In April 2003 the BBC's Big Read began the search for the nation's best-loved no vel, and

and three quarters of a million votes were received by the end of the series . Here are the top 100: 1984, George Orwell A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain Alice s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll Animal Farm, George Orwell Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer Black Beauty, Anna Sewell Brave New World, Aldous Huxley Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky David Copperfield, Charles Dickens Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes Dracula, Bram Stoker Dubliners, James Joyce Emma, Jane Austen Eugenie Grandet, Honore de Balzac Frankenstein, Mary Shelley Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian Great Expectations, Charles Dickens Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Grimm Brothers Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift Heidi, Johanna Spyri Holes, Louis Sachar Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bront Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer Les Misrables, Victor Hugo Little Women, Louisa May Alcott Lord Of The Flies, William Golding Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garc*a Mrquez Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden Memoirs of Fanny Hill, John Cleland Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka Middlemarch, George Eliot Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie Moby Dick, Herman Melville Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen Nostromo, Joseph Conrad Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garc*a Mrquez Paradise Lost, John Milton

Persuasion, Jane Austen Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse Tales of Terror and Mystery, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain The Call of the Wild, Jack London The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas pre The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling The Jungle, Upton Sinclair The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett The Provost, John Galt The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Stand, Stephen King The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough The Turn of the Screw, Henry James The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Jules Verne Ulysses, James Joyce Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy Watership Down, Richard Adams Wuthering Heights, Emily Bront