(this list was voted on by readers over the internet. All selections have a minimum of 200 votes with the number one selection getting 5000)

1. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
2. DUNE by Frank Herbert
3. UNCLE FRED IN THE SPRINGTIME by P.G. WODEHOUSE
4. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
5. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien 6. A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by John Kennedy Toole 7. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
8. GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thoman Pynchon
9. ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
10. THE STAND by Stephen King
11. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
12. THE PRINCE OF TIDES by Pat Conroy
13. ULYSSES by James Joyce
14. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
15. ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
16. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
17. THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
18. DOG OF THE SOUTH by Charles Portis
19. THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
20. A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeleine L'Engle
21. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
22. AND TRAIL MIX RAINED FROM THE SKY by Philip Travisano
23. BELOVED by Toni Morrison
24. TRADER by Charles De Lint
25. THE ROAD AND THE HILLS by Alison Spedding
26. WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
27. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
28. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
29. PRIVATE PARTS by Howard Stern
30. WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor
31. 1984 by George Orwell
32. LOLITA by Vladimir Nobokov
33. MOONHEART by Charles De Lint
34. WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
35. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
36. THE SOURCE by James Michener
37. YARROW by Charles De Lint
38. VALIS by Philip K. Dick
39. BEACU MUSIC by Pat Conroy
40. FINNEGAN'S WAKE by James Joyce
41. FLETCH by Gregory MacDonald
42. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
43. NORWOOD by Charles Portis
44. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
45. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
46. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
47. LONESOME DOVE by Larry McMurtry
48. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
49. GAUDY NIGHT by Dorothy L. Sayers
50. SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles De Lint
51. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
52. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
53. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
54. BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
55. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
56. I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME by Margaret Craven
57. WHITE NOISE by Don Delillo
58. NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
59. UNCLE FRED IN THE SPRINGTIME by P.G. Wodehouse
60. FLASHMAN by George MacDonald Fraser
61. THE GATES by Chuck Wachtel
62. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner
63. TEK LORDS by William Shatner
64. THE KILLER ANGELS by Michael Shaara
65. BRIDGE OF BIRDS by Barry Hughart
66. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
67. THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston
68. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
69. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
70. THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS by Ursula K. Le Guin
71. FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
72. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
73. NINETY-THREE by Victor Hugo
74. CAT'S CRADLE by Kurt Vonnegut
75. THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
76. OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck
77. PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nobokov
78. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
79. THE COLOR PURPLE by Alice Walker
80. INSOMNIA by Stephen King
81. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
82. MRS. DALLOWAY by Virginia Woolf
83. GEEK LOVE by Katherine Dunn
84. HOWARD'S END by E.M. Forster
85. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
86. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
87. SONG OF SOLOMON by Toni Morrison
88. ALL THE PRETTY HORSES by Cormac McCarthy
89. BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES by Tom Wolfe
90. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
91. THE BIG SLEEP by Raymond Chandler
92. THE SHINING by Stephen King
93. UNDERWORLD by Don Delillo
94. THE REMAINS OF THE DAY by Kazuo Ishiguru
95. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
96. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
97. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
98. MISERY by Stephen King
99. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
100. DANDELION WINE by Ray Bradbury