Favourite works of fiction
In a poll to mark World Book Day, 1 March 2007, the top twenty favourite books were:
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings J R R Tolkien
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
The Harry Potter books J K Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
The Bible
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
His Dark Materials trilogy Philip Pullman
Great Expectation Charles Dickens
Little Women Louisa Alcott
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 Joseph Heller
Complete works William Shakespeare
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
The Hobbit J R R Tolkien
Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
Catcher in the Rye J D Salinger
The Time Traveller's Wife Audrey Niffeneger
Middlemarch George Eliot
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