Top  100

These are my 100 favourite books. I wrote them down as they occurred to me, so the order is roughly best to worst. Your taste might not be exactly in line with mine, but I’m willing to bet that whoever you are, you’ll enjoy the hell out of most of these.

1. It – Stephen King
2. Drood – Dan Simmons
3. The Hobbit – J.R.R Tolkien
4. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – J.R.R Tolkien
5. Harry Potter 1 – 7 – J.K. Rowling
6. The Dark Tower series – Stephen King
7. Coraline – Neil Gaiman
8. Carrie – Stephen King
9. The Terror – Dan Simmons
10. Flashback – Dan Simmons
11. Tommyknockers – Stephen King
12. Needful Things – Stephen King
13. Killing Floor – Lee Child
14. Live by Night – Dennis Lehane
15. Shutter Island – Dennis Lehane
16. Mystic River – Dennis Lehane
17. The Heroes – Joe Abercrombie
18. First Law Trilogy – Joe Abercrombie
19. Game of Thrones series – George R.R. Martin
20. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stephenson
21. The Witches – Roald Dahl
22. Matilda – Roald Dahl
23. Danny the Champion of the World – Roald Dahl
24. The Silence of the Lambs – Robert Harris
25. The Great God Pan – Arthur Machen
26. The Ruins – Scott Smith
27. Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
28. Gates of Fire – Steven Pressfield
29. The Last Kingdom series – Bernard Cornwell
30. The Things They Carried – Tim O’ Brian
31. Let the Right One In – Joh Ajvide Lindqvist
32. Books of Blood – Clive Barker
33. Rum Diary – Hunter S. Thompson
34. Carrion Comfort – Dan Simmons
35. Requiem for a Dream – Hubert Selby Jnr.
36. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
37. The Beach – Alex Garland
38. Post Office – Charles Buckowski
39. A Time to Kill – John Grisham
40. Salem’s Lot – Stephen King
41. Pirate Latitudes – Michael Chrichton
42. Eaters of the Dead – Michael Chrichton
43. A Series of Unfortunate Events 1 -13
44. The Stand – Stephen King
45. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
46. Call of the Wild – Jack London
47. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
48. Animal Farm – George Orwell
49. 1984 – George Orwell
50. The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
51. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
52. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
53. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
54. The Hunger Games Trilogy – Suzanne Collins
55. Perfume – Patrick Suskind
56. Joyland – Stephen King
57. Audition – Ryu Murakami
58. American Gods – Neil Gaiman
59. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
60. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
61. She – H. Rider Haggard
62. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
63. The Life of Pi – Yann Martel
64. Dr. No – Ian Fleming
65. Artemis Fowl 1 – 3 – Eoin Colfer
66. When the Lion Feeds – Wilbur Smith
67. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
68. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
69. The Firm – John Grisham
70. Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
71. The Help – Katherine Stockett
72. Hearts in Atlantis – Stephen King
73. The Shining – Stephen King
74. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark – Alvin Shwartz and Stephen Gammell
75. Pet Sematary – Stephen King
76. The Eyes of the Dragon – Stephen King
77. Grimm’s Complete Fairytales – The Brothers Grimm
78. Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
79. Tomorrow, When the War Began series – John Marsden
80. NOS4R2 – Joe Hill
81. The Princess Bride – William Goldman
82. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
83. Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut
84. Marina – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
85. Best Served Cold – Joe Abercrombie
86. Red Country – Joe Abercrombie
87. Sharpe series 1 – 24 – Bernard Cornwell
88. The Woman – Jack Ketchum
89. I am Legend – Richard Matheson
90. The Thief of Always – Clive Barker
91. Abarat – Clive Barker
92. 20^th Century Ghosts – Joe Hill
93. Heart Shaped Box – Joe Hill
94. Ghost Story – Peter Straub
95. Rant – Chuck Palahniuk
96. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
97. Minority Report – Phillip K. Dick
98. Dune – Frank Herbert
99. Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein
100. Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury

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