- The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenHis Dark Materials by Philip Pullman- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë- Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by Rowling- The Hobbit by Tolkien
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollThe Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- David Copperfield by Dickens
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
- Persuasion by Austen
- Dune by Frank Herbert
Emma by Austen- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh- Animal Farm by Orwell
- A Christmas Carol by Dickens
- Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy
- Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
- The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck- The Stand by Stephen King
- Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
- A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
The BFG by Dahl- Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
- The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
- Mort by Terry Pratchett
The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton- The Magus by John Fowles
- Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Pratchett
- Guards! Guards! by Pratchett
Lord of the Flies by William Golding- Perfume by Patrick Süskind
- The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
- Night Watch by Pratchett
Matilda by DahlBridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Bleak House by Dickens
Double Act by WilsonThe Twits by Dahl- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Vicky Angel by Wilson- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
- Magician by Raymond E. Feist
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
- The Colour of Magic by Pratchett
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Katherine by Anya Seton
- Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
- Love in the Time of Cholera by García Márquez
Girls in Love by WilsonThe Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
- Small Gods by Pratchett
- The Beach by Alex Garland
Dracula by Bram Stoker- Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz
- The Pickwick Papers by Dickens
- Stormbreaker by Horowitz
- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
- The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
The Illustrated Mum by Wilson- Jude the Obscure by Hardy
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
- The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy
The Dare Game by WilsonBad Girls by WilsonThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde- Shōgun by James Clavell
- The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Lola Rose by WilsonVanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray- The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- Reaper Man by Pratchett
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise RennisonThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle- Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodDanny, the Champion of the World by Dahl- East of Eden by Steinbeck
George's Marvellous Medicine by Dahl- Wyrd Sisters by Pratchett
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Hogfather by Pratchett
- The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Girls in Tears by WilsonSleepovers by Wilson- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
It by KingJames and the Giant Peach by Dahl- The Green Mile by King
- Papillon by Henri Charrière
- Men at Arms by Pratchett
- Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
- Skeleton Key by Horowitz
- Soul Music by Pratchett
- Thief of Time by Pratchett
- The Fifth Elephant by Pratchett
Atonement by Ian McEwanSecrets by Wilson- The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- River God by Wilbur Smith
- Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
- The World According to Garp by Irving
- Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
Girls Out Late by Wilson- The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye
The Witches by Dahl- Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley- They Used to Play on Grass by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Dustbin Baby by WilsonFantastic Mr Fox by DahlLolita by Vladimir Nabokov- Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Suitcase Kid by Wilson- Oliver Twist by Dickens
- The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
- Silas Marner by Eliot
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis- The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
- Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Goosebumps by R. L. Stine- Heidi by Johanna Spyri
- Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
- The Truth by Pratchett
- The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
- The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
- A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- Witches Abroad by Pratchett
- The Once and Future King by T. H. White
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle- Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews
The BBC Big Read
In April 2003 the BBC’s Big Read began the search for the nation’s best loved novel, and the public was asked to nominate their favourite book - it was the biggest single test of public reading taste to date, even fifteen years later and I thought I would challenge myself to see if my reading tastes line-up with those of the great British public. I mean, as soon as I read these, I will be set for life, right? Below are the results in numerical order, all the way from 1 to 200.
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