Book list
The top 200 books ordered alphabetically by title.
| Title | Author | Position | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | 47th |
| 2 | A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry | 196th |
| 3 | A Prayer For Owen Meany | John Irving | 28th |
| 4 | A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth | 55th |
| 5 | A Tale Of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 63rd |
| 6 | A Town Like Alice | Nevil Shute | 37th |
| 7 | Alice's Adventures In Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 30th |
| 8 | All Quiet On The Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | 141st |
| 9 | American Psycho | Bret Easton | 185th |
| 10 | Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging | Louise Rennison | 127th |
| 11 | Animal Farm | George Orwell | 46th |
| 12 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 54th |
| 13 | Anne Of Green Gables | LM Montgomery | 41st |
| 14 | Artemis Fowl | Eoin Colfer | 59th |
| 15 | Atonement | Ian McEwan | 154th |
| 16 | Bad Girls | Jacqueline Wilson | 117th |
| 17 | Behind The Scenes At The Museum | Kate Atkinson | 142nd |
| 18 | Birdsong | Sebastian Faulks | 13th |
| 19 | Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | 58th |
| 20 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | 79th |
| 21 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 87th |
| 22 | Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | 45th |
| 23 | Bridget Jones's Diary | Helen Fielding | 75th |
| 24 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres | 19th |
| 25 | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 11th |
| 26 | Charlie And The Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl | 35th |
| 27 | Charlotte's Web | EB White | 170th |
| 28 | Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons | 88th |
| 29 | Crime And Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 60th |
| 30 | Cross Stitch | Diana Gabaldon | 160th |
| 31 | Danny The Champion Of The World | Roald Dahl | 132nd |
| 32 | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | 34th |
| 33 | Double Act | Jacqueline Wilson | 80th |
| 34 | Dracula | Bram Stoker | 104th |
| 35 | Dune | Frank Herbert | 39th |
| 36 | Dustbin Baby | Jacqueline Wilson | 176th |
| 37 | East Of Eden | John Steinbeck | 133rd |
| 38 | Emma | Jane Austen | 40th |
| 39 | Fantastic Mr Fox | Roald Dahl | 177th |
| 40 | Far From The Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | 48th |
| 41 | Flowers In The Attic | Virginia Andrews | 200th |
| 42 | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 171st |
| 43 | George's Marvellous Medicine | Roald Dahl | 134th |
| 44 | Girls In Love | Jacqueline Wilson | 98th |
| 45 | Girls In Tears | Jacqueline Wilson | 139th |
| 46 | Girls Out Late | Jacqueline Wilson | 167th |
| 47 | Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 21st |
| 48 | Good Omens | Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman | 68th |
| 49 | Goodnight Mister Tom | Michelle Magorian | 49th |
| 50 | Goosebumps | RL Stine | 188th |
| 51 | Gormenghast | Mervyn Peake | 84th |
| 52 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 17th |
| 53 | Guards! Guards! | Terry Pratchett | 69th |
| 54 | Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets | JK Rowling | 23rd |
| 55 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | JK Rowling | 5th |
| 56 | Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone | JK Rowling | 22nd |
| 57 | Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban | JK Rowling | 24th |
| 58 | Heart Of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 158th |
| 59 | Heidi | Johanna Spyri | 189th |
| 60 | High Fidelity | Nick Hornby | 143rd |
| 61 | His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman | 3rd |
| 62 | Hogfather | Terry Pratchett | 137th |
| 63 | Holes | Louis Sachar | 83rd |
