A XX. sz�zad legnagyszer�bb k�nyvei - a britek szerint
1996 szeptember�ben a Waterstone's k�nyvesbolt h�l�zat �s a brit 4. TV csatorna k�z�s k�zv�lem�nykutat�st v�gzett, hogy �ssze�ll�tsa a 20. sz�zad legnagyszer�bb k�nyveinek list�j�t. Rengeteg szavazat �rkezett az olvas�k�z�ns�gt�l, �sszesen t�bb, mint 4 ezer k�nyvre, k�zt�k a legk�l�nb�z�bb m�vekre �s szerz�kre.

TOP 10
1. J. R. R. Tolkien - A gy�r�k ura
2. George Orwell - 1984
3. George Orwell - �llatfarm
4. James Joyce - Ulysses
5. Joseph Heller - A 22-es csapd�ja
6. J.D. Salinger - Zabhegyez�
7. Harper Lee - Ne b�nts�tok a feketerig�t!
8. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Sz�z �v mag�ny
9. John Steinbeck - �rik a gy�m�lcs
10. Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting

TOP 11-100
11. Jung Chang - Vadhatty�k
12. F. Scott Fitzgerald - A nagy Gatsby
13. William Golding - A legyek ura
14. Jack Kerouac - �ton
15. Aldous Huxley - Sz�p �j vil�g
16. Kenneth Grahame - Sz�l lengeti a f�zf�kat
17. A.A. Milne - Micimack�
18. Alice Walker - Kedves j�isten!
19. J. R. R. Tolkien - A bab�
20. Albert Camus - K�z�ny
21. C. S. Lewis - Az oroszl�n, a boszork�ny �s a k�l�n�s ruh�sszekr�ny
22. Franz Kafka - A per
23. Margaret Mitchell - Elf�jta a sz�l
24. Douglas Adams - Galaxis �tikalauz stopposoknak
25. Salman Rushdie - Az �jf�l gyermekei
26. Anne Frank - Anna Frank napl�ja
27. Anthony Burgess - A g�pnarancs
28. D. H. Lawrence - Sz�l�k �s szeret�k
29. Virginia Woolf - A vil�g�t�torony
30. Primo Levi - Ember ez?
31. Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
32. Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory*
33. Marcel Proust - Az elt�nt id� nyom�ban
34. Roald Dahl - Karcsi �s a csokol�d�gy�r
35. John Steinbeck - Egerek �s emberek
36. Toni Morrison - Beloved*
37. A. S. Byatt - Possession*
38. Joseph Conrad - A s�t�ts�g m�ly�n
39. E. M. Forster - Indiai kaland
40. Richard Adams - Gesztenye, a honalap�t�
41. Jostein Gaarder - Sophie vil�ga
42. Umberto Eco - A r�zsa neve
43. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Szerelem kolera idej�n
44. Daphne du Maurier - A Manderley-h�z asszonya
45. Kazuo Ishiguro - A f�komornyik szabads�ga
46. Milan Kundera - A l�t elviselhetetlen k�nny�s�ge
47. Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong*
48. E. M. Forster - Szellem a h�zban
49. Evelyn Waugh - Utols� l�togat�s
50. Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy*
51. Frank Herbert - A d�ne
52. John Irvine - A Prayer for Owen Meany*
53. Patrick S�skind - Parf�m
54. Boris Pasternak - Doktor Zsiv�g�
55. Mervyn Peake - Gormenghast*
56. Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie*
57. Sylvia Plath - Az �vegb�ra
58. Margaret Atwood - A szolg�l�l�ny mes�je
59. Vera Brittain -Testament of Youth*
60. John Fowles - A m�gus
61. Graham Greene - Brightoni szikla
62. Robert Tressell - The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists*
63. Mikhail Bulgakov - Mester �s Margarita
64. Armistead Maupin - Tales from the City*
65. John Fowles - A francia hadnagy szeret�je
66. Louis de Berni�res - Corelli kapit�ny mandolinja
67. Kurt Vonnegut - Az �t�s sz�m� v�g�h�d
68. Robert Pirsig - A ZEN meg a motorker�kp�r-�pol�s m�v�szete
69. E. M. Forster - Szoba kil�t�ssal
70. Kingsley Amis -Szerencs�s fl�t�s
71. Stephen King - Az
72. Graham Greene - Hatalom �s dics�s�g
73. Stephen King - �llj mell�m! / V�g�t�let (2 k�l. ford�t�s)
74. Erich Maria Remarque - Nyugaton a helyzet v�ltozatlan
75. Roddy Doyle - Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha*
76. Roald Dahl - Matilda h�rom csod�ja
77. Brett Easton Ellis - Amerikai pszicho
78. Hunter S. Thompson - F�lelem �s reszket�s Las Vegasban
79. Stephen Hawking - Az id� r�vid t�rt�nete
80. Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach*
81. D. H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley szeret�je
82. Tom Wolfe - Hi�s�gok m�gly�ja
83. Delia Smith - Complete Cookery Course*
84. Brian Keenan - An Evil Cradling*
85. D. H. Lawrence - Sziv�rv�ny
86. George Orwell - Csavarg�k�nt P�rizsban, Londonban
87. Arthur C. Clarke - 2001 �rod�sszea
88. Gunter Grass - A b�dogdob
89. Alexander Szolzsenyicin - Iv�n Gyenyiszovics egy napja
90. Nelson Mandela - A Long Walk to Freedom*
91. Richard Dawkins - Az �nz� g�n
92. Michael Crichton - Jurassic Park
93. Lawrence Durrell - Alexandiriai n�gyes
94. Alan Paton - Cry the Beloved Country*
95. Nick Hornby - Pop, csajok, sat�bbi
96. Roddy Doyle - A mozg�b�f�
97. Roald Dahl - Szofi �s a Hab�
98. Anthony Burgess - Earthly Powers*
99. Robert Graves - �n, Claudius
100. Nicholas Evans - A suttog�

�pphogy lemaradtak - a Top100 ut�n k�vetkez� 25 k�nyv:
T. S. Eliot - A puszta orsz�g
John Steinbeck - �dent�l keletre
Samuel Beckett - Godot-ra v�rva
T. S. Eliot - N�gy kvartett
Donna Tartt - A titkos t�rt�net
Nick Hornby - Focil�z
Ernest Hemingway - Az �reg hal�sz �s a tenger
Arthur Koestler - S�t�ts�g d�lben
Gerald Durrell - Csal�dom �s egy�b �llatfajt�k
Dylan Thomas - A mi erd�nk alj�n
Ernest Hemingway - Aki�rt a harang sz�l
Martin Amis - London Fields*
William Faulkner - A hang �s a t�boly
E. Annie Proulx - Haj�z�si h�rek
Germaine Greer - The Female Eunuch*
Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye*
Albert Camus - A pestis
Anne Rice - Interj� a v�mp�rral
D. H. Lawrence - Szerelmes asszonyok
Simone de Beauvoir - A m�sodik nem
Ford Madox Brown - A j� katona
L. P. Hartley - A szerelmi post�s
Virginia Woolf - Orlando
Robert Graves - Isten hozz�d, Anglia!
Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm*

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

 Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.

 Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 

 

4 Harry Potter series (1-7) - JK Rowling 

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee  

6 The Bible 

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa Mae Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13   Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14  Complete Works of Shakespeare 

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma -Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 

36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins dire

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Inferno - Dante

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo