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In April 2003 the BBC asked for nominations for the nation’s best-loved novels. The results of “The Big Read” were originally posted here, but are also listed here.
- J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings (trilogy: 1954-1955)
- Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Philip Pullman His Dark Materials (trilogy: 1995-2000)
- Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
- J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)
- Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
- A.A. Milne Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
- George Orwell 1984 (1949)
- C.S. Lewis The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1970)
- Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre (1847)
- Joseph Heller Catch-22 (1961)
- Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights (1847)
- Sebastian Faulk Birdsong (1993)
- Daphne Du Maurier Rebecca (1938)
- J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
- William Grahame The Wind in the Willows (1908)
- Charles Dickens Great Expectations (1861)
- Louisa May Alcott Little Women (1869)
- Louis DeBernieres Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (1994)
- Leo Tolstoy War and Peace (1869)
- Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind (1936)
- J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (aka Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) (1999)
- J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998)
- J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)
- J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit (1937)
- Thomas Hardy Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891)
- George Eliot Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life (1872)
- John Irving A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)
- John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
- Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
- Jacqueline Wilson The Story of Tracy Beaker (1991)
- Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
- Ken Follet The Pillars of the Earth (1989)
- Charles Dickens David Copperfield (1850)
- Roald Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
- Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island (1883)
- Nevil Shute A Town Like Alice (1950)
- Jane Austen Persuasion (1818)
- Frank Herbert Dune (1965)
- Jane Austen Emma (1816)
- L.M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables (1908)
- Richard Adams Watership Down (1972)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (1925)
- Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo (1844)
- Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited (1945)
- George Orwell Animal Farm (1954)
- Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol (1843)
- Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
- Michelle Magorian Goodnight Mister Tom (1981)
- Rosamunde Pitcher The Shell Seekers (1987)
- Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden (1987)
- John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men (1937)
- Stephen King The Stand (1978)
- Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina (1877)
- Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy (1993)
- Roald Dahl The BFG (1982)
- Arthur Ransome Swallows and Amazons (1930)
- Anna Sewell Black Beauty (1877)
- Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl (series: 2001-2012)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment (1866)
- Malorie Blackman Naughts and Crosses (2001)
- Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha (1997)
- Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
- Colleen McCullough The Thorn Birds (1977)
- Terry Pratchett Mort (1987)
- Enid Blyton The Magic Faraway Tree (1943)
- John Fowles The Magus (1965)
- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman Good Omens (1990)
- Terry Pratchett Guards! Guards! (1989)
- William Golding Lord of the Flies (1954)
- Patrick Süskind Perfume (1985)
- Robert Tressell The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (1914)
- Terry Pratchett Night Watch (2002)
- Roald Dahl Matilda (1988)
- Helen Fielding Bridget Jones’s Diary (1996)
- Donna Tartt The Secret History (1992)
- Wilkie Collins The Woman in White (1860)
- James Joyce Ulysses (1922)
- Charles Dickens Bleak House (1853)
- Jacqueline Wilson Double Act (1995)
- Roald Dahl The Twits (1980)
- Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle (1948)
- Louis Sachar Holes (1999)
- Mervyn Peake Gormenghast (series: 1946-1956)
- Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things (1997)
- Jacqueline Wilson Vicky Angel (200)
- Aldous Huxley Brave New World (1932)
- Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm (1932)
- Raymond E. Feist Magician (1982)
- Jack Kerouac On the Road (1957)
- Mario Puzo The Godfather (1969)
- Jean M. Auel The Clan of the Cave Bear (1980)
- Terry Pratchett The Colour of Magic (1983)
- Paulo Coelho O Alquimista (The Alchemist) (1987)
- Anya Seton Katherine (1954)
- Jeffrey Archer Kane and Abel (1979)
- Gabriel García Márquez Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
- Jacqueline Wilson Girls in Love (1997)
- Meg Cabot The Princess Diaries (2000)
- Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children (1981)
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