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.hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the United States communal reading program, see <a href="/wiki/One_City_One_Book" title="One City One Book">One City One Book</a>.</div> <p> <b>The Big Read</b> was a survey on books carried out by the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> in 2003, where over three-quarters of a million votes were received from the British public to find the nation's best-loved novel.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The year-long survey was the biggest single test of public reading taste to date,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and culminated with several programmes hosted by celebrities, advocating their favourite books.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Purpose">Purpose</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Big_Read&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Purpose"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The BBC started the Big Read with the goal of finding the "Nation's Best-loved Novel" by way of a viewer vote via the Web, SMS, and telephone. The show attracted controversy for adopting an allegedly <a href="/wiki/Sensationalism" title="Sensationalism">sensationalist</a> approach to <a href="/wiki/Literature" title="Literature">literature</a>, but supporters praised it for raising the public awareness of reading.<sup id="cite_ref-RDB_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RDB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The British public voted originally for any novel that they wished.<sup id="cite_ref-RDB_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RDB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From this, a list of 200 was drawn up, with the highest 21 then put forward for further voting, on the provision that only one book per author was permitted in the top 21. As the poll was based on novels, the plays of <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a> were not part of the survey. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Top_200_novels_in_the_United_Kingdom">Top 200 novels in the United Kingdom</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Big_Read&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Top 200 novels in the United Kingdom"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col"> <ol><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings" title="The Lord of the Rings">The Lord of the Rings</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">J. R. R. Tolkien</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice" title="Pride and Prejudice">Pride and Prejudice</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jane_Austen" title="Jane Austen">Jane Austen</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/His_Dark_Materials" title="His Dark Materials">His Dark Materials</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Philip_Pullman" title="Philip Pullman">Philip Pullman</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(novel)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel)">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams">Douglas Adams</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Goblet_of_Fire" title="Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire">Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/J._K._Rowling" title="J. K. Rowling">J. K. Rowling</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird" title="To Kill a Mockingbird">To Kill a Mockingbird</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Harper_Lee" title="Harper Lee">Harper Lee</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh_(book)" title="Winnie-the-Pooh (book)">Winnie-the-Pooh</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/A._A._Milne" title="A. A. Milne">A. A. Milne</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four" title="Nineteen Eighty-Four">Nineteen Eighty-Four</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lion,_the_Witch_and_the_Wardrobe" title="The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe">The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/C._S._Lewis" title="C. S. Lewis">C. S. Lewis</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jane_Eyre" title="Jane Eyre">Jane Eyre</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB" title="Charlotte Brontë">Charlotte Brontë</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Catch-22" title="Catch-22">Catch-22</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Heller" title="Joseph Heller">Joseph Heller</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wuthering_Heights" title="Wuthering Heights">Wuthering Heights</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Emily_Bront%C3%AB" title="Emily Brontë">Emily Brontë</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Birdsong_(novel)" title="Birdsong (novel)">Birdsong</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Sebastian_Faulks" title="Sebastian Faulks">Sebastian Faulks</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rebecca_(novel)" title="Rebecca (novel)">Rebecca</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Daphne_du_Maurier" title="Daphne du Maurier">Daphne du Maurier</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye" title="The Catcher in the Rye">The Catcher in the Rye</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/J._D._Salinger" title="J. D. Salinger">J. D. Salinger</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wind_in_the_Willows" title="The Wind in the Willows">The Wind in the Willows</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Grahame" title="Kenneth Grahame">Kenneth Grahame</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Great_Expectations" title="Great Expectations">Great Expectations</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Little_Women" title="Little Women">Little Women</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Louisa_May_Alcott" title="Louisa May Alcott">Louisa May Alcott</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Captain_Corelli%27s_Mandolin" title="Captain Corelli's Mandolin">Captain Corelli's Mandolin</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Louis_de_Berni%C3%A8res" title="Louis de Bernières">Louis de Bernières</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/War_and_Peace" title="War and Peace">War and Peace</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy" title="Leo Tolstoy">Leo Tolstoy</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(novel)" title="Gone with the Wind (novel)">Gone with the