BBC Most Loved BOOKS (revised)

In 2003, the BBC asked viewers to help select the most loved books. Over a quarter of a million viewers responded and came up with the following list
THE BIG READ: Top 100 Favourite Books Selected By BBC Listeners

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2 Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

3 His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman

4 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

5 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling

6 To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

*7 Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne

8 Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell

9 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis

10 Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

11 Catch-22, Joseph Heller

12 Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

13 Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks

14 Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

15 The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger

16 The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

17 Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

18 Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

19 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres

20 War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

21 Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

22 Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling

23 Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling

24 Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling

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26 Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

27 Middlemarch, George Eliot

28 A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving

29 The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck

30 Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

82 0f the books are here; most of the missing ones are authors that are not allowed and children’s books.

Whilst many of the books are commonly available, it is an interesting challenge to tackle reading a list like this. It may introduce many people to genres they might not normally read.

Note: there is a variation of this list in circulation – this is the original downloaded directly from the BBC web site.