The Top 100 Books of the Millennium
Note: a number in parentheses following the book indicates the number of votes
that were received by the work. And before you ask, we said you couldn’t
include the Bible, because that was a no-brainer, obvious inclusion — hence
why it doesn’t have multiple votes. Also, even though this is called the Top
100 Books of the Millennium, you’ll see a number of books written more than 1,000 years ago: getting the Realists to color within the lines is like
herding cats.
Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien (4)
Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan (3)
Paradise Lost John Milton (2)
Hamlet Wm. Shakespeare (2)
Beowulf (2)
Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens (2)
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens (2)
Institutes of the Christian Religion John Calvin (2)
War and Peace Lev Tolstoi (2)
Confessions St. Augustine (2)
The Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis (4)
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee (2)
Charlotte’s Web E.B. White (2)
Life and Death in Shanghai Nien Cheng
Exodus Leon Uris
The Snow Goose Paul Gallico
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Animal Farm George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein
The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck
Lord of the Flies William Golding
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt
O Pioneers! Willa Cather
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle
1984 George Orwell
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
Dune Frank Herbert
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Trinity Leon Uris
The Story of Civilization Will and Ariel Durant
Traveling Mercies Anne Lamott
Dumbing Us Down John Gatto
The Divine ComedyDante
Collected Poems of TS Eliot
Collected Works of Wm. Blake
Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Emma Jane Austen
My Sister–Life Boris Pasternak
Works Thomas Malory
Dr. Faustus Kit Marlowe
The Holy Sonnets John Donne
Brothers Karamozov Fyodr Dostoyevski
Short Stories of Mark Twain
On Rhetoric Aristotle
Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges
Possession AS Byatt
The Man Born to Be King Dorothy L. Sayers
The Bondage of the Will Luther
Pride and Prejudice Austen
The Westminster Confession of Faith
The Age of Innocence Wharton
The Odyssey Homer
The Iliad Homer
Mother Goose Tales Perrault
Antigone Sophocles
Madame Bovary Flaubert
Therese Mauriac
A Journal of the Plague Year Defoe
Georgics Virgil
The House of the Dead Dostoyevsky
Kidnapped Stevenson
The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
Far From the Madding Crowd Hardy
The Undertaking: Life Studies From the Dismal Trade Thomas Lynch
Death Of A Salesman Arthur Miller
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
The Pendragon Catherine Christian
The Dark Knight ReturnsFrank Miller
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
Surprised By Joy C.S. Lewis
On the Road Jack Kerouac
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs Judi Barrett
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales W.B. Yeats
A Wrinkle in Time Madeline L’Engle
Lust For Life Irving Stone
The Song of Albion Stephen Lawhead
Amnesia, or The Devil at Large Henry Miller
Macbeth Shakespeare
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Bless the Beasts and Children Glendon Swarthout
My Father’s Dragon Ruth Stiles Gannet
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
A Separate Peace John Knowles
Stories Edgar Allan Poe
Cannery Row John Steinbeck
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Bible
Little House on the Prarie Laura Ingles Wilder
The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
Homecoming Cynthia Voigt
The Butter Battle Book Dr. Seuss
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
Chester the Worldly Pig Bill Peet
Hatchet Gary Paulsen