Name the BBC Top 100 Books

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The BBC's Big Read asked the British public to vote for the nation's best-loved novels. Every card shows the author. Can you name the book?

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1J.R.R. Tolkien

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2Jane Austen

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3Philip Pullman

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4Douglas Adams

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5J.K. Rowling

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6Harper Lee

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7A.A. Milne

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8George Orwell

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9C.S. Lewis

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10Charlotte Brontë

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11Joseph Heller

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12Emily Brontë

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13Sebastian Faulks

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14Daphne du Maurier

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15J.D. Salinger

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16Kenneth Grahame

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17Charles Dickens

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18Louisa May Alcott

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19Louis de Bernières

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20Leo Tolstoy

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21Margaret Mitchell

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22J.K. Rowling

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23J.K. Rowling

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24J.K. Rowling

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25J.R.R. Tolkien

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26Thomas Hardy

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27George Eliot

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28John Irving

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29John Steinbeck

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30Lewis Carroll

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31Jacqueline Wilson

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32Gabriel García Márquez

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33Ken Follett

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34Charles Dickens

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35Roald Dahl

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36Robert Louis Stevenson

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37Nevil Shute

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38Jane Austen

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39Frank Herbert

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40Jane Austen

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41L.M. Montgomery

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42Richard Adams

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43F. Scott Fitzgerald

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44Alexandre Dumas

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45Evelyn Waugh

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46George Orwell

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47Charles Dickens

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48Thomas Hardy

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49Michelle Magorian

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50Rosamunde Pilcher

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51Frances Hodgson Burnett

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52John Steinbeck

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53Stephen King

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54Leo Tolstoy

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55Vikram Seth

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56Roald Dahl

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57Arthur Ransome

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58Anna Sewell

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59Eoin Colfer

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60Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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61Malorie Blackman

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62Arthur Golden

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63Charles Dickens

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64Colleen McCullough

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65Terry Pratchett

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66Enid Blyton

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67John Fowles

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68Pratchett & Gaiman

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69Terry Pratchett

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70William Golding

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71Patrick Süskind

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72Robert Tressell

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73Terry Pratchett

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74Roald Dahl

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75Helen Fielding

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76Donna Tartt

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77Wilkie Collins

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78James Joyce

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79Charles Dickens

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80Jacqueline Wilson

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81Roald Dahl

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82Dodie Smith

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83Louis Sachar

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84Mervyn Peake

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85Arundhati Roy

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86Jacqueline Wilson

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87Aldous Huxley

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88Stella Gibbons

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89Raymond E. Feist

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90Jack Kerouac

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91Mario Puzo

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92Jean M. Auel

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93Terry Pratchett

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94Paulo Coelho

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95Anya Seton

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96Jeffrey Archer

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97Gabriel García Márquez

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98Jacqueline Wilson

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99Meg Cabot

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100Salman Rushdie

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Data as of June 17, 2026

Source: BBC, The Big Read (2003)

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