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11. Group discussion: “Reading is a joy for ever”
Reading has always been and still is one of the most important leisure 
activities. Below are the results of a National Survey in Britain (1996) 
and the BBC’s Big Read survey (2003) in which people nominated 
their favorite books from number 1 to 100 in numerical order.
1996
2003
1. 
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
2. 
1984
George Orwell
3. 
Animal Farm
George Orwell
4. 
Ulysses
James Joyce
5. 
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
1. 
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
2. 
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
3. 
His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman
4. 
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Gal-
axy
, Douglas Adams
5. 
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
JK Rowling

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1996
2003
6. 
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
7.
 
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
8. 
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garc a M rquez
9. 
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
10. 
Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh
11. 
Wild Swans
Jung Chang
12. 
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. 
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
14. 
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
15. 
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
16. 
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
17. 
Winnie-the-Pooh
A. A. Milne
18. 
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
19. 
The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien
20. 
The Outsider
Albert Camus
21. 
The Lion, the Witch and the 
Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis
22. 
The Trial
Franz Kafka
23. 
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
24. 
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the 
Galaxy
Douglas Adams
25. 
Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie
26. 
The Diary of Anne Frank
27. 
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
6. 
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
7. 
Winnie the Pooh
A.A. Milne
8. 
1984
George Orwell
9. 
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
10. 
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontё
11. 
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
12. 
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontё
13. 
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
14. 
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
15. 
The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
16. 
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
17. 
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
18. 
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
19. 
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Louis de Bernieres
20. 
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
21. 
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
22. 
Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s 
Stone
JK Rowling
23. 
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of 
Secrets
JK Rowling
24. 
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of 
Azkaban
JK Rowling
25. 
The Hobbit
JRR Tolkien
26. 
Tess Of The D’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
27. 
Middlemarch
George Eliot
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1996
2003
28. 
Sons and Lovers
D.S. Lawrence
29. 
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
30. 
If This Is a Man
Primo Levi
31. 
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
32. 
The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks
33. 
Remembrance of Things Past
Marcel Proust
34. 
Charlie and the Chocolate 
Factory
Roald Dahl
35. 
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
36. 
Beloved
Toni Morrison
37. 
Possession
A. S. Byatt
38. 
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
39. 
A Passage to India
E. M. Forster
40. 
Watership Down
Richard Adams
41.
 
Sophie’s World
Jostein Gaarder
42. 
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
43. 
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garc a M rquez
44. 
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
45. 
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
46. 
The Unbearable Lightness of 
Being
Milan Kundera
47. 
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
48. 
Howards End
E. M. Forster
49. 
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
50. 
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth
28. 
A Prayer For Owen Meany
John Irving
29. 
The Grapes Of Wrath
John Steinbeck
30. 
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
31. 
The Story Of Tracy Beaker
Jacqueline Wilson
32. 
One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Gabriel Garc a M rquez
33. 
The Pillars Of The Earth
Ken Follett
34. 
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
35. 
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
36. 
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
37. 
A Town Like Alice
Nevil Shute
38. 
Persuasion
Jane Austen
39. 
Dune
Frank Herbert
40. 
Emma
Jane Austen
41. 
Anne Of Green Gables
LM Montgomery
42. 
Watership Down
Richard Adams
43. 
The Great Gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald
44. 
The Count Of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
45. 
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
46. 
Animal Farm
George Orwell
47. 
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
48. 
Far From The Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
49. 
Goodnight Mister Tom
Michelle Magorian
50. 
The Shell Seekers
Rosamunde Pilcher
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1996
2003
51. 
Dune
Frank Herbert
52. 
A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving
53. 
Perfume
Patrick Susskind
54. 
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
55. 
The Gormeaghast Trilogy
Mervyn Peake
56. 
Cider with Rosie
Laurie Lee
57. 
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
58.
 
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
59. 
Testament Of Youth
Vera Brittain
60. 
The Magus
John Fowles
61. 
Brighton Rock
Graham Greene
62. 
The Ragged Trousered Philan-
thropist
Robert Tressell
63. 
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
64. 
Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin
65. 
The French Lieutenant’s 
Woman
John Fowles
66. 
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Louis de Bernieres
67. 
Slaughterhouse 5
Kurt Vonnegut
68. 
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle 
Maintenance
Robert Pirsig
69. 
A Room with a View
E.M. Forster
70. 
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
71. 
If
Stephen King
72. 
The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene
51. 
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. 
Of Mice And Men
John Steinbeck
53. 
The Stand
Stephen King
54. 
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
55. 
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth
56. 
The BFG
Roald Dahl
57. 
Swallows And Amazons
Arthur Ransome
58. 
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
59. 
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
60. 
Crime And Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. 
Noughts And Crosses
Malorie Blackman
62. 
Memoirs Of A Geisha
Arthur Golden
63. 
A Tale Of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
64. 
The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCollough
65. 
Mort
Terry Pratchett
66. 
The Magic Faraway Tree
Enid Blyton
67. 
The Magus
John Fowles
68. 
Good Omens
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. 
Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett
70. 
Lord Of The Flies
William Golding
71. 
Perfume
Patrick S skind
72. 
The Ragged Trousered Philan-
thropists
Robert Tressell
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1996
2003
73. 
The Stand
Stephen King
74. 
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
75. 
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Roddy Doyle
76. 
Matilda
Roald Dahl
77. 
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
78. 
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
79. 
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
80. 
James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl
81. 
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
D. H. Lawrence
82. 
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe
83. 
The Complete Cookery Course
Delia Smith
84. 
An Evil Cradling
Brian Keenan
85. 
The Rainbow
D. H. Lawrence
86. 
Down and Out in Paris and 
London
George Orwell
87. 
2001 — A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
88. 
The Tin Drum
Gu..nther Grass
89. 
One Day in the Life of Ivan 
Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
90. 
Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
91. 
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
92. 
Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
93. 
The Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell
94. 
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
95. 
High Fidelity
Nick Hornby
73. 
Night Watch
Terry Pratchett
74. 
Matilda
Roald Dahl
75. 
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Helen Fielding
76. 
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
77. 
The Woman In White
Wilkie Collins
78. 
Ulysses
James Joyce
79. 
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
80. 
Double Act
Jacqueline Wilson
81.