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BBC - The Big Read - Top 100 Books

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. The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
  
2. Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
3. His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass)
by Philip Pullman
  
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
  
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)
by J. K. Rowling
  
6. To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
  
7. Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition)
by A. A. Milne
  
8. Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell
  
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)
by C. S. Lewis
  
10. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
11. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
  
12. Wuthering Heights (Classic Novels Series)
by Emily Bronte
  
13. Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
by Sebastian Faulks
  
14. Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
  
15. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
16. The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
  
17. Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
18. Little Women (Signet Classics)
by Louisa May Alcott
  
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis de Bernieres
  
20. War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
21. Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
  
22. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)
by J.K. Rowling
  
23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)
by J. K. Rowling
  
24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)
by J. K. Rowling
  
25. The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
26. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
  
27. Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
by George Eliot
  
28. A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
by John Irving
  
29. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
  
31. The Story of Tracy Beaker
by Jacqueline Wilson
  
32. One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
33. The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
  
34. David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
35. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
  
36. Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
  
37. Town Like Alice (New Windmill)
by Nevil Shute
  
38. Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
39. Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
by Frank Herbert
  
40. Emma (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
41. Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics)
by L. M. Montgomery
  
42. Watership Down (Puffin Books)
by Richard Adams
  
43. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
44. The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas père
  
45. Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
  
46. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
  
47. A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
  
48. Far from the Madding Crowd (Signet Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
  
49. Goodnight Mister Tom
by Michelle Magorian
  
50. The Shell Seekers
by Rosamunde Pilcher
  
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Created by buocl on Oct 30, 2006.