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BBC Top Books

Type: Preset list created by rainbowdragon

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1
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
69,145 members, 1,127 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

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Score: 8

2
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
50,093 members, 751 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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Score: 6.73

3
Holes
by Louis Sachar
19,712 members, 909 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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Score: 5.87

4
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
17,201 members, 521 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
14,505 members, 277 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

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Score: 5.23

6
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
61,463 members, 982 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

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Score: 5.02

7
The Thorn Birds
by Colleen McCullough
6,687 members, 131 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

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Score: 4.84

8
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
28,099 members, 533 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Score: 3.04

9
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
64,205 members, 1,145 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

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Score: 2.38

10
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
66,785 members, 1,303 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

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Score: 2.31

11
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
63,580 members, 1,240 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

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Score: 2.25

12
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
60,972 members, 1,004 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

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Score: 2.2

13
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
49,849 members, 802 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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Score: 2.15

14
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
46,365 members, 652 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Score: 2.11

15
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
42,658 members, 594 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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Score: 2.07

16
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
42,167 members, 661 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

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Score: 2.03

17
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
37,065 members, 421 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

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Score: 2

18
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
36,481 members, 467 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
36,650 members, 659 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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Score: 1.94

20
Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
33,288 members, 516 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Score: 1.92

21
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
33,688 members, 641 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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Score: 1.89

22
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
34,460 members, 618 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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Score: 1.87

23
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
33,067 members, 584 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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Score: 1.85

24
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
32,298 members, 376 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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Score: 1.83

25
Emma
by Jane Austen
31,883 members, 436 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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Score: 1.81

26
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
32,497 members, 546 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Score: 1.79

27
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
30,813 members, 400 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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Score: 1.77

28
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
30,460 members, 322 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

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Score: 1.76

29
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
by Terry Pratchett
29,213 members, 687 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

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Score: 1.74

30
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
25,199 members, 340 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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Score: 1.72

31
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
26,777 members, 285 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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Score: 1.71

32
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
24,111 members, 460 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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Score: 1.7

33
Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follet
23,831 members, 697 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

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Score: 1.68

34
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
22,565 members, 337 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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Score: 1.67

35
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
21,402 members, 427 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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Score: 1.66

36
Ulysses
by James Joyce
20,560 members, 292 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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Score: 1.65

37
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
21,528 members, 419 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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Score: 1.63

38
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
20,077 members, 402 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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Score: 1.62

39
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
19,761 members, 189 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

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Score: 1.61

40
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
19,832 members, 419 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

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Score: 1.6

41
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
15,485 members, 156 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

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Score: 1.59

42
The Colour of Magic
by Terry Pratchett
18,889 members, 372 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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Score: 1.58

43
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
18,315 members, 369 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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Score: 1.57

44
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
18,890 members, 289 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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Score: 1.56

45
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
17,740 members, 225 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
17,372 members, 334 reviews
4.3 stars (4.3 stars)

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Score: 1.54

47
Dubliners
by James Joyce
16,915 members, 196 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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Score: 1.54

48
The Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
17,672 members, 393 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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Score: 1.53

49
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
16,643 members, 224 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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Score: 1.52

50
Artemis Fowl
by Eoin Colfer
16,859 members, 379 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

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Score: 1.51

51
Bridget Jones's Diary
by Helen Fielding
15,745 members, 242 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

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Score: 1.5

52
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
15,048 members, 288 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

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Score: 1.5

53
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
15,383 members, 141 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

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Score: 1.49

54
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
15,706 members, 271 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

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Score: 1.48

55
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
15,047 members, 272 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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Score: 1.48

56
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
15,579 members, 228 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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Score: 1.47

57
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
by Jules Verne
14,532 members, 215 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

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Score: 1.46

58
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
12,807 members, 177 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

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Score: 1.46

59
Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse
by Anna Sewell
13,687 members, 177 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (58)

Score: 1.45

60
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
12,273 members, 227 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

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Score: 1.44

61
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
10,943 members, 233 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

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Score: 1.44

62
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
11,293 members, 87 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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Score: 1.43

63
Heidi
by Johanna Spyri
9,272 members, 129 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

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Score: 1.43

64
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
9,321 members, 214 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Score: 1.42

65
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
9,851 members, 159 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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Score: 1.41

66
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis De Bernières
7,277 members, 143 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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Score: 1.41

67
The 39 Steps
by John Buchan
4,618 members, 167 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

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Score: 1.4

68
Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
4,112 members, 52 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

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Score: 1.4

69
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
4,138 members, 72 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

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Score: 1.39

70
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
3,549 members, 51 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

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Score: 1.39

71
A Town Like Alice
by Nevil Shute
3,243 members, 127 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

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Score: 1.38

72
Fanny Hill
by John Cleland
2,920 members, 53 reviews
3.19 stars (3.19 stars)

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Score: 1.38

73
Goodnight Mister Tom
by Michelle Magorian
2,187 members, 61 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

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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
32,631 members, 557 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Score: 0

76
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
29,383 members, 463 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Score: 0

77
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
25,402 members, 356 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Score: 0

78
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
24,186 members, 327 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Score: 0

79
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
24,025 members, 382 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Score: 0

80
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas père
20,882 members, 370 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

Score: 0

81
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
20,403 members, 409 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Score: 0

82
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
16,540 members, 307 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Score: 0

83
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
10,740 members, 110 reviews
3.48 stars (3.48 stars)

Score: 0

84
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
10,563 members, 134 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Score: 0

85
The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux
10,410 members, 168 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Score: 0

86
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
9,901 members, 118 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Score: 0

87
The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
8,760 members, 124 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Score: 0

88
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
6,658 members, 203 reviews
3.43 stars (3.43 stars)

Score: 0

89
Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi
6,427 members, 117 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Score: 0

90
The Lost World
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3,971 members, 85 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Score: 0

91
Kane and Abel
by Jeffrey Archer
3,159 members, 60 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Score: 0

92
Eugénie Grandet
by Honoré de Balzac
2,859 members, 40 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Score: 0

93
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
by Robert Tressell
1,375 members, 37 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Score: 0

94
Tales of Terror and Mystery
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
436 members, 14 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Score: 0

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

Score: 0

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