Big Read is the Hungarian version of the BBC Big Read.

The Big Read was imported into Hungary under the name A Nagy Könyv (lit. "The Big Book") and took place in 2005.[1] Around 1400 libraries, 500 book shops and 1300 schools participated in the competition in various ways. It proved to be far more popular in Hungary (with a population of 10 million) than in the UK (with a population of 60 million), with 400,000 votes arriving (as opposed to 140,000 votes in the UK competition in the corresponding period).

Voting for the top 100 began in late February: one was allowed to vote for any novel published in Hungarian. It ended on April 23, when the 50 "foreign" and 50 Hungarian most popular novels were selected.

On June 11, the top 12 novels were chosen in the framework of a television show presented by cultural celebrities. In the next months, 12 short films were made from these novels and screened in television, which competed with each other in pairs.

On December 15, the population selected their ultimate favourite by SMS and phone. The winning novel, which received the title "the most liked novel of Hungary 2005", was the same book as the result of the previous round, Eclipse of the Crescent Moon. The other two Hungarian books that participated in the final were The Paul Street Boys and Abigél.

Initial Top 12

  1. Eclipse of the Crescent Moon (literally Stars of Eger) by Géza Gárdonyi
  2. The Paul Street Boys by Ferenc Molnár
  3. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
  4. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
  5. The Little Prince by A. de Saint-Exupéry
  6. Abigél by Magda Szabó
  7. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
  8. Tüskevár by István Fekete
  9. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  10. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  11. The Man with the Golden Touch (Az arany ember) by Mór Jókai
  12. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Final Top 100

  1. Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by Géza Gárdonyi
  2. The Paul Street Boys by Ferenc Molnár
  3. Abigél by Magda Szabó
  4. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  5. The Man with the Golden Touch (Az arany ember) by Mór Jókai
  6. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
  7. The Little Prince by A. de Saint-Exupéry
  8. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
  9. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
  10. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  11. Tüskevár by István Fekete
  12. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  13. Abel Alone by Áron Tamási
  14. The Baron's Sons by Mór Jókai
  15. Indul a bakterház by Sándor Rideg
  16. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
  17. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
  18. Be Faithful Unto Death by Zsigmond Móricz
  19. Vuk: The Little Fox by István Fekete
  20. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  21. Lottie and Lisa by Erich Kästner
  22. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  23. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  24. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  25. A funtineli boszorkány by Albert Wass
  26. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
  27. Fateless by Imre Kertész
  28. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
  29. Kincskereső kisködmön by Ferenc Móra
  30. Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
  31. Give Me Back My Mountains by Albert Wass
  32. Embers by Sándor Márai[2][3][4][5]
  33. Pansy Violet by Zsigmond Móricz[2][3][5]
  34. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  35. St. Peter's Umbrella by Kálmán Mikszáth
  36. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  37. Dirty Fred the Captain by Jenő Rejtő
  38. Slave of the Huns by Géza Gárdonyi
  39. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  40. A nap szerelmese by Sándor Dallos
  41. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
  42. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  43. Anna Édes by Dezső Kosztolányi
  44. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  45. Thistle by István Fekete
  46. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  47. The 14-Carat Roadster by Jenő Rejtő
  48. Aranyecset by Sándor Dallos
  49. Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight
  50. Winnetou by Karl May
  51. Téli berek by István Fekete
  52. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  53. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  54. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  55. The Gold Coffin by Ferenc Móra
  56. A fekete város by Kálmán Mikszáth
  57. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
  58. Tóték by István Örkény
  59. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  60. Állítsátok meg Terézanyut! by Zsuzsa Rácz
  61. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  62. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  63. Death is My Trade by Robert Merle
  64. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  65. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  66. The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
  67. The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw
  68. Kard és kasza by Albert Wass
  69. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  70. Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque
  71. School at the Frontier by Géza Ottlik
  72. A Hungarian Nabob by Mór Jókai
  73. This Above All by Eric Knight
  74. Revulsion by László Németh
  75. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  76. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  77. A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy
  78. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  79. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
  80. The Book of Fathers by Miklós Vámos
  81. The Pendragon Legend by Antal Szerb
  82. Bezzeg az én időmben by Klára Fehér
  83. Gergő és az álomfogók by Gyula Böszörményi
  84. Malevil by Robert Merle
  85. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  86. Für Elise by Magda Szabó
  87. Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
  88. Jadwiga's Pillow by Pál Závada
  89. Ida's Novel by Géza Gárdonyi
  90. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
  91. An Old-fashioned Story by Magda Szabó
  92. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  93. The Door by Magda Szabó
  94. The Confessions of a Haut-Bourgeois by Sándor Márai
  95. The Red Lion by Mária Szepes
  96. Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann
  97. Ne féljetek by Anna Jókai
  98. My Happy Days in Hell by György Faludy
  99. PetePite by Gábor Nógrádi
  100. Celestial Harmonies by Péter Esterházy

Authors by number of novels in the Top 100

See also

Contests similar to Big Read were held in other countries:

References

  1. ↑ "A Nagy Könyv - Benne minden jóval". Archived from the original on 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2008-06-28.
  2. 1 2 Sources differ on the order of books ranked 32nd and 33rd.
  3. 1 2 "Népszabadság Online: Vonzódunk a mesékhez". Archived from the original on 2007-12-29. Retrieved 2008-06-28.
  4. ↑ Index – Az Egri csillagok a kedvenc
  5. 1 2 "Bookline | Online Áruház: A Nagy Könyv utolsó oldala". Bookline.hu. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2008-06-28.
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