| Titles | Order |
| The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien | Best loved novel, 2003, No 01 |
| Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen | Best loved novel, 2003, No 02 |
| His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman | Best loved novel, 2003, No 03 |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams | Best loved novel, 2003, No 04 |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling | Best loved novel, 2003, No 05 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee | Best loved novel, 2003, No 06 |
| Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne | Best loved novel, 2003, No 07 |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell | Best loved novel, 2003, No 08 |
| The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis | Best loved novel, 2003, No 09 |
| Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë | Best loved novel, 2003, No 10 |
| Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | Best loved novel, 2003, No 11 |
| Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë | Best loved novel, 2003, No 12 |
| Birdsong by Sebastian C. Faulks | Best loved novel, 2003, No 13 |
| Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier | Best loved novel, 2003, No 14 |
| The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger | Best loved novel, 2003, No 15 |
| The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame | Best loved novel, 2003, No 16 |
| Great Expectations by Charles Dickens | Best loved novel, 2003, No 17 |
| Little Women by Louisa May Alcott | Best loved novel, 2003, No 18 |
| Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières | Best loved novel, 2003, No 19 |
| War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Best loved novel, 2003, No 20 |
| Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell | Best loved novel, 2003, No 21 |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling | Best loved novel, 2003, No 22 |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling | Best loved novel, 2003, No 23 |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling | Best loved novel, 2003, No 24 |
| The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien | Best loved novel, 2003, No 25 |
| Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy | Best loved novel, 2003, No 26 |
| Middlemarch by George Eliot | Best loved novel, 2003, No 27 |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving | Best loved novel, 2003, No 28 |
| The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck | Best loved novel, 2003, No 29 |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll | Best loved novel, 2003, No 30 |
| The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson | Best loved novel, 2003, No 31 |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez | Best loved novel, 2003, No 32 |
| The Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follett | Best loved novel, 2003, No 33 |
| David Copperfield by Charles Dickens | Best loved novel, 2003, No 34 |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl | Best loved novel, 2003, No 35 |
| Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson | Best loved novel, 2003, No 36 |
| A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute | Best loved novel, 2003, No 37 |
| Persuasion by Jane Austen | Best loved novel, 2003, No 38 |
| Dune by Frank Herbert | Best loved novel, 2003, No 39 |
| Emma by Jane Austen | Best loved novel, 2003, No 40 |
| Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery | Best loved novel, 2003, No 41 |
| Watership Down by Richard Adams | Best loved novel, 2003, No 42 |
| The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald | Best loved novel, 2003, No 43 |
| The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Père | Best loved novel, 2003, No 44 |
| Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh | Best loved novel, 2003, No 45 |
| Animal Farm by George Orwell | Best loved novel, 2003, No 46 |
| A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens | Best loved novel, 2003, No 47 |
| Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy | Best loved novel, 2003, No 48 |
| Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian | Best loved novel, 2003, No 49 |
| The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher | Best loved novel, 2003, No 50 |
| The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett | Best loved novel, 2003, No 51 |
| Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck | Best loved novel, 2003, No 52 |
| The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition by Stephen King | Best loved novel, 2003, No 53 |
| Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | Best loved novel, 2003, No 54 |
| A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth | Best loved novel, 2003, No 55 |
| The BFG by Roald Dahl | Best loved novel, 2003, No 56 |
| Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome | Best loved novel, 2003, No 57 |
| Black Beauty by Anna Sewell | Best loved novel, 2003, No 58 |
| Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer | Best loved novel, 2003, No 59 |
| Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky | Best loved novel, 2003, No 60 |
| Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman | Best loved novel, 2003, No 61 |
| A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens | Best loved novel, 2003, No 63 |
| The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough | Best loved novel, 2003, No 64 |
| Mort by Terry Pratchett | Best loved novel, 2003, No 65 |
| The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton | Best loved novel, 2003, No 66 |
