a best book list

Please notice that I have never met a "best" list that I completely liked. Popularity, skewed statistics and mistakes go against me. And the list going around this week is not copied from BBC; it was published in the Guardian and compiled from individual lists of 10 books that readers favored, so every contributor has read at least 10 books from that list.

There are better must-read lists:
http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20207349,00.html


From the list under consideration this week, I have picked:

--- 5 books that I like ---
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
The Bible by God
Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson

--- 12 books that were a waste of my time ---
His Dark Materials (Golden Compass) by Philip Pullman
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Emma by Jane Austen
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving
Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Watership Down by Richard Adams

Here is an extreme list:
The Most-poorly-written Best-selling book that I have read is Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.