Statistics for The United Kingdom's Top 200 Novels

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Rank	Year	Author	Book	% Correct
8	1949	George Orwell	Nineteen Eighty-Four	94%
1*	1954-1955	J.R.R. Tolkein	The Lord of the Rings	94%
2	1813	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	88%
20	1869	Leo Tolstoy	War and Peace	84%
6	1960	Harper Lee	To Kill a Mockingbird	83%
30	1865	Lewis Carroll	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	82%
46	1945	George Orwell	Animal Farm	82%
22	1997	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	81%
25	1937	J.R.R. Tolkien	The Hobbit	81%
171	1818	Mary Shelley	Frankenstein	78%
7	1926	A.A. Milne	Winnie-the-Pooh	78%
12	1847	Emily Brontë	Wuthering Heights	78%
35	1964	Roald Dahl	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	77%
104	1897	Bram Stoker	Dracula	77%
10	1847	Charlotte Brontë	Jane Eyre	77%
43	1925	F. Scott Fitzgerald	The Great Gatsby	77%
18	1868-1869	Louisa May Alcott	Little Women	75%
15	1951	J.D. Salinger	The Catcher in the Rye	75%
182	1838	Charles Dickens	Oliver Twist	74%
144	1986	Stephen King	It	73%
9	1950	C.S. Lewis	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	73%
29	1939	John Steinbeck	The Grapes of Wrath	71%
36	1883	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	71%
17	1861	Charles Dickens	Great Expectations	70%
23	1998	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	70%
74	1988	Roald Dahl	Matilda	70%
11	1961	Joseph Heller	Catch-22	69%
40	1815	Jane Austen	Emma	69%
24	1999	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	69%
70	1954	William Golding	Lord of the Flies	69%
114	1862	Victor Hugo	Les Misérables	68%
161	1851	Herman Melville	Moby-Dick	68%
54	1878	Leo Tolstoy	Anna Karenina	66%
21	1936	Margaret Mitchell	Gone with the Wind	66%
5	2000	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	66%
14	1938	Daphne du Maurier	Rebecca	66%
63	1859	Charles Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities	65%
52	1937	John Steinbeck	Of Mice and Men	65%
78	1922	James Joyce	Ulysses	65%
4	1979	Douglas Adams	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	64%
47	1843	Charles Dickens	A Christmas Carol	62%
178	1955	Vladimir Nabokov	Lolita	62%
90	1957	Jack Kerouac	On the Road	60%
87	1932	Aldous Huxley	Brave New World	58%
3*	1995-2000	Philip Pullman	His Dark Materials	58%
145	1961	Roald Dahl	James and the Giant Peach	57%
39	1965	Frank Herbert	Dune	55%
16	1908	Kenneth Grahame	The Wind in the Willows	55%
60	1866	Fyodor Dostoyevsyk	Crime and Punishment	53%
34	1850	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	53%
158	1902	Joseph Conrad	Heart of Darkness	53%
32	1967	Gabriel García Márquez	One Hundred Years of Solitude	53%
56	1982	Roald Dahl	The BFG	53%
131	1985	Margaret Atwood	The Handmaid's Tale	53%
194	1898	H.G. Wells	The War of the Worlds	53%
44	1844	Alexandre Dumas	The Count of Monte Cristo	52%
91	1969	Mario Puzo	The Godfather	52%
180	1943	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	The Little Prince	52%
173	1951	Ernest Hemingway	The Old Man and the Sea	52%
58	1877	Anna Sewell	Black Beauty	49%
157	1962	Ken Kesey	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	49%
26	1891	Thomas Hardy	Tess of the d'Urbervilles	49%
