Top 100 best-loved novels
The BBC's 'Big Read' programme surveyed three quarters of a million UK readers in 2003, asking them to name their best-loved novel. The nation's favourites were then published, with JRR Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings taking first place, Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice in second and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials in third.
Here's the full top 100 list in numerical order of popularity:
- The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien
- Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
His Dark Materials Philip Pullman- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
- Winnie the Pooh A. A. Milne
- Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
- The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis
- Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
- Catch-22 Joseph Heller
- Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
Birdsong Sebastian Faulks- Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
- The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
- The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
- Great Expectations Charles Dickens
- Little Women Louisa May Alcott
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernieres
- War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
- Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
- Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone JK Rowling
- Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets JK Rowling
- Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban JK Rowling
- The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
- Tess Of The D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
- Middlemarch George Eliot
- A Prayer For Owen Meany John Irving
- The Grapes Of Wrath John Steinbeck
- Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll
The Story Of Tracy Beaker Jacqueline Wilson- One Hundred Years Of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez
- The Pillars Of The Earth Ken Follett
- David Copperfield Charles Dickens
- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
- Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute
- Persuasion Jane Austen
- Dune Frank Herbert
- Emma Jane Austen
- Anne Of Green Gables LM Montgomery
- Watership Down Richard Adams
- The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
- The Count Of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
- Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
- Animal Farm George Orwell
- A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
-
Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy - Goodnight Mister Tom Michelle Magorian
- The Shell Seekers Rosamunde Pilcher
- The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Of Mice And Men John Steinbeck
- The Stand Stephen King
- Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
- A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
- The BFG Roald Dahl
- Swallows And Amazons Arthur Ransome
- Black Beauty Anna Sewell
- Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer
- Crime And Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Noughts And Crosses Malorie Blackman
-
Memoirs Of A Geisha Arthur Golden - A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
- The Thorn Birds Colleen McCollough
- Mort Terry Pratchett
- The Magic Faraway Tree Enid Blyton
- The Magus John Fowles
- Good Omens Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
- Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett
- Lord Of The Flies William Golding
- Perfume Patrick Süskind
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell
- Night Watch Terry Pratchett
-
Matilda Roald Dahl - Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding
- The Secret History Donna Tartt
- The Woman In White Wilkie Collins
- Ulysses James Joyce
- Bleak House Charles Dickens
- Double Act Jacqueline Wilson
- The Twits Roald Dahl
- I Capture The Castle Dodie Smith
- Holes Louis Sachar
- Gormenghast Mervyn Peake
- The God Of Small Things Arundhati Roy
- Vicky Angel Jacqueline Wilson
- Brave New World Aldous Huxley
- Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
- Magician Raymond E Feist
-
On The Road Jack Kerouac - The Godfather Mario Puzo
- The Clan Of The Cave Bear Jean M Auel
- The Colour Of Magic Terry Pratchett
- The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
- Katherine Anya Seton
- Kane And Abel Jeffrey Archer
- Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez
- Girls In Love Jacqueline Wilson
- The Princess Diaries Meg Cabot
- Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
