The BookCrossing Top 100+ Books of All Time (2006)

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In early 2006, members of BookCrossing (http://bookcrossing.com/friend/avanta7) were asked to name their twenty favorite books of all time. 228 members participated in the poll. Some people voted for a specific book, and some for a series. Where both the series and a separate book made the top 100, we included both. Where a book or series would not have made the list without combining the two, we combined the two. This is imperfect, but seemed the fairest way to go. The titles were collated and votes tabulated, resulting in the following list of top vote getters, posted by their rank. 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. PLEASE! Make no changes to this list!

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  1. 1.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

  2. 2.
    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)
    by J.K. Rowling

  3. 3.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  4. 4.
    Harry Potter series
    by J.K. Rowling

  5. 5.
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    by Audrey Niffenegger

  6. 6.
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    by Arthur Golden

  7. 7.
    Pride and Prejudice
    by Jane Austen

  8. 8.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon

  9. 9.
    The Kite Runner (Riverhead Essential Editions)
    by Khaled Hosseini

  10. 10.
    My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
    by Jodi Picoult

  11. 11.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

  12. 12.
    Life of Pi
    by Yann Martel

  13. 13.
    The Stand
    by Stephen King

  14. 14.
    The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown

  15. 15.
    1984
    by George Orwell

  16. 16.
    Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics)
    by L. M. Montgomery

  17. 17.
    The Chronicles of Narnia
    by C.S. Lewis

  18. 18.
    The Handmaid's Tale (New Windmill)
    by Margaret Atwood

  19. 19.
    Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  20. 20.
    The Secret Life of Bees
    by Sue Monk Kidd

  21. 21.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

  22. 22.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  23. 23.
    The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Barbara Kingsolver

  24. 24.
    The Shadow of the Wind
    by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  25. 25.
    Ender's Game
    by Orson Scott Card

  26. 26.
    The Five People You Meet in Heaven
    by Mitch Albom

  27. 28.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

  28. 29.
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    No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (series)
    by Alexander McCall Smith

  29. 30.
    The Lovely Bones
    by Alice Sebold

  30. 31.
    Watership Down (Puffin Books)
    by Richard Adams

  31. 32.
    Perfume
    by Patrick Suskind

  32. 33.
    Middlesex

  33. 35.
    Girl with a Pearl Earring
    by Tracy Chevalier

  34. 36.
    Good Omens
    by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

  35. 37.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

  36. 38.
    Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
    by Christopher Moore

  37. 39.
    The Red Tent
    by Anita Diamant

  38. 40.
    Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  39. 41.
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Perennial Classics)
    by Betty Smith

  40. 42.
    Angels & Demons
    by Dan Brown

  41. 43.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  42. 44.
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    by J. K. Rowling

  43. 45.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  44. 46.
    Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics)
    by Emily Brontë

  45. 47.
    Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
    by Geraldine Brooks

  46. 48.
    Oryx and Crake
    by Margaret Atwood

  47. 49.
    Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1)
    by Christopher Paolini

  48. 50.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Created by avanta7 on May 05, 2006.
 

Comments

wth? — 51 weeks ago

why are there two harry potter books AND the harry potter series? one or the other!


Dan Brown — 1 year ago

Any list that includes not one but two of Dan Brown’s books as the greatest of all time is seriously flawed.


Untitled — 2 years ago

I have been avoiding the Harry Potter books. Why are there no science books on here?




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