| The Magus by John Fowles | Best loved novel, 2003, No 67 |
| Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman | Best loved novel, 2003, No 68 |
| Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett | Best loved novel, 2003, No 69 |
| Lord of the Flies by William Golding | Best loved novel, 2003, No 70 |
| Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind | Best loved novel, 2003, No 71 |
| The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell | Best loved novel, 2003, No 72 |
| Night Watch by Terry Pratchett | Best loved novel, 2003, No 73 |
| Matilda by Roald Dahl | Best loved novel, 2003, No 74 |
| Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding | Best loved novel, 2003, No 75 |
| The Secret History by Donna Tartt | Best loved novel, 2003, No 76 |
| The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins | Best loved novel, 2003, No 77 |
| Ulysses by James Joyce | Best loved novel, 2003, No 78 |
| Bleak House by Charles Dickens | Best loved novel, 2003, No 79 |
| Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson | Best loved novel, 2003, No 80 |
| The Twits by Roald Dahl | Best loved novel, 2003, No 81 |
| I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith | Best loved novel, 2003, No 82 |
| Holes by Louis Sachar | Best loved novel, 2003, No 83 |
| Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake | Best loved novel, 2003, No 84 |
| The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy | Best loved novel, 2003, No 85 |
| Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson | Best loved novel, 2003, No 86 |
| Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | Best loved novel, 2003, No 87 |
| Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons | Best loved novel, 2003, No 88 |
| Magician by Raymond E. Feist | Best loved novel, 2003, No 89 |
| On the Road by Jack Kerouac | Best loved novel, 2003, No 90 |
| The Godfather by Mario Puzo | Best loved novel, 2003, No 91 |
| The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel | Best loved novel, 2003, No 92 |
| The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett | Best loved novel, 2003, No 93 |
| The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho | Best loved novel, 2003, No 94 |
| Katherine by Anya Seton | Best loved novel, 2003, No 95 |
| Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer | Best loved novel, 2003, No 96 |
| Love in The Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez | Best loved novel, 2003, No 97 |
| Girls in Love by Jacqueline Wilson | Best loved novel, 2003, No 98 |
| The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot | Best loved novel, 2003, No 99 |
| Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie | Best loved novel, 2003, No 100 |
| Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome | Best loved novel, 2003, No 101 |
| Small Gods by Terry Pratchett | Best loved novel, 2003, No 102 |
| The Beach by Alex Garland | Best loved novel, 2003, No 103 |
| Dracula by Bram Stoker | Best loved novel, 2003, No 104 |
| Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz | Best loved novel, 2003, No 105 |
| Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens | Best loved novel, 2003, No 106 |
| Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz | Best loved novel, 2003, No 107 |
| The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks | Best loved novel, 2003, No 108 |
| The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth | Best loved novel, 2003, No 109 |
| The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson | Best loved novel, 2003, No 110 |
| Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy | Best loved novel, 2003, No 111 |
| The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend | Best loved novel, 2003, No 112 |
| The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat | Best loved novel, 2003, No 113 |
| Les Misérables by Victor Hugo | Best loved novel, 2003, No 114 |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge: A Story of a Man of Character by Thomas Hardy | Best loved novel, 2003, No 115 |
| The Dare Game by Jacqueline Wilson | Best loved novel, 2003, No 116 |
| Bad Girls by Jacqueline Wilson | Best loved novel, 2003, No 117 |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde | Best loved novel, 2003, No 118 |
| Shogun: A Novel of Japan by James Clavell | Best loved novel, 2003, No 119 |
| The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham | Best loved novel, 2003, No 120 |
| Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson | Best loved novel, 2003, No 121 |
| Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray | Best loved novel, 2003, No 122 |
| The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy | Best loved novel, 2003, No 123 |
| House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski | Best loved novel, 2003, No 124 |
| The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver | Best loved novel, 2003, No 125 |
| Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett | Best loved novel, 2003, No 126 |
| Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison | Best loved novel, 2003, No 127 |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Best loved novel, 2003, No 128 |
| Possession by A. S. Byatt | Best loved novel, 2003, No 129 |
| The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov | Best loved novel, 2003, No 130 |
| The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood | Best loved novel, 2003, No 131 |
| Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl | Best loved novel, 2003, No 132 |
| East of Eden by John Steinbeck | Best loved novel, 2003, No 133 |
