The United Kingdom's Top 200 Novels - Statistics

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Rank	Year	Author	Book	% Correct
8	1949	George Orwell	Nineteen Eighty-Four	95%
1*	1954-1955	J.R.R. Tolkein	The Lord of the Rings	93%
2	1813	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	90%
20	1869	Leo Tolstoy	War and Peace	86%
6	1960	Harper Lee	To Kill a Mockingbird	85%
46	1945	George Orwell	Animal Farm	83%
30	1865	Lewis Carroll	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	82%
22	1997	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	82%
43	1925	F. Scott Fitzgerald	The Great Gatsby	81%
25	1937	J.R.R. Tolkien	The Hobbit	81%
18	1868-1869	Louisa May Alcott	Little Women	80%
12	1847	Emily Brontë	Wuthering Heights	80%
15	1951	J.D. Salinger	The Catcher in the Rye	79%
7	1926	A.A. Milne	Winnie-the-Pooh	79%
182	1838	Charles Dickens	Oliver Twist	77%
10	1847	Charlotte Brontë	Jane Eyre	76%
104	1897	Bram Stoker	Dracula	75%
171	1818	Mary Shelley	Frankenstein	75%
35	1964	Roald Dahl	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	74%
40	1815	Jane Austen	Emma	74%
17	1861	Charles Dickens	Great Expectations	74%
29	1939	John Steinbeck	The Grapes of Wrath	74%
78	1922	James Joyce	Ulysses	73%
23	1998	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	72%
36	1883	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	72%
144	1986	Stephen King	It	71%
70	1954	William Golding	Lord of the Flies	71%
9	1950	C.S. Lewis	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	71%
4	1979	Douglas Adams	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	70%
11	1961	Joseph Heller	Catch-22	69%
114	1862	Victor Hugo	Les Misérables	69%
161	1851	Herman Melville	Moby-Dick	69%
63	1859	Charles Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities	68%
52	1937	John Steinbeck	Of Mice and Men	68%
14	1938	Daphne du Maurier	Rebecca	68%
5	2000	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	67%
24	1999	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	67%
47	1843	Charles Dickens	A Christmas Carol	66%
54	1878	Leo Tolstoy	Anna Karenina	66%
21	1936	Margaret Mitchell	Gone with the Wind	66%
60	1866	Fyodor Dostoyevsyk	Crime and Punishment	64%
74	1988	Roald Dahl	Matilda	64%
34	1850	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	62%
39	1965	Frank Herbert	Dune	62%
16	1908	Kenneth Grahame	The Wind in the Willows	61%
3*	1995-2000	Philip Pullman	His Dark Materials	60%
178	1955	Vladimir Nabokov	Lolita	60%
131	1985	Margaret Atwood	The Handmaid's Tale	60%
87	1932	Aldous Huxley	Brave New World	59%
145	1961	Roald Dahl	James and the Giant Peach	59%
90	1957	Jack Kerouac	On the Road	58%
44	1844	Alexandre Dumas	The Count of Monte Cristo	57%
173	1951	Ernest Hemingway	The Old Man and the Sea	57%
91	1969	Mario Puzo	The Godfather	56%
58	1877	Anna Sewell	Black Beauty	55%
180	1943	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	The Little Prince	55%
32	1967	Gabriel García Márquez	One Hundred Years of Solitude	54%
26	1891	Thomas Hardy	Tess of the d'Urbervilles	54%
194	1898	H.G. Wells	The War of the Worlds	54%
158	1902	Joseph Conrad	Heart of Darkness	53%
38	1817	Jane Austen	Persuasion	53%
56	1982	Roald Dahl	The BFG	53%
27	1871-1872	George Eliot	Middlemarch	52%