Wind</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Mitchell" title="Margaret Mitchell">Margaret Mitchell</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Philosopher%27s_Stone" title="Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone">Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/J._K._Rowling" title="J. K. Rowling">J. K. Rowling</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Chamber_of_Secrets" title="Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets">Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/J._K._Rowling" title="J. K. Rowling">J. K. Rowling</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Prisoner_of_Azkaban" title="Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban">Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/J._K._Rowling" title="J. K. Rowling">J. K. Rowling</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hobbit" title="The Hobbit">The Hobbit</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">J. R. R. Tolkien</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tess_of_the_d%27Urbervilles" title="Tess of the d'Urbervilles">Tess of the d'Urbervilles</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hardy" title="Thomas Hardy">Thomas Hardy</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Middlemarch" title="Middlemarch">Middlemarch</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/George_Eliot" title="George Eliot">George Eliot</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Prayer_for_Owen_Meany" title="A Prayer for Owen Meany">A Prayer for Owen Meany</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Irving" title="John Irving">John Irving</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Grapes_of_Wrath" title="The Grapes of Wrath">The Grapes of Wrath</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Steinbeck" title="John Steinbeck">John Steinbeck</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland" title="Alice's Adventures in Wonderland">Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Carroll" title="Lewis Carroll">Lewis Carroll</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Story_of_Tracy_Beaker" title="The Story of Tracy Beaker">The Story of Tracy Beaker</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jacqueline_Wilson" title="Jacqueline Wilson">Jacqueline Wilson</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude" title="One Hundred Years of Solitude">One Hundred Years of Solitude</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez" title="Gabriel García Márquez">Gabriel García Márquez</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Pillars_of_the_Earth" title="The Pillars of the Earth">The Pillars of the Earth</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ken_Follett" title="Ken Follett">Ken Follett</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/David_Copperfield" title="David Copperfield">David Copperfield</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory" title="Charlie and the Chocolate Factory">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Treasure_Island" title="Treasure Island">Treasure Island</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson" title="Robert Louis Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Town_Like_Alice" title="A Town Like Alice">A Town Like Alice</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Nevil_Shute" title="Nevil Shute">Nevil Shute</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Persuasion_(novel)" title="Persuasion (novel)">Persuasion</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jane_Austen" title="Jane Austen">Jane Austen</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dune_(novel)" title="Dune (novel)">Dune</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Frank_Herbert" title="Frank Herbert">Frank Herbert</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Emma_(novel)" title="Emma (novel)">Emma</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jane_Austen" title="Jane Austen">Jane Austen</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Anne_of_Green_Gables" title="Anne of Green Gables">Anne of Green Gables</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lucy_Maud_Montgomery" title="Lucy Maud Montgomery">Lucy Maud Montgomery</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Watership_Down" title="Watership Down">Watership Down</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Adams" title="Richard Adams">Richard Adams</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby" title="The Great Gatsby">The Great Gatsby</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald" title="F. Scott Fitzgerald">F. Scott Fitzgerald</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo" title="The Count of Monte Cristo">The Count of Monte Cristo</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Alexandre_Dumas" title="Alexandre Dumas">Alexandre Dumas</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brideshead_Revisited" title="Brideshead Revisited">Brideshead Revisited</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Evelyn_Waugh" title="Evelyn Waugh">Evelyn Waugh</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Animal_Farm" title="Animal Farm">Animal Farm</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol" title="A Christmas Carol">A Christmas Carol</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Far_from_the_Madding_Crowd" title="Far from the Madding Crowd">Far from the Madding Crowd</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hardy" title="Thomas Hardy">Thomas Hardy</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Goodnight_Mister_Tom" title="Goodnight Mister Tom">Goodnight Mister Tom</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Michelle_Magorian" title="Michelle Magorian">Michelle Magorian</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Shell_Seekers" title="The Shell Seekers">The Shell Seekers</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Rosamunde_Pilcher" title="Rosamunde Pilcher">Rosamunde Pilcher</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Secret_Garden" title="The Secret Garden">The Secret Garden</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Frances_Hodgson_Burnett" title="Frances Hodgson Burnett">Frances Hodgson Burnett</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Of_Mice_and_Men" title="Of Mice and Men">Of Mice and Men</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Steinbeck" title="John Steinbeck">John Steinbeck</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Stand" title="The Stand">The Stand</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">Stephen