My count of the 100 Big Read - last updated 27 March 2008

See my post about the 100 Big Read for more info.

BBC BIG READ TOP 100
TOTAL 67
The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien 1
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1
His Dark Materials Philip Pullman 1
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 1
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire JK Rowling 1
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1
Winnie the Pooh AA Milne 1
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 1
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis 1
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 1
Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1
Birdsong Sebastian Faulks 1
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier 1
The Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger 1
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1
Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1
Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis de Bernieres 1
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy  
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1
Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone JK Rowling 1
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets JK Rowling 1
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban JK Rowling 1
The Hobbit JRR Tolkien 1
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 1
The Story Of Tracy Beaker Jacqueline Wilson 1
One Hundred Years Of Solitude Gabriel García
Márquez
 
The Pillars Of The Earth Ken Follett 1
David Copperfield Charles Dickens  
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl 1
Treasure Island Robert Louis
Stevenson
1
A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute  
Persuasion Jane Austen 1
Dune Frank Herbert  
Emma Jane Austen 1
Anne Of Green Gables LM Montgomery  
Watership Down Richard Adams  
The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald 1
The Count Of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas  
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 1
Animal Farm George Orwell 1
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens  
Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy  
Goodnight Mister Tom Michelle Magorian 1
The Shell Seekers Rosamunde Pilcher 1
The Secret Garden Frances
Hodgson Burnett
1
Of Mice And Men John Steinbeck 1
The Stand Stephen King 1
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy  
A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth  
The BFG Roald Dahl 1
Swallows And Amazons Arthur Ransome 1
Black Beauty Anna Sewell 1
Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer 1
Crime And Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky  
Noughts And Crosses Malorie Blackman 1
Memoirs Of A Geisha Arthur Golden 1
A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1
The Thorn Birds Colleen McCollough  
Mort Terry Pratchett 1
The Magic Faraway Tree Enid Blyton 1
The Magus John Fowles  
Good Omens Terry Pratchett
and Neil Gaiman
1
Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett 1
Lord Of The Flies William Golding 1
Perfume Patrick Süskind 1
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell  
Night Watch Terry Pratchett 1
Matilda Roald Dahl 1
Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding 1
The Secret History Donna Tartt 1
The Woman In White Wilkie Collins 1
Ulysses James Joyce  
Bleak House Charles Dickens  
Double Act Jacqueline Wilson 1
The Twits Roald Dahl 1
I Capture The Castle Dodie Smith 1
Holes Louis Sachar 1
Gormenghast Mervyn Peake  
The God Of Small Things Arundhati Roy  
Vicky Angel Jacqueline Wilson 1
Brave New World Aldous Huxley  
Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons 1
Magician Raymond E Feist  
On The Road Jack Kerouac  
The Godfather Mario Puzo 1
The Clan Of The Cave Bear Jean M Auel  
The Colour Of Magic Terry Pratchett 1
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho  
Katherine Anya Seton  
Kane And Abel Jeffrey Archer 1
Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel García
Márquez
 
Girls In Love Jacqueline Wilson 1
The Princess Diaries Meg Cabot  
Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie  

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