Centenary Book Project - Top Ten Books of the 20th Century

Which books would you include in your top ten of the 20th century? This list is compiled from contributors to the Centenary Book Project. To submit your top ten please send an e-mail or fill in this form.

1. Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkein
2. 1984, George Orwell
3. To Kill a Mocking Bird, Harper Lee
4. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
5. The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
6. Animal Farm, George Orwell
7. Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
8. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
9. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
10. Zen and the Art of Motocyle Maintenance, Robert M Pirsig
11. Touching the Void, Joe Simpson
12. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkein
13. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
14. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
15. A Wrinkle In Time, Madeleine L'Engle
16. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
17. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
18. Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis)
19. Dune: Frank Herbert
20. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
21. Slaughter-House 5, Kurt Vonnegut
22. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
23. Ulysses (Joyce)
24. A Prayer for Owen Meaney, John Irving
25. Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
26. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
27. Eagle of the Ninth, The - Rosemary Sutcliffe
28. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S Thompson
29. Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov
30. Into Thin Air, John Krakeur
31. Kon-Tiki Expedition, The - Thor Heyendahl
32. Name of the Rose
33. Steppenwolf (Thomas Mann)
34. Tin Drum (Gunther Grass)
35. Winnie-the-Pooh
36. 1995 Good Pub Guide, Camra
37. All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque
38. Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann:
39. Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons)
40. Confederacy of Dunces
41. Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton
42. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tom Robbins
43. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
44. Five on a Treasure Island - Enid Blyton
45. Flat Stanley (Brown)
46. Howard's End, E. M. Forster, 1925
47. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
48. Long Walk to Freedom, The - Nelson Mandela
49. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
50. Periodic Table, The - Primo Levi
51. Plague (Albert Camus)
52. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, 1929
53. Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clarke
54. Seven Years in Tibet: Hienrich Harrer
55. Stig of the Dump (King)
56. Tao of Pooh - Ben Hoffman
57. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1940
58. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
59. The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
60. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
61. The Giver
62. The Lion, the witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
63. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
64. The Selfish Gene
65. The Sun also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
66. Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
67. Wild Swans (Some Chinese lady)
68. Wilt (Sharp)
69. 100 years of solitude, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
70. 1066 and All That
71. 1st edition of Personal Computer World
72. 2001 A.C. Clarke
73. 39 Steps (Buchan)
74. A Bridge too Far, Cornelius Ryan
75. A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
76. A day in the life of Ivan Denitavitc, Solzenitchin
77. A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds (Kamuf ed)
78. A Farewell to arms, Ernest Hemingway
79. A la recherche du temps perdu, Marcel Proust
80. A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
81. A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf, 1929
82. A Separate Peace, Knowles
83. A Swiftly Tilting Planet, A Swiftly Tilting Planet
84. Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg
85. Advanced hanggliding techniques
86. Agents and Patients (Anthony Powell)
87. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
88. an evil cradling, brian keenan
89. Ancient Mythologies, Henry Treece
90. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
91. Any Sharpe novel, Bernard Cornwall
92. Army of Angels, Pamela Marchental
93. At Swim-Two-Birds (O'Brien)
94. Beloved (Toni Morrison)
95. Beowulf (Heaney)
96. Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
97. Birdsong, S Faulkes
98. Blind Watchmaker, The - Richard Dawkins
99. BMA Complete Family Health Encyclopaedia
100. Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
