BBC Big Read: The UK's Top 200 Novels [2003]

Historical Literary

Co-authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman rank at 68. Missing: * Sebastian Faulks (13) * Louis de Bernieres (19) * Nevil Shute (37) * Michelle Magorian (49) * Rosamunde Pilcher (50) * Vikram Seth (55) * Arthur Ransome (57) * Eoin Colfer (59) * Malorie Blackman (61) * Arthur Golden (62) * Patrick Suskind (71) * Robert Tressell (72) * Donna Tartt (76) * Dodie Smith (82) * Louis Sacher (83) * Arundhati Roy (85) * Raymond E. Feist (89) * Paulo Coelho (94) * Anya Seton (95) * Meg Cabot (99) * Alex Garland (103) * Anthony Horowitz (105) * Anthony Horowitz (107) * Iain Banks (108) * Sue Townsend (112) * Nicholas Monsarrat (113) * John Wyndham (120) * Mark Z. Danielewski (124) * Louise Rennison (127) * Kate Atkinson (142) * Anthony Horowitz (150) * Ian McEwan (154) * Ian Serraillier (156) * Wilbur Smith (162) * Lewis Grassic Gibbon (163) * R.D. Blackmore (166) * Terry Venables and Gordon Williams (172) * Jostein Gaarder (175) * Bryce Courtenay (183) * George and Weedon Grossmith (186) * Johanna Spyri (189) * Tony Parsons (192) * Nicholas Evans (195) * Rohinton Mistry (196) * Eric Carle (199)

This Category is Ranked. Sort by Ranking Based on Votes by clicking on Vote Ranking. Sort by the Collection's Ranking by clicking on List Ranking.

