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Which novel was left on the shelf?
We imagined a law was passed that said you can only have ONE novel on your bookshelf, and we asked you to choose what would you save?
We had hundreds of responses and here's the winning top 20! How did your choice get on?
1 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2 Middlemarch George Eliot
3 The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
4 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
5 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
6 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
7 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
8 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
9 Persuasion Jane Austen
10 Catch-22 Joseph Heller
11 One Day David Nicholls
12 Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13 Any Human Heart William Boyd
14 Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
15 Little Women Louisa May Alcott
16 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
17 Still Life Sarah Winman
18 The Heart's Invisible Furies John Boyne
19 The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
20 The Wind on the Willows Kenneth Grahame