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

  2. 2.
    Small Gods
    by Terry Pratchett

  3. 3.
    The Beach
    by Alex Garland

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

  5. 5.
    Point Blanc
    by Anthony Horowitz

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

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

  8. 8.
    The WASP FACTORY: A NOVEL
    by Iain Banks

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

  10. 10.
    The Illustrated Mum
    by Jacqueline Wilson

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

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

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

  14. 16.
    The Dare Game
    by Jacqueline Wilson

  15. 17.
    Bad Girls
    by Jacqueline Wilson

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

  17. 19.
    Shogun
    by James Clavell

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

  19. 21.
    Lola Rose
    by Jacqueline Wilson

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

  21. 23.
    The Forsyte Saga
    by John Galsworthy

  22. 24.
    House of Leaves
    by Mark Z. Danielewski

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

  24. 26.
    Reaper Man
    by Terry Pratchett

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

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

  27. 30.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

  28. 31.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood

  29. 32.
    Danny the Champion of the World
    by Roald Dahl

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

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

  32. 35.
    Wyrd Sisters
    by Terry Pratchett

  33. 36.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

  34. 37.
    Hogfather
    by Terry Pratchett

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

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

  37. 40.
    SLEEPOVERS
    by JACQUELINE WILSON

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

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

  40. 43.
    High Fidelity
    by Nick Hornby

  41. 44.
    It
    by Stephen King

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

  43. 46.
    The Green Mile
    by Stephen King

  44. 47.
    Papillon
    by Henri Charriere

  45. 48.
    Men at Arms
    by Terry Pratchett

  46. 49.
    Master and Commander
    by Patrick O'Brian

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

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Comments

Untitled — 3 years 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.


Jacqueline Wilson? — 4 years ago

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


Not yet consumed — 5 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.


Consuming books — 5 years ago

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


Erm... — 5 years ago

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


terry pratchett? — 5 years ago

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




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