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The Big Read

from the BBC

By Mark Flanagan, About.com

In April the BBC's Big Read began the search for the UK's best-loved novel, and asked their audience to nominate their favourite books. The votes poured in from all around the UK and below are the results, alphabetically by title:

  • The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
  • Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
  • Animal Farm, George Orwell
  • Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
  • Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
  • Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
  • The BFG, Roald Dahl
  • Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
  • Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
  • Bleak House, Charles Dickens
  • Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  • Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
  • Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
  • Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
  • Catch-22, Joseph Heller
  • The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
  • Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
  • A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
  • The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
  • Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
  • The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
  • The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
  • Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
  • Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
  • Dune, Frank Herbert
  • Emma, Jane Austen
  • Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
  • Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
  • The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
  • The Godfather, Mario Puzo
  • Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
  • Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
  • Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
  • Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
  • The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
  • Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
  • The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
  • Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
  • Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
  • Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
  • Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
  • Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
  • His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  • The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
  • Holes, Louis Sachar
  • I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
  • Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
  • Katherine, Anya Seton
(next 50 below)

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