Lists of Bests: BBC's "The Big Read - Books 1-100" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/60 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. Thu, 31 May 2012 18:43:53 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 The Lord of the Rings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/95179 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/95179"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51e9-zVU4pL._SL75_.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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51L2zuV18bL._SL75_.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/2654722 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2654722"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y5my3ZuML._SL75_.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/32466 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32466"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/159007257X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Adams</div> Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1188490 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></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 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1559374 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1559374"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0525467564.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511ZjE6%2BebL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Full-Color Collector's Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1949 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1949"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0064409422.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C. S. Lewis</div> Jane Eyre (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13922 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13922"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TMi-MjSHL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Brontë</div> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19372 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19372"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eW-wH1K-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11057 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11057"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VSFSAYV4L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Brontë</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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lkSckd0gL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sebastian Faulks</div> Rebecca (Longman Fiction Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65512 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511BDFArolL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. D. Salinger</div> The Wind in the Willows http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19836 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19836"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/068971310X.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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51frsCb3J6L._SL75_.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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412wyCJVQgL._SL75_.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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513RNC8N3EL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis De Bernieres</div> War and Peace (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18573 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18573"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41s6BmXvfoL._SL75_.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 Philosopher's Stone http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/564878 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></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/12240 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12240"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jNORv6nQL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. K. Rowling</div> Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12258 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12258"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gY5jzz3NL._SL75_.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 (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46334 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46334"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ROTEO8rsL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hardy</div> Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3180 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3180"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XSCQXJRCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> A Prayer for Owen Meany http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7640 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7640"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345361792.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Irving</div> The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2788 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2788"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KQ6R5GZBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13949 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13949"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518LTKN%2Bv8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Carroll</div> The Story of Tracy Beaker http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65928 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65928"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41B4YVT43CL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jacqueline Wilson</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1281 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1281"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41A7ZAWA88L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> The Pillars of the Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13584 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13584"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uWFJCX0-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Follett</div> David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3195 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3195"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140434941.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Puffin Novels) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23704 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23704"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141301155.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roald Dahl</div> Treasure Island (Scholastic Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65930 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65930"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439288886.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Louis Stevenson</div> A Town Like Alice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7621 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7621"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lWSjlioUL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nevil Shute</div> Persuasion (Cover to Cover Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65926 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65926"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1572701056.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412Z9FE2E6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Herbert</div> Emma http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15583 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15583"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0553212737.01._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: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133340 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133340"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517I2RO8x%2BL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Adams</div> The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19350 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19350"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41U1U7u5IUL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18465 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18465"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TT77KM8QL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3310 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3310"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044615X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057188757_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandre Dumas pere</div> Animal Farm http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13919 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13919"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51w-rPGvWcL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Christmas Carol (Penguin Popular Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9128375 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9128375"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/3130N-6bjyL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Far From the Madding Crowd (Everyman's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65919 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65919"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GpVI426dL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hardy</div> Goodnight Mr Tom (New Century Readers) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65921 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65921"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515uCGCs78L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michelle Magorian</div> The Shell Seekers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4533103 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rosamunde Pilcher</div>