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beginIn 1997 hield boekhandel Waterstone's via BBC's bookworm en Channel 4 een verkiezing voor de beste 100 boeken van de twintigste eeuw.
Hierbij de volledige lijst. Rode boeken heb ik gelezen. Rode boeken bevatten een link naar de recensie.
| Nummer | Auteur | Titel |
| 1 | JRR Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings |
| 2 | George Orwell | 1984 |
| 3 | George Orwell | Animal farm |
| 4 | James Joyce | Ulysses |
| 5 | Joseph Heller | Catch-22 |
| 6 | JD Salinger | The catcher in the rye |
| 7 | Harper Lee | To kill a mockingbird |
| 8 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 100 years of solitude |
| 9 | John Steinbeck | The grapes of wrath |
| 10 | Irvine Welsh | Trainspotting |
| 11 | Jung Chang | Wild swans |
| 12 | F Scott Fitzgerald | The great Gatsby |
| 13 | William Golding | Lord of the flies |
| 14 | Jack Kerouac | On the road |
| 15 | Aldous Huxley | Brave new world |
| 16 | Kenneth Grahame | The wind in the willows |
| 17 | AA Milne | Winnie-The-Pooh |
| 18 | Alica Walker | The color purple |
| 19 | JRR Tolkien | The hobbit |
| 20 | Albert Camus | The outsider |
| 21 | CS Lewis | The lion, the witch and the wardrobe |
| 22 | Franz Kafka | The trial |
| 23 | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the wind |
| 24 | Douglas Adams | The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy |
| 25 | Salman Rushdie | Midnight's children |
| 26 | Anne Frank | The diary of Anne Frank |
| 27 | Anthony Burgess | A Clockwork orange |
| 28 | DH Lawrence | Sons and lovers |
| 29 | Virginia Woolf | To the lighthouse |
| 30 | Primo Levi | If this is a man |
| 31 | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita |
| 32 | Iain Banks | The wasp factory |
| 33 | Marcel Proust | Remembrance of things past |
| 34 | Roald Dahl | Charlie and the chocolate factory |
| 35 | John Steinbeck | Of mice and men |
| 36 | Toni Morrison | Beloved |
| 37 | AS Byatt | Possession |
| 38 | Joseph Conrad | Heart of darkness |
| 39 | EM Forster | A passage to India |
| 40 | Richard Adams | Watership down |
| 41 | Jostein Gaarder | Sophie's world |
| 42 | Umberto Eco | The name of the rose |
| 43 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Love in the time of cholera |
| 44 | Daphne du Maurier | Rebecca |
| 45 | Kazuo Ishiguro | The remains of the day |
| 46 | Milan Kundera | The unbearable lightness of being |
| 47 | Sebastian Faulks | Birdsong |
| 48 | EM Forster | Howard's end |
| 49 | Evelyn Waugh | Brideshead revisited |
| 50 | Vikram Seth | A suitable boy |
| 51 | Frank Herbert | Dune |
| 52 | John Irving | A prayer for Owen Meany |
| 53 | Patrick Suskind | Perfume |
| 54 | Boris Pasternak | Doctor Zhivago |
| 55 | Mervyn Peake | Gormenghast Trilogy |
| 56 | Laurie Lee | Cider with Rosie |
| 57 | Sylvia Plath | The bell jar |
| 58 | Margaret Atwood | The handmaid's tale |
| 59 | Vera Brittain | Testament of youth |
| 60 | John Fowles | The magus |
| 61 | Graham Greene | Brighton Rock |
| 62 | Robert Tressell | The ragged-trousered philantropists |
| 63 | Mikhail Bulgakov | The master and Margarita |
| 64 | Armistead Maupin | Tales of the city |
| 65 | John Fowles | The French lieutenant's woman |
| 66 | Louis de Bernières | Captain Corelli's mandolin |
| 67 | Kurt Vonnegut | Slaughterhouse 5 |
| 68 | Robert Pirsig | Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance |
| 69 | EM Forster | A room with a view |
| 70 | Kingsley Amis | Lucky Jim |
| 71 | Stephen King | It |
| 72 | Graham Greene | The power and the glory |
| 73 | Stephen King | The stand |
| 74 | Erich Maria Remarque | All quiet on the Western front |
| 75 | Roddy Doyle | Paddy Clarke ha ha ha |
| 76 | Roald Dahl | Matilda |
| 77 | Brett Easton Ellis | American psycho |
| 78 | Hunter S Thompson | Fear and loathing in Las Vegas |
| 79 | Stephen Hawking | A brief history of time |
| 80 | Roald Dahl | James and the giant peach |
| 81 | DH Lawrence | Lady Chatterley's lover |
| 82 | Tom Wolfe | The bonfire of vanities |
| 83 | Delia Smith | Complete cookery course |
| 84 | Brian Keenan | An evil cradling |
| 85 | DH Lawrence | The rainbow |
| 86 | George Orwell | Down and out in Paris and London |
| 87 | Arthur C Clarke | 2001 - A space odyssey |
| 88 | Gunter Grass | The tin drum |
| 89 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich |
| 90 | Nelson Mandela | A long walk to freedom |
| 91 | Richard Dawkins | The selfish gene |
| 92 | Michael Crichton | Jurassic Park |
| 93 | Lawrence Durrell | The Alexandria quartet |
| 94 | Alan Paton | Cry the beloved country |
| 95 | Nick Hornby | High fidelity |
| 96 | Roddy Doyle | The van |
| 97 | Roald Dahl | The BFG |
| 98 | Anthony Burgess | Earthly powers |
| 99 | Robert Graves | I, Claudius |
100 |
Nicholas Evans | The horse whisperer |
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