The Big Read

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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