BookCrossing's Top 100+ Books of All-Time (2006)

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Rank	Title	Author	Year
1	To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	1960
2	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	J. K. Rowling	2005
3	The Lord of the Rings	J.R.R. Tolkien	1955
4	Harry Potter Series
	Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone	J.K. Rowling	1997
	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	J.K. Rowling	1998
	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	J.K. Rowling	1999
	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	J.K. Rowling	2000
	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	J. K. Rowling	2003
	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	J. K. Rowling	2005
	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	J. K. Rowling	2007
5	The Time Traveler's Wife	Audrey Niffenegger	2003
6	Memoirs of a Geisha	Arthur Golden	1997
7	Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	1813
8	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Mark Haddon	2003
9	The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	2003
10	My Sister's Keeper	Jodi Picoult	2004
11	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	1979
12	Life of Pi	Yann Martel	2001
13	The Stand	Stephen King	1978
14	The Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown	2003
15	Nineteen Eighty-Four	George Orwell	1949
16	Anne of Green Gables	L. M. Montgomery	1908
17	The Chronicles of Narnia
	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	C.S. Lewis	1950
	Prince Caspian	C. S. Lewis	1951
	The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	C. S. Lewis	1952
	The Silver Chair	C. S. Lewis	1953
	The Horse and His Boy	C. S. Lewis	1954
	The Magician's Nephew	C. S. Lewis	1955
	The Last Battle	C. S. Lewis	1956
18	The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood	1985
19	Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte	1847
20	The Secret Life of Bees	Sue Monk Kidd	2003
21	Gone with the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	1936
22	The Hobbit	J.R.R. Tolkien	1937
23	The Poisonwood Bible	Barbara Kingsolver	1998
24	The Shadow of the Wind	Carlos Ruiz Zafon	2001
25	Ender's Game	Orson Scott Card	1985
26	The Five People You Meet in Heaven	Mitch Albom	2003
27	The Eyre Affair	Jasper Fforde	2001
28	A Prayer for Owen Meany	John Irving	1989
29	The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series
	The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency	Alexander McCall Smith	1999
	Tears of the Giraffe	Alexander McCall Smith	2000
	Morality for Beautiful Girls	Alexander McCall Smith	2001
	The Kalahari Typing School for Men	Alexander McCall Smith	2002
	The Full Cupboard of Life	Alexander McCall Smith	2003
	In the Company of Cheerful Ladies	Alexander McCall Smith	2004
	Blue Shoes and Happiness	Alexander McCall Smith	2006
	The Good Husband of Zebra Drive	Alexander McCall Smith	2007
	The Miracle at Speedy Motors	Alexander McCall Smith	2008
30	The Lovely Bones	Alice Sebold	2002
31	Watership Down	Richard Adams	1972
32	Perfume	Patrick Suskind	1985
33	Middlesex	Jeffrey Eugenides	2002
34	His Dark Materials Trilogy
	Northern Lights (The Golden Compass)	Philip Pullman	1995
	The Subtle Knife	Philip Pullman	1997
	The Amber Spyglass	Philip Pullman	2000
35	Girl with a Pearl Earring	Tracy Chevalier	1999
36	Good Omens	Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman	1990
37	Animal Farm	George Orwell	1945
38	Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal	Christopher Moore	2002
39	The Red Tent	Anita Diamant	1997
40	Persuasion	Jane Austen	1818
41	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Betty Smith	1943
42	Angels & Demons	Dan Brown	2000
43	Catch-22	Joseph Heller	1961
44	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	J.K. Rowling	2000
45	The Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger	1951
46	Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte	1847
47	Year of Wonders	Geraldine Brooks	2001
48	Oryx and Crake	Margaret Atwood	2003
49	Eragon	Christopher Paolini	2003
50	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	1967
51	84 Charing Cross Road	Helene Hanff	1970
52	Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	1932
53	The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint Exupery	1943
54	Neverwhere	Neil Gaiman	1996
55	The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	1939
