My Favourite Book!

In 2004 the ABC decided to find out what are our favourite books.

By clicking on the book title the link will take you directly to the Ryde Library Services Catalogue, where you can reserve that title.

The nation's 100 favourite books:

1. The Lord of the Rings / J.R.R. Tolkein
2. Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen
3. The Bible (Various Contributors)
4. To Kill A Mockingbird / Harper Lee
5. Cloudstreet / Tim Winton
6. Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix / J. K. Rowling
7. Nineteen Eighty-Four / George Orwell
8. The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy / Douglas Adams
9. The Da Vinci Code / Dan Brown and Catch 22 / Joseph Heller
10. A Fortunate Life / A.B. Facey
11. Dirt Music / Tim Winton
12. 800 Horseman / Col Stringer
13. Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte
14. Zhaun Falun / Li Hongzhi
15. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban / J.K. Rowling
16. Captain Underpants And The Invasion Of The Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space / Dav Pilkey
17. Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte
18. The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe / C.S. Lewis
19. The Wind In The Willows / Kenneth Grahame
20. The Catcher In The Rye / J.D. Salinger
21. The Pillars Of The Earth / Ken Follett
22. Magician / Raymond E. Feist
23. Possession: A Romance / A.S. Byatt
24. Dune (Dune Chronicles) / Frank Herbert
25. A Fine Balance / Rohinton Mistry
26. The Hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien
27. A Suitable Boy / Vikram Seth
28. One Hundred Years Of Solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
29. 'Fighting' McKenzie Anzac Chaplain / Col Stringer
30. Deltora Quest Series / Emily Rodda
31. Tomorrow, When The War Began / John Marsden
32. Perfume: The Story Of A Murder / Patrick Suskind
33. The Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck
34. The Ancient Future Trilogy / Traci Harding
35. The God Of Small Things / Arundhati Roy
36. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire / J.K. Rowling and The Power Of One / Bryce Courtenay
37. The Shipping News / Annie Proulx
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin / Louis De Bernieres
39. The Poisonwood Bible / Barbara Kingsolver
40. Anne Of Green Gables / L.M. Montgomery
41. Gone With The Wind / Margaret Mitchell
42. Cross Stitch / Diana Gabaldon
43. Persuasion / Jane Austen
44. Ice Station / Matthew Reilly
45. Rebecca / Daphne Du Maurier
46. Life Of Pi / Yann Martel
47. Crime and Punishment / Fyodor Dostoevsky
48. Little Women / Louisa May Alcott
49. Great Expectations / Charles Dickens
50. The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
51. A Series of Unfortunate Events / Lemony Snicket
52. Love In The Time Of Cholera / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
53. Rage / Steve Gerlach
54. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland / Lewis Carroll
55. The Mists Of Avalon / Marion Zimmer-Bradley
56. Cafe Scheherazade / Arnold Zable
57. The Bone People / Keri Hulme
58. Jessica / Bryce Courtenay
59. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets / J. K. Rowling
60. The Fortunes Of Richard Mahony / Henry Handel Richardson
61. My Family And Other Animals / Gerald Durrell
62. War And Peace / Leo Tolstoy
63. Wild Swans / Jung Chang
64. Mao's Last Dancer / Li Cunxin
65. Artemis Fowl / Eoin Colfer
66. Eragon / Christopher Paolini
67. Shantaram / Gregory David Roberts
68. Memoirs Of A Geisha / Arthur Golden
69. The Riders / Tim Winton
70. Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy
71. Angela's Ashes / Frank Mccourt
72. The Age Of Reason / Thomas Paine
73. The Alchemist / Paulo Coelho
74. Middlemarch / George Eliot
75. Emma / Jane Austen
76. Midnight's Children / Salman Rushdie
77. The English Patient / Michael Ondaatje
78. Matilda / Roald Dahl
79. Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance / Robert Pirsig
80. On The Road / Jack Kerouac
81. The BFG / Roald Dahl
82. Animal Farm / George Orwell
83. Birdsong / Sebastian Faulks
84. A Prayer For Owen Meany / John Irving
85. Boyz Rule / Phil Kettle
86. Scarecrow / Matthew Reilly
87. The Secret History / Donna Tartt
88. Looking For Alibrandi / Melina Marchetta
89. Watership Down / Richard Adams
90. The Thorn Birds / Colleen Mccullough
91. Atlas Shrugged / Ayn Rand
92. Winnie The Pooh / A. A. Milne
93. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone / J. K. Rowling
94. The Magic Faraway Tree / Enid Blyton
95. Brideshead Revisited / Evelyn Waugh
96. Heart Of Darkness / Joseph Conrad
97. High Fidelity / Nick Horn
98. Goosebumps / R. L Stine
99. The Magic Pudding / Norman Lindsay
100. Les Miserables / Victor Hugo and David Copperfield / Charles Dickens