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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Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie
The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, #1)
Meg Cabot
Girls in Love (Girls in Love, #1)
Jacqueline Wilson
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel GarcĂa Márquez
Kane & Abel (Kane & Abel, #1)
Jeffrey Archer
Katherine
Anya Seton
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
Terry Pratchett
The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
Jean M. Auel
The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
Mario Puzo
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
Magician (The Riftwar Saga, #1-2)
Raymond E. Feist
Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Vicky Angel
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)
Mervyn Peake
Holes (Holes, #1)
Louis Sachar
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith
The Twits
Roald Dahl
Double Act
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Ulysses
James Joyce
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
Helen Fielding
Matilda
Night Watch (Discworld, #29)
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Robert Tressell
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick SĂĽskind
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