BBC's "The Big Read - Books 101-200"

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In April the BBC’s Big Read began the search for the nation’s best-loved novel, and we asked you to nominate your favourite books. The votes poured in from all around the UK and here are the results.

[This list is for books 101-200 at the suggestion of Robert Shiels.]

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  1. 1.
    Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
    by Jerome K. Jerome

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  2. 2.
    Small Gods
    by Terry Pratchett

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  3. 3.
    The Beach
    by Alex Garland

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  4. 4.
    Bram Stoker's Dracula
    by Bram Stoker

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  5. 5.
    Point Blanc
    by Anthony Horowitz

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  6. 6.
    The Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  7. 7.
    Stormbreaker (Alex Rider Adventure)
    by Anthony Horowitz

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  8. 8.
    The Wasp Factory: A Novel
    by Iain Banks

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  9. 9.
    The Day of the Jackal
    by Frederick Forsyth

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  10. 10.
    The Illustrated Mum
    by Jacqueline Wilson

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  11. 11.
    Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  12. 13.
    The Cruel Sea (Classics of War)
    by Nicholas Monsarrat

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  13. 15.
    The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  14. 16.
    The Dare Game
    by Jacqueline Wilson

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  15. 17.
    Bad Girls
    by Jacqueline Wilson

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  16. 18.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde

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  17. 19.
    Shogun
    by James Clavell

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  18. 20.
    The Day of the Triffids (20th Century Rediscoveries)
    by John Wyndham

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  19. 21.
    Lola Rose
    by Jacqueline Wilson

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  20. 22.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  21. 23.
    The Forsyte Saga
    by John Galsworthy

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  22. 24.
    House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition
    by Mark Z. Danielewski

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  23. 25.
    The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
    by Barbara Kingsolver

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  24. 26.
    Reaper Man
    by Terry Pratchett

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  25. 28.
    Hound of the Baskervilles (Whole Story)
    by Arthur Conan Doyle

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  26. 29.
    Possession : A Romance (Modern Library)
    by A.S. Byatt

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  27. 30.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

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  28. 31.
    The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

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  29. 32.
    Danny, the Champion of the World (Puffin Novels)
    by Roald Dahl

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  30. 33.
    East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club)
    by John Steinbeck

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  31. 34.
    George's Marvellous Medicine (Puffin Fiction)
    by Roald Dahl

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  32. 35.
    Wyrd Sisters
    by Terry Pratchett

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  33. 36.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  34. 37.
    Hogfather
    by Terry Pratchett

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  35. 38.
    The Thirty-Nine Steps (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Buchan

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  36. 39.
    Girls in Tears (Girls Quartet Series, Book 4)
    by Jacqueline Wilson

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  37. 40.
    SLEEPOVERS
    by JACQUELINE WILSON

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  38. 41.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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  39. 42.
    Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
    by Kate Atkinson

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  40. 43.
    High Fidelity
    by Nick Hornby

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  41. 44.
    It (Signet Books)
    by Stephen King

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  42. 45.
    James and the Giant Peach
    by Roald Dahl

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  43. 46.
    The Green Mile
    by Stephen King

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  44. 47.
    Papillon
    by Henri Charriere

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  45. 48.
    Men at Arms
    by Terry Pratchett

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  46. 49.
    Master and Commander (Aubrey Maturin Series)
    by Patrick O'Brian

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  47. 50.
    Skeleton Key (Alex Rider Adventure)
    by Anthony Horowitz

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Comments

Mayhem17
Vancouver

Untitled — 1 year ago

What can I say it’s a list as voted for by the British public, that includes the children too. It’s not a list of books you should read, but books that are loved. At the age of 12 you probably didn’t love pride and prejudice either.
I’m happy that the book I voted for back in 2003 was number 1.


silvermoondragon
Melbourne

Jacqueline Wilson? — 2 years ago

The BBC must have a lot of pre-pubescent females as voters.


Kiwiria
Copenhagen

Not yet consumed — 2 years ago

I wish there was a feature where you could make up a list of ‘books I want to read’ while perusing the lists already in existance. I find so many books I’d like to read but haven’t yet.


Lisa
Melbourne

Consuming books — 3 years ago

I wish this site recorded that we have read the books rather than ‘consumed’ them….


smomo
London

Erm... — 3 years ago

Why have I only read the kids books and the Terry Pratchett ones? I thought I was well read!


terry pratchett? — 3 years ago

Is this a serious list? There must have been a lot of votes by the TP fan club.