Sunday, July 02, 2006

Book Crossing's Top 100

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