BBC+Big+Read

Cultural and Literary Validation
The BBC Big Read Online

An editable version of the BBC Big Read, top 200 follows. I'm going to hold to my stance on //Winnie the Pooh// and //The Hound of the Baskervilles// (having re-thought and re-justified my reasoning on the drive home after class). I also have not made the other changes suggested in class tonight; however, that is mostly so you can make those changes yourself. If you have disagreements with changes anyone makes, start a discussion on the discussion tab about the issue.


 * |||||| In April 2003 the BBC's Big Read began the search for the nation's best-loved novel, and we asked you to nominate your favourite books. Below are all the results from number 1 to 100 in numerical order! ||^  ||
 * |||||| 1. **The Lord of the Rings**, JRR Tolkien
 * |||||| 1. **The Lord of the Rings**, JRR Tolkien
 * |||||| 1. **The Lord of the Rings**, JRR Tolkien

 2. **Pride and Prejudice**, Jane Austen

3. **His Dark Materials**, Philip Pullman

 4. **The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy**, Douglas Adams

 5. **Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire**, JK Rowling

 6. **To Kill a Mockingbird**, Harper Lee

 7. **Winnie the Pooh**, AA Milne

8. **Nineteen Eighty-Four**, George Orwell

 9. **The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe**, CS Lewis

 10. **Jane Eyre**, Charlotte Brontë

 11. **Catch-22**, Joseph Heller

 12. **Wuthering Heights**, Emily Brontë

 13. **Birdsong**, Sebastian Faulks

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 14. **Rebecca**, Daphne du Maurier

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 15. **The Catcher in the Rye**, JD Salinger

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 16. **The Wind in the Willows**, Kenneth Grahame

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 17. **Great Expectations**, Charles Dickens

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 18. **Little Women**, Louisa May Alcott

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 19. **Captain Corelli's Mandolin**, Louis de Bernieres

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 20. **War and Peace**, Leo Tolstoy

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 21. **Gone with the Wind**, Margaret Mitchell

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">22. **Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone**, JK Rowling

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 23. **Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets**, JK Rowling

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 24. **Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban**, JK Rowling

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 25. **The Hobbit**, JRR Tolkien

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 26. **Tess Of The D'Urbervilles**, Thomas Hardy

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 27. **Middlemarch**, George Eliot

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 28. **A Prayer For Owen Meany**, John Irving

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 29. **The Grapes Of Wrath**, John Steinbeck

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">30. **Alice's Adventures In Wonderland**, Lewis Carroll

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 31. **The Story Of Tracy Beaker**, Jacqueline Wilson

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 32. **One Hundred Years Of Solitude**, Gabriel García Márquez

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 33. **The Pillars Of The Earth**, Ken Follett

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 34. **David Copperfield**, Charles Dickens

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">35. **Charlie And The Chocolate Factory**, Roald Dahl

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 36. **Treasure Island**, Robert Louis Stevenson

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 37. **A Town Like Alice**, Nevil Shute

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 38. **Persuasion**, Jane Austen

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">39. **Dune**, Frank Herbert

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 40. **Emma**, Jane Austen

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 41. **Anne Of Green Gables**, LM Montgomery

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 42. **Watership Down**, Richard Adams

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 43. **The Great Gatsby**, F Scott Fitzgerald

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 44. **The Count Of Monte Cristo**, Alexandre Dumas

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 45. **Brideshead Revisited**, Evelyn Waugh

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">46. **Animal Farm**, George Orwell

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 47. **A Christmas Carol**, Charles Dickens

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 48. **Far From The Madding Crowd**, Thomas Hardy

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 49. **Goodnight Mister Tom**, Michelle Magorian

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 50. **The Shell Seekers**, Rosamunde Pilcher ||  ||


 * |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">51. **The Secret Garden**, Frances Hodgson Burnett
 * |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">51. **The Secret Garden**, Frances Hodgson Burnett

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 52. **Of Mice And Men**, John Steinbeck

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">53. **The Stand**, Stephen King

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 54. **Anna Karenina**, Leo Tolstoy

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 55. **A Suitable Boy**, Vikram Seth

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 56. **The BFG**, Roald Dahl

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 57. **Swallows And Amazons**, Arthur Ransome

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 58. **Black Beauty**, Anna Sewell

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 59. **Artemis Fowl**, Eoin Colfer

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 60. **Crime And Punishment**, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 61. **Noughts And Crosses**, Malorie Blackman

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 62. **Memoirs Of A Geisha**, Arthur Golden

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 63. **A Tale Of Two Cities**, Charles Dickens

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 64. **The Thorn Birds**, Colleen McCollough

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">65. **Mort**, Terry Pratchett

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 66. **The Magic Faraway Tree**, Enid Blyton

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 67. **The Magus**, John Fowles

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">68. **Good Omens**, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 69. **Guards! Guards!**, Terry Pratchett

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 70. **Lord Of The Flies**, William Golding

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">71. **Perfume**, Patrick Süskind

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 72. **The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists**, Robert Tressell

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">73. **Night Watch**, Terry Pratchett

