I note that the Bible did not make the Top Ten and was beaten by Harry Potter and the Da Vinci Code. The Bible only just beat The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

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101 Best Books Ever Published

Australian bookseller Dymocks has come up with a list of the 101 best books ever published, according to Australian readers.

More than 15,000 people took part in the online survey and some of the results were pretty surprising.

Proving you can’t beat the classics, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice topped the list, with classics accounting for a third of the 101 titles.

The survey also found that Bryce Courtenay is Australia’s most popular author.

Here is the list in full:

1.. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

2.. The Lord of the Rings Series – J.R.R. Tolkien

3.. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

4.. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

5.. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

6.. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien

7.. Harry Potter Series – J.K. Rowling

8.. The Power of One – Bryce Courtenay

9.. Magician – Raymond E. Feist

10.. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

11.. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger

12.. Cloudstreet – Tim Winton

13.. Cross Stitch – Diana Gabaldon

14.. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

15.. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

16.. Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom

17.. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

18.. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

19.. Mao’s Last Dancer – Li Cunxin

20.. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

21.. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

22.. The Bronze Horseman – Paullina Simons

23.. The Bible

24.. Eragon – Christopher Paolini

25.. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

26.. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Series – Douglas Adams

27.. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

28.. Tomorrow, When the War Began – John Marsden

29.. Ice Station – Matthew Reilly

30.. Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery

31.. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy

32.. The Life of Pi – Yann Martel

33.. Perfume – Patrick Suskind

34.. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

35.. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

36.. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

37.. Twilight – Stephanie Meyer

38.. Angels and Demons – Dan Brown

39.. The Pact – Jodi Picoult

40.. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

41.. Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt

42.. April Fools Day – Bryce Courtenay

43.. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Dernieres

44.. Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett

45.. Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts

46.. The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis

47.. Tully – Paullina Simons

48.. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

49.. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

50.. A Fortunate Life – A. B. Facey

51.. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

52.. River God – Wilbur Smith

53.. Wild Swans – Jung Chang

54.. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

55.. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

56.. The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley

57.. Persuasion – Jane Austen

58.. The Shipping News – Annie Proulx

59.. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

60.. Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

61.. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

62.. Possession – A.S. Byatt

63.. We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver

64.. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

65.. My Family and Other Animals – Gerald Durrell

66.. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

67.. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

68.. Dune – Frank Herbert

69.. Emma – Jane Austen

70.. Marley and Me – John Grogan

71.. Middlemarch – George Eliot

72.. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

73.. The Count of Monte Christo – Alexandre Dumas

74.. The Secret history – Donna Tartt

75.. Chocolat – Joanne Harris

76.. Dirt Music – Tim Winton

77.. Looking for Alibrandi – Melina Marchetta

78.. My Brilliant Career – Miles Franklin

79.. The Ancient Future – Traci Harding

80.. Belgariad Series – David Eddings

81.. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje

82.. The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde

83.. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

84.. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

85.. The Stand – Stephen King

86.. It – Stephen King

87.. Northern Lights – Nora Roberts

88.. The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank

89.. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards

90.. The Outsider – Albert Camus

91.. The Riders – Tim Winton

92.. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

93.. Across the Nightingale Floor – Lian Hearn

94.. Atonement – Ian McEwan

95.. Circle of Friends – Maeve Binchy

96.. Seven Ancient Wonders – Matthew Reilly

97.. Tess of the D’Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy

98.. The Godfather – Mario Puzo

99.. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

100.. The Other Boleyn Girl – Philippa Gregory

101.. The Red Tent – Anita Diamant

from http://www2.skynews.com.au/books/features/101bestbooks_010308.aspx