BBC Big Read
BBC Big Read is a list of British favorite books created in 2003 by the British broadcaster BBC . 750,000 people took part in the vote.
The BBC urged viewers to vote for the "forever-dearest" book. The 21 most cited works were edited as short versions and broadcast by the BBC in a specially created literary program from October 18 to December 13, 2003.
The BBC then encouraged people to form “Big Read” book groups, to discuss the books in sequence and to make the Big Read books better known.
list
- The Lord of the Rings , JRR Tolkien
- Pride and Prejudice , Jane Austen
- His Dark Materials , Philip Pullman
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy , Douglas Adams
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , Joanne K. Rowling
- Whoever disturbs the nightingale , Harper Lee
- Pooh Bear , Alan Alexander Milne
- 1984 , George Orwell
- The King of Narnia (orig. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ), CS Lewis
- Jane Eyre , Charlotte Brontë
- Catch-22 , Joseph Heller
- Storm Heights , Emily Brontë
- Singing from the great fire (orig. Birdsong ), Sebastian Faulks
- Rebecca , Daphne du Maurier
- The catcher in the rye , JD Salinger
- The wind in the willows , Kenneth Grahame
- Great expectations , Charles Dickens
- Little Women , Louisa May Alcott
- Corelli's mandolin , Louis de Bernières
- War and Peace , Leo Tolstoy
- Gone with the Wind , Margaret Mitchell
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone , Joanne K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets , Joanne K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , Joanne K. Rowling
- The Hobbit , JRR Tolkien
- Tess von den d'Urbervilles: A pure woman , Thomas Hardy
- Middlemarch , George Eliot
- A Prayer For Owen Meany , John Irving
- Fruits of Wrath , John Steinbeck
- Alice in Wonderland , Lewis Carroll
- The incredible story of Tracy Baker , Jacqueline Wilson
- A hundred years of solitude , Gabriel García Márquez
- The Pillars of the Earth , Ken Follett
- David Copperfield , Charles Dickens
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , Roald Dahl
- Treasure Island , Robert Louis Stevenson
- A city like Alice , Nevil Shute
- Persuasion , Jane Austen
- Dune - the first trilogy , Frank Herbert
- Emma , Jane Austen
- Anne of Green Gables , Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Down by the river , Richard Adams
- The great Gatsby , F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Count of Monte Christo , Alexandre Dumas
- Goodbye to Brideshead , Evelyn Waugh
- Animal Farm , George Orwell
- A Christmas Carol , Charles Dickens
- On the green edge of the world , Thomas Hardy
- Goodnight Mister Tom , Michelle Magorian
- The Shell Seekers , Rosamunde Pilcher
- The Secret Garden , Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Of Mice and Men , John Steinbeck
- The Stand , Stephen King
- Anna Karenina , Leo Tolstoy
- A good match , Vikram Seth
- Sophiechen and the giant (orig. The BFG), Roald Dahl
- Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
- Black Beauty , Anna Sewell
- Artemis Fowl , Eoin Colfer
- Guilt and Atonement , Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Heaven and Hell , Malorie Blackman
- The geisha , Arthur Golden
- A story from two cities , Charles Dickens
- The Thorn Birds , Colleen McCullough
- Goddess , Terry Pratchett
- The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
- The Magus , John Fowles
- Good omen , Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
- Guards! Guards! , Terry Pratchett
- Lord of the Flies , William Golding
- The perfume , Patrick Süskind
- The philanthropists in ragged pants , Robert Tressell
- The night watchman , Terry Pratchett
- Matilda , Roald Dahl
- Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
- The secret story , Donna Tartt
- The woman in white , Wilkie Collins
- Ulysses , James Joyce
- Bleak House , Charles Dickens
- Charlie's double life , Jacqueline Wilson
- The Zwicks are upside down , Roald Dahl
- I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
- Holes. The Secrets of Green Lake , Louis Sachar
- At the castle , Mervyn Peake
- The god of little things , Arundhati Roy
- Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
- Brave new world , Aldous Huxley
- Cold Comfort Farm , Stella Gibbons
- Magician , Raymond E. Feist
- On the way , Jack Kerouac
- The godfather , Mario Puzo
- Ayla and the Bear Clan , Jean M. Auel
- The colors of magic , Terry Pratchett
- The alchemist , Paulo Coelho
- Katherine, Anya Seton
- Cain and Abel , Jeffrey Archer
- Love in the times of cholera , Gabriel García Márquez
- Girls in Love, Jacqueline Wilson
- Suddenly a princess , Meg Cabot
- Midnight Children , Salman Rushdie
See also
- ZEIT library of 100 books
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki's canon
- The 100 books of the century by Le Monde
- Dutch literary canon
- BBC selection of the best 20 novels from 2000 to 2014
- BBC selection of the top 100 British novels
- Time selection of the best 100 English-language novels from 1923 to 2005
- Thirteen Classics (Classical Chinese Canon)
- Canon of literature