| 64 | House Of Leaves | Mark Z Danielewski | 124th |
| 65 | I Capture The Castle | Dodie Smith | 82nd |
| 66 | It | Stephen King | 144th |
| 67 | James And The Giant Peach | Roald Dahl | 145th |
| 68 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | 10th |
| 69 | Jonathan Livingstone Seagull | Richard Bach | 179th |
| 70 | Jude The Obscure | Thomas Hardy | 111st |
| 71 | Kane And Abel | Jeffrey Archer | 96th |
| 72 | Katherine | Anya Seton | 95th |
| 73 | Kim | Rudyard Kipling | 159th |
| 74 | Les Misérables | Victor Hugo | 114th |
| 75 | Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | 18th |
| 76 | Lola Rose | Jacqueline Wilson | 121st |
| 77 | Lolita | Vladimir | 178th |
| 78 | Lord Of The Flies | William Golding | 70th |
| 79 | Lorna Doone | R.D.Blackmore | 166th |
| 80 | Love In The Time Of Cholera | Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez | 97th |
| 81 | Magician | Raymond E Feist | 89th |
| 82 | Man And Boy | Tony Parsons | 192nd |
| 83 | Master And Commander | Patrick O'Brian | 149th |
| 84 | Matilda | Roald Dahl | 74th |
| 85 | Memoirs Of A Geisha | Arthur Golden | 62nd |
| 86 | Men At Arms | Terry Pratchett | 148th |
| 87 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | 27th |
| 88 | Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | 100th |
| 89 | Moby Dick | Herman Melville | 161st |
| 90 | Mort | Terry Pratchett | 65th |
| 91 | Night Watch | Terry Pratchett | 73rd |
| 92 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | 8th |
| 93 | Noughts And Crosses | Malorie Blackman | 61st |
| 94 | Of Mice And Men | John Steinbeck | 52nd |
| 95 | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | 182nd |
| 96 | On The Road | Jack Kerouac | 90th |
| 97 | One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | 157th |
| 98 | One Hundred Years Of Solitude | Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez | 32nd |
| 99 | Papillon | Henri Charriere | 147th |
| 100 | Perfume | Patrick SÃŒskind | 71st |
| 101 | Persuasion | Jane Austen | 38th |
| 102 | Point Blanc | Anthony Horowitz | 105th |
| 103 | Possession | AS Byatt | 129th |
| 104 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 2nd |
| 105 | Reaper Man | Terry Pratchett | 126th |
| 106 | Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | 14th |
| 107 | River God | Wilbur Smith | 162nd |
| 108 | Secrets | Jacqueline Wilson | 155th |
| 109 | Shogun | James Clavell | 119th |
| 110 | Silas Marner | George Eliot | 184th |
| 111 | Skeleton Key | Anthony Horowitz | 150th |
| 112 | Sleepovers | Jacqueline Wilson | 140th |
| 113 | Small Gods | Terry Pratchett | 102nd |
| 114 | Sons And Lovers | D.H.Lawrence | 190th |
| 115 | Sophie's World | Jostein Gaarder | 175th |
| 116 | Soul Music | Terry Pratchett | 151st |
| 117 | Stormbreaker | Anthony Horowitz | 107th |
| 118 | Sunset Song | Lewis Grassic Gibbon | 163rd |
| 119 | Swallows And Amazons | Arthur Ransome | 57th |
| 120 | Tess Of The D'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | 26th |
| 121 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | 94th |
| 122 | The Beach | Alex Garland | 103rd |
| 123 | The BFG | Roald Dahl | 56th |
| 124 | The Catcher in the Rye | JD Salinger | 15th |
| 125 | The Clan Of The Cave Bear | Jean M Auel | 92nd |
| 126 | The Color Purple | Alice Walker | 136th |
| 127 | The Colour Of Magic | Terry Pratchett | 93rd |
| 128 | The Count Of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | 44th |
| 129 | The Cruel Sea | Nicholas Monsarrat | 113rd |
| 130 | The Dare Game | Jacqueline Wilson | 116th |
| 131 | The Day Of The Jackal | Frederick Forsyth | 109th |
| 132 | The Day Of The Triffids | John Wyndham | 120th |
| 133 | The Diary Of A Nobody | George and Weedon Grossmith | 186th |
| 134 | The Far Pavilions | MM Kaye | 168th |
| 135 | The Fifth Elephant | Terry Pratchett | 153rd |
| 136 | The Forsyte Saga | John Galsworthy | 123rd |
