BBC Book List Challenge

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Winnie the Pooh indeed ranked seventh.
Well, a lot of people read it/ had it read to them as a child. It's very fondly remembered.
There are quite a few children's books in the original Top 20.

My scores on the doors for this, the Original list:

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. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
21. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
22. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
24. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
25. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
26. Middlemarch, George Eliot
27. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
28. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
29. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
30. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
31. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
32. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
33. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
34. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
35. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
36. Persuasion, Jane Austen
37. Dune, Frank Herbert
38. Emma, Jane Austen
39. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
40. Watership Down, Richard Adams
41. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
42. Animal Farm, George Orwell
43. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
44. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
45. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
46. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
47. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
48. The Stand, Stephen King
49. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
50. The BFG, Roald Dahl
51. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
52. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
53. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
54. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
55. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
56. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
57. Mort, Terry Pratchett
58. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
59. The Magus, John Fowles
60. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
61. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
62. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
63. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
64. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
65. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
66. Matilda, Roald Dahl
67. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
68. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
69. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
70. The Twits, Roald Dahl
71. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
72. Holes, Louis Sachar
73. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
74. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
75. Magician, Raymond E Feist
76. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
77. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
78. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
79. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
80. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
81. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

I remember outcry at the time that teens had skewed the online voting. But there's plenty of classics on there. Especially ones I hadn't read then and haven't still.

I really need to sort out the Russians....