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101 Books to Read Before You Die
The creation of the novel has unlocked a world as extra-ordinary as the millions of hearts and minds that have shaped it. To celebrate, Exclusive Books unveiled the Exclusive Books 101 Books To Read Before You Die list at the 2007 Cape Town Book Fair. The books that made the list are the books you’ve read, and re-read, books which define eras, created friends instead of characters, entertained generations and have become legends of literature.
Selecting the 101 Books To Read Before You Die was no simple task. That’s why we consulted the experts. You. Exclusive Books Fanatics members across South Africa were given the opportunity to vote for their 10 favourite fiction titles from any time in their life. The nomination period lasted for two weeks and we received over 35000 votes!
Congratulations to the Fanatics members who won our fantastic prizes in the lucky draw from the votes received:
Mia von Scha (Johannesburg): 1st Prize: A luxurious weekend for two to the Cape Town Book Fair.
Tracy Swart (East London): 2nd Prize: All titles from the Exclusive Books "101 Books to Read Before You Die" list.
Nina Frank (Johannesburg): 3rd Prize: Her choice of 50 titles from the Exclusive Books "101 Books to Read Before You Die" list.
The 101 best novels of all time, as voted for by Exclusive Books customers:
- The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- The Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
- The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
- Spud - John van de Ruit
- The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
- The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
- Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee
- My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
- The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
- Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
- The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
- Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
- A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
- Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
- War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
- The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- Possession - A. S. Byatt
- Perfume - Patrick Suskind
- The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
- Chocolat - Joanne Harris
- The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
- Q & A - Vikas Swarup
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
- Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
- River God - Wilbur Smith
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
- Mort - Terry Pratchett
- Crime and Punishment - Feodor Dostoyevsky
- The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
- East of Eden - John Steinbeck
- The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
- The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
- The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy
- Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
- Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
- The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
- Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- Magician - Raymond E Feist
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
- We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
- The Magus - John Fowles
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Agaat - Marlene van Niekerk
- The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher
- The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
- The Beach House - James Patterson
- Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
- Kringe in 'n Bos - Dalene Matthee
- The World according to Garp - John Irving
- Northen Lights - Phillip Pullman
- Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
- Shades - Marguerite Poland
- Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
- Fiela se kind - Dalene Matthee
- Story of an African Farm - Olive Schreiner
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
- The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
- Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
- Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne
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