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 74. **Matilda**, Roald Dahl

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 75. **Bridget Jones's Diary**, Helen Fielding

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 76. **The Secret History**, Donna Tartt

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 77. **The Woman In White**, Wilkie Collins

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 78. **Ulysses**, James Joyce

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 79. **Bleak House**, Charles Dickens

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 80. **Double Act**, Jacqueline Wilson

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 81. **The Twits**, Roald Dahl

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 82. **I Capture The Castle**, Dodie Smith

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 83. **Holes**, Louis Sachar

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">84. **Gormenghast**, Mervyn Peake

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 85. **The God Of Small Things**, Arundhati Roy

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 86. **Vicky Angel**, Jacqueline Wilson

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">87. **Brave New World**, Aldous Huxley

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 88. **Cold Comfort Farm**, Stella Gibbons

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 89. **Magician**, Raymond E Feist

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 90. **On The Road**, Jack Kerouac

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 91. **The Godfather**, Mario Puzo

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 92. **The Clan Of The Cave Bear**, Jean M Auel

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">93. **The Colour Of Magic**, Terry Pratchett

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 94. **The Alchemist**, Paulo Coelho

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 95. **Katherine**, Anya Seton

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 96. **Kane And Abel**, Jeffrey Archer

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 97. **Love In The Time Of Cholera**, Gabriel García Márquez

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 98. **Girls In Love**, Jacqueline Wilson

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 99. **The Princess Diaries**, Meg Cabot

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 100. **Midnight's Children**, Salman Rushdie ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/print/arts/bigread/top100_2.shtml
 * |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In April 2003 the BBC's Big Read began the search for the nation's best-loved novel, and we asked you to nominate your favourite books. Below <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> are all the rest of the results from number 101 to 200 in numerical order! ||^  ||
 * |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">101. **Three Men In A Boat**, Jerome K. Jerome
 * |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">101. **Three Men In A Boat**, Jerome K. Jerome
 * |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">101. **Three Men In A Boat**, Jerome K. Jerome

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">102. **Small Gods**, Terry Pratchett

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 103. **The Beach**, Alex Garland

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">104. **Dracula**, Bram Stoker

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 105. **Point Blanc**, Anthony Horowitz

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 106. **The Pickwick Papers**, Charles Dickens

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 107. **Stormbreaker**, Anthony Horowitz

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 108. **The Wasp Factory**, Iain Banks

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 109. **The Day Of The Jackal**, Frederick Forsyth

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 110. **The Illustrated Mum**, Jacqueline Wilson

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 111. **Jude The Obscure**, Thomas Hardy

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 112. **The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾**, Sue Townsend

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 113. **The Cruel Sea**, Nicholas Monsarrat

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 114. **Les Misérables**, Victor Hugo

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 115. **The Mayor Of Casterbridge**, Thomas Hardy

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 116. **The Dare Game**, Jacqueline Wilson

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 117. **Bad Girls**, Jacqueline Wilson

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">118. **The Picture Of Dorian Gray**, Oscar Wilde

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 119. **Shogun**, James Clavell

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">120. **The Day Of The Triffids**, John Wyndham

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 121. **Lola Rose**, Jacqueline Wilson

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 122. **Vanity Fair**, William Makepeace Thackeray

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 123. **The Forsyte Saga**, John Galsworthy

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 124. **House Of Leaves**, Mark Z. Danielewski

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 125. **The Poisonwood Bible**, Barbara Kingsolver

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">126. **Reaper Man**, Terry Pratchett

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 127. **Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging**, Louise Rennison

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">128. **The Hound Of The Baskervilles**, Arthur Conan Doyle

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 129. **Possession**, A. S. Byatt

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 130. **The Master And Margarita**, Mikhail Bulgakov

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">131. **The Handmaid's Tale**, Margaret Atwood

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 132. **Danny The Champion Of The World**, Roald Dahl

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 133. **East Of Eden**, John Steinbeck

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 134. **George's Marvellous Medicine**, Roald Dahl

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">135. **Wyrd Sisters**, Terry Pratchett

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 136. **The Color Purple**, Alice Walker

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">137. **Hogfather**, Terry Pratchett

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 138. **The Thirty-Nine Steps**, John Buchan

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 139. **Girls In Tears**, Jacqueline Wilson

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 140. **Sleepovers**, Jacqueline Wilson

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 141. **All Quiet On The Western Front**, Erich Maria Remarque

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 142. **Behind The Scenes At The Museum**, Kate Atkinson

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 143. **High Fidelity**, Nick Hornby

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">144. **It**, Stephen King

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 145. **James And The Giant Peach**, Roald Dahl

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 146. **The Green Mile**, Stephen King

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 147. **Papillon**, Henri Charriere

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 148. **Men At Arms**, Terry Pratchett

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 149. **Master And Commander**, Patrick O'Brian

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 150. **Skeleton Key**, Anthony Horowitz ||  ||


 * |||||| <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">151. **Soul Music**, Terry Pratchett
 * |||||| <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">151. **Soul Music**, Terry Pratchett

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 152. **Thief Of Time**, Terry Pratchett