| 137 | The God Of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | 85th |
| 138 | The Godfather | Mario Puzo | 91st |
| 139 | The Grapes Of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 29th |
| 140 | The Great Gatsby | F Scott Fitzgerald | 43rd |
| 141 | The Green Mile | Stephen King | 146th |
| 142 | The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | 131st |
| 143 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | 4th |
| 144 | The Hobbit | JRR Tolkien | 25th |
| 145 | The Horse Whisperer | Nicholas Evans | 195th |
| 146 | The Hound Of The Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle | 128th |
| 147 | The Illustrated Mum | Jacqueline Wilson | 110th |
| 148 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | CS Lewis | 9th |
| 149 | The Little Prince | Antoine De Saint-Exupery | 180th |
| 150 | The Lord of the Rings | JRR Tolkien | 1st |
| 151 | The Magic Faraway Tree | Enid Blyton | 66th |
| 152 | The Magus | John Fowles | 67th |
| 153 | The Master And Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | 130th |
| 154 | The Mayor Of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | 115th |
| 155 | The Name Of The Rose | Umberto Eco | 174th |
| 156 | The Old Man And The Sea | Ernest Hemingway | 173rd |
| 157 | The Once And Future King | TH White | 198th |
| 158 | The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | 106th |
| 159 | The Picture Of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 118th |
| 160 | The Pillars Of The Earth | Ken Follett | 33rd |
| 161 | The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | 125th |
| 162 | The Power Of One | Bryce Courtenay | 183rd |
| 163 | The Princess Diaries | Meg Cabot | 99th |
| 164 | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists | Robert Tressell | 72nd |
| 165 | The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13Ÿ | Sue Townsend | 112nd |
| 166 | The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 51st |
| 167 | The Secret History | Donna Tartt | 76th |
| 168 | The Shell Seekers | Rosamunde Pilcher | 50th |
| 169 | The Shipping News | Annie Proulx | 164th |
| 170 | The Silver Sword | Ian Serraillier | 156th |
| 171 | The Stand | Stephen King | 53rd |
| 172 | The Story Of Tracy Beaker | Jacqueline Wilson | 31st |
| 173 | The Suitcase Kid | Jacqueline Wilson | 181st |
| 174 | The Thirty-Nine Steps | John Buchan | 138th |
| 175 | The Thorn Birds | Colleen McCollough | 64th |
| 176 | The Truth | Terry Pratchett | 193rd |
| 177 | The Twits | Roald Dahl | 81st |
| 178 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera | 191st |
| 179 | The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Eric Carle | 199th |
| 180 | The War Of The Worlds | H.G.Wells | 194th |
| 181 | The Wasp Factory | Iain Banks | 108th |
| 182 | The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | 16th |
| 183 | The Witches | Roald Dahl | 169th |
| 184 | The Woman In White | Wilkie Collins | 77th |
| 185 | The World According To Garp | John Irving | 165th |
| 186 | They Used To Play On Grass | Terry Venables and Gordon Williams | 172nd |
| 187 | Thief Of Time | Terry Pratchett | 152nd |
| 188 | Three Men In A Boat | Jerome K Jerome | 101st |
| 189 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 6th |
| 190 | Trainspotting | Irvine Welsh | 187th |
| 191 | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 36th |
| 192 | Ulysses | James Joyce | 78th |
| 193 | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | 122nd |
| 194 | Vicky Angel | Jacqueline Wilson | 86th |
| 195 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 20th |
| 196 | Watership Down | Richard Adams | 42nd |
| 197 | Winnie the Pooh | AA Milne | 7th |
| 198 | Witches Abroad | Terry Pratchett | 197th |
| 199 | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 12th |
| 200 | Wyrd Sisters | Terry Pratchett | 135th |