Waterstones Books of the Century

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100 Works 2,105,214 Books 34,728 Reviews 4.1
Waterstones is a bookstore chain with more than 200 stores in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and Europe. In January 1997, Waterstones announced the results of its Books of the Century show more poll to find out what the public considered to be the hundred greatest books of the twentieth century. Over 25, 000 people took part in the poll and the Book of the Century was revealed as J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. show less
Years:
All, 1997 (91)
WorkOrder LabelYear
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
11997
1984 by George Orwell
21997
Animal Farm by George Orwell
31997
Ulysses by James Joyce
41997
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
51997
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
61997
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
71997
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
81997
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
91997
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
101997
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
111997
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
121997
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
131997
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
141997
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
151997
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
161997
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
171997
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
181997
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
191997
The Stranger by Albert Camus
201997
The Trial by Franz Kafka
211925
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
221997
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
231997
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
241997
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
251997
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
261997
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
271997
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
281997
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
291997
If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
301947
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
311997
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
321997
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
331997
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
341964
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
351997
Beloved by Toni Morrison
361997
Possession by A.S. Byatt
371997
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
381997
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
391997
Watership Down by Richard Adams
401997
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
411997
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
421997
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
431997
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
441997
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
451989
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
461997
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
471997
Howards End by E. M. Forster
481997
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
491997
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
501997
Dune by Frank Herbert
511965
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
521989
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
531997
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
541997
The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
551997
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
561997
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
571997
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
581997
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
591997
The Magus by John Fowles
601965
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
611997
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
621997
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
631997
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
641997
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
651997
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernières
661997
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
671997
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
681997
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
691997
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
701997
It by Stephen King
711997
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
721997
The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition by Stephen King
731997
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
741928
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
751997
Matilda by Roald Dahl
761997
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
771997
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
781971
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
791997
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
801997
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
811997
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
821997
Delia's Complete Cookery Course (Vol 1-3) by Delia Smith
831997
An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
841997
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
851997
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
861997
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
871997
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
881997
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
891997
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
901997
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
911997
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
921997
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
931997
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
941997
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
951997
The Van by Roddy Doyle
961997
The BFG by Roald Dahl
971997
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
981997
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
991997
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
1001997
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