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Customers’ Choice: Your Top 100 Book Picks of the Century
We asked you to tell us your favorite books and music of the century, and you sure did! Here are your top 100 book picks, ranked in order of votes.

  1. Gone With the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

  2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
    by J. K. Rowling

  3. To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

  4. The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  5. Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand

  6. The Stand
    by Stephen King

  7. The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  8. The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  9. Angela’s Ashes
    A Memoir
    by Frank McCourt

  10. Left Behind
    A Novel of the Earth's Last Days
    by Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

  11. The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck

  12. Out to Canaan
    by Jan Karon

  13. The Fountainhead
    by Ayn Rand

  14. The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

  15. Interview with a Vampire
    by Anne Rice

  16. Watership Down
    by Richard Adams

  17. The Eye of the World
    Wheel of Time #1
    by Robert Jordan

  18. A Prayer for Owen Meany
    by John Irving

  19. Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  20. The Diary of Anne Frank
    The Definitive Edition
    by Anne Frank

  21. One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel García Márqueze

  22. The Prince of Tides
    by Pat Conroy

  23. The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  24. The Notebook
    by Nicholas Sparks

  25. It
    by Stephen King

  26. She’s Come Undone
    by Wally Lamb

  27. Sophie’s Choice
    by William Styron

  28. The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

  29. The Outlander
    by Diana Gabaldon

  30. 1984
    by George Orwell

  31. Dragonflight
    Dragonriders of Pern Series #1
    by Anne McCaffrey

  32. East of Eden
    by John Steinbeck

  33. I Know This Much Is True
    by Wally Lamb

  34. In Cold Blood
    A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
    by Truman Capote

  35. Lonesome Dove
    by Larry McMurtry

  36. Memoirs of a Geisha
    by Arthur Golden

  37. Peyton Place
    by Grace Metalious

  38. Pillars of the Earth
    by Ken Follett

  39. The Firm
    by John Grisham

  40. The Thorn Birds
    by Colleen McCullough

  41. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    by Betty Smith

  42. All Creatures Great and Small
    by James Herriot

  43. Clan of the Cave Bear
    by Jean Auel

  44. Angle of Repose
    by Wallace Stegner

  45. Cold Mountain
    by Charles Frazier

  46. Hannibal
    by Thomas Harris

  47. Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

  48. The Green Mile
    by Stephen King

  49. The Shining
    by Stephen King

  50. The Witching Hour
    by Anne Rice

  51. Tuesdays with Morrie
    An Old Man, a Young Man, and the Last Great Lesson
    by Mitch Albom

  52. Of Mice and Men
    by John Steinbeck

  53. A Course in Miracles
    Combined Volume
    by Foundation for Inner Peace

  54. A Lesson Before Dying
    by Ernest J. Gaines

  55. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya-Sisterhood
    by Rebecca Wells

  56. Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  57. Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

  58. Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  59. Abide with Me
    by E. Lynn Harris

  60. Snow Falling on Cedars
    by David Guterson

  61. Bonfire of the Vanities
    by Tom Wolfe

  62. The Godfather
    by Mario Puzo

  63. Cannery Row
    by John Steinbeck

  64. Lord of the Flies
    by William G. Golding

  65. The Poisonwood Bible
    by Barbara Kingsolver

  66. Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

  67. To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

  68. Ulysses
    by James Joyce

  69. Sometimes a Great Notion
    by Ken Kesey

  70. The Hunt for Red October
    by Tom Clancy

  71. The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

  72. Winter’s Tale
    by Mark Helprin

  73. Tender Is the Night
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  74. A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole

  75. Shogun
    by James Clavell

  76. The Greatest Generation
    by Tom Brokaw

  77. The Bone Collector
    by Jeffrey Deaver

  78. The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

  79. A Suitable Boy
    by Vikram Seth

  80. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
    by C. S. Lewis

  81. Bella Tuscany
    The Sweet Life in Italy
    by Frances Mayes

  82. Cry the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton

  83. Foucault’s Pendulum
    by Umberto Eco

  84. Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

  85. On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac

  86. Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  87. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
    by William L. Shirer

  88. The Horse Whisperer
    by Nicholas Evans

  89. Rainbow Six
    by Tom Clancy

  90. Bag of Bones
    by Stephen King

  91. The Shell Seekers
    by Rosamunde Pilcher

  92. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
    by Robert M. Pirsig

  93. Where the Heart Is
    by Billie Letts

  94. The Bridges of Madison County
    by Robert James Waller

  95. Henry and June
    From the Unexpurgated Diaries of Anaïs Nin
    by Anaïs Nin

  96. Kiss the Girls
    by James Patterson

  97. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
    by Richard Bach

  98. Mein Kampf
    by Adolf Hitler

  99. The Long Road Home
    by Danielle Steel

  100. The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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