King</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Anna_Karenina" title="Anna Karenina">Anna Karenina</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy" title="Leo Tolstoy">Leo Tolstoy</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Suitable_Boy" title="A Suitable Boy">A Suitable Boy</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Vikram_Seth" title="Vikram Seth">Vikram Seth</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_BFG" title="The BFG">The BFG</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Swallows_and_Amazons" title="Swallows and Amazons">Swallows and Amazons</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Ransome" title="Arthur Ransome">Arthur Ransome</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Black_Beauty" title="Black Beauty">Black Beauty</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Anna_Sewell" title="Anna Sewell">Anna Sewell</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Artemis_Fowl_(novel)" title="Artemis Fowl (novel)">Artemis Fowl</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Eoin_Colfer" title="Eoin Colfer">Eoin Colfer</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Crime_and_Punishment" title="Crime and Punishment">Crime and Punishment</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Fyodor Dostoyevsky">Fyodor Dostoyevsky</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Noughts_%26_Crosses_(novel_series)" title="Noughts & Crosses (novel series)">Noughts & Crosses</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Malorie_Blackman" title="Malorie Blackman">Malorie Blackman</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Memoirs_of_a_Geisha" title="Memoirs of a Geisha">Memoirs of a Geisha</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Golden" title="Arthur Golden">Arthur Golden</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities" title="A Tale of Two Cities">A Tale of Two Cities</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Thorn_Birds" title="The Thorn Birds">The Thorn Birds</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Colleen_McCullough" title="Colleen McCullough">Colleen McCullough</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mort" title="Mort">Mort</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Magic_Faraway_Tree_series" class="mw-redirect" title="The Magic Faraway Tree series">The Magic Faraway Tree</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Enid_Blyton" title="Enid Blyton">Enid Blyton</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Magus_(novel)" title="The Magus (novel)">The Magus</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Fowles" title="John Fowles">John Fowles</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Good_Omens" title="Good Omens">Good Omens</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Guards!_Guards!" title="Guards! Guards!">Guards! Guards!</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies" title="Lord of the Flies">Lord of the Flies</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_Golding" title="William Golding">William Golding</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Perfume_(novel)" title="Perfume (novel)">Perfume</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Patrick_S%C3%BCskind" title="Patrick Süskind">Patrick Süskind</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ragged-Trousered_Philanthropists" title="The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists">The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Tressell" title="Robert Tressell">Robert Tressell</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Night_Watch_(Discworld)" title="Night Watch (Discworld)">Night Watch</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Matilda_(novel)" title="Matilda (novel)">Matilda</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bridget_Jones%27s_Diary_(novel)" title="Bridget Jones's Diary (novel)">Bridget Jones's Diary</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Helen_Fielding" title="Helen Fielding">Helen Fielding</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Secret_History" title="The Secret History">The Secret History</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Donna_Tartt" title="Donna Tartt">Donna Tartt</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Woman_in_White_(novel)" title="The Woman in White (novel)">The Woman in White</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Wilkie_Collins" title="Wilkie Collins">Wilkie Collins</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)" title="Ulysses (novel)">Ulysses</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/James_Joyce" title="James Joyce">James Joyce</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bleak_House" title="Bleak House">Bleak House</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Double_Act_(novel)" title="Double Act (novel)">Double Act</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jacqueline_Wilson" title="Jacqueline Wilson">Jacqueline Wilson</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Twits" title="The Twits">The Twits</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/I_Capture_the_Castle" title="I Capture the Castle">I Capture the Castle</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Dodie_Smith" title="Dodie Smith">Dodie Smith</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Holes_(novel)" title="Holes (novel)">Holes</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Louis_Sachar" title="Louis Sachar">Louis Sachar</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gormenghast_(series)" title="Gormenghast (series)">Gormenghast</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Mervyn_Peake" title="Mervyn Peake">Mervyn Peake</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_God_of_Small_Things" title="The God of Small Things">The God of Small Things</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Arundhati_Roy" title="Arundhati Roy">Arundhati Roy</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vicky_Angel" title="Vicky Angel">Vicky Angel</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jacqueline_Wilson" title="Jacqueline Wilson">Jacqueline Wilson</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brave_New_World" title="Brave New World">Brave New World</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Aldous_Huxley" title="Aldous Huxley">Aldous Huxley</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cold_Comfort_Farm" title="Cold Comfort Farm">Cold Comfort Farm</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Stella_Gibbons" title="Stella Gibbons">Stella Gibbons</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Magician_(Feist_novel)" title="Magician (Feist novel)">Magician</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Raymond_E._Feist" title="Raymond E. 