Statistics for 100 Greatest British Novels - BBC Culture Poll

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Author		Novel	% Correct
Jane Austen	1813	Pride and Prejudice	88%
George Orwell	1949	Nineteen Eighty-Four	87%
George Orwell	1945	Animal Farm	81%
Jane Austen	1815	Emma	80%
Lewis Carroll	1865	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	77%
Charles Dickens	1861	Great Expectations	77%
J R R Tolkien	1954	The Lord of the Rings	77%
Emily Bronte	1847	Wuthering Heights	77%
William Golding	1954	Lord of the Flies	75%
Mary Shelley	1818	Frankenstein	74%
C S Lewis	1949-54	The Chronicles of Narnia	74%
Jane Austen	1811	Sense and Sensibility	70%
Charlotte Bronte	1847	Jane Eyre	69%
Charles Dickens	1850	David Copperfield	63%
Thomas Hardy	1891	Tess of the d'Urbervilles	62%
Jonathan Swift	1726	Gulliver's Travels	61%
Daniel Defoe	1719	Robinson Crusoe	61%
Joseph Conrad	1899	Heart of Darkness	57%
Virginia Woolf	1927	To The Lighthouse	54%
George Eliot	1874	Middlemarch	53%
Virginia Woolf	1925	Mrs Dalloway	51%
D H Lawrence	1913	Sons and Lovers	51%
Kenneth Grahame	1908	The Wind in the Willows	51%
William Makepeace Thackeray	1848	Vanity Fair	51%
E M Forster	1924	A Passage to India	50%
Anthony Burgess	1962	A Clockwork Orange	49%
Ian McEwan	2001	Atonement	49%
Salman Rushdie	1981	Midnight's Children	48%
Wilkie Collins	1859	The Woman in White	48%
Charles Dickens	1853	Bleak House	47%
E M Forster	1908	A Room with a View	46%
Jane Austen	1817	Persuasion	44%
Philip Pullman	1995-2000	His Dark Materials	43%
Thomas Hardy	1895	Jude the Obscure	43%
Zadie Smith	2000	White Teeth	42%
Hilary Mantel	2009	Wolf Hall	41%
Graham Greene	1938	Brighton Rock	36%
E M Forster	1910	Howards End	36%
Kingsley Amis	1954	Lucky Jim	35%
Kazuo Ishiguro	1989	Remains of the Day	35%
Stella Gibbons	1932	Cold Comfort Farm	34%
Henry Fielding	1749	The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling	33%
Muriel Spark	1961	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	32%
D H Lawrence	1920	Women in Love	32%
Thomas Hardy	1886	The Mayor of Casterbridge	31%
Jeanette Winterson	1985	Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit	30%
Laurence Stern	1759	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman	28%
Jean Rhys	1966	Wide Sargasso Sea	26%
Virginia Woolf	1928	Orlando	25%
Evelyn Waugh	1938	Scoop	25%
Kazuo Ishiguro	2005	Never Let Me Go	24%
Monica Ali	2003	Brick Lane	22%
Daniel Defoe	1722	Moll Flanders	22%
A S Byatt	1990	Possession	22%
Joseph Conrad	1904	Nostromo	21%
Doris Lessing	1962	The Golden Notebook	21%
W Somerset Maugham	1915	Of Human Bondage	20%
Charlotte Bronte	1853	Villette	20%
John Galsworthy	1922	The Forsyte Saga	18%
J G Ballard	1973	Crash	17%
George Eliot	1876	Daniel Deronda	17%
Anthony Trollope	1857	Barchester Towers	16%
Iris Murdoch	1978	The Sea, The Sea	16%
Malcolm Lowry	1947	Under the Volcano	16%
Virginia Woolf	1931	The Waves	15%
Anthony Powell	1951-75	A Dance to the Music of Time	14%
Samuel Richardson	1748	Clarissa	13%
Graham Greene	1948	The Heart of the Matter	13%
Graham Greene	1951	The End of the Affair	12%
Ford Madox Ford	1915	The Good Soldier	12%
Paul Scott	1966	The Jewel in the Crown	12%
V S Naipaul	1961	A House for Mr Biswas	11%
Evelyn Waugh	1928	Decline and Fall	11%
Charles Dickens	1848	Dombey and Son	11%
Ford Madox Ford	1924-28	Parade's End	10%
Alan Hollinghurst	2004	The Line of Beauty	9%
Julian Barnes	2011	The Sense of an Ending	9%
Zadie Smith	2012	NW	8%
Pat Barker	1991-95	Regeneration Trilogy	8%
Hanif Kureishi	1990	The Buddha of Suburbia	8%
Andrea Levy	2004	Small Island	7%
Anthony Trollope	1875	The Way We Live Now	7%
Alan Hollinghurst	1988	The Swimming Pool Library	6%
Henry Green	1945	Loving	5%
P G Wodehouse	1938	The Code of the Woosters	5%
Elizabeth Bowen	1938	The Death of the Heart	5%
Sarah Waters	2009	The Little Stranger	5%
George Gissing	1891	New Grub Street	4%
Penelope Fitzgerald	1995	The Blue Flower	4%
Joyce Cary	1944	The Horse's Mouth	4%
Arnold Bennett	1908	The Old Wives Tale	4%
Jeanette Winterson	1987	The Passion	4%
James Hogg	1824	The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	3%
Ali Smith	2011	There but for the	3%
Sybille Bedford	1956	A Legacy	2%
Barbara Pym	1952	Excellent Women	2%
Doris Lessing	1974	Memoirs of a Survivor	2%
Edward St Aubyn	1992-2012	The Patrick Melrose Novels	2%
Jane Gardam	2004	Old Filth	1%
Tom McCarthy	2005	Remainder	1%