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Despite the increase in TV watching, reading still is an important leisure activity in Britain. More than 5,000 titles were nominated in a national survey conducted in 1996. The public was invited to suggest up to five books. It was later suggested that the votes either came from English literary students or from people who were showing off. What do you think? Can you point out a few important names that failed to make it into the top 100 list?
1. The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
2. 1984 George Orwell
3. Animal Farm George Orwell
4. Ulysses James Joyce
5. Catch-22 Joseph Heller
6. The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
7. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
8. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
9. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
10. Trainspotting Irvine Welsh
11. Wild Swans Jung Chang
12. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. Lord of the Flies William Golding
14. On the Road Jack Kerouac
15. Brave New World Aldous Huxley
16. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
17. Winnie-the-Pooh A. A, Milne
18. TheCotor Purple Alice Walker
19. The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien
20. The Outsider Albert Camus
21. The lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis
22. The Trial Franz Kafka
23. Gone with the Wind Margaret Michell
24. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
25. Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
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