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Whitcoulls Top 100 Books List for 2013-2014 - New Zealand's Best Reads

The Whitcoulls Top 100 Books List for 2013-2014 has been released. Every year Whitcoulls surveys New Zealand readers for their best books picks for the year and publishes these in the Whitcoulls Top 100 Books list. If you are a reader you will definitely want to check out what Kiwis have voted for in 2013-2014 list.

Whitcoulls Top 100 Books List 2013-2014
There was not much reshuffling of the top places this year. The Millennium series by Stieg Larsson held onto the number one spot for the second year in a row with the hugely popular Game of Thrones series by George R R Martin a close second. The timeless modern classic The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien took out the third position. A surprise newcomer to the Whitcoulls Top 100 list is The Fault in Our Stars by John Green which rocketed to 7th place on the list.

Novels by both Jodi Picoult and Paullina Simons proved extremely popular with voters this year. Jodi Picoult was New Zealand readers most popular author with five entries featuring on the list including My Sister's Keeper, The Storyteller, Lone Wolf, The Pact and House Rules. Likewise popular novels by Paullina Simons including The Bronze Horseman, Tully, and The Girl in Times Square were selected by readers as favourites.

Other popular writers with more than one entry on this year's Whitcoulls Top 100 list were Bryce Courtenay, Lee Child, Dan Brown, Ken Follett and Khaled Hosseini.

Series in general appear to be proving popular with New Zealand readers. Sagas such as Sara Donati's Wilderness series, Diana Gabaldon's Cross Stitch / Outlander series and Jean M Auel's Clan of the Cavebear / Earth's Children series have all garnered positions in the top 40 books.

Teen fiction series appear to be just as popular with adult readers: Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games, J K Rowling's Harry Potter series and Veronica Roth's Divergent series all feature prominently on the list.

jodi picoult books feature on whitcoulls top 100


Classics by Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice and Persausion along with the works of the Bronte sisters Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre continue to hold their appeal with readers.

Biography appears to be proving another firm favourite with readers: Wild Swans by Jung Chang, Open by Andre Agassi, April Fool's Day by Bryce Courtenay and Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt all appear on the Top 100 books list.

The complete list of Whitcoulls Top 100 books for 2013-2014 is as follows:
  1. The Millennium Series - Stieg Larsson
  2. A Song of Fire and Ice Series - George R R Martin
  3. The Lord of the Rings - J R R Tolkien
  4. The Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
  5. The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien
  6. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  7. The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
  8. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
  9. Cross Stitch - Diana Gabaldon
  10. The Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons

  11. The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion
  12. To Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
  13. The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
  14. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
  15. The Harry Potter Series - J K Rowling
  16. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
  17. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  18. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
  19. Inferno - Dan Brown
  20. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

  21. The Fifty Shades of Grey Series - E L James
  22. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
  23. The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
  24. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
  25. The Bible
  26. The Tea Rose - Jennifer Donnelly
  27. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
  28. The Spark - Christine Bennett
  29. Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
  30. Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts

  31. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
  32. The Storyteller - Jodi Picoult
  33. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  34. The Earth's Children series - Jean M Auel
  35. Magician - Raymond Feist
  36. The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
  37. Into the Wilderness - Sara Donati
  38. The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
  39. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
  40. I'm Your Man - Sylvie Simmonds

  41. The Passage - Justin Cronin
  42. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
  43. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  44. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
  45. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
  46. The Guersey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Barrows
  47. Belle -Lesley Pearse
  48. Open - Andre Agassi
  49. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
  50. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

  51. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
  52. The Pact - Jodi Picoult
  53. Jessica - Bryce Courtenay
  54. Room - Emma Donoghue
  55. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  56. 1984 - George Orwell
  57. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  58. The Stand - Stephen King
  59. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
  60. River God - Wilbur Smith

  61. April Fool's Day - Bryce Courtenay
  62. The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
  63. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
  64. Wild Swans - Jung Chang
  65. Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
  66. Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
  67. I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
  68. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
  69. The Killing Floor - Lee Child
  70. Captain Correli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres

  71. Divergent - Veronica Roth
  72. Rachel's Holiday - Marian Keyes
  73. Tully - Paullina Simons
  74. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
  75. Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin
  76. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
  77. The Potato Factory - Bryce Courtenay
  78. One Day - David Nicholls
  79. The Girl in Times Square - Paullina Simons
  80. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards

  81. Atonement - Ian McEwan
  82. The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
  83. The Winter Rose - Jennifer Donnelly
  84. The Secret - Rhonda Byrne
  85. Dune - Frank Herbert
  86. Persuasion - Jane Austen
  87. Lone Wolf - Jodi Picoult
  88. 61 Hours - Lee Child
  89. Chocolat - Joanne Harris
  90. Perfume - Patrick Suskind

  91. City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
  92. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
  93. World Without End - Ken Follett
  94. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  95. One Shot - Lee Child
  96. House Rules - Jodi Picoult
  97. The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
  98. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
  99. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  100. Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom


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