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 153. **The Fifth Elephant**, Terry Pratchett

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 154. **Atonement**, Ian McEwan

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 155. **Secrets**, Jacqueline Wilson

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 156. **The Silver Sword**, Ian Serraillier

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 157. **One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest**, Ken Kesey

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 158. **Heart Of Darkness**, Joseph Conrad

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 159. **Kim**, Rudyard Kipling

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 160. **Cross Stitch**, Diana Gabaldon

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 161. **Moby Dick**, Herman Melville

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 162. **River God**, Wilbur Smith

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 163. **Sunset Song**, Lewis Grassic Gibbon

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 164. **The Shipping News**, Annie Proulx

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 165. **The World According To Garp**, John Irving

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 166. **Lorna Doone**, R. D. Blackmore

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 167. **Girls Out Late**, Jacqueline Wilson

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 168. **The Far Pavilions**, M. M. Kaye

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 169. **The Witches**, Roald Dahl

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 170. **Charlotte's Web**, E. B. White

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">171. **Frankenstein**, Mary Shelley

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 172. **They Used To Play On Grass**, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 173. **The Old Man And The Sea**, Ernest Hemingway

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 174. **The Name Of The Rose**, Umberto Eco

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">175. **Sophie's World**, Jostein Gaarder

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 176. **Dustbin Baby**, Jacqueline Wilson

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 177. **Fantastic Mr Fox**, Roald Dahl

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 178. **Lolita**, Vladimir Nabokov

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 179. **Jonathan Livingstone Seagull**, Richard Bach

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">180. **The Little Prince**, Antoine De Saint-Exupery

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 181. **The Suitcase Kid**, Jacqueline Wilson

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 182. **Oliver Twist**, Charles Dickens

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 183. **The Power Of One**, Bryce Courtenay

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 184. **Silas Marner**, George Eliot

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 185. **American Psycho**, Bret Easton Ellis

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 186. **The Diary Of A Nobody**, George and Weedon Grossmith

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 187. **Trainspotting**, Irvine Welsh

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 188. **Goosebumps**, R. L. Stine

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 189. **Heidi**, Johanna Spyri

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 190. **Sons And Lovers**, D. H. LawrenceLife of Lawrence

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 191. **The Unbearable Lightness of Being**, Milan Kundera

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 192. **Man And Boy**, Tony Parsons

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">193. **The Truth**, Terry Pratchett

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 194. **The War Of The Worlds**, H. G. Wells

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 195. **The Horse Whisperer**, Nicholas Evans

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 196. **A Fine Balance**, Rohinton Mistry

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">197. **Witches Abroad**, Terry Pratchett

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 198. **The Once And Future King**, T. H. White

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 199. **The Very Hungry Caterpillar**, Eric Carle

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 200. **Flowers In The Attic**, Virginia Andrews ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/print/arts/bigread/top200_2.shtml

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> highlights —scifi/fantasy; I actually would also argue that all the Dahl should fall in that category too (and many others)…but I tried to limit my highlights to 1) ones that are really clearly in those categories 2) titles/authors I know (i.e. I didn’t look up the ones I didn’t know so couldn’t be sure; also, even if I think of a writer as scifi/fantasy--such as Salman Rushdie--I didn't mark books that I could not remember the plot/general idea of the contents.) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Note: I highlighted the text by clicking on the text color icon (when in edit mode) and changing the background color to yellow. Feel free to use the same color or a different one (if you wish to make distinctions); I have a saved version of the original we can use to compare at the end of the semester.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">stats:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">the number 1 book is scifi/fantasy (J. R. R. Tolkein)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">of the top 5: four are scifi/fantasy (80%)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">of the top 10: six are scifi/fantasy (60%)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">in the top 100, the most novels any author has is 5; one of the 2 authors with the most books represented is fantasy/sci fi novelist Terry Pratchett
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">in the top 100, three authors have four novels…one of them is definitely fantasy (J. K. Rowling) and one I would argue is fantasy (Roald Dahl)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">in the top 200, the author with more books on the list than any other author (15 books) is fantasy/sci fi author Terry Pratchett

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Comparison with similar surveys in other countries:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">in Australia, the top book is scifi/fantasy (//Lord of the Rings//); and at least 4 of the top 10 are scifi/fantasy. Australia also did a separate “Kids Top 10;” on that list the first 3 are scifi/fantasy and at least 7 of the top 10 are scifi/fantasy.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">in France, at least 2 of the top 5 books are scifi/fantasy (one could argue for others in the top 5 being added to this category as well). While the BBC list was voted on, in France, the list was determined by book sales.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">in Germany, the top book is again scifi/fantasy (//Lord of the Rings//); and at least 3 of top 5 are as well. Although I don’t know all of the titles in the full 26 book list, I can identify at least 7 as scifi/fantasy.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">in Bulgaria, at least 3 of the top 12 are scifi/fantasy (though admittedly, I did not know many of the 12 books listed for Bulgaria!)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> in Hungary, at least 4 of the top 10 are scifi/fantasy (though again, I only knew a little over ½ the books on the Hungarian top 10.)