Whitcoulls Top 100 for 2008

[eleneariel]

I stole this list from kiwiria . :)

I've bolded the ones I've read, struckthrough the ones I didn't like, and italizised ones know I would like to read .

What I want to know, though, is what is the list and who draws it up? And why did so many Picoult books get on it? *confusion*


1) Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
2) My Sisters Keeper - Jodi Picoult
3) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
4) Cross Stitch/Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
5) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
6) The Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons
7) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
8) The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
9) The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
10) The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
11) The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
12) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
13) The Kite Runner - Khalod Hosseini
14) The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
15) The Bible
16) The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
17) The Magician - Raymond E. Feist
18) The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel
19) Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult
20) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
21) Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
22) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
23) The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
24) Into the Wilderness - Sara Donati
25) A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
26) The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
27) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
28) Jessica - Bryce Courtenay
29) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
30) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling
31) Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
32) A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
33) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
34) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
35) Rachel's Holiday - Marian Keyes
36) The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
37) Santaram - Gregory David Roberts
38) Pact - Jodi Picoult
39) The Tea Rose - Jennifer Donnelly
40) Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult
41) Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
42) Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
43) The Girl in Times Square - Paullina Simons
44) Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
45) This Charming Man - Marian Keyes
46) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
47) The River God - Wilbur Smith
48) The Persimmon Tree - Bryce Courtenay
49) World Without End - Ken Follett
50) Dune - Frank Herbert
51) Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China - Jung Chang
52) April Fool's Day - Bryce Courtenay
53) Atonement - Ian McEwan
54) The Bone Garden - Tess Gerritsen
55) The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
56) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
57) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
58) Sushi for Beginners - Marian Keyes
59) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
60) The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
61) I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb
62) Eragon - Christopher Paolini
63) Tomorrow, When the War Began - John Marsden
64) Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
65) Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
66) Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
67) Tully - Paullina Simons
68) Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
69) No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander Smith McCall
70) Watermelon - Marian Keyes
71) We Need to Talk about Kevin - Liones Shriver
72) Anybody Out There? - Marian Keyes
73) Chocolat - Joanne Harris
74) The Winter Rose - Jennifer Donnelly
75) The Denniston Rose - Jenny Pattrick
76) Killing Floor - Lee Child
77) A Really Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
78) Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
79) Nothing to Lose - Lee Child
80) Secret - Rhonda Byrne
81) The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
82) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
83) The Stand - Stephen King
84) Edmonds Cookery Book - Edmonds
85) The Potato Factory - Bryce Courtenay
86) Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married - Marian Keyes
87) The Vintner's Luck - Elizabeth Knox
88) The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
89) Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
90) The Penguin History of New Zealand - Michael King
91) London - Edward Rutherfurd
92) The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
93) Shipping News - Annie E. Proulx
94) Four Fires - Bryce Courtenay
95) Mao's Last Dancer - Li Gunxin
96) Last Chance Saloon - Marian Keyes
97) Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult
98) Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Suskind
99) The Thorn Birds - COlleen McCullough
100) The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks