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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 100 results of the vote.
Click HERE to see the results of the top 21 vote.
1. The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
3. Animal Farm by George Orwell
4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
5. Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
6. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
7. The BFG by Roald Dahl
8. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
9. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
10. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
11. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
12. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
13. Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding
14. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
15. Catch 22 by Joseph L Heller
16. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
17. Charlie & Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
18. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
19. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel
20. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
21. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
22. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
23. Crime and Punishment by Fyoder Dostoyevsky
24. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
25. Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson
26. Dune by Frank Herbert
27. Emma by Jane Austen
28. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
29. Girls in Love by Jacqueline Wilson
30. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
31. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
32. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
33. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
34. Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
35. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peak
36. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
37. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
38. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
39. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
40. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
41. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
42. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling
43. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
44. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
45. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
46. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
47. Holes by Louis Sacher
48. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
49. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
50. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
51. Katherine by Anya Seton
52. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
53. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
54. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
55. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
56. Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
57. The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
58. Magician by Raymond E Feist
59. The Magus by John Fowles
60. Matilda by Roald Dahl
61. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
62. Middlemarch by George Elliot
63. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
64. Mort by Terry Pratchett
65. Nightwatch by Terry Pratchett
66. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
67. Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
68. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
69. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
70. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
71. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
72. Persuasion by Jane Austen
73. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
74. A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving
75. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
76. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
77. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
78. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
79. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
80. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
81. The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher
82. The Stand by Stephen King
83. The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson
84. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
85. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
86. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
87. Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
88. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCollough
89. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
90. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
91. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
92. The Twits by Roald Dahl
93. Ulysses by James Joyce
94. Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson
95. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
96. Watership Down by Richard Adams
97. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
98. Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
99. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
100. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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