56	Dune	Frank Herbert	1965
57	A Fine Balance	Rohinton Mistry	1995
58	Artemis Fowl	Eoin Colfer	2001
59	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series
	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	1979
	The Restaurant at the End of the Universe	Douglas Adams	1980
	Life, the Universe and Everything	Douglas Adams	1982
	So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish	Douglas Adams	1984
	Mostly Harmless	Douglas Adams	1992
60	Little Women	Louisa May Alcott	1869
61	Rebecca	Daphne du Maurier	1938
62	The Mists of Avalon	Marion Zimmer Bradley	1983
63	Discworld Series
	The Colour of Magic	Terry Pratchett	1983
	The Light Fantastic	Terry Pratchett	1986
	Mort	Terry Pratchett	1987
	Equal Rites	Terry Pratchett	1987
	Sourcery	Terry Pratchett	1988
	Wyrd Sisters	Terry Pratchett	1988
	Guards! Guards!	Terry Pratchett	1989
	Pyramids	Terry Pratchett	1989
	Eric	Terry Pratchett	1990
	Moving Pictures	Terry Pratchett	1990
	Reaper Man	Terry Pratchett	1991
	Witches Abroad	Terry Pratchett	1991
	Small Gods	Terry Pratchett	1992
	Lords and Ladies	Terry Pratchett	1992
	Men at Arms	Terry Pratchett	1993
	Soul Music	Terry Pratchett	1994
	Interesting Times	Terry Pratchett	1994
	Maskerade	Terry Pratchett	1995
	Feet of Clay	Terry Pratchett	1996
	Hogfather	Terry Pratchett	1996
	Jingo	Terry Pratchett	1997
	The Last Continent	Terry Pratchett	1998
	Carpe Jugulum	Terry Pratchett	1998
	The Fifth Elephant	Terry Pratchett	1999
	The Truth	Terry Pratchett	2000
	Thief of Time	Terry Pratchett	2001
	The Last Hero	Terry Pratchett	2001
	The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents	Terry Pratchett	2001
	Night Watch	Terry Pratchett	2002
	The Wee Free Men	Terry Pratchett	2003
	Monstrous Regiment	Terry Pratchett	2003
	A Hat Full of Sky	Terry Pratchett	2004
	Going Postal	Terry Pratchett	2004
	Thud!	Terry Pratchett	2005
	Wintersmith	Terry Pratchett	2006
	Making Money	Terry Pratchett	2007
64	Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	1861
65	Stephanie Plum Series
66	The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy	1997
67	The Good Earth	Pearl S. Buck	1931
68	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	C.S. Lewis	1950
69	The Secret History	Donna Tartt	1992
70	To Say Nothing of the Dog	Connie Willis	1997
71	A Clockwork Orange	Anthony Burgess	1962
72	Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	1953
73	The Name of the Rose	Umberto Eco	1980
74	Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	1955
75	The Neverending Story	Michael Ende	1979
76	The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1925
77	The Secret Garden	Frances Hodgson Burnett	1909
78	The Virgin Suicides	Jeffrey Eugenides	1993
79	A Series of Unfortunate Events
80	Atonement	Ian McEwan	2001
81	American Gods	Neil Gaiman	2001
82	Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	1866
83	Emma	Jane Austen	1815
84	Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone	J.K. Rowling	1997
85	Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice	1976
86	Little House Series
87	Possession: A Romance	A. S. Byatt	1990
88	Lord of the Flies	William Golding	1954
89	Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck	1937
90	Sabriel	Garth Nix	1995
91	Saturday	Ian McEwan	2005
92	Slaughterhouse-Five	Kurt Vonnegut	1969
93	Stones from the River	Ursula Hegi	1994
94	The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank	1947
95	A Suitable Boy	Vikram Seth	1994
96	A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L'Engle	1962
97	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	1865
98	Angela's Ashes	Frank McCourt	1996
99	Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy	1873
100	Bleak House	Charles Dickens	1853
101	Les Miserables	Victor Hugo	1862
102	Doomsday Book	Connie Willis	1992
103	East of Eden	John Steinbeck	1952
104	Fingersmith	Sarah Waters	2002
105	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	J.K. Rowling	1999
106	I Capture the Castle	Dodie Smith	1948
107	Never Let Me Go	Kazuo Ishiguro	2005
108	Outlander Series
109	Persepolis	Marjane Satrapi	2000
110	The Pillars of the Earth	Ken Follett	1989
111	Small Island	Andrea Levy	2004
112	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	1890
113	Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West	Gregory Maguire	1995
114	Winnie-the-Pooh	A.A. Milne	1926
115	The Remains of the Day	Kazuo Ishiguro	1989
116	Tomorrow, When the War Began	John Marsden	1993