BBC Top Books

1
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
27,986 members
513 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
94,391 members
1,450 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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3
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
70,114 members
1,007 reviews
4
3 Members
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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
40,940 members
489 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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5
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
61,578 members
869 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
62,229 members
813 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
77,242 members
1,198 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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8
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
94,215 members
1,511 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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9
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
16,744 members
131 reviews
4
3 Members
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
90,118 members
1,559 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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11
The Color of Magic
by Terry Pratchett
24,995 members
486 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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12
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
76,046 members
1,367 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
29,478 members
599 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
54,103 members
854 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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15
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
43,926 members
479 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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16
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
43,999 members
806 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
41,859 members
416 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman
39,110 members
875 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
27,817 members
369 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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20
The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet)
by Stephen King
4,982 members
72 reviews
½ 4.5
3 Members
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21
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
29,782 members
494 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
32,606 members
534 reviews
4
3 Members
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
51,181 members
811 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
13,317 members
146 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Middlemarch
by George Eliot
20,797 members
368 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Holes
by Louis Sachar
30,694 members
1,054 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
33,621 members
511 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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Emma
by Jane Austen
44,196 members
570 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
23,974 members
687 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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30
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
19,691 members
365 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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31
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
41,815 members
620 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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32
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
57,431 members
818 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
83,035 members
1,304 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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34
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
68,081 members
1,018 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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35
Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
21,424 members
233 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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36
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
15,559 members
270 reviews
4
2 Members
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37
Grimm's Fairy Stories
by The Brothers Grimm
9 members
5
2 Members
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38
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
49,470 members
585 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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39
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
5,082 members
64 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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40
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
6,070 members
97 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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41
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
44,680 members
724 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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42
The Metamorphosis [novella]
by Franz Kafka
15,234 members
276 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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43
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
12,087 members
273 reviews
4
2 Members
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44
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
47,239 members
749 reviews
4
2 Members
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45
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
14,130 members
286 reviews
4
2 Members
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46
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
16,320 members
201 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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47
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
38,456 members
369 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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48
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
33,304 members
576 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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49
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
26,678 members
479 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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50
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
21,402 members
283 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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51
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
22,858 members
346 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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52
Dubliners
by James Joyce
22,146 members
265 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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53
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
20,386 members
197 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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54
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
25,038 members
463 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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55
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
28,480 members
273 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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56
Gulliver's Travels [Dover Thrift Editions]
by Jonathan Swift
411 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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57
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
24,132 members
325 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
21,666 members
264 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
33,277 members
473 reviews
4
2 Members
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60
Heidi
by Johanna Spyri
14,414 members
175 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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61
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
9,447 members
296 reviews
½ 3.4
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62
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
41,445 members
684 reviews
4
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63
The Thorn Birds
by Colleen McCullough
8,393 members
162 reviews
4
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64
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
35,909 members
532 reviews
4.1
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65
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
51,796 members
576 reviews
4.2
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66
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
42,102 members
491 reviews
3.9
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67
The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
30,430 members
806 reviews
4.2
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68
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
29,856 members
428 reviews
½ 3.7
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69
Ulysses
by James Joyce
27,481 members
377 reviews
4
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70
Artemis Fowl
by Eoin Colfer
22,183 members
436 reviews
½ 3.7
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71
Bridget Jones's Diary
by Helen Fielding
17,882 members
295 reviews
½ 3.6
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72
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
21,578 members
358 reviews
½ 3.7
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73
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis De Bernières
8,535 members
159 reviews
3.9
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74
The Thirty-Nine Steps
by John Buchan
5,997 members
203 reviews
½ 3.5
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75
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
by Joseph Conrad
5,330 members
70 reviews
3.8
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76
A Town Like Alice
by Nevil Shute
4,091 members
150 reviews
4
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77
Fanny Hill, or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
by John Cleland
3,658 members
66 reviews
3.2
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78
Goodnight Mister Tom
by Michelle Magorian
3,072 members
74 reviews
½ 4.3
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