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2826:Literary awards by magazines and newspapers
2692:Book awards: BBC's Big Read - LibraryThing
2811:2006 establishments in the United Kingdom
1306:The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
40:was a survey on books carried out by the
2654:Tolkien runs rings round Big Read rivals
2311:were among the 25 leaders. So were both
2294:Authors with multiple novels on the list
334:Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
312:Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
1471:Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
323:Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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2636:Penguin Dominates The Big Read Top 100
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2303:In the first stage, all four extant
866:The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
169:The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
114:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
73:Top 200 novels in the United Kingdom
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125:Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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1801:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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422:One Hundred Years of Solitude
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2546:("The Big Read") in Bulgaria
1548:George's Marvellous Medicine
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2271:The Very Hungry Caterpillar
2047:Jonathan Livingston Seagull
1889:The World According to Garp
1421:William Makepeace Thackeray
1141:Love in the Time of Cholera
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2694:Retrieved 28 November 2010
2570:s 100 Books of the Century
2552:("The Big Read") in Latvia
1966:They Used to Play on Grass
1372:The Picture of Dorian Gray
598:Far from the Madding Crowd
279:Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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2748:"The Great American Read"
2711:Retrieved 6 December 2010
1669:James and the Giant Peach
1339:The Mayor of Casterbridge
1086:The Clan of the Cave Bear
554:The Count of Monte Cristo
411:The Story of Tracy Beaker
356:Tess of the d'Urbervilles
2260:The Once and Future King
2063:Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1504:The Master and Margarita
433:The Pillars of the Earth
2801:British literary awards
2555:The Great American Read
1981:The Old Man and the Sea
1394:The Day of the Triffids
1009:The God of Small Things
636:Frances Hodgson Burnett
378:A Prayer for Owen Meany
246:The Wind in the Willows
2498:Gabriel García Márquez
2409:Gabriel García Márquez
2323:, and Tolkien only by
1146:Gabriel García Márquez
796:The Magic Faraway Tree
471:Robert Louis Stevenson
427:Gabriel García Márquez
235:The Catcher in the Rye
2325:The Lord of the Rings
2216:The War of the Worlds
2124:The Diary of a Nobody
1592:The Thirty-Nine Steps
1493:Possession: A Romance
1273:The Day of the Jackal
899:Bridget Jones's Diary
741:Noughts & Crosses
136:To Kill a Mockingbird
81:The Lord of the Rings
2776:BBC Big Read website
2282:Flowers in the Attic
1992:The Name of the Rose
1872:Lewis Grassic Gibbon
1713:Master and Commander
1630:Erich Maria Remarque
1449:The Poisonwood Bible
1163:The Princess Diaries
976:I Capture the Castle
763:A Tale of Two Cities
730:Crime and Punishment
697:Swallows and Amazons
609:Goodnight Mister Tom
565:Brideshead Revisited
526:Lucy Maud Montgomery
521:Anne of Green Gables
158:Nineteen Eighty-Four
2227:The Horse Whisperer
1515:The Handmaid's Tale
1443:Mark Z. Danielewski
1284:The Illustrated Mum
1240:The Pickwick Papers
1185:Three Men in a Boat
1174:Midnight's Children
1097:The Colour of Magic
752:Memoirs of a Geisha
548:F. Scott Fitzgerald
389:The Grapes of Wrath
92:Pride and Prejudice
67:William Shakespeare
2728:on 31 October 2019
2624:BBC - The Big Read
1757:The Fifth Elephant
1487:Arthur Conan Doyle
1454:Barbara Kingsolver
1322:Nicholas Monsarrat
921:The Woman in White
910:The Secret History
779:Colleen McCullough
735:Fyodor Dostoyevsky
301:Gone with the Wind
284:Louis de Bernières
257:Great Expectations
103:His Dark Materials
2585:Literature portal
2444:Jacqueline Wilson
2393:Jacqueline Wilson
2118:Bret Easton Ellis
2074:Jacqueline Wilson
2058:The Little Prince
2019:Jacqueline Wilson
1922:The Far Pavilions
1916:Jacqueline Wilson
1878:The Shipping News
1812:Heart of Darkness
1784:Jacqueline Wilson
1619:Jacqueline Wilson
1608:Jacqueline Wilson
1410:Jacqueline Wilson
1366:Jacqueline Wilson
1355:Jacqueline Wilson
1289:Jacqueline Wilson
1278:Frederick Forsyth
1157:Jacqueline Wilson
1042:Cold Comfort Farm
1025:Jacqueline Wilson
959:Jacqueline Wilson
844:Lord of the Flies
631:The Secret Garden
625:Rosamunde Pilcher
620:The Shell Seekers
614:Michelle Magorian
587:A Christmas Carol
477:A Town Like Alice
444:David Copperfield
416:Jacqueline Wilson
306:Margaret Mitchell
273:Louisa May Alcott
229:Daphne du Maurier
202:Wuthering Heights
32:One City One Book
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2476:Anthony Horowitz
2421:J. R. R. Tolkien
2362:J. R. R. Tolkien
2317:J. R. R. Tolkien
2133:Weedon Grossmith
2091:The Power of One
2069:The Suitcase Kid
2041:Vladimir Nabokov
2025:Fantastic Mr Fox
1986:Ernest Hemingway
1790:The Silver Sword
1729:Anthony Horowitz
1570:The Color Purple
1509:Mikhail Bulgakov
1427:The Forsyte Saga
1295:Jude the Obscure
1262:The Wasp Factory
1256:Anthony Horowitz
1234:Anthony Horowitz
1190:Jerome K. Jerome
1058:Raymond E. Feist
746:Malorie Blackman
543:The Great Gatsby
350:J. R. R. Tolkien
218:Sebastian Faulks
185:Charlotte Brontë
86:J. R. R. Tolkien
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2456:Charles Dickens
2438:Terry Pratchett
2379:Terry Pratchett
2375:Charles Dickens
2348:Charles Dickens
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2254:Terry Pratchett
2243:Rohinton Mistry
2210:Terry Pratchett
2172:Sons and Lovers
2113:American Psycho
2096:Bryce Courtenay
2085:Charles Dickens
2008:Jostein Gaarder
1975:Gordon Williams
1944:Charlotte's Web
1905:R. D. Blackmore
1883:E. Annie Proulx
1850:Herman Melville
1828:Rudyard Kipling
1795:Ian Serraillier
1762:Terry Pratchett
1751:Terry Pratchett
1740:Terry Pratchett
1718:Patrick O'Brian
1707:Terry Pratchett
1696:Henri Charrière
1586:Terry Pratchett
1564:Terry Pratchett
1520:Margaret Atwood
1476:Louise Rennison
1465:Terry Pratchett
1438:House of Leaves
1432:John Galsworthy
1245:Charles Dickens
1201:Terry Pratchett
1102:Terry Pratchett
1031:Brave New World
948:Charles Dickens
882:Terry Pratchett
871:Robert Tressell
860:Patrick Süskind
849:William Golding
838:Terry Pratchett
833:Guards! Guards!
827:Terry Pratchett
790:Terry Pratchett
774:The Thorn Birds
768:Charles Dickens
642:Of Mice and Men
592:Charles Dickens
559:Alexandre Dumas
466:Treasure Island
449:Charles Dickens
262:Charles Dickens
251:Kenneth Grahame
147:Winnie-the-Pooh
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