169	1983	Roald Dahl	The Witches	49%
27	1871-1872	George Eliot	Middlemarch	48%
41	1908	Lucy Maud Montgomery	Anne of Green Gables	47%
38	1817	Jane Austen	Persuasion	47%
45	1945	Evelyn Waugh	Brideshead Revisited	45%
122	1847-1848	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	45%
174	1980	Umberto Eco	The Name of the Rose	44%
51	1911	Frances Hodgson Burnett	The Secret Garden	44%
42	1972	Richard Adams	Watership Down	44%
141	1929	Erich Maria Remarque	All Quiet on the Western Front	43%
75	1996	Helen Fielding	Bridget Jones's Diary	43%
170	1952	E.B. White	Charlotte's Web	43%
79	1853	Charles Dickens	Bleak House	42%
136	1983	Alice Walker	The Color Purple	42%
97	1985	Gabriel García Márquez	Love in the Time of Cholera	40%
106	1837	Charles Dickens	The Pickwick Papers	40%
188*	1992-1997	R.L. Stine	Goosebumps	39%
128	1901-1902	Arthur Conan Doyle	The Hound of the Baskervilles	39%
133	1952	John Steinbeck	East of Eden	38%
118	1891	Oscar Wilde	The Picture of Dorian Gray	38%
187	1993	Irvine Welsh	Trainspotting	38%
189	1881	Johanna Spyri	Heidi	36%
100	1981	Salman Rushdie	Midnight's Children	36%
190	1913	D.H. Lawrence	Sons and Lovers	36%
48	1874	Thomas Hardy	Far from the Madding Crowd	35%
77	1859	Wilkie Collins	The Woman in White	35%
111	1896	Thomas Hardy	Jude the Obscure	34%
159	1901	Rudyard Kipling	Kim	34%
53	1978	Stephen King	The Stand	34%
81	1980	Roald Dahl	The Twits	34%
185	1991	Bret Easton Ellis	American Psycho	32%
19	1994	Louis de Bernières	Captain Corelli's Mandolin	32%
138	1915	John Buchan	The Thirty-Nine Steps	32%
154	2001	Ian McEwan	Atonement	31%
184	1861	George Eliot	Silas Marner	31%
57	1930	Arthur Ransome	Swallows and Amazons	31%
94	1988	Paulo Coelho	The Alchemist	30%
112	1982	Sue Townsend	The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾	29%
199	1969	Eric Carle	The Very Hungry Caterpillar	29%
101	1889	Jerome K. Jerome	Three Men in a Boat	29%
59*	2001-2012	Eoin Colfer	Artemis Fowl	27%
83	1998	Louis Sachar	Holes	27%
120	1951	John Wyndham	The Day of the Triffids	27%
33	1989	Ken Follett	The Pillars of the Earth	27%
191	1984	Milan Kundera	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	27%
55	1993	Vikram Seth	A Suitable Boy	26%
13	1993	Sebastian Faulks	Birdsong	26%
143	1995	Nick Hornby	High Fidelity	26%
71	1985	Patrick Süskind	Perfume	26%
109	1971	Frederick Forsyth	The Day of the Jackal	26%
115	1886	Thomas Hardy	The Mayor of Casterbridge	26%
88	1932	Stella Gibbons	Cold Comfort Farm	25%
125	1998	Barbara Kingsolver	The Poisonwood Bible	25%
177	1970	Roald Dahl	Fantastic Mr Fox	23%
134	1981	Roald Dahl	George's Marvellous Medicine	23%
146	1996	Stephen King	The Green Mile	23%
103	1996	Alex Garland	The Beach	22%
85	1997	Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things	22%
164	1993	E. Annie Proulx	The Shipping News	22%
31	1991	Jacqueline Wilson	The Story of Tracy Beaker	22%
37	1950	Nevil Shute	A Town Like Alice	21%
132	1975	Roald Dahl	Danny, the Champion of the World	21%
200	1979	V.C. Andrews	Flowers in the Attic	21%
68	1990	Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett	Good Omens	21%
62	1997	Arthur Golden	Memoirs of a Geisha	21%
130	1967	Mikhail Bulgakov	The Master and Margarita	21%
76	1992	Donna Tartt	The Secret History	21%