122	1847-1848	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	52%
157	1962	Ken Kesey	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	51%
51	1911	Frances Hodgson Burnett	The Secret Garden	50%
42	1972	Richard Adams	Watership Down	50%
79	1853	Charles Dickens	Bleak House	48%
45	1945	Evelyn Waugh	Brideshead Revisited	48%
169	1983	Roald Dahl	The Witches	48%
41	1908	Lucy Maud Montgomery	Anne of Green Gables	46%
75	1996	Helen Fielding	Bridget Jones's Diary	46%
170	1952	E.B. White	Charlotte's Web	46%
100	1981	Salman Rushdie	Midnight's Children	46%
136	1983	Alice Walker	The Color Purple	46%
128	1901-1902	Arthur Conan Doyle	The Hound of the Baskervilles	46%
174	1980	Umberto Eco	The Name of the Rose	46%
141	1929	Erich Maria Remarque	All Quiet on the Western Front	43%
133	1952	John Steinbeck	East of Eden	43%
97	1985	Gabriel García Márquez	Love in the Time of Cholera	42%
118	1891	Oscar Wilde	The Picture of Dorian Gray	42%
106	1837	Charles Dickens	The Pickwick Papers	41%
48	1874	Thomas Hardy	Far from the Madding Crowd	40%
94	1988	Paulo Coelho	The Alchemist	40%
154	2001	Ian McEwan	Atonement	39%
190	1913	D.H. Lawrence	Sons and Lovers	39%
77	1859	Wilkie Collins	The Woman in White	39%
111	1896	Thomas Hardy	Jude the Obscure	38%
159	1901	Rudyard Kipling	Kim	38%
81	1980	Roald Dahl	The Twits	38%
53	1978	Stephen King	The Stand	37%
188*	1992-1997	R.L. Stine	Goosebumps	36%
189	1881	Johanna Spyri	Heidi	36%
138	1915	John Buchan	The Thirty-Nine Steps	36%
187	1993	Irvine Welsh	Trainspotting	35%
19	1994	Louis de Bernières	Captain Corelli's Mandolin	34%
184	1861	George Eliot	Silas Marner	34%
199	1969	Eric Carle	The Very Hungry Caterpillar	33%
59*	2001-2012	Eoin Colfer	Artemis Fowl	32%
83	1998	Louis Sachar	Holes	32%
57	1930	Arthur Ransome	Swallows and Amazons	32%
112	1982	Sue Townsend	The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾	32%
191	1984	Milan Kundera	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	32%
101	1889	Jerome K. Jerome	Three Men in a Boat	32%
185	1991	Bret Easton Ellis	American Psycho	31%
109	1971	Frederick Forsyth	The Day of the Jackal	30%
130	1967	Mikhail Bulgakov	The Master and Margarita	29%
13	1993	Sebastian Faulks	Birdsong	28%
88	1932	Stella Gibbons	Cold Comfort Farm	28%
177	1970	Roald Dahl	Fantastic Mr Fox	28%
134	1981	Roald Dahl	George's Marvellous Medicine	28%
71	1985	Patrick Süskind	Perfume	28%
120	1951	John Wyndham	The Day of the Triffids	28%
115	1886	Thomas Hardy	The Mayor of Casterbridge	28%
33	1989	Ken Follett	The Pillars of the Earth	28%
55	1993	Vikram Seth	A Suitable Boy	27%
85	1997	Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things	27%
125	1998	Barbara Kingsolver	The Poisonwood Bible	27%
68	1990	Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett	Good Omens	26%
62	1997	Arthur Golden	Memoirs of a Geisha	25%
31	1991	Jacqueline Wilson	The Story of Tracy Beaker	25%
132	1975	Roald Dahl	Danny, the Champion of the World	24%
84*	1946-1956	Mervyn Peake	Gormenghast	24%
143	1995	Nick Hornby	High Fidelity	24%
146	1996	Stephen King	The Green Mile	24%
76	1992	Donna Tartt	The Secret History	24%
64	1977	Colleen McCullough	The Thorn Birds	24%
37	1950	Nevil Shute	A Town Like Alice	23%
61*	2001	Malorie Blackman	Noughts and Crosses	23%
103	1996	Alex Garland	The Beach	23%
