Book awards: Waterstones Books of the Century

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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
If This Is A Man 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: A Romance 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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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 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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