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Kaye</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Witches_(book)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Witches (book)">The Witches</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Charlotte%27s_Web" title="Charlotte's Web">Charlotte's Web</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/E._B._White" title="E. B. White">E. B. White</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Frankenstein" title="Frankenstein">Frankenstein</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Mary_Shelley" title="Mary Shelley">Mary Shelley</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/They_Used_to_Play_on_Grass" title="They Used to Play on Grass">They Used to Play on Grass</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Terry_Venables" title="Terry Venables">Terry Venables</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Williams_(writer)" title="Gordon Williams (writer)">Gordon Williams</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea" title="The Old Man and the Sea">The Old Man and the Sea</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway" title="Ernest Hemingway">Ernest Hemingway</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Name_of_the_Rose" title="The Name of the Rose">The Name of the Rose</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Umberto_Eco" title="Umberto Eco">Umberto Eco</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sophie%27s_World" title="Sophie's World">Sophie's World</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jostein_Gaarder" title="Jostein Gaarder">Jostein Gaarder</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dustbin_Baby" title="Dustbin Baby">Dustbin Baby</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jacqueline_Wilson" title="Jacqueline Wilson">Jacqueline Wilson</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fantastic_Mr_Fox" title="Fantastic Mr Fox">Fantastic Mr Fox</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lolita" title="Lolita">Lolita</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov" title="Vladimir Nabokov">Vladimir Nabokov</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull" title="Jonathan Livingston Seagull">Jonathan Livingston Seagull</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Bach" title="Richard Bach">Richard Bach</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Little_Prince" title="The Little Prince">The Little Prince</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry" title="Antoine de Saint-Exupéry">Antoine de Saint-Exupéry</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Suitcase_Kid" title="The Suitcase Kid">The Suitcase Kid</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jacqueline_Wilson" title="Jacqueline Wilson">Jacqueline Wilson</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Twist" title="Oliver Twist">Oliver Twist</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Power_of_One_(novel)" title="The Power of One (novel)">The Power of One</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Bryce_Courtenay" title="Bryce Courtenay">Bryce Courtenay</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Silas_Marner" title="Silas Marner">Silas Marner</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/George_Eliot" title="George Eliot">George Eliot</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/American_Psycho" title="American Psycho">American Psycho</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Bret_Easton_Ellis" title="Bret Easton Ellis">Bret Easton Ellis</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Nobody" title="The Diary of a Nobody">The Diary of a Nobody</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/George_Grossmith" title="George Grossmith">George</a> and <a href="/wiki/Weedon_Grossmith" title="Weedon Grossmith">Weedon Grossmith</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Trainspotting_(novel)" title="Trainspotting (novel)">Trainspotting</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Irvine_Welsh" title="Irvine Welsh">Irvine Welsh</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Goosebumps" title="Goosebumps">Goosebumps</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/R._L._Stine" title="R. L. Stine">R. L. Stine</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Heidi" title="Heidi">Heidi</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Johanna_Spyri" title="Johanna Spyri">Johanna Spyri</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sons_and_Lovers" title="Sons and Lovers">Sons and Lovers</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/D._H._Lawrence" title="D. H. Lawrence">D. H. 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Wells</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Horse_Whisperer_(novel)" title="The Horse Whisperer (novel)">The Horse Whisperer</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Evans" title="Nicholas Evans">Nicholas Evans</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Fine_Balance" title="A Fine Balance">A Fine Balance</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Rohinton_Mistry" title="Rohinton Mistry">Rohinton Mistry</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Witches_Abroad" title="Witches Abroad">Witches Abroad</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Once_and_Future_King" title="The Once and Future King">The Once and Future King</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/T._H._White" title="T. H. White">T. H. White</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Very_Hungry_Caterpillar" title="The Very Hungry Caterpillar">The Very Hungry Caterpillar</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Eric_Carle" title="Eric Carle">Eric Carle</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Flowers_in_the_Attic" title="Flowers in the Attic">Flowers in the Attic</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/V._C._Andrews" title="V. C. Andrews">V. C. Andrews</a></li></ol> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Authors_with_multiple_novels_on_the_list">Authors with multiple novels on the list</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Big_Read&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Authors with multiple novels on the list"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Multiple novels in the Top 