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In April the BBC's Big Read began the search for the nation's best-loved novel.

The votes poured in from all around the UK and below (in alphabetical order) are the top 21 results of the vote.

1.  Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
2.  Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
3.  Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
4.  The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
5.  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
6.  Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
7.  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
8.  His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
9.  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
10.  Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontė
11.  The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
12.  Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
13.  Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
14.  Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
15.  To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
16.  Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
17.  Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
18.  War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
19.  The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
20.  Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
21.  Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontė


To see the entire top 100 Results of the vote click HERE

 
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