Lists of Bests: Waterstone Books's "100 Best 20th Century Books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/21779 Here's the top 100 according to a survey carried out by "Waterstone's Books":http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/home.do and Channel 4 Television, in the UK. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:54:00 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 The Lord of the Rings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/222211 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> 1984 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/330830 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Animal Farm http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1734034 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3466 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3466"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182806.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Catch-22 (1961) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619545 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> The Catcher in the Rye (1951) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1657989 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. D. Salinger</div> To Kill a Mockingbird http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94134 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harper Lee</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/493231 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel García Márquez</div> The Grapes of Wrath http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2544944 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2544944"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0808514202.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056494155_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Trainspotting http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10733 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10733"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393057240.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irvine Welsh</div> Wild Swans http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336985 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336985"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007176155.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jung Chang</div> THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619511 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Lord of the Flies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2151700 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> On the Road http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1145435 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> Brave New World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060929871.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> The Wind in the Willows http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/999876 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/999876"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805072373.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenneth Grahame</div> Winnie-the-Pooh http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1559374 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1559374"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0525467564.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. A. Milne</div> The Color Purple http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18026 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18026"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671727796.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Walker</div> The Hobbit http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1003206 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1003206"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618260307.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> The Outsider http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2019613 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53449 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53449"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060793333.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C. S. Lewis</div> The Trial http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24686 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24686"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805209999.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> Gone with the Wind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967922 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967922"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446675539.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Mitchell</div> The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2429402 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Adams</div> Midnight's Children http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1462486 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> The Diary of Anne Frank http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2329464 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2329464"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330107372.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121324349_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Frank</div> A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64541 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64541"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182601.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> Sons and Lovers (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/776474 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/776474"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141441445.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D.H. Lawrence</div> To the Lighthouse (Annotated) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1007836 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1007836"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156030470.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1119999750_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> If This Is a Man (Everyman's Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/479855 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/479855"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1857152220.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44185380_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Primo Levi</div> Lolita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55235 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55235"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140264078.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> The Wasp Factory http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2433306 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2433306"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316858560.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Iain Banks</div> A LA Recherche Du Temps Perdu http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1440036 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1440036"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/2070754928.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcel Proust</div> Charlie and the Chocolate Factory http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968298 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roald Dahl</div> Of Mice and Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/240178 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/240178"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553131001.01-A3OTAGE7WYMCI9._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon Steinbeck</div> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033411.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> Possession http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2475513 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2475513"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/2080682911.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Antonia S. Byatt</div> Heart of Darkness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48561 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48561"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580495753.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> A Passage to India http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001705 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001705"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/184046027X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.M. Forster</div> Watership Down: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133340 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133340"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743277708.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Adams</div> Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1775703 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1775703"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374530718.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jostein Gaarder</div> The Name of the Rose http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/91197 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/91197"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000CRQ834.01-A3O4CH0YMWQOHK._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Love in the Time of Cholera http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28928 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28928"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/140003468X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Rebecca http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76641 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76641"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1844080382.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42238246_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daphne Du Maurier</div> The Remains of the Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2338366 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2338366"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571225381.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kazuo Ishiguro</div> The Unbearable Lightness of Being http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337594 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337594"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571224385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Milan Kundera</div> Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19108 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19108"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679776818.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43048994_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sebastian Faulks</div> Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1076271 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1076271"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486424545.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. M. Forster</div> Brideshead Revisited http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2467974 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2467974"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000KJTOMQ.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/557828 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/557828"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060786523.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vikram Seth</div>