BBC - The Big Read - Top 100 Books

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In April 2003 the BBC’s Big Read began the search for the nation’s best-loved novel, and we asked you to nominate your favourite books.

(<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml">list source</a>)

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  1. 1.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J. R. R. Tolkien

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  2. 2.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  3. 4.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

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  4. 5.
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)
    by J. K. Rowling

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  5. 6.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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  6. 7.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition)
    by A. A. Milne

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  7. 8.
    Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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  8. 10.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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  9. 11.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  10. 12.
    Wuthering Heights (Classic Novels Series)
    by Emily Bronte

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  11. 13.
    Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
    by Sebastian Faulks

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  12. 14.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne du Maurier

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  13. 15.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  14. 16.
    The Wind in the Willows
    by Kenneth Grahame

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  15. 17.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  16. 18.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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  17. 19.
    Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    by Louis de Bernieres

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  18. 20.
    War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  19. 21.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  20. 22.
    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)
    by J.K. Rowling

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  21. 23.
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)
    by J. K. Rowling

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  22. 24.
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)
    by J. K. Rowling

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  23. 25.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  24. 26.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  25. 27.
    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  26. 28.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

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  27. 29.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  28. 30.
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    by Lewis Carroll

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  29. 31.
    The Story of Tracy Beaker
    by Jacqueline Wilson

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  30. 32.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  31. 33.
    The Pillars of the Earth
    by Ken Follett

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  32. 34.
    David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  33. 35.
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    by Roald Dahl

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  34. 36.
    Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  35. 37.
    Town Like Alice (New Windmill)
    by Nevil Shute

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  36. 38.
    Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  37. 39.
    Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert

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  38. 40.
    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  39. 41.
    Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics)
    by L. M. Montgomery

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  40. 42.
    Watership Down (Puffin Books)
    by Richard Adams

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  41. 43.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  42. 44.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

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  43. 45.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  44. 46.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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  45. 47.
    A Christmas Carol
    by Charles Dickens

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  46. 48.
    Far from the Madding Crowd (Signet Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  47. 49.
    Goodnight Mister Tom
    by Michelle Magorian

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  48. 50.
    The Shell Seekers
    by Rosamunde Pilcher

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Created by buocl on Oct 30, 2006.
 

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buocl
Medina

Old list is back — 2 years ago

I made this list because the old one had disappeared. now the old list is back, but i will keep this list up as well. This list should not have collections listed in the place of a single book, as the original list does in some places.