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.

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.

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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