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BBC’s All Time Top 100 Best Novels

List of Top 100

1. 1984, George Orwell


2. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens


3. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving


4. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens


5. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute


6. Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain


7. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll


8. Animal Farm, George Orwell


9. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy


10. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer


11. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell


12. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley


13. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh


14. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding


15. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres


16. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl


17. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky


18. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens


19. Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes


20. Dracula, Bram Stoker


21. Dubliners, James Joyce


22. Emma, Jane Austen


23. Eugenie Grandet, Honore de Balzac


24. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley


25. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell


26. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman


27. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian


28. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens


29. Grimm’s Fairy Stories, The Grimm Brothers


30. Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift


31. Heidi, Johanna Spyri


32. Holes, Louis Sachar


33. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë


34. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer


35. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo


36. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott


37. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding


38. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez


39. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert


40. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden


41. Memoirs of Fanny Hill, John Cleland


42. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


43. Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka


44. Middlemarch, George Eliot


45. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie


46. Moby Dick, Herman Melville


47. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen


48. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad


49. Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky


50. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck


51. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens


52. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez


53. Paradise Lost, John Milton


54. Persuasion, Jane Austen


55. Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi


56. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen


57. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier


58. Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse


59. Tales of Terror and Mystery, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


60. Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy


61. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain


62. The Call of the Wild, Jack London


63. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger


64. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett


65. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas père


66. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown


67. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald


68. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams


69. The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling


70. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair


71. The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper


72. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving


73. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis


74. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien


75. The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


76. The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins


77. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux


78. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde


79. The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan


80. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett


81. The Provost, John Galt


82. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell


83. The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


84. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne


85. The Stand, Stephen King


86. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson


87. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan


88. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough


89. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James


90. The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells


91. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame


92. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum


93. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee


94. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson


95. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Jules Verne


96. Ulysses, James Joyce


97. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray


98. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy


99. Watership Down, Richard Adams


100. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë