A couple of months ago, #ELLEBookClub partner Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction launched their #ThisBook campaign on Twitter - all as a means to discover the top novels written by women that have shaped our lives.
Votes were submitted across the world (and of course from ELLE HQ), and now the time has come to announce the winner.
Drum roll please...
To Kill A Mockingbird has deservedly scooped first place. Published in 1960, Harper Lee's American classic courageously addressed themes such class, racial prejudice and gender and continues to be a iconic piece of literature.
And the runners up?
Margaret Atwood's scientific dystopian novel, The Handmaids Tale and Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre took second and third place respectively.
See the full list below:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter by J.K Rowling
5. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
6. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
7. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
8. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
9. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
10. I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith
11. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
12. Beloved by Toni Morrison
13. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
14. We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
15. The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
16. Middlemarch by George Eliot
17. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
18. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
19. The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
20. The Womens Room by Marilyn French