Vote Ranking	List Ranking
32	0	BBC TV Network 5.71% (2 of 35 votes)
27	1	J.R.R. Tolkien Author 45.45% (5 of 11 votes)
48	2	Jane Austen Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
4	3	Philip Pullman Author 100% (1 of 1 votes)
66	4	Douglas Adams Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
16	5	J.K. Rowling Author 58.33% (7 of 12 votes)
67	6	Harper Lee Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
68	7	A.A. Milne Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
69	8	George Orwell Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
70	9	C.S. Lewis Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
20	10	Charlotte Bronte Author 50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
64	11	Joseph Heller Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
65	12	Emily Bronte Poet 0% (0 of 1 votes)
15	14	Daphne Du Maurier Author 75.00% (3 of 4 votes)
79	15	J.D. Salinger Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
80	16	Kenneth Grahame Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
81	17	Charles Dickens Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
82	18	Louisa May Alcott Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
83	20	Leo Tolstoy Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
84	21	Margaret Mitchell Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
17	22	J.K. Rowling Author 58.33% (7 of 12 votes)
18	23	J.K. Rowling Author 58.33% (7 of 12 votes)
19	24	J.K. Rowling Author 58.33% (7 of 12 votes)
28	25	J.R.R. Tolkien Author 45.45% (5 of 11 votes)
60	26	Thomas Hardy (Writer) Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
61	27	George Eliot Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
62	28	John Irving Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
63	29	John Steinbeck Author 0% (0 of 3 votes)
25	30	Lewis Carroll Author 50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
34	31	Jacqueline Wilson Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
5	32	Gabriel Garcia Marquez Author 100% (1 of 1 votes)
3	33	Ken Follett Author 100% (1 of 1 votes)
85	34	Charles Dickens Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
86	35	Roald Dahl Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
87	36	Robert Louis Stevenson Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
165	37	Nevil Shute Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
88	38	Jane Austen Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
89	39	Frank Herbert Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
90	40	Jane Austen Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
21	41	Lucy Maud Montgomery Author 50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
71	42	Richard Adams Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
72	43	F. Scott Fitzgerald Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
73	44	Alexandre Dumas, Pere Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
6	45	Evelyn Waugh Author 100% (2 of 2 votes)
74	46	George Orwell Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
75	47	Charles Dickens Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
76	48	Thomas Hardy (Writer) Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
77	51	Frances Hodgson Burnett Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
78	52	John Steinbeck Author 0% (0 of 3 votes)
31	53	Stephen King Author 44.65% (121 of 271 votes)
91	54	Leo Tolstoy Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
92	56	Roald Dahl Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
93	58	Anna Sewell Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
94	60	Fyodor Dostoyevsky Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
95	63	Charles Dickens Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
22	64	Colleen McCullough Author 50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
96	65	Terry Pratchett Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
97	66	Enid Blyton Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
162	67	John Fowles Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
98	68	Terry Pratchett Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
99	68	Neil Gaiman Artist 0% (0 of 1 votes)
100	69	Terry Pratchett Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
101	70	William Golding Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
171	71	Patrick Süskind Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
102	73	Terry Pratchett Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
103	74	Roald Dahl Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
13	75	Helen Fielding Author 100% (1 of 1 votes)
170	76	Donna Tartt Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
104	77	Wilkie Collins Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
105	78	James Joyce Poet 0% (0 of 1 votes)
106	79	Charles Dickens Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
35	80	Jacqueline Wilson Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
107	81	Roald Dahl Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
166	83	Louis Sachar Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
10	84	Mervyn Peake Author 100% (1 of 1 votes)
36	86	Jacqueline Wilson Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
129	87	Aldous Huxley Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
49	88	Stella Gibbons Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
130	90	Jack Kerouac Author 0% (0 of 3 votes)
131	91	Mario Puzo Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
132	92	Jean M. Auel Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
133	93	Terry Pratchett Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
169	94	Paulo Coelho Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
7	96	Jeffrey Archer Politician 100% (1 of 1 votes)
8	97	Gabriel Garcia Marquez Author 100% (1 of 1 votes)
37	98	Jacqueline Wilson Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
117	100	Salman Rushdie Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
50	101	Jerome K. Jerome Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
118	102	Terry Pratchett Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
119	104	Bram Stoker Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
159	105	Anthony Horowitz Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
120	106	Charles Dickens Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
160	107	Anthony Horowitz Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
51	109	Frederick Forsyth Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
38	110	Jacqueline Wilson Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
121	111	Thomas Hardy (Writer) Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
164	112	Sue Townsend Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
122	114	Victor Hugo Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
123	115	Thomas Hardy (Writer) Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
39	116	Jacqueline Wilson Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
40	117	Jacqueline Wilson Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
124	118	Oscar Wilde Playwright 0% (0 of 2 votes)
163	119	James Clavell Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
41	121	Jacqueline Wilson Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
125	122	William Makepeace Thackeray Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
33	123	John Galsworthy Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
52	125	Barbara Kingsolver Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
126	126	Terry Pratchett Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
127	128	Arthur Conan Doyle Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
9	129	A.S. Byatt Author 100% (1 of 1 votes)
108	130	Mikhail Bulgakov Playwright 0% (0 of 0 votes)
109	131	Margaret Atwood Author 0% (0 of 3 votes)
110	132	Roald Dahl Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
111	133	John Steinbeck Author 0% (0 of 3 votes)
112	134	Roald Dahl Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
113	135	Terry Pratchett Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
114	136	Alice Walker Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
115	137	Terry Pratchett Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
55	138	John Buchan Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
42	139	Jacqueline Wilson Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
43	140	Jacqueline Wilson Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
116	141	Erich Maria Remarque Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
53	143	Nick Hornby Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
30	144	Stephen King Author 44.65% (121 of 271 votes)
128	145	Roald Dahl Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
29	146	Stephen King Author 44.65% (121 of 271 votes)
26	147	Henri Charriere Murderer 50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
134	148	Terry Pratchett Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
2	149	Patrick O'Brian Author 100% (1 of 1 votes)
161	150	Anthony Horowitz Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
135	151	Terry Pratchett Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
136	152	Terry Pratchett Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
137	153	Terry Pratchett Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
14	154	Ian McEwan Author 100% (1 of 1 votes)
44	155	Jacqueline Wilson Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
138	157	Ken Kesey Author 0% (0 of 6 votes)
139	158	Joseph Conrad Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
140	159	Rudyard Kipling Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
58	160	Diana Gabaldon Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
141	161	Herman Melville Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
56	164	Annie Proulx Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
142	165	John Irving Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
12	166	R. D. Blackmore Author 100% (1 of 1 votes)
45	167	Jacqueline Wilson Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
143	169	Roald Dahl Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
144	170	E.B. White Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
145	171	Mary Shelley Author 0% (0 of 3 votes)
167	172	Terry Venables Soccer Player 0% (0 of 0 votes)
23	173	Ernest Hemingway Author 50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
59	174	Umberto Eco Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
46	176	Jacqueline Wilson Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
149	177	Roald Dahl Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
150	178	Vladimir Nabokov Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
57	179	Richard Bach Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
156	180	Antoine de Saint Exupery Aviator 0% (0 of 0 votes)
47	181	Jacqueline Wilson Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
151	182	Charles Dickens Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
152	184	George Eliot Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
153	185	Bret Easton Ellis Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
24	187	Irvine Welsh Author 50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
146	188	R.L. Stine Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
168	189	Johanna Spyri Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
147	190	D.H. Lawrence Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
157	191	Milan Kundera Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
148	193	Terry Pratchett Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
11	194	H.G. (Herbert George) Wells Author 100% (6 of 6 votes)
158	195	Nicholas Evans Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
154	197	Terry Pratchett Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
54	198	T.H. White Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
1	199	Eric Carle Author 100% (1 of 1 votes)
155	200	V.C. Andrews Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)

BBC Big Read: The UK's Top 200 Novels [2003]

32

0

TV Network

5.71% (2 of 35 votes)

27

1

Author

45.45% (5 of 11 votes)

48

2

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

4

3

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

66

4

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

16

5

Author

58.33% (7 of 12 votes)

67

6

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

68

7

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

69

8

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

70

9

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

20

10

Author

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

64

11

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

65

12

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

15

14

Author

75.00% (3 of 4 votes)

79

15

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

80

16

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

81

17

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

82

18

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

83

20

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

84

21

Author