Mighty Ape Best Books Ever Written (so far). Win Your Height in Books - Winner announced!
By Stacey –
Wow! We had thousands of votes to find the best books! Thanks to everyone who voted and entered the competition to ‘Win Your Height in Books’.
The votes have been counted and we can now announce the lucky winner: Zoe S. from Auckland.
Congratulations Zoe, we have contacted you and will be sending out your prize very soon.
A big thanks to the following awesome publishers who sponsored the
prize.
Hachette, Allen &
Unwin, Harper Collins, Potton & Burton, Walker Books
and Gecko Press
Fantasy writers dominated the list this year, with the genre taking 8 out of the top 10 spots.
Here's the top 100 Best Books Ever Written (so far) as voted for by you:
1] Harry
Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
2] The
Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
3] A Song
of Ice and Fire Series (Game of Thrones) George R. R. Martin
4] To
Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5] The
Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
6] Outlander
Series by Diana Gabaldon
7] Pride
& Prejudice by Jane Austen
8] The
Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
9] The
Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
10] Discworld
Terry Pratchett
11] The
Bible
12] The
Magician by Raymond E Feist
13] The
Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
14] The Hitch
Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
15] The
Book Thief by Markus Zusak
16] The
Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth
17] Dune by
Frank Herbert
18] The
Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss
19] The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
20] The
Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
21] Fifty
Shades of Grey by E. L. James
22] The
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
23] Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
24] Tomorrow,
When the War Began by John Marsden
25] Inheritance
Cycle by Christopher Paolini
26] The
Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
27] The
Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
28] Catch-22 by
Joesph Heller
29] The
Stand by Stephen King
30] The
Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
31] Gone
With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
32] The
Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
33] The
Great Gatsby by Scott F Fitzgerald
34] The
Fault in our Stars
35] The
Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
36] Wheel of
Time Series by Robert Jordan
37] His
Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
38] The
Dark Tower by Stephen King
39] Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory
40] War and
Peace by Leo Tolstoy
41] Gone
Girl by Gillian Flynn
42] Alice
in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
43] Percy
Jackson Series by Rick Riordan
44] Where
the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
45] Twilight
by Stephanie Meyer
46] Ready
Player One by Ernest Cline
47] My
Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
48] It by
Stephen King
49] The
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
50] The
Belgariad by David Eddings
51] Jack Reacher
Series by Lee Child
52] The
Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
53] Dragonriders
of Pern by Anne McCaffery
54] The
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
55] American
Gods by Neil Gaiman
56] Hairy
Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley Dodd
57] Good
Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
58] The
Shining by Stephen King
59] The
Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
60] Skulduggery
Pleasant by Derek Landy
61] Little
Women by Louise May Ascott
62] BFG by
Roald Dahl
63] Anne
of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
64] The
Secret History by Donna Tartt
65] The
Maz Runner Series by James Dashner
66] The
Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
67] The Bronze
Horseman by Paullina Simons
68] River
God by Wilbur Smith
69] Lord
of the Flies by William Golding
70] The
Martian by Andy Weir
71] Looking
for Alaska by John Green
72] Jane
Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
73] Infernal
Devices Series by Cassandra Clare
74] Green
Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
75] Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
76] Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
77] Dracula
by Bram Stoker
78] The
Princess Bride by William Goldman
79] The
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
80] Moby
Dick by Herman Melville
81] Matilda
by Roald Dahl
82] Life
of Pi by Yann Martel
83] The
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
84] Animal
Farm by George Orwell
85] Wizard's First
Rule by Terry Goodkind
86] Throne of
Glass by Sarah J. Maas
87] One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
88] Wuthering
Heights by Emily Bronte
89] The
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
90] The
Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
91] The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
92] Ranger's Apprentice
by John Flanagan
93] Paper
Towns by John Green
94] The
Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare
95] Memoirs
of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
96] Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
97] Ice
Station by Mathew Riley
98] Fight
Club by Chuck Palahniuk
99] Deltora
Quest by Emily Rodda
100] Atonement
by Ian McEwan
Enjoy browsing the Best Books for 2015 as voted by our customers. If you don't see your favourite book on here be sure to watch out for our next Best Books competition.
– From the Book Gorilla
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