BBC's All Time Top 100 Best Novels

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BBC's All Time Top 100 Best Novels​

In April 2003 the BBC's Big Read began the search for the nation's best-loved novel, and and three quarters of a million votes were received by the end of the series. Here are the top 100:
All the books are in pdf format, compressed into one big rar file. However, not all the titles from the list above are available for free download or in pdf format, so I added some well known classics from other top lists.


Contents of the rar file (216MB):

• 1984, George Orwell
• A Christmas Carol, Charles ~censored~
• A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
• A Tale of Two Cities, Charles ~censored~
• A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
• Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
• Animal Farm, George Orwell
• Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
• Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
• Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
• Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
• Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
• Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
• Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• David Copperfield, Charles ~censored~
• Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes
• Dracula, Bram Stoker
• Dubliners, James Joyce
• Emma, Jane Austen
• Eugenie Grandet, Honore de Balzac
• Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
• Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
• Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
• Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
• Great Expectations, Charles ~censored~
• Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Grimm Brothers
• Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
• Heidi, Johanna Spyri
• Holes, Louis Sachar
• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
• Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
• Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
• Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
• Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
• Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
• Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
• Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
• Memoirs of Fanny Hill, John Cleland
• Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
• Middlemarch, George Eliot
• Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
• Moby ~censored~, Herman Melville
• Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
• Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
• Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
• Oliver Twist, Charles ~censored~
• One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
• Paradise Lost, John Milton
• Persuasion, Jane Austen
• Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
• Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
• Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
• Tales of Terror and Mystery, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
• The Call of the Wild, Jack London
• The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
• The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
• The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas père
• The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
• The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
• The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
• The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
• The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
• The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
• The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
• The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
• The Provost, John Galt
• The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Stand, Stephen King
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
• The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
• The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
• The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
• The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
• Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Jules Verne
• Ulysses, James Joyce
• Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
• War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
• Watership Down, Richard Adams
• Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

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[max4uall]

wow...thanxx machan... patta

 

[truth4L]

Have Read...

Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown ( my all time fav )
Great Expectations, Charles ~censored~

anith evva nam nehe....

 

[kosandpol]

who the heck is Charles ~censored~ ??

I've read :
* 1984, George Orwell
* A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
* Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
* Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
* Animal Farm, George Orwell
* Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
* Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
* David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
* Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes
* Dracula, Bram Stoker
* Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
* Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Grimm Brothers
* Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
* Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
* Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
* Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
* Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
* Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
* The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
* The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas père
* The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
* The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
* Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Jules Verne
* War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

 

[twisted]

who the heck is Charles ~censored~ ??

ya and what the ~censored~ is moby ~censored~

 

[blood_brotha]

willie is censored

 

[kosandpol]

Love Bram Stoker's Dracula. The most terrifying book I've ever read.
So terrified that I've read it only once.

 

[twisted]

I've read

A Tale of Two Cities, Charles ~censored~
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (old world praveena)
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
David Copperfield, Charles ~censored~
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (possible best)
Great Expectations, Charles ~censored~
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
Moby ~censored~, Herman Melville
Oliver Twist, Charles ~censored~
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Paradise Lost, John Milton (i know the story, does that count)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
The Call of the Wild, Jack London
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas père
The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Jules Verne
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

 

[isira87]

Thankx!

 

[twisted]

Love Bram Stoker's Dracula. The most terrifying book I've ever read.
So terrified that I've read it only once.

read Frankenstein..it is not really terrifying but shows things about human nature..and hmm.

if i may ask whats the best books you've read, your favorite

 

[kosandpol]

I've read

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (old world praveena)

LOL!!

Paradise Lost, John Milton (i know the story, does that count)

nope. if it were to be counted, then I've read 90% of that list.

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

I think i've read this as well but not too sure.

 

[thm14]

I ve read

Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
David Copperfield, Charles ~censored~
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Oliver Twist, Charles ~censored~
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling ( lolzz )
The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

outta these

thnxx machanz

 

[kosandpol]

read Frankenstein..it is not really terrifying but shows things about human nature..and hmm.

Thing is I dont remember if I read it or not. I know the story so well..

if i may ask whats the best books you've read, your favorite

From that list or from all the books I've read ?

 

[twisted]

LOL!!

nope. if it were to be counted, then I've read 90% of that list.

lol i totally forgot that there were some other books of which i knew the story

I think i've read this as well but not too sure.

hmm same happened to me with emma and sherlock holmes books i have read all of them but ..err

 

[sachii]

thanks this will be useful for me

 

[twisted]

Thing is I dont remember if I read it or not. I know the story so well.

now that this list reminded me of it i wna read that again

From that list or from all the books I've read ?

of all the books you've read

 

[truth4L]

Ekaneme Guyz...??
Ai Harry Potter list eke nette...???

 

[roshant]

who the heck is Charles ~censored~ ??

I've read :
* 1984, George Orwell
* A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
* Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
* Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
* Animal Farm, George Orwell
* Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
* Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
* David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
* Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes
* Dracula, Bram Stoker
* Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
* Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Grimm Brothers
* Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
* Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
* Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
* Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
* Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
* Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
* The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
* The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas père
* The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
* The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
* Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Jules Verne
* War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

hey bro u r great.
I ve finished

* Animal Farm,1984, George Orwell
* Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

and some more not in the list
like
100 years of solicitude gabrial garsia
and dostoyevskys stuff and more

catcher in a rye also superb

 

[kosandpol]

of all the books you've read

Favorite books are :
Arthur C Clark - 2001, 2010, 2065, 3001, The Rama Trilogy, Childhood's End, Songs of Distant Earth, lets just say ALL of Clark's works

Dan Brown - Angels & Demons, Deception Point
Clive Cussler - Treasure of Khan, Inca Gold, Raise the Titanic!, Sahara, Pacific Vortex
Arthur Conan Doyle - All the Sherlock Homes novels and short stories.
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Jeffery Archer - Honor Among Thieves (sure wish they make a movie out of this! )
Alistair Mclean - South by Java Head, Guns of Navarone
Jack Higgins - The Eagle has Landed (the movie is equally good! )
Fredrick Forsyth - The Day Of The Jackal (the original movie is equally good! ), The Odessa File (the movie is not as good as the book), Icon

Robert Ludlum - The Matarese Circle (Cant wait for the movie to get released)
BTW, the Bourne movies doesnt hold a candle to the novels

Eric Van Lustbader - The Miko, Floating City ( Boy, does this guy know how to write erotic scenes! ) I like all of the Nicholas Linnear novels but these 2 the best.

that's the list I remember at the moment. Theres bound to be more.

 

[Deelaka]

thanx ela