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British
novels dominate public's top 100
British
books are the nation's favourite, according to a poll of the British
public to be revealed on The 91热爆 Big Read Top 100
on 91热爆 TWO tonight (Saturday 17 May) at 9.05pm.
Immediately
afterwards on 91热爆 FOUR, the list will be examined and debated by
Andrew Marr and a panel of well-known faces.
Nearly
140,000 people nominated their favourite work of fiction as part
of The 91热爆 Big Read.
And
they voted overwhelmingly for works by British authors and novels
set in the UK.
Sixty-six
of the top 100 books are written by British authors past and present
from George Orwell and Charlotte Bronte to Roald Dahl and Douglas
Adams.
Two
iconic British writers - Charles Dickens and Terry Pratchett - are
the most nominated authors in the list. Each have five works in
the top 100.
While
thousands nominated books that transport readers to a different
world - 1950s underground America, jazz, sex and drugs in Jack Kerouac's
On the Road; Vikram Seth's evocative portrait of India in A Suitable
Boy; and the vast Russian landscape in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina -
the public also love reading about the beauty of their own country
with just over half of the top 100 novels set in the UK (51).
Children's
novels did well in The 91热爆 Big Read Top 100 list with 30 children's
books making it into the Top 100.
Lord
of the Rings and JK Rowling's Harry Potter books are joined by four
works by Jacqueline Wilson, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
and classic children's story Black Beauty by Anna Sewell.
And
fantastic fiction has a life beyond the page with 71% of the top
100 novels adapted for screen.
Jane
Root, Controller of 91热爆 TWO, says: "There has been a fantastic
response to the nomination phase for The 91热爆 Big Read, with over
four times as many votes as Great Britons gained in its nomination
period.
"On
our website over 14,000 messages were posted by people engaging
in heated, passionate and funny debates about why their book was
the best choice.
"We
hope this kind of contagious enthusiasm will spread over the summer
and thousands of people will join book groups to discuss, debate
and share the experience of books."
The
public must wait until Autumn to discover the order of the top 100
novels, when The 91热爆 Big Read returns to 91热爆 TWO for a major documentary
series.
The
20 most popular novels will be championed by celebrity advocates
attempting to persuade viewers that their book is the best.
The
public will then be asked to vote again for one of these top 20
to decide which book is the nation's favourite of favourites.
91热爆
Big Read activities will be taking place throughout the summer in
schools, libraries and bookstores - see press release The
Big Read beyond the 91热爆.
The
91热爆 Big Read website -
- has information on the top 100 list, literary quizzes and a message
board for the public to share their thoughts about the nominated
novels.
In
The 91热爆 Big Read Battle of the Books, a new weekly discussion programme
on 91热爆 FOUR starting in June, two literary advocates pick a book
from the list and argue its case to a jury of readers.
Plus
there will be special programmes on 91热爆 national and local radio.
The
Big Read Top 100, Saturday 17 May, 91热爆 TWO at 9.05pm.
The
Big Read Debate with Andrew Marr, Saturday 17 May, 91热爆 FOUR, 10.05pm.
The
91热爆 Big Read Top 100 best-loved books, in alphabetical order, are:
Title |
Author |
1984 |
George
Orwell |
The
Alchemist |
Paul
Coelho |
Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland |
Lewis Carroll |
Animal
Farm |
George
Orwell |
Anna
Karenina |
Leo
Tolstoy |
Anne
of Green Gables |
LM
Montgomery |
Artemis
Fowl |
Eoin
Colfer |
The
BFG |
Roald
Dahl |
Birdsong |
Sebastian
Faulks |
Black
Beauty |
Anna
Sewell |
Bleak
House |
Charles
Dickens |
Brave
New World |
Aldous
Huxley |
Brideshead
Revisited |
Evelyn
Waugh |
Bridget
Jones' Diary |
Helen
Fielding |
Captain
Corelli's Mandolin |
Louis
de Bernieres |
Catch
22 |
Joseph
L Heller |
The
Catcher in the Rye |
JD
Salinger |
Charlie
& Chocolate Factory |
Roald
Dahl |
A
Christmas Carol |
Charles
Dickens |
The
Clan of the Cave Bear |
Jean
M Auel |
Cold
Comfort Farm |
Stella
Gibbons |
The
Colour of Magic |
Terry
Pratchett |
The
Count of Monte Cristo |
Alexandre
Dumas
|
Crime
and Punishment |
Fyodor
Dostoyevsky
|
David
Copperfield |
Charles
Dickens |
Double
Act |
Jacqueline
Wilson |
Dune |
Frank
Herbert |
Emma |
Jane
Austen |
Far
From the Madding Crowd |
Thomas
Hardy |
Girls
in Love |
Jacqueline
Wilson |
The
God of Small Things |
Arundhati
Roy |
The
Godfather |
Mario
Puzo |
Gone
with the Wind |
Margaret
Mitchell |
Good
Omens |
Terry
Pratchett & Neil Gaiman |
Goodnight
Mr Tom |
Michelle
Magorian |
Gormenghast |
Mervyn
Peake
|
The
Grapes of Wrath |
John
Steinbeck |
Great
Expectations |
Charles
Dickens |
The
Great Gatsby |
F
Scott Fitzgerald |
Guards!