93	1983	Terry Pratchett	The Colour of Magic	23%
164	1993	E. Annie Proulx	The Shipping News	23%
166	1869	R.D. Blackmore	Lorna Doone	22%
119	1975	James Clavell	Shōgun	22%
108	1984	Iain Banks	The Wasp Factory	21%
165	1978	John Irving	The World According to Garp	21%
28	1989	John Irving	A Prayer for Owen Meany	20%
200	1979	V.C. Andrews	Flowers in the Attic	20%
82	1948	Dodie Smith	I Capture the Castle	20%
149	1969	Patrick O'Brian	Master and Commander	20%
65	1987	Terry Pratchett	Mort	20%
92	1980	Jean M Auel	The Clan of the Cave Bear	20%
69	1989	Terry Pratchett	Guards! Guards!	19%
96	1979	Jeffrey Archer	Kane and Abel	19%
129	1990	A.S. Byatt	Possession: A Romance	19%
123*	1906-1921	John Galsworthy	The Forsyte Saga	19%
195	1995	Nicholas Evans	The Horse Whisperer	18%
67	1965	John Fowles	The Magus	17%
198	1958	T.H. White	The Once and Future King	17%
99	2000	Meg Cabot	The Princess Diaries	17%
72	1914	Robert Tressell	The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists	17%
49	1981	Michelle Magorian	Goodnight Mister Tom	15%
137	1996	Terry Pratchett	Hogfather	15%
179	1970	Richard Bach	Jonathan Livingston Seagull	15%
186	1892	George and Weedon Grossmith	The Diary of a Nobody	15%
160	1991	Diana Gabaldon	Cross Stitch	14%
113	1951	Nicholas Monsarrat	The Cruel Sea	14%
124	2000	Mark Z. Danielewski	House of Leaves	13%
156	1956	Ian Serraillier	The Silver Sword	13%
135	1988	Terry Pratchett	Wyrd Sisters	13%
66	1943	Enid Blyton	The Magic Faraway Tree	12%
50	1987	Rosamunde Pilcher	The Shell Seekers	12%
73	2002	Terry Pratchett	Night Watch	11%
147	1969	Henri Charrière	Papillon	11%
175	1991	Jostein Gaarder	Sophie's World	11%
168	1978	M.M. Kaye	The Far Pavilions	11%
142	1995	Kate Atkinson	Behind the Scenes at the Museum	9%
89	1982	Raymond E. Feist	Magician	9%
102	1992	Terry Pratchett	Small Gods	9%
139	2002	Jacqueline Wilson	Girls in Tears	8%
126	1991	Terry Pratchett	Reaper Man	8%
196	1995	Rohinton Mistry	A Fine Balance	7%
105	2001	Anthony Horowitz	Point Blanc	7%
155	2002	Jacqueline Wilson	Secrets	7%
151	1994	Terry Pratchett	Soul Music	7%
163	1932	Lewis Grassic Gibbon	Sunset Song	7%
153	1999	Terry Pratchett	The Fifth Elephant	7%
110	1999	Jacqueline Wilson	The Illustrated Mum	7%
193	2000	Terry Pratchett	The Truth	7%
197	1991	Terry Pratchett	Witches Abroad	7%
192	1999	Tony Parsons	Man and Boy	6%
107	2000	Anthony Horowitz	Stormbreaker	6%
181	1992	Jacqueline Wilson	The Suitcase Kid	6%
152	2001	Terry Pratchett	Thief of Time	6%
127	1999	Louise Rennison	Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging	5%
80	1995	Jacqueline Wilson	Double Act	5%
176	2001	Jacqueline Wilson	Dustbin Baby	5%
98	1997	Jacqueline Wilson	Girls in Love	5%
183	1989	Bryce Courtenay	The Power of One	5%
86	2000	Jacqueline Wilson	Vicky Angel	5%
117	1996	Jacqueline Wilson	Bad Girls	4%
162	1993	Wilbur Smith	River God	4%
167	1999	Jacqueline Wilson	Girls Out Late	3%
95	1954	Anya Seton	Katherine	3%
148	1993	Terry Pratchett	Men at Arms	3%
150	2002	Anthony Horowitz	Skeleton Key	3%
140	2001	Jacqueline Wilson	Sleepovers	3%
116	2000	Jacqueline Wilson	The Dare Game	3%
121	2003	Jacqueline Wilson	Lola Rose	2%
172	1972	Terry Venables/Gordon Williams	They Used to Play on Grass	1%

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