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BBC Top Books

Type: Preset list created by jinxmoon

Members: 2 participating members (show all)

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1
1984
by George Orwell
65,882 members, 1,061 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), jinxmoon (1)

Score: 8

2
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
46,882 members, 705 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2), jinxmoon (2)

Score: 6.73

3
Holes
by Louis Sachar
19,017 members, 887 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3), jinxmoon (4)

Score: 5.87

4
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
16,159 members, 497 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4), jinxmoon (5)

Score: 5.5

5
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
13,537 members, 263 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5), jinxmoon (6)

Score: 5.23

6
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
59,418 members, 948 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6), jinxmoon (7)

Score: 5.02

7
The Thorn Birds
by Colleen McCullough
6,462 members, 125 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7), jinxmoon (8)

Score: 4.84

8
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
26,590 members, 517 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: jinxmoon (3)

Score: 3.04

9
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
64,764 members, 1,161 reviews
4.41 stars (4.41 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8)

Score: 2.38

10
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
63,620 members, 1,247 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9)

Score: 2.31

11
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
61,614 members, 1,219 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10)

Score: 2.25

12
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
58,053 members, 956 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11)

Score: 2.2

13
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
47,514 members, 771 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12)

Score: 2.15

14
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
44,082 members, 606 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13)

Score: 2.11

15
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
40,439 members, 571 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14)

Score: 2.07

16
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
40,000 members, 625 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (15)

Score: 2.03

17
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
35,411 members, 409 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16)

Score: 2

18
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
34,559 members, 462 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (17)

Score: 1.97

19
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
34,376 members, 621 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (18)

Score: 1.94

20
Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
32,295 members, 505 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19)

Score: 1.92

21
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
31,830 members, 601 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (20)

Score: 1.89

22
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
32,381 members, 590 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21)

Score: 1.87

23
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
31,430 members, 569 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (22)

Score: 1.85

24
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
30,632 members, 359 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (23)

Score: 1.83

25
Emma
by Jane Austen
30,386 members, 416 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (24)

Score: 1.81

26
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
30,703 members, 520 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (25)

Score: 1.79

27
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
29,093 members, 376 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (26)

Score: 1.77

28
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
28,880 members, 310 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (27)

Score: 1.76

29
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
by Terry Pratchett
27,711 members, 666 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (28)

Score: 1.74

30
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
23,295 members, 354 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (29)

Score: 1.72

31
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
24,905 members, 277 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (30)

Score: 1.71

32
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
22,985 members, 447 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (31)

Score: 1.7

33
The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
22,729 members, 675 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (32)

Score: 1.68

34
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
21,453 members, 321 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (33)

Score: 1.67

35
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
20,369 members, 406 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (34)

Score: 1.66

36
Ulysses
by James Joyce
15,635 members, 272 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (35)

Score: 1.65

37
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
20,160 members, 403 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (36)

Score: 1.63

38
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
18,861 members, 382 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (37)

Score: 1.62

39
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
18,694 members, 187 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (38)

Score: 1.61

40
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
18,490 members, 399 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (39)

Score: 1.6

41
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
18,926 members, 189 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (40)

Score: 1.59

42
The Colour of Magic
by Terry Pratchett
17,954 members, 345 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (41)

Score: 1.58

43
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
17,427 members, 368 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (42)

Score: 1.57

44
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
17,538 members, 268 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (43)

Score: 1.56

45
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
16,728 members, 216 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (44)

Score: 1.55

46
The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition
by Stephen King
16,491 members, 320 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (45)

Score: 1.54

47
Dubliners
by James Joyce
16,104 members, 183 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (46)

Score: 1.54

48
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
16,482 members, 369 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (47)

Score: 1.53

49
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
15,937 members, 218 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (48)

Score: 1.52

50
Artemis Fowl
by Eoin Colfer
16,047 members, 369 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (49)

Score: 1.51

51
Bridget Jones's Diary
by Helen Fielding
15,171 members, 238 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (50)

Score: 1.5

52
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
14,247 members, 269 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (51)

Score: 1.5

53
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
14,489 members, 138 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (52)

Score: 1.49

54
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
14,600 members, 255 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (53)

Score: 1.48

55
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
14,037 members, 259 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (54)

Score: 1.48

56
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
14,398 members, 220 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (55)

Score: 1.47

57
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
by Jules Verne
13,329 members, 195 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (56)

Score: 1.46

58
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
12,202 members, 178 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (57)

Score: 1.46

59
Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
12,718 members, 159 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (58)

Score: 1.45

60
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
11,781 members, 216 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (59)

Score: 1.44

61
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
10,408 members, 218 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (60)

Score: 1.44

62
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
10,509 members, 85 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (61)

Score: 1.43

63
Heidi
by Johanna Spyri
8,510 members, 123 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (62)

Score: 1.43

64
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
8,833 members, 198 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (63)

Score: 1.42

65
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
8,488 members, 129 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (64)

Score: 1.41

66
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis De Bernières
7,018 members, 141 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (65)

Score: 1.41

67
The Thirty-Nine Steps
by John Buchan
4,391 members, 162 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (66)

Score: 1.4

68
Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
3,932 members, 48 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

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Score: 1.4

69
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
3,871 members, 65 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (68)

Score: 1.39

70
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
3,314 members, 44 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (69)

Score: 1.39

71
A Town Like Alice
by Nevil Shute
3,107 members, 117 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (70)

Score: 1.38

72
Fanny Hill
by John Cleland
2,820 members, 51 reviews
3.17 stars (3.17 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (71)

Score: 1.38

73
Goodnight Mister Tom
by Michelle Magorian
2,050 members, 58 reviews
4.3 stars (4.3 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (72)

Score: 1.37

74
Grimm's Fairy Stories
by The Brothers Grimm
8 members, 0 reviews
5 stars (5 stars)

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Score: 1.37

75
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
31,074 members, 531 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Score: 0

76
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
27,922 members, 436 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Score: 0

77
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
23,568 members, 322 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Score: 0

78
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
23,054 members, 302 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Score: 0

79
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
22,700 members, 359 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Score: 0

80
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas père
19,637 members, 350 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

Score: 0

81
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
19,510 members, 394 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Score: 0

82
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
16,115 members, 297 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Score: 0

83
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
10,135 members, 106 reviews
3.48 stars (3.48 stars)

Score: 0

84
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
10,002 members, 127 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Score: 0

85
The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux
9,701 members, 164 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Score: 0

86
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
9,473 members, 111 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Score: 0

87
The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
8,063 members, 110 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Score: 0

88
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
6,144 members, 187 reviews
3.44 stars (3.44 stars)

Score: 0

89
Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi
5,939 members, 114 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Score: 0

90
The Lost World
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3,658 members, 82 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Score: 0

91
Kane and Abel
by Jeffrey Archer
3,018 members, 50 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Score: 0

92
Eugénie Grandet
by Honoré de Balzac
2,701 members, 34 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Score: 0

93
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
by Robert Tressell
1,293 members, 33 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Score: 0

94
Tales of Terror and Mystery
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
417 members, 14 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Score: 0

95
The Provost
by John Galt
59 members, 0 reviews
3.17 stars (3.17 stars)

Score: 0

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