108 actually. I had a tied situation, 14 books with the same score. So, I either included all of them and go over 100, or none of them and go under. I chose over.
This has been a really interesting list to piece together, I’m thrilled with the range of titles we have. The diversity we have in our community is clear and there is a great variety of genres and a good mix of indie and trad published books.
The list has now been alphabetised by title; I am not publishing any more rankings. So, without further delay, presenting a Readers Top 100…
| Title | Author |
| 11/22/63 | Stephen King |
| 13 Hours | Deon Myer |
| A Darker Shade of Magic | Victoria Scwab |
| A God in Ruins | Kate Atkinson |
| A Little Life | Hanya Yanagihara |
| A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman |
| A Monster Calls | Patrick Ness |
| A Suitable Lie | Michael J Malone |
| All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Does |
| American Gods | Neil Gaiman |
| Anathem | Neil Stephenson |
| Anything is Possible | Elizabeth Strout |
| At Swim Two Boys | Jamie O’Neill |
| Atonement | Ian McEwan |
| Behind Her Eyes | Sarah Pinborough |
| Block 46 | Johanna Gustawson |
| Breakers | Doug Johnstone |
| Brilliant | Jane Brox |
| Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell |
| Conversations with Friends | Sally Rooney |
| Dark Matter | Blake Crouch |
| Dead I Well May Be | Adrian McKinty |
| Dead is Best | Jo Perry |
| Dead is Better | Jo Perry |
| Death of an Angel | Derek Farrell |
| Deep Freeze | John Sandford |
| Don’t Skip Out on Me | Willy Vlautin |
| Drive | James Sallis |
| Elanor Oliphant is Completely Fine | Gail Honeyman |
| Every Man a Menace | Patrick Hoffman |
| Final Girls | Riley Sager |
| Fingersmith | Sarah Walters |
| Follow You Home | Mark Edwards |
| Forsaken | JD Barker |
| Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn |
| Good Samaritans | Will Carver |
| Hard Revolution | George Pelecanos |
| He Kills Copper | Jake Arnott |
| Head Wounds | Dennis Palumbo |
| Himself | Jess Kidd |
| How To Be Brave | Louise Beech |
| I Remember You | Yrsa Sigurdardottir |
| In the Name of the Wind | Patrick Rothfuss |
| Last Seen in Massilia | Seteve Saylor |
| Let The Right One In | John Ajvide Lindqvist |
| Mortality | Christopher Hitchens |
| My Brothers Husband | Gengoroh Tagame |
| Nation | Terry Pratchett |
| Nemesis | Lindsey Davis |
| Never Let Me Go | Kazu Ishiguro |
| Nothing Important Happened Today | Will Carver |
| Noughts & Crosses | Malorie Blackman |
| One Day | David Nicholls |
| Ordinary Grace | William Kent Krueger |
| Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood |
| Reasons to Stay Alive | Matt Haig |
| Red Hands | Ariana D Den Blyker |
| Short Night of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis | Timothy Egan |
| Shutter Island | Dennis Lehane |
| Silence | Thomas Perry |
| Six Stories | Matt Wesolowski |
| Strange Practice | Vivian Shaw |
| Swansong | Kelligh Greenberg-Jephcott |
| Swing Time | Zadie Smith |
| The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | Michael Chabon |
| The Amber Fury | Natalie Haynes |
| The Book of Illusions | Paul Aster |
| The Carer | Deborah Moggach |
| The Children’s Book | A.S Byatt |
| The Cold Six Thousand | James Ellroy |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time | Mark Haddon |
| The Dark Tower | Stephen King |
| The Death House | Sarah Pinborough |
| The Fault in our Stars | John Green |
| The Fireman | Joe Hill |
| The Girls | Emma Kline |
| The Great Believers | Rebecca Makkai |
| The Host | Stephanie Meyer |
| The Ice Harvest | Scott Philips |
| The Illumination of Ursula Flight | Anna-Marie Crowhurst |
| The Institute | Stephen King |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| The Lingering | SJ Holliday |
| The Lingering | SJI Holliday |
| The Lion Tamer Who Lost | Louise Beech |
| The Long Suit | Philip Davidson |
| The Lunar Chronicle | Marissa Meyer |
| The Naked Chef | Jamie Oliver |
| The One | John Marrs |
| The Passengers | John Marrs |
| The Power of the Dog | Don Winslow |
| The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle | Stuart Turton |
| The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
| The Strange Case of the Alchemists Daughter | Theodora Goss |
| The Time Travellers Wife | Audrey Niffenegger |
| The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
| The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade | Thomas Lynch |
| The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox | Maggie O’Farrell |
| The Warehouse | Rob Hart |
| This is Memorial Device | David Keenan |
| Through the Language Glass | Guy Deutscher |
| Twisted | Steve Cavanagh |
| Under The Dome | Stepehn King |
| Underland | Robert MacFarlane |
| Violet | SJI Holliday |
| What the Wind Knows | Amy Harmon |
| Wolf Hall | Hillary Mantel |
| Women of the Otherworld | Kelley Armstrong |
Ah now if that is ‘Women Of The Other World’ by Kelley Armstrong that’s a sneaky move as that’s a series !
Love this more diverse list and its indie focus!
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