The top 200 books ordered alphabetically by Author.
| Author | Title | Position | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Douglas Adams | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | 4th |
| 2 | Richard Adams | Watership Down | 42nd |
| 3 | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | 18th |
| 4 | Virginia Andrews | Flowers In The Attic | 200th |
| 5 | Jeffrey Archer | Kane And Abel | 96th |
| 6 | Kate Atkinson | Behind The Scenes At The Museum | 142nd |
| 7 | Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale | 131st |
| 8 | Jean M Auel | The Clan Of The Cave Bear | 92nd |
| 9 | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | 2nd |
| 10 | Jane Austen | Persuasion | 38th |
| 11 | Jane Austen | Emma | 40th |
| 12 | Richard Bach | Jonathan Livingstone Seagull | 179th |
| 13 | Iain Banks | The Wasp Factory | 108th |
| 14 | Louis de Bernieres | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | 19th |
| 15 | Malorie Blackman | Noughts And Crosses | 61st |
| 16 | R.D.Blackmore | Lorna Doone | 166th |
| 17 | Enid Blyton | The Magic Faraway Tree | 66th |
| 18 | Patrick O'Brian | Master And Commander | 149th |
| 19 | Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre | 10th |
| 20 | Emily Brontë | Wuthering Heights | 12th |
| 21 | John Buchan | The Thirty-Nine Steps | 138th |
| 22 | Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master And Margarita | 130th |
| 23 | Frances Hodgson Burnett | The Secret Garden | 51st |
| 24 | AS Byatt | Possession | 129th |
| 25 | Meg Cabot | The Princess Diaries | 99th |
| 26 | Eric Carle | The Very Hungry Caterpillar | 199th |
| 27 | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures In Wonderland | 30th |
| 28 | Henri Charriere | Papillon | 147th |
| 29 | James Clavell | Shogun | 119th |
| 30 | Paulo Coelho | The Alchemist | 94th |
| 31 | Eoin Colfer | Artemis Fowl | 59th |
| 32 | Wilkie Collins | The Woman In White | 77th |
| 33 | Joseph Conrad | Heart Of Darkness | 158th |
| 34 | Bryce Courtenay | The Power Of One | 183rd |
| 35 | Roald Dahl | Charlie And The Chocolate Factory | 35th |
| 36 | Roald Dahl | The BFG | 56th |
| 37 | Roald Dahl | Matilda | 74th |
| 38 | Roald Dahl | The Twits | 81st |
| 39 | Roald Dahl | Danny The Champion Of The World | 132nd |
| 40 | Roald Dahl | George's Marvellous Medicine | 134th |
| 41 | Roald Dahl | James And The Giant Peach | 145th |
| 42 | Roald Dahl | The Witches | 169th |
| 43 | Roald Dahl | Fantastic Mr Fox | 177th |
| 44 | Mark Z Danielewski | House Of Leaves | 124th |
| 45 | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | 17th |
| 46 | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | 34th |
| 47 | Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol | 47th |
| 48 | Charles Dickens | A Tale Of Two Cities | 63rd |
| 49 | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | 79th |
| 50 | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | 106th |
| 51 | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | 182nd |
| 52 | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Crime And Punishment | 60th |
| 53 | Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound Of The Baskervilles | 128th |
| 54 | Alexandre Dumas | The Count Of Monte Cristo | 44th |
| 55 | Umberto Eco | The Name Of The Rose | 174th |
| 56 | George Eliot | Middlemarch | 27th |
| 57 | George Eliot | Silas Marner | 184th |
| 58 | Bret Easton | American Psycho | 185th |
| 59 | Nicholas Evans | The Horse Whisperer | 195th |
| 60 | Sebastian Faulks | Birdsong | 13th |
| 61 | Raymond E Feist | Magician | 89th |
| 62 | Helen Fielding | Bridget Jones's Diary | 75th |
| 63 | F Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby | 43rd |
| 64 | Ken Follett | The Pillars Of The Earth | 33rd |
