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2681:Book awards: BBC's Big Read - LibraryThing
2800:2006 establishments in the United Kingdom
1295:The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
29:was a survey on books carried out by the
2643:Tolkien runs rings round Big Read rivals
2300:were among the 25 leaders. So were both
2283:Authors with multiple novels on the list
323:Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
301:Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
1460:Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
312:Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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2625:Penguin Dominates The Big Read Top 100
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2615:April 2003, Retrieved 9 December 2008
2292:In the first stage, all four extant
855:The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
158:The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
103:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
62:Top 200 novels in the United Kingdom
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114:Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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444:Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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1515:Danny, the Champion of the World
389:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
2693:My Favourite Book - The Top 100
1790:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1625:Behind the Scenes at the Museum
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2513:My Favourite Book in Australia
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1614:All Quiet on the Western Front
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2288:Multiple novels in the Top 25
1471:The Hound of the Baskervilles
411:One Hundred Years of Solitude
58:were not part of the survey.
2535:("The Big Read") in Bulgaria
1537:George's Marvellous Medicine
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2529:("The Big Book") in Hungary
2260:The Very Hungry Caterpillar
2036:Jonathan Livingston Seagull
1878:The World According to Garp
1410:William Makepeace Thackeray
1130:Love in the Time of Cholera
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2795:Awards established in 2006
2683:Retrieved 28 November 2010
2559:s 100 Books of the Century
2541:("The Big Read") in Latvia
1955:They Used to Play on Grass
1361:The Picture of Dorian Gray
587:Far from the Madding Crowd
268:Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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2737:"The Great American Read"
2700:Retrieved 6 December 2010
1658:James and the Giant Peach
1328:The Mayor of Casterbridge
1075:The Clan of the Cave Bear
543:The Count of Monte Cristo
400:The Story of Tracy Beaker
345:Tess of the d'Urbervilles
2249:The Once and Future King
2052:Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1493:The Master and Margarita
422:The Pillars of the Earth
2790:British literary awards
2544:The Great American Read
1970:The Old Man and the Sea
1383:The Day of the Triffids
998:The God of Small Things
625:Frances Hodgson Burnett
367:A Prayer for Owen Meany
235:The Wind in the Willows
2487:Gabriel García Márquez
2398:Gabriel García Márquez
2312:, and Tolkien only by
1135:Gabriel García Márquez
785:The Magic Faraway Tree
460:Robert Louis Stevenson
416:Gabriel García Márquez
224:The Catcher in the Rye
2314:The Lord of the Rings
2205:The War of the Worlds
2113:The Diary of a Nobody
1581:The Thirty-Nine Steps
1482:Possession: A Romance
1262:The Day of the Jackal
888:Bridget Jones's Diary
730:Noughts & Crosses
125:To Kill a Mockingbird
70:The Lord of the Rings
2765:BBC Big Read website
2271:Flowers in the Attic
1981:The Name of the Rose
1861:Lewis Grassic Gibbon
