Whitcoulls Top 100 Books List 2010 for Readers

Whitcoulls Bookshop have recently announced a new Whitcoulls Top 100 Books List for 2010 as voted by New Zealand readers. This year has some surprises in store with some additions, some omissions and a change to the number 1 position after some years.

What a surprise to see the Lord of the Rings Trilogy toppled after 12 years in the number 1 slot on the list. To add insult to injury Tolkein's 'Lord of the Rings' Trilogy has been relegated to sixth place. While Stephanie Meyer's Twilight saga has assumed second spot and Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveller's Wife has leapt from 14th place to third.

Fortunately the new series by Steig Larsson The Millenium Trilogy which begins with the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo followed by Girl Who Played With Fire and ends with the Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is a worthy replacement to LOTR.

Surprisingly some very popular books dropped off this latest Whitcoulls Top 100 books list. Two bestsellers in this category are: The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx.

Meanwhile best loved classics like Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre all still ranked on the list (at 7th, 53rd and 72nd place respectively).

More modern classics are also holding their own as can be seen by Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird at #9 and J D Salinger’s Catcher In The Rye at #59.

More recent best books such as Jung Chang’s Wild Swans at #58 and Sebastian Faulks Birdsong at #68 remain popular. The same goes for The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold at #10, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hollows by J K Rowling at #11, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown at #14 and Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt at #56.

The complete list of Whitcoulls Top 100 books for 2010 is as follows:

1. The Millennium Series - Stieg Larsson
2. The Twilight series - Stephanie Meyer
3. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
4. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
5. Outlander Series - Diana Gabaldon
6. The Lord of the Rings - J R R Tolkien
7. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
8. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
9. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
10. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold












11. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows - J.K. Rowling
12. The Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons
13. Jamie Does Spain series - Jamie Oliver
14. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
15. The Passage - Justin Cronin
16. 61 Hours - Lee Child
17. The Genesis Plague - Michael Byrnes
18. Open: An Autobiography - André Agassi
19. The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien
20. The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay


















21. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
22. To Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
23. Holy Bible
24. The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
25. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
26. Magician - Raymond E. Feist
27. Ordinary Thunderstorms - William Boyd
28. The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel
29. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
30. Little Vampire Women - Lynn Messina












31. The Brethren - John Grisham
32. The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
33. Into the Wilderness - Sara Donati
34. Mao's Last Dancer - Cunxin Li
35. No Logo - Naomi Klein
36. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
37. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
38. The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
39. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
40. Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult












41. Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
42. As the Earth Turns Silver - Alison Wong
43. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
44. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
45. Moonfleet: A Classic Tale of Smuggling - Rob Lloyd Jones
46. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling
47. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
48. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
49. Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
50. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards












51. Tour de Lance - Bill Strickland
52. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
53. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
54. The 9th Judgment - James Patterson
55. River God - Wilbur Smith
56. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
57. Jessica - Bryce Courtenay
58. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China - Jung Chang
59. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
60. The Collaborator - Gerald Seymour












61. Dune - Frank Herbert
62. Recipe for Life - Nicky Pellegrino
63. The Tea Rose - Jennifer Donnelly
64. Tomorrow, When the War Began - John Marsden
65. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
66. Rachel's Holiday - Marian Keyes
67. The Girl in Times Square - Paullina Simons
68. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
69. Chocolat - Joanne Harris
70. The Search - Nora Roberts












71. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
72. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
73. Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
74. World Without End - Ken Follett
75. Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
76. Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead
77. The Pact - Jodi Picoult
78. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J. K. Rowling
79. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
80. The Host: A Novel - Stephenie Meyer












81. I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
82. Killing Floor - Lee Child
83. April Fool's Day - Bryce Courtenay
84. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
85. Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
86. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling
87. The Bohemian Girl - Kenneth Cameron
88. Eragon - Christopher Paolini
89. A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend - Emily Horner
90. Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert












91. Atonement - Ian McEwan
92. The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles - Hala Jaber
93. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer
94. The Stand - Stephen King
95. Tully - Paullina Simons
96. This Charming Man - Marian Keyes
97. We Need to Talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver
98. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernières
99. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Süskind
100. House Rules - Jodi Picoult

If you wish to purchase any of the books mentioned online you can do so at Whitcoulls of course, Fishpond, The Book Depository or Amazon. Hope you enjoyed this list of Whitcoulls Top 100 Books for 2010.


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