Waterstones Books of the Century

Given by Waterstones

99 Works 2,028,953 Books 33,430 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 poll show more 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
No 11997
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
No 101997
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
No 1001997
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
No 111997
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
No 121997
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
No 131997
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
No 141997
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
No 151997
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
No 161997
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
No 171997
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
No 181997
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
No 191997
1984 by George Orwell
No 21997
The Stranger by Albert Camus
No 201997
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
No 211997
The Trial by Franz Kafka
No 221925
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
No 231997
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
No 241997
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
No 251997
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
No 261997
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
No 271997
Sons And Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
No 281997
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
No 291997
Animal Farm by George Orwell
No 31997
If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
No 301947
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
No 311997
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
No 321997
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
No 331997
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
No 351997
Beloved by Toni Morrison
No 361997
Possession by A.S. Byatt
No 371997
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
No 381997
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
No 391997
Ulysses by James Joyce
No 41997
Watership Down by Richard Adams
No 401997
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
No 411997
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
No 421997
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No 431997
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
No 441997
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
No 451989
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
No 461997
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
No 471997
Howards End by E. M. Forster
No 481997
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
No 491997
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
No 51997
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
No 501997
Dune by Frank Herbert
No 511965
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
No 521989
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
No 531997
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
No 541997
The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
No 551997
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
No 561997
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
No 571997
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
No 581997
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
No 591997
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
No 61997
The Magus by John Fowles
No 601965
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
No 611997
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
No 621997
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
No 631997
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
No 641997
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
No 651997
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernières
No 661997
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
No 671997
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
No 681997
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
No 691997
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
No 71997
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
No 701997
It by Stephen King
No 711997
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
No 721997
The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition by Stephen King
No 731997
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
No 751997
Matilda by Roald Dahl
No 761997
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
No 771997
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
No 781971
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
No 791997
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No 81997
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
No 801997
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
No 811997
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
No 821997
Delia's Complete Cookery Course (Vol 1-3) by Delia Smith
No 831997
An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
No 841997
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
No 851997
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
No 861997
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
No 871997
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
No 881997
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
No 891997
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
No 91997
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
No 901997
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
No 911997
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
No 921997
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
No 931997
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
No 941997
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
No 951997
The Van by Roddy Doyle
No 961997
The BFG by Roald Dahl
No 971997
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
No 981997
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
No 991997
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
1928
* Green text is "calculated" text. Calculated text is provided based on global LibraryThing data.

Tags

1001(5,284) 1001 books(5,611) 20th century(16,789) adventure(4,693) American(5,854) American literature(9,142) British(6,820) British literature(6,004) children(3,510) children's(5,457) classic(31,814) classic literature(3,478) classics(30,780) dystopia(11,420) ebook(4,460) England(4,837) English(4,743) English literature(6,122) fantasy(34,575) favorite(3,269) favorites(5,726) fiction(175,116) Folio Society(3,465) goodreads(4,792) historical fiction(10,210) history(5,109) horror(5,500) humor(6,346) literature(26,795) magical realism(4,000) memoir(3,293) non-fiction(7,049) novel(30,694) own(8,062) owned(4,430) paperback(4,387) philosophy(7,791) politics(3,543) read(23,968) Roman(5,285) romance(4,784) satire(4,976) science(4,043) science fiction(31,568) to-read(65,951) Tolkien(4,281) unread(6,653) war(4,866) wwii(6,184) young adult(3,313)

Top Members

sandrikoti (95 works), cctesttc1 (94), mick745 (94), erohwedd (93), Vorobyey (93), boookywooky (92), PaulCranswick (92), aimg (91), hazzabamboo (90), Estragon1958 (89), Hillside_Library (89), Themis-Athena (89), ericandsue (87), GrettelTBR (86), Keelz09 (85), thatguyzero (85), tootstorm (85), piano3646 (84), SleepySheep (84), steevohenderson (84), Yells (84), Jimbookbuff1963 (83), mediterraneobcn (83), mimal (83), Clio12 (82), JBarringer (82), rdurie (82), soffitta1 (82), alaskabookworm (81), Chandna_Agarwal (81), emleemay (81), Kaethe (81), TigerBeast79 (81), FurfuralAndVanillin (80), tstan (80), tyrosine (80), caitief (79), Cassabass (79), clairefun (79), dharmalita (79), EmScape (79), Floyd3345 (79), harrietlouise (79), kamintra (79), kibe (79), Smiler69 (79), sprainedbrain (79), SwatiRavi (79), uscer (79), wendyrey (79), absurdeist (78), eatsnacksreadbooks (78), ednasilrak (78), KrisR (78), Mz.Balma (78), odinblindeye (78), SCPeterson (78), Councillor3004 (77), marxones (77), phoebekw (77), thebookmagpie (77), Dorritt (76), Dureo (76), e-zReader (76), erinalbion (76), HadriantheBlind (76), OperaMan_22 (76), parasolofdoom (76), SandraBrower (76), ablueidol (75), AmieB7 (75), antimuzak (75), AntT (75), bibliopolitan (75), cns1000 (75), ELiz_M (75), EmilyD1037 (75), europhile (75), Fergus_Cooper (75), Frits (75), giogabbiano (75), graffiti.living (75), jasbro (75), stephmo (75), dariazeoli (74), davidabrams (74), dehaansg (74), emaestra (74), folivier (74), hatingongodot (74), kcnjamie (74), Kristelh (74), lattermild (74), llibresantjoan (74), puckers (74), shimauta (74), weird_O (74), Anietzerck (73), crimsonraider (73), divinenanny (73), ljhliesl (73), michaelg16 (73), vernaye (73), -Eva- (72), Alan-M-Whatton (72), Caroline_McElwee (72), cataloga (72), DGSBiblio (72), inunonaizo (72), marisina_soy (72), pdubya62 (72), stefphan (72), Teresa40 (72), thegreenmikado (72), aabdelrahmanm (71), angelrose (71), FitzWales (71), goldenbowl (71), homeless (71), mlfhlibrarian (71), PamelaReads (71), smithtm (71), Sterling4589 (71), TheoClarke (71), Tom.Shubrook (71), agenbiteofinwit (70), alo1224 (70), BolstenDorder (70), evilmoose (70), HelenP2 (70), hoegbottom (70), Korrick (70), littlebear514 (70), mffowler (70), narbgr01 (70), Phaer1 (70), Poindextrix (70), sarahb6 (70), shvizdos (70), thingol (70), torcrot (70), Ben-Shelby (69), CarltonC (69), Cathyvil (69), cattermune (69), eromsted (69), naratemari (69), paruline (69), SpareOom (69), stortemelk (69), thalassa_thalassa (69), AlainCipit (68), Ashlad (68), BentleyMay (68), Castlelass (68), drmom62 (68), hannahmck (68), mont1ms (68), nick_l (68), nighthawk4486 (68), RLNunezKPL (68), SeriousGrace (68), sycoraxpine (68), velvetink (68), Yardape (68), Ashley_Hoss_820 (67), ForrestFamily (67)