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. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
3. 1984, George Orwell
4. To Kill a Mocking Bird, Harper Lee0446310786
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 thfe 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. All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque
18. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
19. Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis)
20. Dune: Frank Herbert
21. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
22. Slaughter-House 5, Kurt Vonnegut
23. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
24. Ulysses (Joyce)
25. A Prayer for Owen Meaney, John Irving
26. Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
27. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
28. Eagle of the Ninth, The - Rosemary Sutcliffe
29. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S Thompson
30. Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov
31. Into Thin Air, John Krakeur
32. Kon-Tiki Expedition, The - Thor Heyendahl
33. Name of the Rose
34. Steppenwolf (Thomas Mann)
35. Tin Drum (Gunther Grass)
36. Winnie-the-Pooh
37. 1995 Good Pub Guide, Camra
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 Military history of the Western World, J F C Fuller
81. A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
82. A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf, 1929
83. A Separate Peace, Knowles
84. A Swiftly Tilting Planet, A Swiftly Tilting Planet
85. Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg
86. Advanced hanggliding techniques
87. Agents and Patients (Anthony Powell)
88. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
89. an evil cradling, brian keenan
90. Ancient Mythologies, Henry Treece
91. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
92. Any Sharpe novel, Bernard Cornwall
93. Army of Angels, Pamela Marchental
94. At Swim-Two-Birds (O'Brien)
95. Beloved (Toni Morrison)
96. Beowulf (Heaney)
97. Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
98. Birdsong, S Faulkes
99. Blind Watchmaker, The - Richard Dawkins
100. BMA Complete Family Health Encyclopaedia
101. Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
102. Book of Common Prayer, Joan Didion, 1978
103. Boy, Roald Dahl
104. Bridge, The - Iain Banks
105. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
106. Bring on the Empty Horses, David Niven
107. Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Watchers Guide, Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder
108. Burmese Days, G. Orwell:
109. Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee Dee, Brown
110. Call of the Wild, The : Jack London
111. Cancer ward, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
112. Cannery Row, Steinbeck
113. Carries War, Nina Bawden
114. Casino Royale
115. Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
116. Cautionary Tales, Hillaire Belloc:
117. Chaos
118. Chemical Engineering, Coulson and Richardson
119. ChickenHawk, Robert Mason
120. Christy, Catherine Marshall
121. Chrysalids, The - John Wyndham
122. Cities of the Red Night (William Burroughs)
123. Civilisation - Kenneth Clarke
124. Claude Elwood Shannon - Collected papers
125. Collector, The - John Fowles
126. Collins Complete DIY Manual
127. Complete Works of O. Henry, O. Henry
128. Consider Phlebas - Iain M Banks
129. Cosmic Trilogy, The - (Out of the Silent Planet - Voyage to Venus)
130. Cruel Sea
131. Cry The Beloved Country, Alan Paton
132. dandelion wine, ray bradbury
133. Danny the Champion of the World (Dahl)
134. Darkness Visible (William Golding)
135. Das Kapital, Karl Marx:
136. Das Perfum, Patrick S=FCskind
137. Days of Hope
138. De Magnetisme William Gilbert
139. Deadeye Dick, Kurt Vonnegut
140. Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
141. Demolished Man, The - Alfred Bester
142. Desperation, Stephen King
143. Diaries, Alan Clark
144. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Philip K Dick)
145. Down & Out in Paris and London (George Orwell)
146. East of Eden
147. Education of Little Tree, The
148. Elric Saga, Moorcock
149. Enfolded in Love, Mother Julien -
150. English Patient, Michael Ondaatje, 1992
151. Expecting Someone Taller : Tom Holt
152. Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
153. Fear & Loathing on The Campaign Trail 72, Hunter S Thompson
154. Fiat Tipo Turbo-Diesel Repair Manual
155. Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
156. Fifth Business, Robertson Davies
157. First Circle, Solzenitsyn
158. Five go to Smuggler's Top
159. Flashman At the Charge (George MacDonald Fraser)
160. Frankie and Zooie, Sallinger
161. Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
162. Gone with the Wind, Mitchell
163. Good Soldier Svejk (that Czech Bloke)
164. Goodnight Mr Tom, Michelle Magorian
165. Gothic Cathedral, The - Otto von Simson
166. Great Aircraft of the World (Hutchinson)
167. Green Mansions, W.H. Hudson
168. Guardians of the tall stones, Moyra Caldecott
169. Hard Years, The
170. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, JK Rowling
171. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
172. Hayes Manual Ford Escort RS2000 and RS Mexico
173. Here comes a candle to light you to bed, Maggie Prince
174. High Adventure, Edmund Hillary
175. Hiroshima, John Hersey
176. History of Physics, The: Isaac Asimov
177. History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters - Julian Barnes
178. Hot Zone
179. Hubble- a new window to the Universe (Fischer, Duerbeck)
180. I am David (Holm)
181. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
182. I, Claudius, Robert Graves
183. I, Robot, Asimov
184. Illuminati Triology, David Shea etal
185. Interview with a Vampire, Anne Rice
186. it can't happen here, Sinclair Lewis:
187. It, Stephen King
188. Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
189. Kim
190. Krabat, Otfried Preussler:
191. Labyrinths
192. Labyrinths (Borges)
193. Lanark (Gray)
194. Left Handed Electron - Isaac Asimov
195. Lolita, Nabakov
196. Longitude (Sobel)
197. Lord Of The Dead, Tom Holland
198. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
199. Love on the Dole, Walter Greenwood
200. Love You Forever, Robert Munch
201. Maggie Cassidy, Jack Kerouac
202. Making it Happen, John Harvey Jones
203. Making of the English Working Class (EP Thompson)
204. Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The - Oliver Saks
205. Martian Chronicles, Bradbury
206. Matilda, Roald Dahl
207. Mein Kampf - Adolph Hitler
208. Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
209. Mind over matter
210. Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Hoeg)
211. Money (Martin Amis)
212. Moomins (Janssen
213. Moon, James Herbert
214. Mushrooms, by Roger Phillips
215. My Left Foot, Christy Brown
216. Native Son, Richard Wright
217. Newts, Frogs and Toads (Maxwell)
218. Niave and Sentimental Lover, J Le Carre
219. Noggin the Nog (Firmin and Postgate)
220. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
221. Obasan, Joy Kogawa
222. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
223. On Peak Rock,
224. On the Beach: Neville Shute
225. Peter Pan
226. Pippi Langstrumpf, Astrid Lindgren:
227. Player of Games, Iain M Banks
228. Popcorn
229. Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker
230. Possession : A Romance
231. Potholing Beneath the Northern Pennines, D Heap
232. Power and the Glory (Graham Greene)
233. Prospero's Cell, Lawrence Durrell
234. Puckoon, Spike Milligan
235. Purple Homicide (Fear and Loathing on Knutsford Heath)
236. Pursuit of Love (Nancy Mitford)
237. Rebel (Albert Camus)
238. Regeneration (Pat Barker)
239. Right Ho Jeeves (PG Wodehouse
240. Roesnkrantz and Guildenstern are dead, Tom Stoppard
241. Rough Guide to Prague
242. Royal Horticultural Society Plant Encyclopaedia
243. Sexing the Cherry, J Winterson
244. She: Sir Rider Haggard
245. Shivers (Spenser)
246. shogun
247. Silence Of the Lambs
248. Silent Spring
249. Skallagrigg, William Horwood
250. Slowly down the Gangees, Eric Newby
251. Snow Leopard, The
252. Sobre Heroes y Tumbas, Ernesto Sabato
253. Something Happened, Joseph Heller
254. South-East Asia on a Shoestring
255. Spy Catcher Peter Wright
256. Still life with a woodpecker, Tom Robbins
257. Stonewall jackson and the American Civil War, G F R Henderson
258. Storey of Art, The - Gombrich
259. Superstitious, RL Stine
260. Suspended Sentences, Jim Curran
261. T.S. Elliot - The Four Quartets
262. Taltos, Anne Rice
263. Tao of Jeet Kun Do, Bruce Lee
264. Te of Piglet, The - Benjamin Hoff
265. Teen Witch: Wicca For A New Generation, Silver RavenWolf
266. That Hideous Strength - C S Lewis
267. The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights, Steinbeck
268. The Ascent of Man Bronowski -
269. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
270. The Belgariad, Eddings
271. The book of ebenezer le page, g b edwards
272. The Book of Heroic Failures, Stephen Pile
273. The Butcher Boy (McCabe)
274. the children's encyclopaedia, arthur mee
275. The Cities of the Red Night (William Burroughs)
276. The Collector, John Fowles
277. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
278. The Crysalids, John Wyndham
279. The Deeds of Paksenarian, Elizabeth Moon
280. The Dons: History of Aberdeen Football Club
281. The Doomstone, Paul Zindel
282. The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
283. The English Patient, M. Ondaatje
284. The FlimFlam Man
285. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
286. The Four Quartets, T.S. Elliot -
287. The Funniest Book Ever (Scarry)
288. The Giver, Lois Lowry
289. The Grinch that Stole Christmas, Seuss
290. The Horse and his Boy (Lewis)
291. The House With Green Shutters, George Douglas Brown
292. The Inimitable Jeeves (Wodehouse)
293. The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
294. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
295. The Jungle, Upton Sinclairi
296. The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
297. the lady in the lake, Raymond Chandler:
298. The Last battle, C.S. Lewis
299. The Last Continent (Terry Pratchett)
300. The Lonesome Gods, Louis Lamour
301. The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler, 1955
302. The Magus, John Fowles
303. the makioka sisters, junichiro tanizaki
304. The Mammoth Hunters
305. The Memoirs of Hadrian, Maguerite Youcenar -
306. The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
307. The music of chance, Paul Auster
308. The Night Crew, John Sanford
309. The other side of dark, Joan Lowery Nixon
310. The Outsiders, SE Hinton
311. The pillars of the earth, Ken Follet
312. The Raj Quartet
313. The Rebel (Albert Camus)
314. The Regulators, Richard Bachman
315. The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe
316. The Rum Diary, Hunter S. Thompson
317. The Second World War (Taylor)
318. The Source, James Michener -
319. The Specter, Joan Lowery Nixon
320. The Spirit of St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh
321. The Story of Art Gombrich -
322. The Twenty Two Letters, Clive King -
323. The wasp Factory, Iain Banks
324. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Graham
325. The Winter of our Discontent, John Steinbeck
326. The World According to Garp, John Irving
327. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
328. This Other Eden
329. Thomas Covenant
330. Thousand Metres Down - Martell
331. Time Enough For Love, Robert HeinLen
332. Times Arrow, Martin Amis
333. Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake
334. Treasure Island, R.L. Stevenson:
335. Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom
336. Two in The Far North, Margaret E. Murie
337. Typewriter for Mr Bizwas, V S Naipal
338. Under Milk Wood (Thomas)
339. Up Garden Path (Sue Limb)
340. Video-Typewriter Cookbook, The
341. Wachtmeister Studer, Friedrich Glauser:
342. Watership Down (Adams)
343. When the Lion Roars, Wilbur Smith
344. Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak)
345. White Hotel, D M Thomas
346. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Andersen
347. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett

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