The 100 GREATEST BOOKS of the 20th CENTURY.

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1 The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkein 51 Dune Frank Herbert
2 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 52 A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
3 Animal Farm George Orwell 53 Perfume Patrick Suskind
4 Ulysses James Joyce 54 Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternack
5 Catch-22 Jospeh Heller 55 Gormenghaste Mervyn Peake
6 The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger 56 Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee
7 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 57 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
8 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Marquez 58 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
9 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 59 Testament of Youth Vera Brittain
10 Trainspotting Irvine Walsh 60 The Magus John Fowles
11 Wild Swans Jung Chang 61 Brighton Rock Graham Greene
12 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 62 The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropist Robert Tressel
13 Lord of the Flies William Golding 63 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
14 On the Road Jack Kerouac 64 Tales of the City Armistead Maupin
15 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 65 The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles
16 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 66 Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernières
17 Winnie-The-Pooh A.A. Milne 67 Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut
18 The Color Purple Alice Walker 68 Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance Robert Pirsig
19 The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkein 69 A Room with a View E.M. Forster
20 The Outsider Albert Camus 70 Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
21 The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis 71 It Stephen King
22 The Trial Franz Kafka 72 The Power and the Glory Graham Greene
23 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 73 The Stand Stephen King
24 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 74 All Quiet On The Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
25 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 75 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle
26 The Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank 76 Matilda Roald Dahl
27 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 77 American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis
28 Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence 78 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson
29 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 79 A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking
30 If This Is a Man Primo Levi 80 James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl
31 Lolita Vladimir Nabosky 81 Lady Chatterley's Lover D.H. Lawrence
32 The Wasp Factory Iain Banks 82 The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe
33 Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust 83 Complete Cookery Course Delia Smith
34 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl 84 An Evil Cradling Brian Keenan
35 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 85 The Rainbow D.H. Lawrence
36 Beloved Toni Morrison 86 Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell
37 Possession A.S. Byatt 87 2001 - A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke
38 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 88 The Tin Drum Gunter Grass
39 A Passage to India E.M. Forster 89 A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn
40 Watership Down Richard Adams 90 Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela
41 Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder 91 The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins
42 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco 92 Jurassic Park Michael Crichton
43 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Marquez 93 The Alexandria Quartet Lawrence Durrell
44 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier 94 Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton
45 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro 95 High Fidelity Nick Hornby
46 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera 96 The Van Roddy Doyle
47 Birdsong Sebastian Faulks 97 The BFG Roald Dahl
48 Howards End E.M. Forster 98 Earthly Powers Anthony Burgess
49 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 99 I, Claudius Robert Graves
50 A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth 100 The Horse Whispperer Nicholas Evans

(as voted by Waterstone's customers and Channel 4 viewers)