| 65 | Frederick Forsyth | The Day Of The Jackal | 109th |
| 66 | John Fowles | The Magus | 67th |
| 67 | Jostein Gaarder | Sophie's World | 175th |
| 68 | Diana Gabaldon | Cross Stitch | 160th |
| 69 | John Galsworthy | The Forsyte Saga | 123rd |
| 70 | Alex Garland | The Beach | 103rd |
| 71 | Lewis Grassic Gibbon | Sunset Song | 163rd |
| 72 | Stella Gibbons | Cold Comfort Farm | 88th |
| 73 | Arthur Golden | Memoirs Of A Geisha | 62nd |
| 74 | William Golding | Lord Of The Flies | 70th |
| 75 | Kenneth Grahame | The Wind in the Willows | 16th |
| 76 | George and Weedon Grossmith | The Diary Of A Nobody | 186th |
| 77 | Thomas Hardy | Tess Of The D'Urbervilles | 26th |
| 78 | Thomas Hardy | Far From The Madding Crowd | 48th |
| 79 | Thomas Hardy | Jude The Obscure | 111th |
| 80 | Thomas Hardy | The Mayor Of Casterbridge | 115th |
| 81 | Joseph Heller | Catch-22 | 11th |
| 82 | Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man And The Sea | 173rd |
| 83 | Frank Herbert | Dune | 39th |
| 84 | Nick Hornby | High Fidelity | 143rd |
| 85 | Anthony Horowitz | Point Blanc | 105th |
| 86 | Anthony Horowitz | Stormbreaker | 107th |
| 87 | Anthony Horowitz | Skeleton Key | 150th |
| 88 | Victor Hugo | Les Misérables | 114th |
| 89 | Aldous Huxley | Brave New World | 87th |
| 90 | John Irving | A Prayer For Owen Meany | 28th |
| 91 | John Irving | The World According To Garp | 165th |
| 92 | Jerome K Jerome | Three Men In A Boat | 101st |
| 93 | James Joyce | Ulysses | 78th |
| 94 | MM Kaye | The Far Pavilions | 168th |
| 95 | Jack Kerouac | On The Road | 90th |
| 96 | Ken Kesey | One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest | 157th |
| 97 | Stephen King | The Stand | 53rd |
| 98 | Stephen King | It | 144th |
| 99 | Stephen King | The Green Mile | 146th |
| 100 | Barbara Kingsolver | The Poisonwood Bible | 125th |
| 101 | Rudyard Kipling | Kim | 159th |
| 102 | Milan Kundera | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 191st |
| 103 | D.H.Lawrence | Sons And Lovers | 190th |
| 104 | Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird | 6th |
| 105 | CS Lewis | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | 9th |
| 106 | Michelle Magorian | Goodnight Mister Tom | 49th |
| 107 | Gabriel García Márquez | One Hundred Years Of Solitude | 32nd |
| 108 | Gabriel García Márquez | Love In The Time Of Cholera | 97th |
| 109 | Daphne du Maurier | Rebecca | 14th |
| 110 | Colleen McCollough | The Thorn Birds | 64th |
| 111 | Ian McEwan | Atonement | 154th |
| 112 | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | 161st |
| 113 | AA Milne | Winnie the Pooh | 7th |
| 114 | Rohinton Mistry | A Fine Balance | 196th |
| 115 | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind | 21st |
| 116 | Nicholas Monsarrat | The Cruel Sea | 113th |
| 117 | LM Montgomery | Anne Of Green Gables | 41st |
| 118 | Vladimir | Lolita | 178th |
| 119 | George Orwell | Nineteen Eighty-Four | 8th |
| 120 | George Orwell | Animal Farm | 46th |
| 121 | Tony Parsons | Man And Boy | 192nd |
| 122 | Mervyn Peake | Gormenghast | 84th |
| 123 | Rosamunde Pilcher | The Shell Seekers | 50th |
| 124 | Terry Pratchett | Mort | 65th |
| 125 | Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman | Good Omens | 68th |
| 126 | Terry Pratchett | Guards! Guards! | 69th |
| 127 | Terry Pratchett | Night Watch | 73rd |
| 128 | Terry Pratchett | The Colour Of Magic | 93rd |
| 129 | Terry Pratchett | Small Gods | 102nd |
| 130 | Terry Pratchett | Reaper Man | 126th |
| 131 | Terry Pratchett | Wyrd Sisters | 135th |
| 132 | Terry Pratchett | Hogfather | 137th |
| 133 | Terry Pratchett | Men At Arms | 148th |
| 134 | Terry Pratchett | Soul Music | 151st |
