Top 100 books

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The BBC did this Big Read event (one of those great public tv things that unites the nation) and the public nominated their top 100.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml



The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (yes)
Animal Farm, George Orwell (yes)
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery (blushes yes)
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer,
The BFG, Roald Dahl , (yes)
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell (yes)
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (yes)
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding (yes)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22, Joseph Heller (yes)
The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger (yes)
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl (yes)
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (yes)
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 (yes)
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens (yes)
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
Dune, Frank Herbert (yes)
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 (yes)
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (yes)
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck (yes)
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (yes)
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling (yes)
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling (yes)
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling (yes)
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling (yes)
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (yes)
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams (yes)
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Holes, Louis Sachar
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer (gags yes)
Katherine, Anya Seton
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis (yes)
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (yes)
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding (yes)
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien (gave up somewhere in the third book)
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
Magician, Raymond E Feist
The Magus, John Fowles
Matilda, Roald Dahl (yes)
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Nineteen-Eighty-Four, George Orwell (yes)
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
Perfume, Patrick Süskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Stand, Stephen King (yes)
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee (yes)
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (yes)
The Twits, Roald Dahl (yes)
Ulysses, James Joyce
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame (yes)
Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne (yes)
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë