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! (found at: http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/9/3419262/87/subj_-The-2006-Book-Crossing-All-time-favourite-Top-100-Books)
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)
by J.K. Rowling
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The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Harry Potter series
by J.K. Rowling
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The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
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Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
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The Kite Runner (Riverhead Essential Editions)
by Khaled Hosseini
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My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
by Jodi Picoult
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
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Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
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The Stand
by Stephen King
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The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
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1984
by George Orwell
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Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics)
by L. M. Montgomery
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The Chronicles of Narnia
by C.S. Lewis
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The Handmaid's Tale (New Windmill)
by Margaret Atwood
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Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charlotte Brontë
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The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
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Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
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The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Barbara Kingsolver
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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom
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The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
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A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
by John Irving
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No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (series)
by Alexander McCall Smith
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The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
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Watership Down (Puffin Books)
by Richard Adams
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Perfume
by Patrick Suskind
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Middlesex
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His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass)
by Philip Pullman
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
by Tracy Chevalier
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Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
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Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
by George Orwell
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by Christopher Moore
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The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
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Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Perennial Classics)
by Betty Smith
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Angels & Demons
by Dan Brown
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
by J.K. Rowling
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
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Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics)
by Emily Bronte
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Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks
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Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
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Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1)
by Christopher Paolini
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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