My count of the 100 Big Read – last updated 4 October 2008
See my post about the 100 Big Read for more info.
| BBC BIG READ TOP 100 | |||
| TOTAL | 73 | ||
| 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 | 1 | |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot | ||
| A Prayer For Owen Meany | John Irving | ||
| The Grapes Of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1 | |
| Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 1 | |
| The Story Of Tracy Beaker | Jacqueline Wilson | 1 | |
| One Hundred Years Of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez |
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| The Pillars Of The Earth | Ken Follett | 1 | |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | 1 | |
| Charlie And The Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl | 1 | |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
1 | |
| A Town Like Alice | Nevil Shute | 1 | |
| Persuasion | Jane Austen | 1 | |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | ||
| Emma | Jane Austen | 1 | |
| Anne Of Green Gables | LM Montgomery | 1 | |
| 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 | 1 | |
| 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 |
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| Girls In Love | Jacqueline Wilson | 1 | |
| The Princess Diaries | Meg Cabot | ||
| Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |
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