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Customers’ Choice: Your Favorite Books and Music of the Century
We asked you to tell us your favorite books and music of the century, and you sure did! It wasn’t easy: "So many wonderful books and music...so little time...only 100 years!" wrote one voter.

Here are your favorites, ranked in order of votes. (Books or music not written during this century were deleted, and yes, that includes the Bible.)


Top Five Book Picks

Gone With the Wind

BOOK In 1936, The New York Times Book Review proclaimed: "This is beyond a doubt one of the most remarkable first novels produced by an American writer."

  Top Five Music Picks

Abbey Road

BOOK The last Beatles album to be recorded, and our voters’ top favorite, features such all-time classics as "Here Comes the Sun."





Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

BOOK Readers voted for all the Harry Potter books in the series, starting with this one -- cheering for "books that the whole family can enjoy!"

 
Rhapsody in Blue

BOOK A star was born in 1924 when Gershwin played his jazzy "Rhapsody in Blue" for an enthusiastic New York City audience that included Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Rachmaninov, and Arturo Toscanini.





To Kill a Mockingbird

BOOK Set in the Deep South in the 1930s, this timeless novel explores race and class in a small town through the eyes of two children, as their father defends a black man charged with the rape of a white girl.

 
The White Album

BOOK The wide range of musical styles and creative expression represented on the double album commonly known as THE WHITE ALBUM offered proof that the Fab Four were increasingly growing apart.





The Lord of the Rings

BOOK Written by an Oxford professor after his success with THE HOBBIT, this trilogy remains one of the best-loved fantasy epics of all time.

 
With the Beatles

BOOK America was changed forever in 1964 with the stateside release of this breakthrough album, which includes such favorites as "All My Loving."





Atlas Shrugged

BOOK Who is John Galt? Rand’s epic novel tells the powerful story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world -- and did.

 
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

BOOK From the hard-rocking title track to the apocalyptic finale, "A Day in the Life," SGT. PEPPER melds a myriad of pop styles into a triumphant musical celebration.




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