Top 100 Books, As Chosen By Canadians

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About this list

The Gazette(Newspaper), 98 Books

This list is from a newspaper poll of readers from The Gazette in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Who voted?
Readers. They do not specify a count. I am conservatively going to guess 50 people

This list was originally published in 2005 and was added to this site almost 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
1074 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 2003 American English
13 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813 British English
16 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 American English
58 Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1936 American English
17 The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1959 English English
250 Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery 1908 Canadian English
842 Outlander Diana Gabaldon 1991 American English
549 A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry 1995 Indian English
1842 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling 2000 British English
4755 Angels And Demons Dan Brown 2000 American English
1910 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling 2003 British English
524 A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving 1989 American English
2026 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden 1997 American English
236 Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling 1997 British English
2474 Fall On Your Knees Ann-Marie MacDonald 1996 Canadian English
274 The Stand Stephen King 1978 American English
1017 Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban J. K. Rowling 1999 British English
29 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 1847 British English
146 The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien 1937 British English
4 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951 American English
93 Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1868 American English
1693 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold 2002 American English
1142 Life of Pi Yann Martel 2001 Canadian English
190 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 1979 British English
15 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847 British English
381 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis 1950 British English
193 East of Eden John Steinbeck 1952 American English
2973 Tuesdays With Morrie Mitch Albom 1997 American English
100 Dune Frank Herbert 1965 American English
2011 The Notebook Nicholas Sparks 1996 American English
461 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand 1957 American English
6 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 1949 British English
1395 The Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley 1983 American English
588 The Pillars Of The Earth Ken Follett 1989 British English
2371 The Power of One Bryce Courtenay 1989 Australian English
9990 I Know This Much Is True Wally Lamb 1998 American English
9860 The Red Tent Anita Diamant 1997 American English
389 The Alchemist Paulo Coelho 1988 Brazilian Portuguese
2159 The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel 1980 American English
892 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini 2003 Afghan English
10094 Confessions Of A Shopaholic Sophie Kinsella 2000 British English
10641 The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Albom 2003 American English
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
10 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1877 Russian Russian
87 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
1643 Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt 1996 American English
26 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939 American English
10437 She's Come Undone Wally Lamb 1992 American English
878 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver 1998 American English
188 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1859 British English
2606 Ender's Game Orson Scott Card 1985 American English
38 Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1860 British English
3 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 American English
2840 The Stone Angel Margaret Laurence 1964 Canadian English
2145 Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets J. K. Rowling 1998 British English
765 The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough 1977 Australian English
132 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood 1985 Canadian English
1675 The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger 2003 American English
11 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 Russian Russian
434 The Fountainhead Ayn Rand 1943 American English
12 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869 Russian Russian
661 Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice 1976 American English
1571 Fifth Business Robertson Davies 1970 Canadian English
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombian Spanish
6568 The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants Ann Brashares 2001 American English
33 Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961 American English
40 Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1862 French French
44 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 French French
641 Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding 1996 British English
166 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez 1985 Colombian Spanish
1645 Shogun James Clavell 1975 British English
644 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje 1992 Canadian English
814 The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 1911 British English
3442 The Summer Tree Guy Gavriel Kay 1984 Canadian English
244 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith 1943 American English
407 The World According to Garp John Irving 1978 American English
1904 The Diviners Margaret Laurence 1974 Canadian English
102 Charlotte's Web E. B. White 1952 American English
9684 Not Wanted On The Voyage Timothy Findley 1984 Canadian English
170 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 1937 American English
59 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier 1938 British English
8330 Wizard's First Rule Terry Goodkind 1994 American English
83 Emma Jane Austen 1815 British English
224 Watership Down Richard Adams 1972 British English
50 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
1697 The Stone Diaries Carol Shields 1993 Canadian English
994 Blindness José Saramago 1995 Portuguese Portuguese
2967 Kane and Abel Jeffrey Archer 1979 British English
4287 In The Skin Of A Lion Michael Ondaatje 1987 Canadian English
52 Lord of the Flies William Golding 1954 British English
281 The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck 1931 American English
8303 The Secret Life Of Bees Sue Monk Kidd 2001 American English
1500 The Bourne Identity Robert Ludlum 1980 American English
779 The Outsiders S. E. Hinton 1967 American English
11333 White Oleander Fitch, Janet 1999 American English
10801 A Woman Of Substance Barbara Taylor Bradford 1979 British English
4195 The Celestine Prophecy James Redfield 1993 American English
1 Ulysses James Joyce 1922 Irish English