In april 2003 vroeg het BBC
programma The Big Read lezers om hun favoriete boek te nomineren.
Eind mei 2003 verscheen de top 100 alfabetisch op titel.
Hierbij de volledige lijst. Rode boeken heb ik gelezen. Rode boeken bevatten een link naar de recensie.
Nummer | Titel | Auteur |
1 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
2 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
3 | Animal Farm | George Orwell |
4 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
5 | Anne of Green Gables | LM Montgomery |
6 | Artemis Fowl | Eoin Colfer |
7 | The BFG | Roald Dahl |
8 | Birdsong | Sebastian Faulks |
9 | Black Beauty | Anna Sewell |
10 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens |
11 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
12 | Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
13 | Bridget Jones's Diary | Helen Fielding |
14 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres |
15 | Catch 22 | Joseph Heller |
16 | The Catcher in the Rye | JD Salinger |
17 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl |
18 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens |
19 | The Clan of the Cave Bear | Jean Auel |
20 | Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons |
21 | The Colour of Magic | Terry Pratchett |
22 | The Count of Monte Christo | Alexandre Dumas |
23 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
24 | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
25 | Double Act | Jacqueline Wilson |
26 | Dune | Frank Herbert |
27 | Emma | Jane Austen |
28 | Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy |
29 | Girls in Love | Jacqueline Wilson |
30 | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy |
31 | The Godfather | Mario Puzo |
32 | Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
33 |
Good Omens | Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman |
34 | Goodnight Mister Tom | Michelle Magorian |
35 | Gormenghast | Mervyn Peake |
36 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
37 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
38 | The Great Gatsby | F Scott Fitzgerald |
39 | Guards! Guards! | Terry Pratchett |
40 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | JK Rowling |
41 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | JK Rowling |
42 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | JK Rowling |
43 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | JK Rowling |
44 | His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman |
45 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams |
46 | The Hobbit | JRR Tolkien |
47 | Holes | Louis Sachar |
48 | I Capture the Castle | Dodie Smith |
49 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontė |
50 | Kane and Abel | Jeffrey Archer |
51 | Katherine | Anya Seton |
52 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | CS Lewis |
53 | Little Women | Louisa May Scott |
54 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
55 | The Lord of the Rings | JRR Tolkien |
56 | Love in Times of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
57 | The Magic Faraway Tree | Enid Blyton |
58 | Magician | Raymond E Feist |
59 | The Magus | John Fowles |
60 | Matilda | Roald Dahl |
61 |
Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden |
62 |
Middlemarch | George Elliot |
63 | Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie |
64 | Mort | Terry Pratchett |
65 | Night Watch | Terry Pratchett |
66 | 1984 | George Orwell |
67 | Noughts and Crosses | Malorie Blackman |
68 | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
69 | On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
70 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
71 | Perfume | Patrick Suskind |
72 | Persuasion | Jane Austen |
73 | The Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett |
74 | A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving |
75 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
76 | The Princess Diaries | Meg Cabot |
77 | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists | Robert Tressell |
78 | Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier |
79 | The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
80 | The Secret History | Donna Tartt |
81 | The Shell Seekers | Rosamunde Pilcher |
82 | The Stand | Stephen King |
83 | The Story of Tracy Beaker | Jacqueline Wilson |
84 | A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth |
85 | Swallows and Amazons | Arthur Ransome |
86 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
87 | Tess of D'urbervilles | Thomas Hardy |
88 | The Thorn Birds | Colleen McCollough |
89 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
90 | A Town like Alice | Nevil Shute |
91 | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
92 | The Twits | Roald Dahl |
93 | Ulysses | James Joyce |
94 | Vicky Angel | Jacqueline Wilson |
95 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
96 | Watership Down | Richard Adams |
97 | The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame |
98 | Winnie-the-Pooh | AA Milne |
99 | The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins |
100 |
Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontė |