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BBC's "The Big Read - Top 100 Books"

The Big Read series was broadcasted on BBC Two from October 18th to December 13th 2003.

(found at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml)

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1. The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
2. Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
3. His Dark Materials Omnibus (His Dark Materials)
by Philip Pullman
  
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
  
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
by J.K. Rowling
  
6. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Pernnial Moderns Classics)
by Harper Lee
  
7. The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
  
8. Nineteen Eighty-four
by George Orwell
  
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Collins Modern Classics S.)
by C.S. Lewis
  
10. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
11. Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Joseph Heller
  
12. Wuthering Heights (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Emily Bronte
  
13. Birdsong
by Sebastian Faulks
  
14. Rebecca (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Daphne Du Maurier
  
15. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
16. The Wind in the Willows (Everyman's Library Children's Classics)
by Kenneth Grahame
  
17. Great Expectations (Modern Library Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
18. Little Women (Penguin Classics)
by Louisa May Alcott
  
19. Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel
by Louis De Bernieres
  
20. War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
21. Gone With The Wind: 60th Anniversary Edition
by Margaret Mitchell
  
22. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
by J. K. Rowling
  
23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
by J.K. Rowling
  
24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
by J. K. Rowling
  
25. The Hobbit: or There and Back Again
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
26. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman (Modern Library Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
  
27. Middlemarch (Modern Library Classics)
by George Eliot
  
28. A Prayer for Owen Meany (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by John Irving
  
29. The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Modern Classics)
by John Steinbeck
  
30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Everyman's Library Children's Classics)
by Lewis Carroll
  
31. The Story of Tracy Beaker
by Jacqueline Wilson
  
32. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
33. The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
  
34. David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
35. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
  
36. Treasure Island (Modern Library Classics)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
  
37. A Town Like Alice
by Nevil Shute
  
38. Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
39. Dune
by Frank Herbert
  
40. Emma (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
41. Anne of Green Gables
by L.M. Montgomery
  
42. Watership Down (Perennial Classics)
by Richard Adams
  
43. The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics)
by F.Scott Fitzgerald
  
44. The Count of Monte Cristo (Modern Library Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas
  
45. Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
  
46. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
by George Orwell
  
47. A Christmas Carol and Other Stories (Modern Library)
by Charles Dickens
  
48. Far from the Madding Crowd (Modern Library Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
  
49. Good Night, Mr. Tom
by Michelle Magorian
  
50. The Shell Seekers
by Rosamunde Pilcher
  
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