The BBC's Big Read: Britain's best-loved novels (top 50)
The top 3 according to 58 votes from people: Winnie-the-Pooh · The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe · Rebecca. (Updated Dec 12, 2021.)
The Lord of the Rings ahead of Pride and Prejudice and His Dark Materials: the top 50 of The Big Read, the 2003 BBC survey that drew more than 700,000 votes for the UK's best-loved novel.
Top 50
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1
Winnie-the-Pooh
By A. A. Milne. No. 7 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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2
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
By C. S. Lewis. No. 9 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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3
Rebecca
By Daphne du Maurier. No. 14 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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4
His Dark Materials
By Philip Pullman. No. 3 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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5
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By Douglas Adams. No. 4 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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6
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
By J. K. Rowling. No. 5 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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7
Catch-22
By Joseph Heller. No. 11 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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8
Wuthering Heights
By Emily Brontë. No. 12 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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9
Great Expectations
By Charles Dickens. No. 17 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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10
War and Peace
By Leo Tolstoy. No. 20 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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11
A Town Like Alice
By Nevil Shute. No. 37 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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12
Dune
By Frank Herbert. No. 39 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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13
Brideshead Revisited
By Evelyn Waugh. No. 45 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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14
The Lord of the Rings
By J. R. R. Tolkien. No. 1 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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15
The Count of Monte Cristo
By Alexandre Dumas. No. 44 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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16
Nineteen Eighty-Four
By George Orwell. No. 8 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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17
Jane Eyre
By Charlotte Brontë. No. 10 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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18
Birdsong
By Sebastian Faulks. No. 13 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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19
The Catcher in the Rye
By J. D. Salinger. No. 15 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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20
The Wind in the Willows
By Kenneth Grahame. No. 16 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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21
Little Women
By Louisa May Alcott. No. 18 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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22
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
By Louis de Bernières. No. 19 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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23
Gone with the Wind
By Margaret Mitchell. No. 21 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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24
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
By J. K. Rowling. No. 22 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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25
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
By J. K. Rowling. No. 24 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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26
A Prayer for Owen Meany
By John Irving. No. 28 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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27
The Grapes of Wrath
By John Steinbeck. No. 29 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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28
The Great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald. No. 43 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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29
Pride and Prejudice
By Jane Austen. No. 2 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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30
One Hundred Years of Solitude
By Gabriel García Márquez. No. 32 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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31
Goodnight Mister Tom
By Michelle Magorian. No. 49 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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32
To Kill a Mockingbird
By Harper Lee. No. 6 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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33
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
By J. K. Rowling. No. 23 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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34
The Hobbit
By J. R. R. Tolkien. No. 25 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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35
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
By Thomas Hardy. No. 26 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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36
Middlemarch
By George Eliot. No. 27 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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37
The Story of Tracy Beaker
By Jacqueline Wilson. No. 31 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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38
The Pillars of the Earth
By Ken Follett. No. 33 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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39
David Copperfield
By Charles Dickens. No. 34 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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40
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
By Roald Dahl. No. 35 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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41
Persuasion
By Jane Austen. No. 38 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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42
Emma
By Jane Austen. No. 40 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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43
Anne of Green Gables
By Lucy Maud Montgomery. No. 41 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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44
Watership Down
By Richard Adams. No. 42 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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45
Animal Farm
By George Orwell. No. 46 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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46
A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens. No. 47 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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47
Far from the Madding Crowd
By Thomas Hardy. No. 48 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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48
The Shell Seekers
By Rosamunde Pilcher. No. 50 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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49
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
By Lewis Carroll. No. 30 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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50
Treasure Island
By Robert Louis Stevenson. No. 36 in the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
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