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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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1. Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
by Jerome K. Jerome
 
2. Small Gods
by Terry Pratchett
 
3. The Beach
by Alex Garland
 
4. Bram Stoker's Dracula
by Bram Stoker
 
5. Point Blanc
by Anthony Horowitz
 
6. The Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
 
7. Stormbreaker (Alex Rider Adventure)
by Anthony Horowitz
 
8. The Wasp Factory: A Novel
by Iain Banks
 
9. The Day of the Jackal
by Frederick Forsyth
 
10. The Illustrated Mum
by Jacqueline Wilson
 
11. Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
 
12. The Adrian Mole Diaries : The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 : The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
by Sue Townsend
 
13. The Cruel Sea (Classics of War)
by Nicholas Monsarrat
 
14. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)
by Victor Hugo
 
15. The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
 
16. The Dare Game
by Jacqueline Wilson
 
17. Bad Girls
by Jacqueline Wilson
 
18. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)
by Oscar Wilde
 
19. Shogun
by James Clavell
 
20. The Day of the Triffids (20th Century Rediscoveries)
by John Wyndham
 
21. Lola Rose
by Jacqueline Wilson
 
22. Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
by William Makepeace Thackeray
 
23. The Forsyte Saga
by John Galsworthy
 
24. House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition
by Mark Z. Danielewski
 
25. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
by Barbara Kingsolver
 
26. Reaper Man
by Terry Pratchett
 
27. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
by Louise Rennison
 
28. Hound of the Baskervilles (Whole Story)
by Arthur Conan Doyle
 
29. Possession : A Romance (Modern Library)
by A.S. Byatt
 
30. The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
 
31. The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
 
32. Danny, the Champion of the World (Puffin Novels)
by Roald Dahl
 
33. East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club)
by John Steinbeck
 
34. George's Marvellous Medicine (Puffin Fiction)
by Roald Dahl
 
35. Wyrd Sisters
by Terry Pratchett
 
36. The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
 
37. Hogfather
by Terry Pratchett
 
38. The Thirty-Nine Steps (Oxford World's Classics)
by John Buchan
 
39. Girls in Tears (Girls Quartet Series, Book 4)
by Jacqueline Wilson
 
40. SLEEPOVERS
by JACQUELINE WILSON
 
41. All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
 
42. Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
 
43. High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
 
44. It (Signet Books)
by Stephen King
 
45. James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl
 
46. The Green Mile
by Stephen King
 
47. Papillon
by Henri Charriere
 
48. Men at Arms
by Terry Pratchett
 
49. Master and Commander (Aubrey Maturin Series)
by Patrick O'Brian
 
50. Skeleton Key (Alex Rider Adventure)
by Anthony Horowitz
 
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Created by penguinmdh on Mar 10, 2006.