1702:Master and Commander
1619:Erich Maria Remarque
1438:The Poisonwood Bible
1152:The Princess Diaries
965:I Capture the Castle
752:A Tale of Two Cities
719:Crime and Punishment
686:Swallows and Amazons
598:Goodnight Mister Tom
554:Brideshead Revisited
515:Lucy Maud Montgomery
510:Anne of Green Gables
147:Nineteen Eighty-Four
2216:The Horse Whisperer
1504:The Handmaid's Tale
1432:Mark Z. Danielewski
1273:The Illustrated Mum
1229:The Pickwick Papers
1174:Three Men in a Boat
1163:Midnight's Children
1086:The Colour of Magic
741:Memoirs of a Geisha
537:F. Scott Fitzgerald
378:The Grapes of Wrath
81:Pride and Prejudice
56:William Shakespeare
2717:on 31 October 2019
2613:BBC - The Big Read
1746:The Fifth Elephant
1476:Arthur Conan Doyle
1443:Barbara Kingsolver
1311:Nicholas Monsarrat
910:The Woman in White
899:The Secret History
768:Colleen McCullough
724:Fyodor Dostoyevsky
290:Gone with the Wind
273:Louis de Bernières
246:Great Expectations
92:His Dark Materials
2574:Literature portal
2433:Jacqueline Wilson
2382:Jacqueline Wilson
2107:Bret Easton Ellis
2063:Jacqueline Wilson
2047:The Little Prince
2008:Jacqueline Wilson
1911:The Far Pavilions
1905:Jacqueline Wilson
1867:The Shipping News
1801:Heart of Darkness
1773:Jacqueline Wilson
1608:Jacqueline Wilson
1597:Jacqueline Wilson
1399:Jacqueline Wilson
1355:Jacqueline Wilson
1344:Jacqueline Wilson
1278:Jacqueline Wilson
1267:Frederick Forsyth
1146:Jacqueline Wilson
1031:Cold Comfort Farm
1014:Jacqueline Wilson
948:Jacqueline Wilson
833:Lord of the Flies
620:The Secret Garden
614:Rosamunde Pilcher
609:The Shell Seekers
603:Michelle Magorian
576:A Christmas Carol
466:A Town Like Alice
433:David Copperfield
405:Jacqueline Wilson
295:Margaret Mitchell
262:Louisa May Alcott
218:Daphne du Maurier
191:Wuthering Heights
21:One City One Book
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2495:J. R. R. Tolkien
2465:Anthony Horowitz
2410:J. R. R. Tolkien
2351:J. R. R. Tolkien
2306:J. R. R. Tolkien
2122:Weedon Grossmith
2080:The Power of One
2058:The Suitcase Kid
2030:Vladimir Nabokov
2014:Fantastic Mr Fox
1975:Ernest Hemingway
1779:The Silver Sword
1718:Anthony Horowitz
1559:The Color Purple
1498:Mikhail Bulgakov
1416:The Forsyte Saga
1284:Jude the Obscure
1251:The Wasp Factory
1245:Anthony Horowitz
1223:Anthony Horowitz
1179:Jerome K. Jerome
1047:Raymond E. Feist
735:Malorie Blackman
532:The Great Gatsby
339:J. R. R. Tolkien
207:Sebastian Faulks
174:Charlotte Brontë
75:J. R. R. Tolkien
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2518:Das große Lesen
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2445:Charles Dickens
2427:Terry Pratchett
2368:Terry Pratchett
2364:Charles Dickens
2337:Charles Dickens
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2243:Terry Pratchett
2232:Rohinton Mistry
2199:Terry Pratchett
2161:Sons and Lovers
2102:American Psycho
2085:Bryce Courtenay
2074:Charles Dickens
1997:Jostein Gaarder
1964:Gordon Williams
1933:Charlotte's Web
1894:R. D. Blackmore
1872:E. Annie Proulx
1839:Herman Melville
1817:Rudyard Kipling
1784:Ian Serraillier
1751:Terry Pratchett
1740:Terry Pratchett
1729:Terry Pratchett
1707:Patrick O'Brian
1696:Terry Pratchett
1685:Henri Charrière
1575:Terry Pratchett
1553:Terry Pratchett
1509:Margaret Atwood
1465:Louise Rennison
1454:Terry Pratchett
1427:House of Leaves
1421:John Galsworthy
1234:Charles Dickens
1190:Terry Pratchett
1091:Terry Pratchett
1020:Brave New World
937:Charles Dickens
871:Terry Pratchett
860:Robert Tressell
849:Patrick Süskind
838:William Golding
827:Terry Pratchett
822:Guards! Guards!
816:Terry Pratchett
779:Terry Pratchett
763:The Thorn Birds
757:Charles Dickens
631:Of Mice and Men
581:Charles Dickens
548:Alexandre Dumas
455:Treasure Island
438:Charles Dickens
251:Charles Dickens
240:Kenneth Grahame
136:Winnie-the-Pooh
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