64	1977	Colleen McCullough	The Thorn Birds	19%
84*	1946-1956	Mervyn Peake	Gormenghast	18%
166	1869	R.D. Blackmore	Lorna Doone	18%
149	1969	Patrick O'Brian	Master and Commander	18%
119	1975	James Clavell	Shōgun	18%
165	1978	John Irving	The World According to Garp	18%
129	1990	A.S. Byatt	Possession: A Romance	17%
92	1980	Jean M Auel	The Clan of the Cave Bear	17%
93	1983	Terry Pratchett	The Colour of Magic	17%
198	1958	T.H. White	The Once and Future King	16%
108	1984	Iain Banks	The Wasp Factory	16%
160	1991	Diana Gabaldon	Cross Stitch	14%
49	1981	Michelle Magorian	Goodnight Mister Tom	14%
69	1989	Terry Pratchett	Guards! Guards!	14%
65	1987	Terry Pratchett	Mort	14%
61*	2001	Malorie Blackman	Noughts and Crosses	14%
195	1995	Nicholas Evans	The Horse Whisperer	14%
72	1914	Robert Tressell	The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists	14%
28	1989	John Irving	A Prayer for Owen Meany	13%
82	1948	Dodie Smith	I Capture the Castle	13%
147	1969	Henri Charrière	Papillon	13%
99	2000	Meg Cabot	The Princess Diaries	13%
124	2000	Mark Z. Danielewski	House of Leaves	12%
179	1970	Richard Bach	Jonathan Livingston Seagull	12%
96	1979	Jeffrey Archer	Kane and Abel	12%
186	1892	George and Weedon Grossmith	The Diary of a Nobody	12%
123*	1906-1921	John Galsworthy	The Forsyte Saga	12%
67	1965	John Fowles	The Magus	12%
175	1991	Jostein Gaarder	Sophie's World	10%
113	1951	Nicholas Monsarrat	The Cruel Sea	10%
137	1996	Terry Pratchett	Hogfather	9%
156	1956	Ian Serraillier	The Silver Sword	9%
73	2002	Terry Pratchett	Night Watch	8%
135	1988	Terry Pratchett	Wyrd Sisters	8%
142	1995	Kate Atkinson	Behind the Scenes at the Museum	6%
126	1991	Terry Pratchett	Reaper Man	6%
155	2002	Jacqueline Wilson	Secrets	6%
168	1978	M.M. Kaye	The Far Pavilions	6%
50	1987	Rosamunde Pilcher	The Shell Seekers	6%
139	2002	Jacqueline Wilson	Girls in Tears	5%
105	2001	Anthony Horowitz	Point Blanc	5%
102	1992	Terry Pratchett	Small Gods	5%
151	1994	Terry Pratchett	Soul Music	5%
107	2000	Anthony Horowitz	Stormbreaker	5%
163	1932	Lewis Grassic Gibbon	Sunset Song	5%
153	1999	Terry Pratchett	The Fifth Elephant	5%
66	1943	Enid Blyton	The Magic Faraway Tree	5%
183	1989	Bryce Courtenay	The Power of One	5%
193	2000	Terry Pratchett	The Truth	5%
197	1991	Terry Pratchett	Witches Abroad	5%
80	1995	Jacqueline Wilson	Double Act	4%
98	1997	Jacqueline Wilson	Girls in Love	4%
89	1982	Raymond E. Feist	Magician	4%
148	1993	Terry Pratchett	Men at Arms	4%
110	1999	Jacqueline Wilson	The Illustrated Mum	4%
181	1992	Jacqueline Wilson	The Suitcase Kid	4%
152	2001	Terry Pratchett	Thief of Time	4%
117	1996	Jacqueline Wilson	Bad Girls	3%
176	2001	Jacqueline Wilson	Dustbin Baby	3%
192	1999	Tony Parsons	Man and Boy	3%
162	1993	Wilbur Smith	River God	3%
196	1995	Rohinton Mistry	A Fine Balance	1%
167	1999	Jacqueline Wilson	Girls Out Late	1%
95	1954	Anya Seton	Katherine	1%
116	2000	Jacqueline Wilson	The Dare Game	1%
86	2000	Jacqueline Wilson	Vicky Angel	1%
127	1999	Louise Rennison	Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging	0%
121	2003	Jacqueline Wilson	Lola Rose	0%
150	2002	Anthony Horowitz	Skeleton Key	0%
140	2001	Jacqueline Wilson	Sleepovers	0%
172	1972	Terry Venables/Gordon Williams	They Used to Play on Grass	0%