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
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