vikram Seth
  133. Touching The Void- Joe Simpson
  134. I Capture The Castle- Dodie Smith
  135. Perfume- Patrick Suskind
  136. The Secret History- Donna Tartt
  137. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas- Hunter S. Thompson
  138. The Hobbit- J.R.R. Tolkien
  139. The Lord Of The Rings- J.R.R. Tolkien
  140. The Silmarillion- J.R.R. Tolkien
  141. Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
  142. A Confederacy Of Dunces- John Kennedy Toole
  143. The Rabbit Angstrom Omnibus- John Updike
  144. Slaughterhouse Five- Kurt Vonnegut
  145. The Ccolor Purple- Alice Walker
  146. Fingersmith- Sarah Waters
  147. The Dragonlance Chronicles- Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
  148. Charlotte's Web- E.B. White
  149. The Picture Of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
  150. The Day Of The Triffids- John Wyndham