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. 51.
    Secret Garden (Children's Classics)
    by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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  2. 52.
    Of Mice and Men: (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  3. 53.
    The Stand (Modern Classics)
    by Stephen King

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  4. 54.
    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  5. 55.
    A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Vikram Seth

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  6. 56.
    The BFG
    by Roald Dahl

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  7. 57.
    Swallows and Amazons (Godine Storyteller)
    by Arthur Ransome

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  8. 58.
    Black Beauty
    by Anna Sewell

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  9. 59.
    Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, Book 1)
    by Eoin Colfer

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  10. 60.
    Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  11. 61.
    Noughts and Crosses
    by Malorie Blackman

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  12. 62.
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    by Arthur Golden

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  13. 63.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  14. 64.
    The Thorn Birds
    by Colleen McCullough

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  15. 65.
    Mort
    by Terry Pratchett

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  16. 66.
    The Magic Faraway Tree
    by Enid Blyton

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  17. 67.
    The Magus
    by John Fowles

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  18. 69.
    Guards! Guards!
    by Terry Pratchett

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  19. 70.
    Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by William Golding

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  20. 71.
    Perfume
    by Patrick Suskind

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  22. 73.
    Night Watch
    by Terry Pratchett

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  23. 74.
    Matilda
    by Roald Dahl

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  24. 75.
    Bridget Jones's Diary (movie tie-in)
    by Helen Fielding

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  25. 76.
    The Secret History
    by Donna Tartt

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  26. 77.
    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

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  27. 78.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  28. 79.
    Bleak House (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  29. 80.
    Double Act
    by Jacqueline Wilson

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  30. 81.
    The Twits
    by Roald Dahl

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  31. 82.
    I Capture the Castle
    by Dodie Smith

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  32. 83.
    Holes (Readers Circle)
    by Louis Sachar

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  33. 84.
    Gormenghast (Gormenghast Trilogy, 2)
    by Meervyn Peake

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  34. 85.
    The God of Small Things
    by Arundhati Roy

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  35. 86.
    Vicky Angel
    by Jacqueline Wilson

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  36. 87.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  37. 88.
    Cold Comfort Farm
    by Stella Gibbons

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  38. 89.
    Magician (Riftwar Saga)
    by Raymond E. Feist

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  39. 90.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac

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  40. 91.
    The Godfather
    by Mario Puzo

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  41. 92.
    The Clan of the Cave Bear
    by Jean M. Auel

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  42. 93.
    The Colour of Magic (Discworld Novels)
    by Terry Pratchett

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  43. 94.
    The Alchemist (Plus)
    by Paulo Coelho

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  44. 95.
    Katherine
    by Anya Seton

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  45. 96.
    Kane and Abel
    by Jeffrey Archer

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  46. 97.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  47. 98.
    Girls in Love
    by Jacqueline Wilson

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  48. 99.
    The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, Vol. 1)
    by Meg Cabot

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  49. 100.
    Midnight's Children: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie

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