Lists of Bests: BBC's "The Big Read

Send to Printer BBC's "The Big Read - Books 1-100" The Big Read series was broadcast on BBC Two from 18 October to 13 December 2003. Web, SMS, phone and interactive voting ended on 11 December and only the phone vote was opened briefly for the duration of the final programme on 13 December. Here is the final ranking 1-100. See also "BBC The Next 100" list for 101-200. DEAR READER: Please do not change this list in any way. If you do not agree with any of the entries on this list feel free to create your own, but please bear in mind that others are also working on this list. Thank you for your consideration and happy reading. (found at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml)
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	1.		The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
	2.		Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
	3.	?	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 by Harper Lee
	7.		Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
	8.		Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
	9.		The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Full-Color Collector's Edition) by C. S. Lewis
	10.		Jane Eyre (Signet Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
	11.		Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
	12.		Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions) by Emily Bronte
	13.		Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks
	14.	?	Rebecca (Longman Fiction Series) by Daphne du Maurier
	15.		The Catcher in the Rye
	16.		The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
	17.		Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
	18.		Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
	19.		Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
	20.		War and Peace (Modern Library) by Leo Tolstoy
	21.		Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
	22.	?	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
	23.		Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) by J. K. Rowling
	24.		Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) by J.K. Rowling; Illustrator-Mary GrandPrÃƒÂ©
	25.		The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
	26.		Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thomas Hardy
	27.		Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
	28.		A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
	29.		Grapes of Wrath, The (20th Century Classics) by John Steinbeck
	30.		Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
	31.		The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson
	32.		One Hundred Years of Solitude 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 (Puffin Novels) by Roald Dahl
	36.		Treasure Island (Scholastic Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
	37.		A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
	38.		Persuasion (Cover to Cover Classics) by Jane Austen
	39.		Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert
	40.		Emma by JANE AUSTEN
	41.		Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics) by L. M. Montgomery
	42.		Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams
	43.		The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
	44.		The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas pere
	45.		Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Evelyn Waugh
	46.		Animal Farm by George Orwell
	47.		A Christmas Carol (Reissue) by Charles Dickens
	48.		Far from the Madding Crowd (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Thomas Hardy
	49.	?	Goodnight Mister Tom (New Century Readers) by Michelle Magorian
	50.	?	The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
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BBC's "The Big Read - Books 1-100"