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BBC Top Books

Type: Preset list created by rainbowdragon

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1
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
73,291 members, 1,184 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

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Score: 8

2
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
53,579 members, 807 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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Score: 6.73

3
Holes
by Louis Sachar
20,629 members, 920 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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Score: 5.87

4
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
18,313 members, 555 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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Score: 5.5

5
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
15,520 members, 300 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

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Score: 5.23

6
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
64,040 members, 1,019 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

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Score: 5.02

7
The Thorn Birds
by Colleen McCullough
7,006 members, 138 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

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Score: 4.84

8
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
30,235 members, 563 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Score: 3.04

9
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
71,781 members, 1,258 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

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Score: 2.38

10
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
70,486 members, 1,357 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

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Score: 2.31

11
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
65,780 members, 1,270 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

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Score: 2.25

12
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
64,463 members, 1,060 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

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Score: 2.2

13
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
52,734 members, 843 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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Score: 2.15

14
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
48,900 members, 699 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Score: 2.11

15
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
45,541 members, 625 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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Score: 2.07

16
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
44,476 members, 701 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

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Score: 2.03

17
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
39,228 members, 443 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

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Score: 2

18
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
38,938 members, 491 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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Score: 1.97

19
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
39,544 members, 697 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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Score: 1.94

20
Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
34,325 members, 531 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Score: 1.92

21
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
35,378 members, 671 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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Score: 1.89

22
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
36,917 members, 646 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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Score: 1.87

23
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
34,852 members, 609 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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Score: 1.85

24
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
34,232 members, 391 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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Score: 1.83

25
Emma
by Jane Austen
33,763 members, 467 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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Score: 1.81

26
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
34,667 members, 576 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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Score: 1.79

27
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
32,795 members, 423 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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Score: 1.77

28
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
32,737 members, 346 reviews
3.38 stars (3.38 stars)

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Score: 1.76

29
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
by Terry Pratchett
30,966 members, 727 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

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Score: 1.74

30
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
27,318 members, 365 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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Score: 1.72

31
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
28,947 members, 309 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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Score: 1.71

32
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
25,538 members, 483 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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Score: 1.7

33
Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
25,081 members, 716 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

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Score: 1.68

34
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
23,811 members, 349 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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Score: 1.67

35
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
22,514 members, 442 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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Score: 1.66

36
Ulysses
by James Joyce
21,790 members, 316 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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Score: 1.65

37
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
23,157 members, 437 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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Score: 1.63

38
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
21,571 members, 409 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

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Score: 1.62

39
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
21,262 members, 206 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

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Score: 1.61

40
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
21,071 members, 446 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

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Score: 1.6

41
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
1,022 members, 11 reviews
3.49 stars (3.49 stars)

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Score: 1.59

42
The Colour of Magic
by Terry Pratchett
19,820 members, 397 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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Score: 1.58

43
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
19,336 members, 393 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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Score: 1.57

44
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
20,556 members, 306 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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Score: 1.56

45
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
18,768 members, 236 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

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Score: 1.55

46
The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition
by Stephen King
18,192 members, 353 reviews
4.3 stars (4.3 stars)

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Score: 1.54

47
Dubliners
by James Joyce
17,837 members, 208 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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Score: 1.54

48
The Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
19,109 members, 421 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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Score: 1.53

49
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
17,468 members, 232 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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Score: 1.52

50
Artemis Fowl
by Eoin Colfer
17,886 members, 398 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

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Score: 1.51

51
Bridget Jones's Diary
by Helen Fielding
16,184 members, 247 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

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Score: 1.5

52
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
15,943 members, 302 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

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Score: 1.5

53
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
16,731 members, 156 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

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Score: 1.49

54
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
17,110 members, 292 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

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Score: 1.48

55
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
16,091 members, 288 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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Score: 1.48

56
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
24,512 members, 392 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

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Score: 1.47

57
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
by Jules Verne
15,512 members, 227 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

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Score: 1.46

58
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
13,436 members, 184 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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Score: 1.46

59
Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse
by Anna Sewell
15,469 members, 187 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (58)

Score: 1.45

60
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
12,755 members, 230 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

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Score: 1.44

61
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
11,461 members, 242 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

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Score: 1.44

62
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
12,104 members, 100 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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Score: 1.43

63
Heidi
by Johanna Spyri
10,227 members, 138 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

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Score: 1.43

64
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
9,874 members, 232 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Score: 1.42

65
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
10,602 members, 172 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (64)

Score: 1.41

66
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis De Bernières
7,512 members, 147 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

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Score: 1.41

67
The Thirty-Nine Steps
by John Buchan
4,850 members, 172 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

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Score: 1.4

68
Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
4,334 members, 53 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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Score: 1.4

69
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
4,447 members, 77 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

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Score: 1.39

70
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
3,832 members, 52 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

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Score: 1.39

71
A Town Like Alice
by Nevil Shute
3,423 members, 132 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

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Score: 1.38

72
Fanny Hill
by John Cleland
3,063 members, 57 reviews
3.18 stars (3.18 stars)

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Score: 1.38

73
Goodnight Mister Tom
by Michelle Magorian
2,322 members, 62 reviews
4.3 stars (4.3 stars)

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Score: 1.37

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

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Score: 1.37

75
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
34,590 members, 592 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Score: 0

76
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
31,342 members, 492 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Score: 0

77
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
27,166 members, 403 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Score: 0

78
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
25,460 members, 403 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Score: 0

79
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
25,334 members, 347 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Score: 0

80
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas père
22,446 members, 390 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

Score: 0

81
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
21,414 members, 418 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Score: 0

82
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
17,108 members, 313 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Score: 0

83
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
11,564 members, 118 reviews
3.49 stars (3.49 stars)

Score: 0

84
The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux
11,227 members, 190 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Score: 0

85
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
11,132 members, 138 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Score: 0

86
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
10,429 members, 126 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Score: 0

87
The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
9,476 members, 138 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Score: 0

88
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
7,129 members, 220 reviews
3.43 stars (3.43 stars)

Score: 0

89
Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi
7,065 members, 123 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Score: 0

90
The Lost World
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4,251 members, 94 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Score: 0

91
Kane and Abel
by Jeffrey Archer
3,304 members, 62 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Score: 0

92
Eugénie Grandet
by Honoré de Balzac
3,050 members, 47 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Score: 0

93
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
by Robert Tressell
1,457 members, 40 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Score: 0

94
Tales of Terror and Mystery
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
456 members, 14 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Score: 0

95
The Provost
by John Galt
62 members, 1 review
3.17 stars (3.17 stars)

Score: 0

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