Book awards: Waterstones Books of the CenturyWorks (100)| Titles | Order | | The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien | 1997, No 1 | | 1984 by George Orwell — not in English Common Knowledge | 1997, No 2 | | Animal Farm by George Orwell | 1997, No 3 | | Ulysses by James Joyce | 1997, No 4 | | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | 1997, No 5 | | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger | 1997, No 6 | | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee | 1997, No 7 | | One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 1997, No 8 | | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck | 1997, No 9 | | Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh | 1997, No 10 | | Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang | 1997, No 11 | | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1997, No 12 | | Lord of the Flies by William Golding | 1997, No 13 | | On the Road by Jack Kerouac | 1997, No 14 | | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | 1997, No 15 | | The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame | 1997, No 16 | | Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne | 1997, No 17 | | The Color Purple by Alice Walker | 1997, No 18 | | The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien | 1997, No 19 | | The Stranger by Albert Camus | 1997, No 20 | | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis | 1997, No 21 | | The Trial by Franz Kafka | No 22 | | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell | 1997, No 23 | | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams | 1997, No 24 | | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie | 1997, No 25 | | The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank | 1997, No 26 | | A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess | 1997, No 27 | | Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence | 1997, No 28 | | To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf | 1997, No 29 | | Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi | 1997, No 30 | | Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | 1997, No 31 | | The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks | 1997, No 32 | | In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | 1997, No 33 | | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl | 1997, No 34 | | Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck | 1997, No 35 | | Beloved by Toni Morrison | 1997, No 36 | | Possession by A. S. Byatt | 1997, No 37 | | Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad | 1997, No 38 | | A Passage to India by E. M. Forster | 1997, No 39 | | Watership Down by Richard Adams | 1997, No 40 | | Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder | 1997, No 41 | | The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco | 1997, No 42 | | Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 1997, No 43 | | Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier | 1997, No 44 | | The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro | 1997, No 45 | | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera | 1997, No 46 | | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks | 1997, No 47 | | Howards End by E. M. Forster | 1997, No 48 | | Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh | 1997, No 49 | | A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth | 1997, No 50 | | Dune by Frank Herbert | 1997, No 51 | | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving | 1997, No 52 | | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind | 1997, No 53 | | Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak | 1997, No 54 | | Titus Alone / Gormenghast / Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake | 1997, No 55 | | Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee | 1997, No 56 | | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath | 1997, No 57 | | The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood | 1997, No 58 | | Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain | 1997, No 59 | | The Magus by John Fowles | 1997, No 60 | | Brighton Rock by Graham Greene | 1997, No 61 | | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell | 1997, No 62 | | The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov | 1997, No 63 | | Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin | 1997, No 64 | | The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles | 1997, No 65 | | Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernières | 1997, No 66 | | Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut | 1997, No 67 | | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig | 1997, No 68 | | A Room with a View by E. M. Forster | 1997, No 69 | | Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis | 1997, No 70 | | It by Stephen King | 1997, No 71 | | The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene | 1997, No 72 | | The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition by Stephen King | 1997, No 73 | | All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque — not in English Common Knowledge | 1997, No 74 | | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle | 1997, No 75 | | Matilda by Roald Dahl | 1997, No 76 | | American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis | 1997, No 77 | | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson | 1997, No 78 | | A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking — not in English Common Knowledge | 1997, No 79 | | James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl | 1997, No 80 | | Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence | 1997, No 81 | | The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe | 1997, No 82 | | Delia's Complete Cookery Course by Delia Smith | 1997, No 83 | | An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan | 1997, No 84 | | The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence | 1997, No 85 | | Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell | 1997, No 86 | | 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke | 1997, No 87 | | The Tin Drum by Günter Grass | 1997, No 88 | | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1997, No 89 | | Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela | 1997, No 90 | | The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins | 1997, No 91 | | Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton | 1997, No 92 | | The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell | 1997, No 93 | | Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton | 1997, No 94 | | High Fidelity by Nick Hornby | 1997, No 95 | | The Van by Roddy Doyle | 1997, No 96 | | The BFG by Roald Dahl | 1997, No 97 | | Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess | 1997, No 98 | | I, Claudius by Robert Graves | 1997, No 99 | | The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans | 1997, No 100 |
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Award descriptionWaterstones 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 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.  | |
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