Of Waterstone's "100 best books of the past 25 years", I've read the following:

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
• The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier and Clay
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
• High Fidelity
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
• All The Pretty Horses
• Possession
• A Brief History of Time

And, I agree: they were all good.

The rest of the list, though... half of it looks like a list of popular movies of the past 25 years. "Da Vinci Code", "Chocolat", "Memoirs of a Geisha", "Cold Mountain", "Bridget Jones's Diary", "The Beach", Angela's Ashes", "Snow Falling On Cedars", "Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil", "Captain Corelli's Mandolin", "Trainspotting", "Shipping News", "English Patient", "American Psycho", "LA Confidential", "Silence Of The Lambs", "The Bonfire Of The Vanities", etc.. Makes me wonder if the people who voted for these are voting for the book or the movie...