BBC's "The Big Read - Books 101-200"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.] (found at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top200.shtml)
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Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
by Jerome K. Jerome
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Small Gods
by Terry Pratchett
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The Beach
by Alex Garland
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
by Bram Stoker
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Point Blanc
by Anthony Horowitz
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The Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
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Stormbreaker (Alex Rider Adventure)
by Anthony Horowitz
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The Wasp Factory: A Novel
by Iain Banks
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The Day of the Jackal
by Frederick Forsyth
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The Illustrated Mum
by Jacqueline Wilson
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Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
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The Adrian Mole Diaries : The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 : The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
by Sue Townsend
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The Cruel Sea (Classics of War)
by Nicholas Monsarrat
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)
by Victor Hugo
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The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
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The Dare Game
by Jacqueline Wilson
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Bad Girls
by Jacqueline Wilson
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)
by Oscar Wilde
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Shogun
by James Clavell
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The Day of the Triffids (20th Century Rediscoveries)
by John Wyndham
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Lola Rose
by Jacqueline Wilson
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Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
by William Makepeace Thackeray
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The Forsyte Saga
by John Galsworthy
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House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition
by Mark Z. Danielewski
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The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
by Barbara Kingsolver
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Reaper Man
by Terry Pratchett
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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
by Louise Rennison
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Hound of the Baskervilles (Whole Story)
by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Possession : A Romance (Modern Library)
by A.S. Byatt
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The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
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The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
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Danny, the Champion of the World (Puffin Novels)
by Roald Dahl
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East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club)
by John Steinbeck
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George's Marvellous Medicine (Puffin Fiction)
by Roald Dahl
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Wyrd Sisters
by Terry Pratchett
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
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Hogfather
by Terry Pratchett
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The Thirty-Nine Steps (Oxford World's Classics)
by John Buchan
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Girls in Tears (Girls Quartet Series, Book 4)
by Jacqueline Wilson
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SLEEPOVERS
by JACQUELINE WILSON
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All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
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High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
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It (Signet Books)
by Stephen King
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James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl
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The Green Mile
by Stephen King
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Papillon
by Henri Charriere
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Men at Arms
by Terry Pratchett
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Master and Commander (Aubrey Maturin Series)
by Patrick O'Brian
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Skeleton Key (Alex Rider Adventure)
by Anthony Horowitz
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