BBC's "The Big Read" Top 100

Submitted by nyybella on Sat, 10/14/2006 - 11:05
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  1. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
  2. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  3. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
  4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
  6. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  7. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
  8. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
  9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
  10. Jane Eyre - Chalotte Bronte
  11. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
  12. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  13. Birdsong -Sebastian Faulks
  14. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
  15. The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
  16. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
  17. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  18. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
  20. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  21. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
  22. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling
  23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
  24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
  25. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
  26. Tess of the U'rbervilles - Thomas Hardy
  27. Middle March - George Eliot
  28. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
  29. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
  31. The Story of Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson
  32. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  33. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
  34. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
  35. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
  36. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
  37. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
  38. Persuasion - Jane Austen
  39. Dune - Frank Herbert
  40. Emma - Jane Austen
  41. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
  42. Watership Down - Richard Adams
  43. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  44. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
  45. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
  46. Animal Farm - George Orwell
  47. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
  48. Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
  49. Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian
  50. The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher
  51. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
  52. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
  53. The Stand - Stephen King
  54. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
  56. The BFG - Roald Dahl
  57. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
  58. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
  59. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
  60. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  61. Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
  62. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  63. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
  64. The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
  65. Mort - Terry Pratchett
  66. The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
  67. The Magus - John Fowles
  68. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
  69. Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
  70. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  71. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
  72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
  73. Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
  74. Matilda - Roald Dahl
  75. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
  76. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  77. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
  78. Ulysses - James Joyce
  79. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
  80. Double Act - Jacqueline Wilson
  81. The Twits - Roald Dahl
  82. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
  83. Holes - Louis Sachar
  84. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
  85. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
  86. Vicky Angel - Jacqueline Wilson
  87. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  88. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
  89. Magician - Raymond E. Feist
  90. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
  91. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
  92. The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel
  93. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
  94. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
  95. Katherine - Anya Seton
  96. Kane and Abel - Jeffery Archer
  97. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  98. Girls in Love - Jacqueline Wilson
  99. The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
  100. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie