Lists of Bests: BBC - The Big Read - Top 100 Books http://www.listsofbests.com/list/17426 In April 2003 the BBC's Big Read began the search for the nation's best-loved novel, and we asked you to nominate your favourite books. (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml">list source</a>) Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:03:54 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 The Lord of the Rings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/178121 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/178121"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618153977.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077736418_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. R. R. Tolkien</div> Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3511 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3511"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439513.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676361_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12528 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12528"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440238609.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Pullman</div> The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7753 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7753"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345391802.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Adams</div> Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12260 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12260"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439139600.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. K. Rowling</div> To Kill a Mockingbird http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307932 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307932"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060935464.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1115951817_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harper Lee</div> Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3096 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3096"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140361219.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138680489_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. A. Milne</div> Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499994 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499994"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014118776X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43868 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43868"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060764899.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C. S. Lewis</div> Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3704 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3704"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437204.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Brontë</div> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189075 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189075"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BJV3E2.01-A19L3IEUO4I4SR._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> Wuthering Heights (Classic Novels Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1042684 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1042684"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0764111485.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056484062_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19108 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19108"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679776818.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43048994_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sebastian Faulks</div> Rebecca http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89732 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89732"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380730405.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V41075501_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daphne du Maurier</div> The Catcher in the Rye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316769177.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.D. Salinger</div> The Wind in the Willows http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122808 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122808"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0763622427.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenneth Grahame</div> Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3514 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3514"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439564.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V34858991_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Little Women (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13979 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13979"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529308.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louisa May Alcott</div> Captain Corelli's Mandolin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16472 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16472"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0582461359.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis de Bernieres</div> War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4266 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4266"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192833987.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1110473537_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> Gone with the Wind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967922 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967922"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446675539.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Mitchell</div> Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16513 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16513"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0590353403.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122550121_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.K. Rowling</div> Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/845691 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/845691"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439554896.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1061443430_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. K. Rowling</div> Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/96032 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/96032"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/043965548X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1076450886_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. K. Rowling</div> The Hobbit http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1003206 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1003206"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618260307.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3516 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3516"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439599.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hardy</div> Middlemarch (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315000 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315000"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529170.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18602 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18602"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679642595.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Irving</div> The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3555 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3555"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000663.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Alice's Adventures in Wonderland http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/459195 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/459195"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/158717152X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057198236_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Carroll</div> The Story of Tracy Beaker http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1469823 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1469823"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440867576.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jacqueline Wilson</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1424007 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1424007"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006112009X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> The Pillars of the Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13689 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13689"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451207149.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Follett</div> David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19152 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19152"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679783415.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Charlie and the Chocolate Factory http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9483 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9483"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375834605.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roald Dahl</div> Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1040456 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1040456"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0753453800.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Louis Stevenson</div> Town Like Alice (New Windmill) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/354817 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/354817"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0435120425.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nevil Shute</div> Persuasion (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3521 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3521"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439688.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962380 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962380"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0441013597.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122692856_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Herbert</div> Emma (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/495600 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/495600"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439580.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1086056 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1086056"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528824.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by L. M. Montgomery</div> Watership Down (Puffin Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133341 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133341"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140306013.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Adams</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743273567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3337 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3337"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449264.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandre Dumas père</div> Brideshead Revisited http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7169 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7169"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316926345.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> Animal Farm http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1950527 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1950527"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EVNTBM.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> A Christmas Carol http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68937 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68937"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580495796.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Far from the Madding Crowd (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13966 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13966"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528565.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hardy</div> Goodnight Mister Tom http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/411530 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/411530"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141301449.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michelle Magorian</div> The Shell Seekers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133693 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133693"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0340752467.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121360349_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rosamunde Pilcher</div>