101. Book of Common Prayer, Joan Didion, 1978
102. Boy, Roald Dahl
103. Bridge, The - Iain Banks
104. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
105. Bring on the Empty Horses, David Niven
106. Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Watchers Guide, Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder
107. Burmese Days, G. Orwell:
108. Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee Dee, Brown
109. Call of the Wild, The : Jack London
110. Cancer ward, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
111. Cannery Row, Steinbeck
112. Carries War, Nina Bawden
113. Casino Royale
114. Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
115. Cautionary Tales, Hillaire Belloc:
116. Chaos
117. Chemical Engineering, Coulson and Richardson
118. ChickenHawk, Robert Mason
119. Christy, Catherine Marshall
120. Chrysalids, The - John Wyndham
121. Cities of the Red Night (William Burroughs)
122. Civilisation - Kenneth Clarke
123. Claude Elwood Shannon - Collected papers
124. Collector, The - John Fowles
125. Collins Complete DIY Manual
126. Complete Works of O. Henry, O. Henry
127. Consider Phlebas - Iain M Banks
128. Cosmic Trilogy, The - (Out of the Silent Planet - Voyage to Venus)
129. Cruel Sea
130. dandelion wine, ray bradbury
131. Danny the Champion of the World (Dahl)
132. Darkness Visible (William Golding)
133. Das Kapital, Karl Marx:
134. Das Perfum, Patrick S=FCskind
135. Days of Hope
136. De Magnetisme William Gilbert
137. Deadeye Dick, Kurt Vonnegut
138. Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
139. Demolished Man, The - Alfred Bester
140. Desperation, Stephen King
141. Diaries, Alan Clark
142. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Philip K Dick)
143. Down & Out in Paris and London (George Orwell)
144. East of Eden
145. Education of Little Tree, The
146. Elric Saga, Moorcock
147. Enfolded in Love, Mother Julien -
148. English Patient, Michael Ondaatje, 1992
149. Expecting Someone Taller : Tom Holt
150. Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
151. Fear & Loathing on The Campaign Trail 72, Hunter S Thompson
152. Fiat Tipo Turbo-Diesel Repair Manual
153. Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
154. Fifth Business, Robertson Davies
155. First Circle, Solzenitsyn
156. Five go to Smuggler's Top
157. Flashman At the Charge (George MacDonald Fraser)
158. Frankie and Zooie, Sallinger
159. Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
160. Gone with the Wind, Mitchell
161. Good Soldier Svejk (that Czech Bloke)
162. Goodnight Mr Tom, Michelle Magorian
163. Gothic Cathedral, The - Otto von Simson
164. Great Aircraft of the World (Hutchinson)
165. Green Mansions, W.H. Hudson
166. Guardians of the tall stones, Moyra Caldecott
167. Hard Years, The
168. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, JK Rowling
169. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
170. Hayes Manual Ford Escort RS2000 and RS Mexico
171. Here comes a candle to light you to bed, Maggie Prince
172. High Adventure, Edmund Hillary
173. Hiroshima, John Hersey
174. History of Physics, The: Isaac Asimov
175. History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters - Julian Barnes
176. Hot Zone
177. Hubble- a new window to the Universe (Fischer, Duerbeck)
178. I am David (Holm)
179. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
180. I, Claudius, Robert Graves
181. I, Robot, Asimov
182. Illuminati Triology, David Shea etal
183. Interview with a Vampire, Anne Rice
184. it can't happen here, Sinclair Lewis:
185. It, Stephen King
186. Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
187. Kim
188. Krabat, Otfried Preussler:
189. Labyrinths
190. Labyrinths (Borges)
191. Lanark (Gray)
192. Left Handed Electron - Isaac Asimov
193. Lolita, Nabakov
194. Longitude (Sobel)
195. Lord Of The Dead, Tom Holland
196. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
197. Love on the Dole, Walter Greenwood
198. Love You Forever, Robert Munch
199. Maggie Cassidy, Jack Kerouac
200. Making it Happen, John Harvey Jones
201. Making of the English Working Class (EP Thompson)
202. Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The - Oliver Saks
203. Martian Chronicles, Bradbury
204. Matilda, Roald Dahl
205. Mein Kampf - Adolph Hitler
206. Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
207. Mind over matter
208. Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Hoeg)
209. Money (Martin Amis)
210. Moomins (Janssen
211. Moon, James Herbert
212. Mushrooms, by Roger Phillips
213. My Left Foot, Christy Brown
214. Native Son, Richard Wright
215. Newts, Frogs and Toads (Maxwell)
216. Niave and Sentimental Lover, J Le Carre
217. Noggin the Nog (Firmin and Postgate)
218. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
219. Obasan, Joy Kogawa
220. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
