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The resulting list of 100 titles includes 33 that are compiled in this survey. Unlike the Amazon surveys, this one is still <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml">online</a>. <br><br> <b>Ranked</b>: Yes <br><br> <b>Titles Cited</b>: 32 <br><br> <b>Publication</b>: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml">http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml</a>, 2003 </div> <div class="overviewimage"> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml"><img src="http://www.locusmag.com/covers/2003bbc_147x133.jpg" width="147" height="133" border="0"></a></div> <br clear="all"> <div class="clearFix"></div> </div> <ol> <li value="1"> <a href="J_R_R_Tolkien_Citations">J. R. R. Tolkien</a>, <b>The Lord of the Rings</b> (series, 1955) <br> <li value="3"> <a href="Philip_Pullman_Citations">Philip Pullman</a>, <b>His Dark Materials</b> (series, 2000) <br> <li value="4"> <a href="Douglas_Adams_Citations">Douglas Adams</a>, <b>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</b> (Pan, 1979) <br> <li value="5"> <a href="J_K_Rowling_Citations">J. K. Rowling</a>, <b>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire</b> (Scholastic/Levine, 2000) <br> <li value="8"> <a href="George_Orwell_Citations">George Orwell</a>, <b>Nineteen Eighty-Four</b> (Secker & Warburg, 1949) <br> <li value="9"> <a href="C_S_Lewis_Citations">C. S. Lewis</a>, <b>The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe</b> (Geoffrey Bles, 1950) <br> <li value="16"> <a href="Kenneth_Grahame_Citations">Kenneth Grahame</a>, <b>The Wind in the Willows</b> (Thames Methuen, 1908) <br> <li value="22"> <a href="J_K_Rowling_Citations">J. K. Rowling</a>, <b>Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone</b> (Bloomsbury, 1997) <br> <li value="23"> <a href="J_K_Rowling_Citations">J. K. Rowling</a>, <b>Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets</b> (Bloomsbury, 1998) <br> <li value="24"> <a href="J_K_Rowling_Citations">J. K. Rowling</a>, <b>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban</b> (Bloomsbury, 1999) <br> <li value="25"> <a href="J_R_R_Tolkien_Citations">J. R. R. Tolkien</a>, <b>The Hobbit</b> (Allen & Unwin , 1937) <br> <li value="30"> <a href="Lewis_Carroll_Citations">Lewis Carroll</a>, <b>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</b> (Macmillan, 1865) <br> <li value="32"> <a href="Gabriel_Garcia_Marquez_Citations">Gabriel Garcia Marquez</a>, <b>One Hundred Years of Solitude</b> (In Spanish, 1967; Harper & Row, 1970) <br> <li value="35"> <a href="Roald_Dahl_Citations">Roald Dahl</a>, <b>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</b> (Knopf, 1964) <br> <li value="39"> <a href="Frank_Herbert_Citations">Frank Herbert</a>, <b>Dune</b> (Chilton, 1965) <br> <li value="42"> <a href="Richard_Adams_Citations">Richard Adams</a>, <b>Watership Down</b> (Rex Collings, 1972) <br> <li value="46"> <a href="George_Orwell_Citations">George Orwell</a>, <b>Animal Farm</b> (Secker & Warburg , 1945) <br> <li value="53"> <a href="Stephen_King_Citations">Stephen King</a>, <b>The Stand</b> (Doubleday, 1978) <br> <li value="59"> <a href="Eoin_Colfer_Citations">Eoin Colfer</a>, <b>Artemis Fowl</b> (Hyperion/Talk Miramax Books, 2001) <br> <li value="65"> <a href="Terry_Pratchett_Citations">Terry Pratchett</a>, <b>Mort</b> (Gollancz, 1987) <br> <li value="67"> <a href="John_Fowles_Citations">John Fowles</a>, <b>The Magus</b> (Little, Brown, 1965) <br> <li value="68"> <a href="Terry_Pratchett_Citations">Terry Pratchett</a> & <a href="Neil_Gaiman_Citations">Neil Gaiman</a>, <b>Good Omens</b> (Gollancz, 1990) <br> <li value="69"> <a href="Terry_Pratchett_Citations">Terry Pratchett</a>, <b>Guards! Guards!</b> (Gollancz, 1989) <br> <li value="70"> <a href="William_Golding_Citations">William Golding</a>, <b>Lord of the Flies</b> (Faber and Faber, 1954) <br> <li value="71"> <a href="Patrick_Suskind_Citations">Patrick S黶kind</a>, <b>Perfume</b> (Knopf, 1986) <br> <li value="73"> <a href="Terry_Pratchett_Citations">Terry Pratchett</a>, <b>Night Watch</b> (HarperCollins, 2002) <br> <li value="84"> <a href="Mervyn_Peake_Citations">Mervyn Peake</a>, <b>Gormenghast</b> (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950) <br> <li value="87"> <a href="Aldous_Huxley_Citations">Aldous Huxley</a>, <b>Brave New World</b> (Chatto & Windus, 1932) <br> <li value="89"> <a href="Raymond_E_Feist_Citations">Raymond E. Feist</a>, <b>Magician</b> (Doubleday , 1982) <br> <li value="92"> <a href="Jean_M_Auel_Citations">Jean M. Auel</a>, <b>The Clan of the Cave Bear</b> (Crown , 1980) <br> <li value="93"> <a href="Terry_Pratchett_Citations">Terry Pratchett</a>, <b>The Colour of Magic</b> (Colin Smythe, 1983) <br> <li value="100"> <a href="Salman_Rushdie_Citations">Salman Rushdie</a>, <b>Midnight's Children</b> (Jonathan Cape, 1981) <br> </ol> </div>  </div>  </div>  <br clear="all"> <div class="copyrightblock"> Copyright 2012 - 2025 by Mark R. Kelly and the <a class="white" href="http://www.lsff.net/">Locus Science Fiction Foundation</a>. All rights reserved. </div>  <div class="timestampblock"> This page last updated Wednesday 22 May 2019 at 11:27 PT </div>  <br clear="all"> </div>  </body></html>