The Big Read was a survey on books carried out by the BBC in the United Kingdom in 2003, where over three-quarters of a million votes were received from...
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The Big Jubilee Read is a 2022 campaign to promote reading for pleasure and to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. A list of 70 books by Commonwealth...
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Discworld (redirect from The Discworld Series)
the Carnegie Medal. In the BBC's Big Read, four Discworld novels were in the top 100, and a total of fourteen in the top 200. More than 80 million Discworld...
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because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence. In 2003, the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved...
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2003, The BFG was listed at number 56 in The Big Read, a BBC survey of the British public. In 2012, the novel was ranked number 88 among all-time best...
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Big Read is the Hungarian version of the BBC Big Read. The Big Read was imported into Hungary under the name A Nagy Könyv (lit. "The Big Book") and took...
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The Big Read initiative was launched in Germany by the public television broadcaster ZDF in 2004, under the name "Das große Lesen". Based on the BBC version...
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English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, it was listed at number 15 on the BBC's survey "The Big Read". Holden Caulfield recalls the events of a long...
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languages by 2005. The first novel, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979), has been ranked fourth on the BBC's The Big Read poll. The sixth novel, And...
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all time in a 2003 poll by the BBC called The Big Read. Bilbo Baggins celebrates his birthday and leaves the Ring to Frodo, his heir. Gandalf (a wizard)...
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In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. Richard, an English backpacker, meets a mentally disturbed Scot going by the alias of...
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In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's 200 "best-loved novels." In 1987, the book was adapted into a film of the same name...
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His Dark Materials (redirect from The Golden Compasses)
2003, the trilogy was ranked third on the BBC's The Big Read poll. Although His Dark Materials has been marketed as young adult fiction, and the central...
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to whom he had bequeathed the works. The first Pooh story was ranked number 7 on the BBC's The Big Read poll. In 1961, The Walt Disney Company licensed...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (redirect from Big Brother Is Watching)
number 13 on the editors' list and number 6 on the readers' list. In 2003, it was listed at number eight on The Big Read survey by the BBC. The Orwell Archive...
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is said to be one of the best-selling novels of all time. In 2003, the novel was ranked 63rd on the BBC's The Big Read poll. The novel has been adapted...
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Animal Farm (redirect from The Freedom of the Press (Animal Farm))
also featured at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels, and number 46 on the BBC's The Big Read poll. It won a Retrospective...
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BBC's survey The Big Read. Aziraphale, an angel (originally a guardian of the Eastern Gate of Eden), and Crowley, a demon (originally the serpent who tempted...
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BBC's The Big Read poll. Time magazine included the novel in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time, as well as its list of the 100 best...
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included the novel in its "100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005" list. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's...
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Brave New World (redirect from John, "the Savage")
chronologically at number 53 in "the top 100 greatest novels of all time", and the novel was listed at number 87 on The Big Read survey by the BBC. Brave New World...
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number 48 on the BBC's survey The Big Read, while in 2007, it was ranked 10th on The Guardian's list of greatest love stories of all time. The novel has...
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128 of 200 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel". In 1999, a poll of "Sherlockians" ranked it as the best of the four Holmes novels...
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as Best Novel for the British Fantasy Award and the Locus Award. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel"...
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To Kill a Mockingbird (category Novels set in the 1930s)
2007. "Home | The Great American Read | PBS". Home | The Great American Read | PBS. Retrieved October 24, 2018. "BBC – The Big Read". BBC. April 2003...
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the original on April 19, 2008. Retrieved February 18, 2007. "The Big Read | The Grapes of Wrath". National Endowment for the Arts. Archived from the...
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nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952, and in 2003 the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. It was the inspiration for the zombie...
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no. 33 on the BBC's Big Read, a 2003 survey with the goal of finding the "nation's best-loved book". The book was selected in the United States for Oprah's...
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all time", and the novel was listed at number 77 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. Walter Hartright, a young art teacher, encounters and gives directions...
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The Big Read (Bulgarian: Голямото четене, trans. Golyamoto chetene) was a survey initiated by the Bulgarian National Television, the goal of which was...
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