Bulgaria's Big Read: the nation's 12 favourite books (2009)
The top 3 according to 222 votes from people: Under the Yoke · Time of Parting (Vreme razdelno) · The Master and Margarita. (Updated Oct 21, 2020.)
Ivan Vazov's Under the Yoke on top, followed by Anton Donchev's Time of Parting and Dimitar Dimov's Tobacco: the top 12 of Golyamoto chetene, the Bulgarian National Television version of the BBC's Big Read, decided in 2009.
Top 12
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1
Under the Yoke
By Ivan Vazov. No. 1 in Bulgaria's Big Read (2009).
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2
Time of Parting (Vreme razdelno)
By Anton Donchev. No. 2 in Bulgaria's Big Read (2009).
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3
The Master and Margarita
By Mikhail Bulgakov. No. 6 in Bulgaria's Big Read (2009).
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4
Tobacco (Tyutyun)
By Dimitar Dimov. No. 3 in Bulgaria's Big Read (2009).
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5
The Lord of the Rings
By J. R. R. Tolkien. No. 7 in Bulgaria's Big Read (2009).
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6
The Little Prince
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. No. 5 in Bulgaria's Big Read (2009).
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7
The Iron Lamp (Zhelezniyat svetilnik)
By Dimitar Talev. No. 4 in Bulgaria's Big Read (2009).
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8
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By Douglas Adams. No. 11 in Bulgaria's Big Read (2009).
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9
Doomed Souls (Osadeni dushi)
By Dimitar Dimov. No. 9 in Bulgaria's Big Read (2009).
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10
One Hundred Years of Solitude
By Gabriel García Márquez. No. 12 in Bulgaria's Big Read (2009).
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11
East of Eden
By John Steinbeck. No. 8 in Bulgaria's Big Read (2009).
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12
The Count of Monte Cristo
By Alexandre Dumas. No. 10 in Bulgaria's Big Read (2009).
How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
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Comments (1)
Four Bulgarian classics in the top 4 and then Hitchhiker's Guide at 11. My Bulgarian flatmate says Under the Yoke winning was never in doubt, everyone reads it at school.