25</dt></dl> <p>In the first stage, all four extant <a href="/wiki/Harry_Potter" title="Harry Potter">Harry Potter</a> novels by <a href="/wiki/J._K._Rowling" title="J. K. Rowling">J. K. Rowling</a> were among the 25 leaders. So were both <a href="/wiki/Middle-earth" title="Middle-earth">Middle-earth</a> novels by <a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">J. R. R. Tolkien</a>. The second stage featured 21 books by distinct authors: the top 25 with Rowling represented only by her fourth volume, <i>Goblet of Fire</i>, and Tolkien only by <i>The Lord of the Rings</i>. Those two novels finally placed fifth and first; the other preliminary leaders by Rowling and Tolkien nominally led the also-rans in ranks 22–25. </p> <dl><dt>Multiple novels in the Top 50</dt></dl> <ul><li>Four: <a href="/wiki/J._K._Rowling" title="J. K. Rowling">J. K. Rowling</a></li> <li>Three: <a href="/wiki/Jane_Austen" title="Jane Austen">Jane Austen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a></li> <li>Two: <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hardy" title="Thomas Hardy">Thomas Hardy</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, <a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">J. R. R. Tolkien</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Multiple novels in the Top 100</dt></dl> <ul><li>Five: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a></li> <li>Four: <a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a>, <a href="/wiki/J._K._Rowling" title="J. K. Rowling">J. K. Rowling</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jacqueline_Wilson" title="Jacqueline Wilson">Jacqueline Wilson</a></li> <li>Three: <a href="/wiki/Jane_Austen" title="Jane Austen">Jane Austen</a></li> <li>Two: <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hardy" title="Thomas Hardy">Thomas Hardy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez" title="Gabriel García Márquez">Gabriel García Márquez</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Steinbeck" title="John Steinbeck">John Steinbeck</a>, <a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">J. R. R. Tolkien</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy" title="Leo Tolstoy">Leo Tolstoy</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Multiple novels in the Top 200</dt></dl> <ul><li>Fifteen: <a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a></li> <li>Fourteen: <a href="/wiki/Jacqueline_Wilson" title="Jacqueline Wilson">Jacqueline Wilson</a></li> <li>Nine: <a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a></li> <li>Seven: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a></li> <li>Four: <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hardy" title="Thomas Hardy">Thomas Hardy</a>, <a href="/wiki/J._K._Rowling" title="J. K. Rowling">J. K. Rowling</a></li> <li>Three: <a href="/wiki/Jane_Austen" title="Jane Austen">Jane Austen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Horowitz" title="Anthony Horowitz">Anthony Horowitz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">Stephen King</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Steinbeck" title="John Steinbeck">John Steinbeck</a></li> <li>Two: <a href="/wiki/George_Eliot" title="George Eliot">George Eliot</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Irving" title="John Irving">John Irving</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez" title="Gabriel García Márquez">Gabriel García Márquez</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, <a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">J. R. R. Tolkien</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy" title="Leo Tolstoy">Leo Tolstoy</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Similar_contests">Similar contests</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Big_Read&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Similar contests"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Contests similar to the Big Read were conducted in other countries: </p> <ul><li>My Favourite Book in Australia<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_Read_(German)" title="Big Read (German)"><i>Das große Lesen</i></a> in Germany</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_Read_(Hungarian)" title="Big Read (Hungarian)"><i>A Nagy Könyv</i></a> ("The Big Book") in Hungary</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_Read_(Bulgaria)" title="Big Read (Bulgaria)">Голямото четене</a> ("The Big Read") in Bulgaria</li> <li><i>Lielā Lasīšana</i> ("The Big Read") in Latvia<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Great American Read<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Other lists: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Le_Monde%27s_100_Books_of_the_Century" title="Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century"><i>Le Monde</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s 100 Books of the Century</a></li></ul> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid 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id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110110172119/http://pressoffice.penguin.co.uk/static/downloads/releases2003/160503_bigreadstop100_2.pdf">Penguin Dominates The Big Read Top 100</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Penguin_Books" title="Penguin Books">Penguin</a></i> Press Office</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">John Ezard (15 December 2003) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/dec/15/bbc.books">Tolkien runs rings round Big Read rivals</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Boyd Tonkin (24 October 2003) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/a-week-in-books--the-big-read-aims-to-reflect-mass-taste-584433.html">A Week in Books: The Big Read aims to reflect mass taste</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2021">dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a></i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-RDB-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-RDB_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-RDB_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/BBC's+Big+Read">Book awards: BBC's Big Read - LibraryThing</a> Retrieved 28 November 2010</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.abc.net.au/myfavouritebook/top10/100.htm">My Favourite Book - The Top 100</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Australian Broadcasting Corporation">ABC</a></i> Retrieved 6 December 2010</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output 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