221. On Peak Rock,
222. On the Beach: Neville Shute
223. Peter Pan
224. Pippi Langstrumpf, Astrid Lindgren:
225. Player of Games, Iain M Banks
226. Popcorn
227. Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker
228. Possession : A Romance
229. Potholing Beneath the Northern Pennines, D Heap
230. Power and the Glory (Graham Greene)
231. Prospero's Cell, Lawrence Durrell
232. Purple Homicide (Fear and Loathing on Knutsford Heath)
233. Pursuit of Love (Nancy Mitford)
234. Rebel (Albert Camus)
235. Regeneration (Pat Barker)
236. Right Ho Jeeves (PG Wodehouse
237. Roesnkrantz and Guildenstern are dead, Tom Stoppard
238. Rough Guide to Prague
239. Royal Horticultural Society Plant Encyclopaedia
240. Sexing the Cherry, J Winterson
241. She: Sir Rider Haggard
242. Shivers (Spenser)
243. shogun
244. Silence Of the Lambs
245. Silent Spring
246. Skallagrigg, William Horwood
247. Slowly down the Gangees, Eric Newby
248. Snow Leopard, The
249. Sobre Heroes y Tumbas, Ernesto Sabato
250. Something Happened, Joseph Heller
251. South-East Asia on a Shoestring
252. Spy Catcher Peter Wright
253. Still life with a woodpecker, Tom Robbins
254. Storey of Art, The - Gombrich
255. Superstitious, RL Stine
256. Suspended Sentences, Jim Curran
257. T.S. Elliot - The Four Quartets
258. Taltos, Anne Rice
259. Tao of Jeet Kun Do, Bruce Lee
260. Te of Piglet, The - Benjamin Hoff
261. Teen Witch: Wicca For A New Generation, Silver RavenWolf
262. That Hideous Strength - C S Lewis
263. The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights, Steinbeck
264. The Ascent of Man Bronowski -
265. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
266. The Belgariad, Eddings
267. The book of ebenezer le page, g b edwards
268. The Butcher Boy (McCabe)
269. the children's encyclopaedia, arthur mee
270. The Cities of the Red Night (William Burroughs)
271. The Collector, John Fowles
272. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
273. The Crysalids, John Wyndham
274. The Deeds of Paksenarian, Elizabeth Moon
275. The Dons: History of Aberdeen Football Club
276. The Doomstone, Paul Zindel
277. The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
278. The English Patient, M. Ondaatje
279. The FlimFlam Man
280. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
281. The Four Quartets, T.S. Elliot -
282. The Funniest Book Ever (Scarry)
283. The Giver, Lois Lowry
284. The Grinch that Stole Christmas, Seuss
285. The Horse and his Boy (Lewis)
286. The Inimitable Jeeves (Wodehouse)
287. The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
288. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
289. The Jungle, Upton Sinclairi
290. the lady in the lake, Raymond Chandler:
291. The Last battle, C.S. Lewis
292. The Last Continent (Terry Pratchett)
293. The Lonesome Gods, Louis Lamour
294. The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler, 1955
295. The Magus, John Fowles
296. the makioka sisters, junichiro tanizaki
297. The Mammoth Hunters
298. The Memoirs of Hadrian, Maguerite Youcenar -
299. The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
300. The music of chance, Paul Auster
301. The Night Crew, John Sanford
302. The other side of dark, Joan Lowery Nixon
303. The Outsiders, SE Hinton
304. The pillars of the earth, Ken Follet
305. The Raj Quartet
306. The Rebel (Albert Camus)
307. The Regulators, Richard Bachman
308. The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe
309. The Rum Diary, Hunter S. Thompson
310. The Second World War (Taylor)
311. The Source, James Michener -
312. The Specter, Joan Lowery Nixon
313. The Spirit of St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh
314. The Story of Art Gombrich -
315. The Twenty Two Letters, Clive King -
316. The wasp Factory, Iain Banks
317. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Graham
318. The Winter of our Discontent, John Steinbeck
319. The World According to Garp, John Irving
320. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
321. This Other Eden
322. Thomas Covenant
323. Thousand Metres Down - Martell
324. Time Enough For Love, Robert HeinLen
325. Times Arrow, Martin Amis
326. Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake
327. Treasure Island, R.L. Stevenson:
328. Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom
329. Two in The Far North, Margaret E. Murie
330. Typewriter for Mr Bizwas, V S Naipal
331. Under Milk Wood (Thomas)
332. Up Garden Path (Sue Limb)
333. Video-Typewriter Cookbook, The
334. Wachtmeister Studer, Friedrich Glauser:
335. Watership Down (Adams)
336. When the Lion Roars, Wilbur Smith
337. Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak)
338. White Hotel, D M Thomas
339. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Andersen
340. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett

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November 2001