Now The BBC have got in on the act, with the following 21 books making the shortlist for "The Nation's Favourite Book". James Joyce and Ayn Rand are both conspicuous by their absence :)
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Captain Correlli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
Catch-22 by Joseph L Heller
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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