Books

BBC's Big Read (awards)

This award was given to 167 books.


  1. Alice: Book 1

    Alice in Wonderland

    by Lewis Carroll

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 30
  2. David Copperfield

    by Charles Dickens

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 34
  3. Treasure Island

    by Robert Louis Stevenson

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 36
  4. A Town Like Alice

    by Nevil Shute

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 37
  5. Persuasion

    by Jane Austen

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 38
  6. Dune Chronicles: Book 1

    Dune

    by Frank Herbert

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 39
  7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (collective work)

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / The Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Mostly Harmless

    by Douglas Adams

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 4
  8. Emma

    by Jane Austen

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 40
  9. Watership Down: Book 1

    Watership Down

    by Richard Adams

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 42
  10. The Great Gatsby

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 43
  11. Brideshead Revisited

    by Evelyn Waugh

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 45
  12. Animal Farm

    by George Orwell

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 46
  13. A Christmas Carol

    by Charles Dickens

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 47
  14. Good Night, Mr. Tom

    by Michelle Magorian

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 49
  15. The Shell Seekers

    by Rosamunde Pilcher

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 50
  16. The Stand

    by Stephen King

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 53
  17. Anna Karenina

    by Leo Tolstoy

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 54
  18. A Suitable Boy

    by Vikram Seth

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 55
  19. The BFG

    by Roald Dahl

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 56
  20. Black Beauty

    The Autobiography of a Horse

    by Anna Sewell

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 58
  21. A Tale of Two Cities

    by Charles Dickens

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 63
  22. The Thorn Birds

    by Colleen McCullough

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 64
  23. Mort

    by Terry Pratchett

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 65
  24. The Faraway Tree: Book 2

    The Magic Faraway Tree

    by Enid Blyton

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 66
  25. The Magus

    by John Fowles

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 67
  26. Good Omens

    The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

    by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 68
  27. Discworld: Book 8

    Guards! Guards!

    by Terry Pratchett

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 69
  28. Lord of the Flies

    by William Golding

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 70
  29. Discworld: Book 29

    Night Watch

    by Terry Pratchett

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 73
  30. Matilda

    by Roald Dahl

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 74
  31. The Secret History

    by Donna Tartt

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 76
  32. The Woman in White

    by Wilkie Collins

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 77
  33. Ulysses

    by James Joyce

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 78
  34. Bleak House

    by Charles Dickens

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 79
  35. 1984

    by George Orwell

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 8
  36. Double Act

    by Jacqueline Wilson

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 80
  37. The Twits

    by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 81
  38. I Capture the Castle

    by Dodie Smith

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 82
  39. The God of Small Things

    by Arundhati Roy

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 85

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