In April 2003 the BBC's Big Read began the search for the nation's best-loved novel, and we asked you to nominate your favourite books.
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
J.R.R. Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
Philip Pullman
The Hitchhikerâs Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
Douglas Adams
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
J.K. Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)
A.A. Milne
1984
George Orwell
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
C.S. Lewis
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Louis de BerniĂšres
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0)
Tess of the DâUrbervilles
Thomas Hardy
Middlemarch
George Eliot
A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
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