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

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There is a community version of this list, but it gets tampered with all the time. I’m tired of having to go back to the source site to make sure something hasn’t been changed so I just decided to make my own implacable version. : )

  1. 1.
    The Lord of the Rings -
    by J.R.R. Tolkien
  4. 4.
  5. 5.
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)
    by J. K. Rowling
  6. 6.
    To Kill A Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee
  7. 7.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition)
    by A. A. Milne
  8. 8.
    Nineteen Eighty-four
    by George Orwell
  10. 10.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë
  11. 11.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  12. 12.
    Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Emily Brontë
  13. 13.
    Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
    by Sebastian Faulks
  14. 14.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier
  15. 15.
    ?
  16. 16.
    The Wind in the Willows
    by Kenneth Grahame
  17. 17.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  18. 18.
    Little Women (Illustrated Junior Library)
    by Louisa May Alcott
  19. 19.
    Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    by Louis De Bernieres
  20. 20.
    War and Peace (Penguin Classics, Deluxe Edition)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  21. 21.
    ?
  22. 22.
    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
    by J. K. Rowling
  23. 23.
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)
    by J.K. Rowling; Illustrator-Mary GrandPré
  24. 24.
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)
    by J. K. Rowling
  25. 25.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien
  26. 26.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
  27. 27.
    Middlemarch (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by George Eliot
  28. 28.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
    by John Irving
  29. 29.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck
  30. 30.
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Unabridged Classics)
    by Lewis Carroll
  31. 31.
    The Story of Tracy Beaker
    by Jacqueline Wilson
  32. 32.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  33. 33.
    The Pillars of the Earth
    by Ken Follett
  34. 34.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  35. 35.
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    by Roald Dahl
  36. 36.
    Treasure Island (Enriched Classics Series)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  37. 37.
    Town Like Alice (New Windmill)
    by Nevil Shute
  38. 38.
    Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  39. 39.
    Dune
    by Frank Herbert
  40. 40.
    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  41. 41.
    Anne of Green Gables (Norton Critical Editions)
    by L. M. Montgomery
  42. 42.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams
  43. 43.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  44. 44.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père
  45. 45.
    Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library)
    by Evelyn Waugh
  46. 46.
    ?
    Animal Farm By George Orwell (A Signet Classic)
    by George Orwell
  47. 47.
    A Christmas Carol
    by Charles Dickens
  48. 48.
    Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
  49. 49.
    Goodnight Mister Tom
    by Michelle Magorian
  50. 50.
    Shell Seekers
    by Rosamunde Pilcher
  51. 51.
    The Secret Garden (HarperClassics)
    by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  52. 52.
    Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
  53. 53.
    The Stand
    by Stephen King
  54. 54.
    Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  55. 55.
    A Suitable Boy : A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Vikram Seth
  56. 56.
    The BFG
    by Roald Dahl
  57. 57.
    Swallows and Amazons (Godine Storyteller)
    by Arthur Ransome
  58. 58.
    Black Beauty
    by Anna Sewell
  59. 59.
    Artemis Fowl Book 1 (Promotional Edition)
    by Eoin Colfer
  60. 60.
    Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  61. 61.
    Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses Trilogy)
    by Malorie Blackman
  62. 62.
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    by Arthur Golden
  63. 63.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  64. 64.
    The Thorn Birds
    by Colleen McCullough
  65. 65.
    Mort
    by Terry Pratchett
  66. 66.
    The Magic Faraway Tree
    by Enid Blyton
  67. 67.
    The Magus
    by John Fowles
  68. 68.
    Good Omens
    by Neil Gaiman
  69. 69.
    Guards! Guards!
    by Terry Pratchett
  70. 70.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding
  71. 71.
    Perfume
    by Patrick Süskind
  72. 72.
    The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
    by Robert Tressell
  73. 73.
    Night Watch: Adapted for the Stage
    by Terry Pratchett
  74. 74.
    Matilda
    by Roald Dahl
  75. 75.
    Bridget Jones's Diary
    by Helen Fielding
  76. 76.
    The Secret History
    by Donna Tartt
  77. 77.
    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins
  78. 78.
    James Joyce's Ulysses: A Study
    by Stuart Gilbert
  79. 79.
    Bleak House (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  80. 80.
    Double Act
    by Jacqueline Wilson
  81. 81.
    The Twits
    by Roald Dahl
  82. 82.
    I Capture the Castle
    by Dodie Smith
  83. 83.
    Holes
    by Louis Sachar
  84. 84.
    Gormenghast
    by Peake
  85. 85.
    The God of Small Things
    by Arundhati Roy
  86. 86.
    Vicky Angel
    by Jacqueline Wilson
  87. 87.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  88. 88.
    Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Stella Gibbons
  89. 89.
    ?
    Magician
    by Raymond E. Feist
  90. 90.
    On the Road (Penguin Classics)
    by Jack Kerouac
  91. 91.
    The Godfather
    by Mario Puzo
  92. 92.
    The Clan of the Cave Bear
    by JEAN M. AUEL
  93. 93.
    The Colour of Magic
    by Pratchett Terry.
  94. 94.
    Alchemist, The
    by Paulo Coelho
  95. 95.
    Katherine (Rediscovered Classics)
    by Anya Seton
  96. 96.
    Kane and Abel
    by Jeffrey Archer
  97. 97.
    Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  98. 98.
    Girls in Love (Girls)
    by Jacqueline Wilson
  99. 99.
    The Princess Diaries
    by Meg Cabot
  100. 100.
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie
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Created by Logophile on Nov 08, 2009.
 

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