Guards! |
Terry
Pratchett |
Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
JK
Rowling |
Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
JK
Rowling |
Harry
Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
JK
Rowling |
Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
JK
Rowling |
His
Dark Materials |
Philip
Pullman |
Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy |
Douglas
Adams |
The
Hobbit |
JRR
Tolkien |
Holes |
Louis
Sachar
|
I
Capture the Castle |
Dodie
Smith |
Jane
Eyre |
Charlotte
Bronte |
Kane
and Abel |
Jeffrey
Archer |
Katherine |
Anya
Seton |
The
Lion, the witch and the wardrobe |
CS
Lewis |
Little
Women |
Louisa
May Alcott |
Lord
of the Flies |
William
Golding |
The
Lord of the Rings |
JRR
Tolkien |
Love
in the time of Cholera |
Gabriel
Garcia Marquez |
The
Magic Faraway Tree |
Enid
Blyton |
Magician |
Raymond
E Feist |
The
Magus |
John
Fowles |
Matilda |
Roald
Dahl |
Memoirs
of a Geisha |
Arthur
Golden |
Middlemarch |
George
Eliot
|
Midnight's
Children |
Salman
Rushdie |
Mort |
Terry
Pratchett |
Nightwatch |
Terry
Pratchett |
Noughts
and Crosses |
Malorie
Blackman |
Of
Mice and Men |
John
Steinbeck |
On
the Road |
Jack
Kerouac |
One
Hundred Years of Solitude |
Gabriel
Garcia Marquez |
Perfume |
Patrick
Suskind |
Persuasion |
Jane
Austen |
The
Pillars of the Earth |
Ken
Follett |
A
Prayer for Owen Meany
|
John
Irving |
Pride
and Prejudice |
Jane
Austen |
The
Princess Diaries |
Meg
Cabot |
The
Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
Robert
Tressell |
Rebecca |
Daphne
du Maurier |
The
Secret Garden |
Frances
Hodgson Burnett |
The
Secret History |
Donna
Tartt
|
The
Shell Seekers |
Rosamunde
Pilcher
|
The
Stand |
Stephen
King |
The
Story of Tracy Beaker |
Jacqueline
Wilson |
A
Suitable Boy |
Vikram
Seth |
Swallows
and Amazons |
Arthur
Ransome |
A
Tale of Two Cities |
Charles
Dickens |
Tess
of the D'Ubervilles |
Thomas
Hardy |
The
Thorn Birds |
Colleen
McCullough
|
To
Kill a Mockingbird |
Harper
Lee |
A
Town Like Alice |
Nevil
Shute |
Treasure
Island |
Robert
Louis Stevenson |
The
Twits |
Roald
Dahl |
Ulysses |
James
Joyce |
Vicky
Angel |
Jacqueline Wilson |
War
and Peace |
Leo
Tolstoy |
Watership
Down |
Richard
Adams |
The
Wind in the Willows |
Kenneth
Grahame |
Winnie
the Pooh |
AA
Milne |
The
Woman in White |
Wilkie
Collins |
Wuthering
Heights |
Emily
Bronte |
Notes
to Editors
The
Big Read - what they've been saying聟
The
Big Read television special to reveal Nation's Top 100 books
(16.04.03)
The
Big Read - Britain's biggest ever reading campaign (14.03.03)
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