| 135 | Terry Pratchett | Thief Of Time | 152nd |
| 136 | Terry Pratchett | The Fifth Elephant | 153rd |
| 137 | Terry Pratchett | The Truth | 193rd |
| 138 | Terry Pratchett | Witches Abroad | 197th |
| 139 | Annie Proulx | The Shipping News | 164th |
| 140 | Philip Pullman | His Dark Materials | 3rd |
| 141 | Mario Puzo | The Godfather | 91st |
| 142 | Arthur Ransome | Swallows And Amazons | 57th |
| 143 | Erich Maria Remarque | All Quiet On The Western Front | 141st |
| 144 | Louise Rennison | Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging | 127th |
| 145 | JK Rowling | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 5th |
| 146 | JK Rowling | Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone | 22nd |
| 147 | JK Rowling | Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets | 23rd |
| 148 | JK Rowling | Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban | 24th |
| 149 | Arundhati Roy | The God Of Small Things | 85th |
| 150 | Salman Rushdie | Midnight's Children | 100th |
| 151 | Louis Sachar | Holes | 83rd |
| 152 | Antoine De Saint-Exupery | The Little Prince | 180th |
| 153 | JD Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye | 15th |
| 154 | Ian Serraillier | The Silver Sword | 156th |
| 155 | Vikram Seth | A Suitable Boy | 55th |
| 156 | Anya Seton | Katherine | 95th |
| 157 | Anna Sewell | Black Beauty | 58th |
| 158 | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein | 171st |
| 159 | Nevil Shute | A Town Like Alice | 37th |
| 160 | Dodie Smith | I Capture The Castle | 82nd |
| 161 | Wilbur Smith | River God | 162nd |
| 162 | Johanna Spyri | Heidi | 189th |
| 163 | John Steinbeck | The Grapes Of Wrath | 29th |
| 164 | John Steinbeck | Of Mice And Men | 52nd |
| 165 | John Steinbeck | East Of Eden | 133rd |
| 166 | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | 36th |
| 167 | RL Stine | Goosebumps | 188th |
| 168 | Bram Stoker | Dracula | 104th |
| 169 | Patrick Süskind | Perfume | 71st |
| 170 | Donna Tartt | The Secret History | 76th |
| 171 | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | 122nd |
| 172 | JRR Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings | 1st |
| 173 | JRR Tolkien | The Hobbit | 25th |
| 174 | Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | 20th |
| 175 | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | 54th |
| 176 | Sue Townsend | The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13Ÿ | 112th |
| 177 | Robert Tressell | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists | 72nd |
| 178 | Terry Venables and Gordon Williams | They Used To Play On Grass | 172nd |
| 179 | Alice Walker | The Color Purple | 136th |
| 180 | Evelyn Waugh | Brideshead Revisited | 45th |
| 181 | H.G.Wells | The War Of The Worlds | 194th |
| 182 | Irvine Welsh | Trainspotting | 187th |
| 183 | EB White | Charlotte's Web | 170th |
| 184 | TH White | The Once And Future King | 198th |
| 185 | Oscar Wilde | The Picture Of Dorian Gray | 118th |
| 186 | Jacqueline Wilson | The Story Of Tracy Beaker | 31st |
| 187 | Jacqueline Wilson | Double Act | 80th |
| 188 | Jacqueline Wilson | Vicky Angel | 86th |
| 189 | Jacqueline Wilson | Girls In Love | 98th |
| 190 | Jacqueline Wilson | The Illustrated Mum | 110th |
| 191 | Jacqueline Wilson | The Dare Game | 116th |
| 192 | Jacqueline Wilson | Bad Girls | 117th |
| 193 | Jacqueline Wilson | Lola Rose | 121st |
| 194 | Jacqueline Wilson | Girls In Tears | 139th |
| 195 | Jacqueline Wilson | Sleepovers | 140th |
| 196 | Jacqueline Wilson | Secrets | 155th |
| 197 | Jacqueline Wilson | Girls Out Late | 167th |
| 198 | Jacqueline Wilson | Dustbin Baby | 176th |
| 199 | Jacqueline Wilson | The Suitcase Kid | 181st |
| 200 | John Wyndham | The Day Of The Triffids | 120th |