| George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl | Best loved novel, 2003, No 134 |
| Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett | Best loved novel, 2003, No 135 |
| The Color Purple by Alice Walker | Best loved novel, 2003, No 136 |
| Hogfather by Terry Pratchett | Best loved novel, 2003, No 137 |
| The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan | Best loved novel, 2003, No 138 |
| Girls in Tears by Jacqueline Wilson | Best loved novel, 2003, No 139 |
| Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson | Best loved novel, 2003, No 140 |
| All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque | Best loved novel, 2003, No 141 |
| Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson | Best loved novel, 2003, No 142 |
| High Fidelity by Nick Hornby | Best loved novel, 2003, No 143 |
| It by Stephen King | Best loved novel, 2003, No 144 |
| James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl | Best loved novel, 2003, No 145 |
| The Green Mile by Stephen King | Best loved novel, 2003, No 146 |
| Papillon by Henri Charrière | Best loved novel, 2003, No 147 |
| Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett | Best loved novel, 2003, No 148 |
| Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian | Best loved novel, 2003, No 149 |
| Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz | Best loved novel, 2003, No 150 |
| Soul Music by Terry Pratchett | Best loved novel, 2003, No 151 |
| Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett | Best loved novel, 2003, No 152 |
| The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett | Best loved novel, 2003, No 153 |
| Atonement by Ian McEwan | Best loved novel, 2003, No 154 |
| Secrets by Jacqueline Wilson | Best loved novel, 2003, No 155 |
| The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier | Best loved novel, 2003, No 156 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey | Best loved novel, 2003, No 157 |
| Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad | Best loved novel, 2003, No 158 |
| Kim by Rudyard Kipling | Best loved novel, 2003, No 159 |
| Outlander by Diana Gabaldon | Best loved novel, 2003, No 160 |
| Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville | Best loved novel, 2003, No 161 |
| River God by Wilbur Smith | Best loved novel, 2003, No 162 |
| Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon | Best loved novel, 2003, No 163 |
| The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx | Best loved novel, 2003, No 164 |
| The World According to Garp by John Irving | Best loved novel, 2003, No 165 |
| Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore | Best loved novel, 2003, No 166 |
| Girls Out Late by Jacqueline Wilson | Best loved novel, 2003, No 167 |
| The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye | Best loved novel, 2003, No 168 |
| The Witches by Roald Dahl | Best loved novel, 2003, No 169 |
| Charlotte's Web by E. B. White | Best loved novel, 2003, No 170 |
| Frankenstein by Mary Shelley | Best loved novel, 2003, No 171 |
| They used to play on grass by Terry Venables | Best loved novel, 2003, No 172 |
| The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway | Best loved novel, 2003, No 173 |
| The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco | Best loved novel, 2003, No 174 |
| Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder | Best loved novel, 2003, No 175 |
| Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson | Best loved novel, 2003, No 176 |
| Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl | Best loved novel, 2003, No 177 |
| Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | Best loved novel, 2003, No 178 |
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach | Best loved novel, 2003, No 179 |
| The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Best loved novel, 2003, No 180 |
| The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson | Best loved novel, 2003, No 181 |
| Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens | Best loved novel, 2003, No 182 |
| The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay | Best loved novel, 2003, No 183 |
| Silas Marner by George Eliot | Best loved novel, 2003, No 184 |
| American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis | Best loved novel, 2003, No 185 |
| The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith | Best loved novel, 2003, No 186 |
| Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh | Best loved novel, 2003, No 187 |
| Welcome to Dead House by R. L. Stine | Best loved novel, 2003, No 188 |
| Heidi by Johanna Spyri | Best loved novel, 2003, No 189 |
| Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence | Best loved novel, 2003, No 190 |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera | Best loved novel, 2003, No 191 |
| Man and Boy by Tony Parsons | Best loved novel, 2003, No 192 |
| The Truth by Terry Pratchett | Best loved novel, 2003, No 193 |
| The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells | Best loved novel, 2003, No 194 |
| The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans | Best loved novel, 2003, No 195 |
| A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry | Best loved novel, 2003, No 196 |
| Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett | Best loved novel, 2003, No 197 |
| The Once and Future King by T. H. White | Best loved novel, 2003, No 198 |
| The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle | Best loved novel, 2003, No 199 |
| Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews | Best loved novel, 2003, No 200 |
