I 100 più amati dai britannici

  4 marzo 2020

Nel mese di Aprile del 2003 la rubrica «Big Read» della BBC iniziò un sondaggio chiedendo ai lettori quale fosse il romanzo più amato del paese.

 

Di seguito riporto i risultati in ordine progressivo di gradimento. Casomai qualcuno avesse bisogno di qualche suggerimento di lettura.

 

BBC «Top 100» most loved novels

1. 1. 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
      2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
      3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
      4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
      5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
      6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
      7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
      8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
      9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
      10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
      11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
      12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
      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
      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 García Márquez
      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
      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 Süskind
      72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
      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. The Twits, Roald Dahl
      82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
      83. Holes, Louis Sachar
      84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
      85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
      86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
      87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
      88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
      89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
      90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
      91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
      92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
      93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
      94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
      95. Katherine, Anya Seton
      96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
      97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
      98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
      99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
      100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie