Can you name the Top 100 Books from the BBC's Big Read (2003)?

Rank	Book	Author
1		JRR Tolkien
2		Jane Austen
3		Philip Pullman
4		Douglas Adams
5		JK Rowling
6		Harper Lee
7		AA Milne
8		George Orwell
9		CS Lewis
10		Charlotte Bronte
11		Joseph Heller
12		Emily Bronte
13		Sebastian Faulks
14		Daphne Du Maurier
15		JD Salinger
16		Kenneth Grahame
17		Charles Dickens
18		Louisa May Alcott
19		Louis De Bernieres
20		Leo Tolstoy
21		Margaret Mitchell
22		JK Rowling
23		JK Rowling
24		JK Rowling
25		JRR Tolkien
26		Thomas Hardy
27		George Eliot
28		John Irving
29		John Steinbeck
30		Lewis Caroll
31		Jacqueline Wilson
32		Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33		Ken Follett
34		Charles Dickens

Rank	Book	Author
35		Roald Dahl
36		Robert Louis Stevenson
37		Nevil Shute
38		Jane Austen
39		Frank Herbert
40		Jane Austen
41		LM Montgomery
42		Richard Adams
43		F Scott Fitzgerald
44		Alexandre Dumas
45		Evelyn Waugh
46		George Orwell
47		Charles Dickens
48		Thomas Hardy
49		Michelle Magorian
50		Rosamunde Pilcher
51		Frances Hodgson Burnett
52		John Steinbeck
53		Stephen King
54		Leo Tolstoy
55		Vikram Seth
56		Roald Dahl
57		Arthur Ransome
58		Anna Sewell
59		Eoin Colfer
60		Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61		Malorie Blackman
62		Arthur Golden
63		Charles Dickens
64		Colleen McCollough
65		Terry Pratchett
66		Enid Blyton
67		John Fowles
68		Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Rank	Book	Author
69		Terry Pratchett
70		William Golding
71		Patrick Suskind
72		Robert Tressell
73		Terry Pratchett
74		Roald Dahl
75		Helen Fielding
76		Donna Tartt
77		Wilkie Collins
78		James Joyce
79		Charles Dickens
80		Jacquelin Wilson
81		Roald Dahl
82		Dodie Smith
83		Louis Sacher
84		Mervyn Peake
85		Arundhati Roy
86		Jacqueline Wilson
87		Aldous Huxley
88		Stella Gibbons
89		Raymond E Feist
90		Jack Kerouac
91		Mario Puzo
92		Jean M Auel
93		Terry Pratchett
94		Paulo Coelho
95		Anya Seton
96		Jeffrey Archer
97		Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98		Jacqueline Wilson
99		Meg Cabot
100		Salman Rushdie

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BBC Top 100 Books Quiz

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Created by: Caesar -
Contributed: September 27th, 2009
Published: October 8th, 2009
Category: Literature
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	jcos444:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 17:32 GMT	1 point
	Maybe I would have done better If I hadn't used sparknotes all through my education...nah.

	tk925:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 17:36 GMT	1 point
	I think the quiz needs to accept "Bridget Jones' Diary" for #75, but it didn't work. Lewis Carroll's name is also spelled wrong

	segacs:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 17:54 GMT	6 points
	I like a few of the more contemporary inclusions. Of course, the time of this survey is also a big influencer. You can see how a few books that just happened to be on the bestseller lists in 2003, but which in no way would be considered timeless classics, made it to the list. Still, it's a pretty good reading list, all things considered.

	Isstvan:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 17:57 GMT	1 point
	Not only is Lewis Carroll's name spelled wrong, but so is Eoin Colfer's.

	buppyspek:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 17:59 GMT	1 point
	Lots more Terry Pratchett than I was expecting. Also, most of the books I missed were books I had never heard of. I consider this a good thing, because I feel I should be able to identify any book I've heard of by seeing its author.

	dudemanbearpig:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 18:00 GMT	1 point
	I've read 11 of those.

	SowCrates:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 18:20 GMT	10 points
	I'm glad to see "The Twits" get some love.

	Jono_:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 18:23 GMT	3 points
	Why so Harry?

	BuggritHall:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 20:00 GMT	3 points
	'Arry Potter, Winnie the Pooh better than 1984?!!? Good list in that when it was done the beeb concentrated on the top 20 only so interesting to see the rest of the list. I would choose different Pratchett titles myself and would liked to have seen Frederick Forsyth show up there too.

	Caesar:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 20:13 GMT	1 point
	Hmmm sorry bout that Isstvan, thought I'd corrected the Carroll one, but it seems that now its been published its out of my hands to correct it. Same goes for making Jones' diary acceptable.

	extranail09:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 20:28 GMT	1 point
	I think it should take the American spelling of "Color" in "Colour of Magic."

	Caesar:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 20:34 GMT	5 points
	I dont think other quizzes take the English spelling of "colour" for the clor purple though do they? I may be wrong ...

	Isstvan:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 20:40 GMT	1 point
	@Caesar...the Colfer spelling was corrected after I made my initial post. And the Lewis Carroll spelling was changed, but is still wrong, (from Carrol to Caroll), so someone has (and can) make the changes.

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	Minkaro:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 21:21 GMT	36 points
	@warboner...too British-centric, you say? I completely agree. You'd almost think the list was made by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

	awesomegerbzy:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 21:46 GMT	5 points
	This was hard - and I'm surprised at no Mark Twain or Huck Finn...I know it's a British list, but I always thought it was a great work of Western literature in general...

	gabi:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 22:16 GMT	2 points
	It's Louis Sachar, not Louis Sacher