UK's Best Loved Novels of All Time

Can you name the UK public's best loved novels of all time, according to 2003 BBC survey?

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Title	Author
The Lord of the Rings	JRR Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
His Dark Materials	Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	JK Rowling
To Kill A Mockingbird	Harper Lee
Winnie the Pooh	AA Milne
Nineteen Eighty-Four	George Orwell
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	CS Lewis
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë
Catch-22	Joseph Heller
Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë
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
Captain Corelli's Mandolin	Louis de Bernieres
War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy
Gone with the Wind	Margaret Mitchell
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	JK Rowling
The Hobbit	JRR Tolkien
Tess of the D'Urbervilles	Thomas Hardy
Middlemarch	George Eliot
A Prayer for Owen Meany	John Irving
The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll
The Story of Tracy Beaker	Jacqueline Wilson
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Pillars of the Earth	Ken Follett
David Copperfield	Charles Dickens

Title	Author
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Roald Dahl
Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson
A Town Like Alice	Nevil Shute
Persuasion	Jane Austen
Dune	Frank Herbert
Emma	Jane Austen
Anne of Green Gables	LM Montgomery
Watership Down	Richard Adams
The Great Gatsby	F Scott Fitzgerald
The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas
Brideshead Revisited	Evelyn Waugh
Animal Farm	George Orwell
A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens
Far From the Madding Crowd	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 Suitable Boy	Vikram Seth
The BFG	Roald Dahl
Swallows and Amazons	Arthur Ransome
Black Beauty	Anna Sewell
Artemis Fowl	Eoin Colfer
Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Noughts and Crosses	Malorie Blackman
Memoirs of a Geisha	Arthur Golden
A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens
The Thorn Birds	Colleen McCollough
Mort	Terry Pratchett
The Magic Faraway Tree	Enid Blyton
The Magus	John Fowles

Title	Author
Good Omens	Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Guards! Guards!	Terry Pratchett
Lord of the Flies	William Golding
Perfume	Patrick Süskind
The Raffed Trousered Philanthropists	Robert Tressell
Night Watch	Terry Pratchett
Matilda	Roald Dahl
Bridget Jones's Diary	Helen Fielding
The Secret History	Donna Tartt
The Woman in White	Wilkie Collins
Ulysses	James Joyce
Bleak House	Charles Dickens
Double Act	Jacqueline Wilson
The Twits	Roald Dahl
I Capture the Castle	Dodie Smith
Holes	Louis Sachar
Gormenghast	Mervyn Peake
The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy
Vicky Angel	Jacqueline Wilson
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
Cold Comfort Farm	Stella Gibbons
Magician	Raymond E Feist
On the Road	Jack Kerouac
The Godfather	Mario Puzo
The Clan of the Cave Bear	Jean M Auel
The Colour of Magic	Terry Pratchett
The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho
Katherine	Anya Seton
Kane and Abel	Jeffrey Archer
Love in the Time of Cholera	Gabriel García Márquez
Girls in Love	Jacqueline Wilson
The Princess Diaries	Meg Cabot
Midnights Children	Salman Rushdie

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Mar 4, 2023

I missed quite a few that I've actually read, some more than once....War and Peace, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Tess (couldn't spell D'Urbervilles), Magus, Thorn Birds, 100 Years...Of Mice and Men. Read Black Beauty as a child; read CS Lewis and Winnie to my children. With authors who have written a LOT of books, like Dickens, Hardy, Steinbeck, it is tricky to come up with the one on the list. I also made a lot of typos and errors...changed "Galaxy" to "universe"! etc......

I've actually read all but 3 of the 36 I named.

Good quiz, except somewhat unfair to the rare one like myself who has never opened a Harry Potter book! All those titles???

Thanks for your hard work.

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