101 Best Books Ever Published
Australian bookseller Dymocks has come up with a list of the 101 best books ever published, according to Australian readers.
More than 15,000 people took part in the online survey and some of the results were pretty surprising.
Proving you can't beat the classics, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice topped the list, with classics accounting for a third of the 101 titles.
The survey also found that Bryce Courtenay is Australia's most popular author.
Here is the list in full:
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- The Lord of the Rings Series - J.R.R. Tolkien
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
- Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
- The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
- Magician - Raymond E. Feist
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
- Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
- Cross Stitch - Diana Gabaldon
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- The Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons
- The Bible
- Eragon - Christopher Paolini
- The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series - Douglas Adams
- The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
- Tomorrow, When the War Began - John Marsden
- Ice Station - Matthew Reilly
- Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
- The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
- The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Perfume - Patrick Suskind
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
- The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
- Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
- Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
- The Pact - Jodi Picoult
- A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
- Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
- April Fools Day - Bryce Courtenay
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Dernieres
- Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
- Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
- The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
- Tully - Paullina Simons
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Fortunate Life - A. B. Facey
- Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
- River God - Wilbur Smith
- Wild Swans - Jung Chang
- Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
- Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
- The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Persuasion - Jane Austen
- The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
- Possession - A.S. Byatt
- We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
- Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell
- The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Marley and Me - John Grogan
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- The Count of Monte Christo - Alexandre Dumas
- The Secret history - Donna Tartt
- Chocolat - Joanne Harris
- Dirt Music - Tim Winton
- Looking for Alibrandi - Melina Marchetta
- My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin
- The Ancient Future - Traci Harding
- Belgariad Series - David Eddings
- The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
- The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
- The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- The Stand - Stephen King
- It - Stephen King
- Northern Lights - Nora Roberts
- The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
- The Outsider - Albert Camus
- The Riders - Tim Winton
- Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Across the Nightingale Floor - Lian Hearn
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- Circle of Friends - Maeve Binchy
- Seven Ancient Wonders - Matthew Reilly
- Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
- The Godfather - Mario Puzo
- The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
- The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
- The Red Tent - Anita Diamant