Big Read (Bulgarian)

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Bulgaria, 99 Books

This list is the Bulgarian version of the BBC Big Read.

Big Reading is a campaign broadcast on Bulgarian National Television , with the aim of polling Bulgarians about their favorite novels. The show is based on the BBC 's Great Reading English format . It started in Bulgaria on October 5 , 2008 and ended on March 22, 2009 . Voting is done by e-mail, via the Internet , by telephone or by letter . Initially, 100 novels were selected ( December 21 , 2008), of which the first 12 were subsequently ranked.

Engagement was strong: after the first four weeks organisers had already logged 35 000 ballots, 97 % cast online and 66 % from women, and internal figures circulating after the finale put the overall tally at about 100 000 votes, with roughly 14 000 of them arriving during the closing broadcast itself

This list was originally published in 2009 and was added to this site over 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
1616 Under the Yoke Ivan Vazov 1888 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4673 Time Of Parting Anton Donchev 1964 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4396 Tobacco Dimitar Dimov 1951 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4412 The Iron Candlestick Dimitar Talev 1952 Bulgarian Bulgarian
44 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 French French
34 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 Russian Russian
17 The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1959 English English
4504 Osadeni Dushi Dimitar Dimov 1945 Bulgarian Bulgarian
193 East of Eden John Steinbeck 1952 American English
87 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
190 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 1979 British English
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombian Spanish
13 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813 British English
58 Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1936 American English
267 Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren 1945 Swedish Swedish
389 The Alchemist Paulo Coelho 1988 Brazilian Portuguese
11 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 Russian Russian
33 Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961 American English
1759 Bai Ganyo Aleko Konstantinov 1895 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4685 Extracts From Notes On The Bulgarian Uprisings Zahari Stoyanov 1884 Bulgarian Bulgarian
119 The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
6 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 1949 British English
10 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1877 Russian Russian
159 The Good Soldier Švejk Jaroslav Hašek 1921 Czech Czech
165 Winnie the Pooh A. A. Milne 1926 British English
3397 King Rat James Clavell 1962 British English
765 The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough 1977 Australian English
236 Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling 1997 British English
114 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco 1980 Italian Italian
18 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880 Russian Russian
89 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1890 Irish English
1161 The Twelve Chairs Ilya Ilf, Evgeniy Petrov 1928 Russian Russian
12 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869 Russian Russian
154 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey 1962 American English
4 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951 American English
5345 The Bells Of Prespa Dimitar Talev 1966 Bulgarian Bulgarian
3162 Natural Novel Georgi Gospodinov 1999 Bulgarian Bulgarian
6864 Wolf Hunt Ivaylo Petrov 1986 Bulgarian Bulgarian
242 The Godfather Mario Puzo 1969 American English
15 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847 British English
166 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez 1985 Colombian Spanish
385 Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz 1895 Polish Polish
40 Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1862 French French
207 Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis 1946 Greek Greek
839 Winnetou Karl May 1893 German German
2201 Arch Of Triumph Erich Maria Remarque 1945 German German
1645 Shogun James Clavell 1975 British English
8 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605 Spanish Spanish
2232 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. Rowling 2007 British English
1074 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 2003 American English
1217 Foucault's Pendulum Umberto Eco 1988 Italian Italian
2029 Nobody's Boy Hector Malot 1878 French French
29 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 1847 British English
1481 The Little Golden Calf Ilya Ilf, Evgeniy Petrov 1931 Russian Russian
291 The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende 1982 Chilean Spanish
511 Perfume Patrick Suskind 1985 German German
3 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 American English
57 The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869 Russian Russian
942 Cannery Row John Steinbeck 1945 American English
782 Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome 1889 British English
5103 Антихрист Emilian Stanev 1939 Bulgarian Bulgarian
168 Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald 1934 American English
5115 Дъщерята на Калояна Fani Popova-Mutafova 1943 Bulgarian Bulgarian
634 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig 1974 American English
5119 Нощем с белите коне Pavel Vezhinov 1957 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5666 Rich Man, Poor Man Irwin Shaw 1969 American English
3454 Ян Бибиян Elin Pelin 1923 Bulgarian Bulgarian
2387 Emil I Lönneberga Astrid Lindgren 1963 Swedish Swedish
35 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
1134 The Neverending Story Michael Ende 1979 German German
1606 White Fang Jack London 1906 American English
10837 Target Land Svoboda Bachvarova 2010 Bulgarian Unknown
243 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain 1876 American English
5122 Creation Gore Vidal 1981 American English
6307 The Lost Symbol Dan Brown 2009 American English
5150 Ilinden Dimitar Talev 1951 Bulgarian Bulgarian
150 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 1953 American English
10552 18% Gray Zachary Karabashliev 2008 Bulgarian Bulgarian
1417 Karlson On The Roof Astrid Lindgren 1955 Swedish Swedish
5156 The Gadfly Ethel Lilian Voynich 1897 British English
3476 The Black Obelisk Erich Maria Remarque 1956 German German
453 I, Claudius Robert Graves 1934 British English
86 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 1928 German German
758 Dandelion Wine Ray Bradbury 1957 American English
16 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 American English
5160 Самуил Dimitar Talev 1956 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5161 Die Söhne Der Großen Bärin Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich 1951 German German
6636 Солунският чудотворец Fani Popova-Mutafova 1981 Bulgarian Bulgarian
1499 Three Comrades Erich Maria Remarque 1936 German German
3474 Патиланско царство Ran Bosilek 1923 Bulgarian Bulgarian
1755 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J. K. Rowling 2005 British English
41 On the Road Jack Kerouac 1957 American English
366 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo 1831 French French
99 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera 1984 Czech Czech
163 Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 1922 German German
6564 Avalanche Blaga Dimitrova 1980 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5646 Before I Was Born And After My Death Ivailo Petrov 1968 Bulgarian Bulgarian
2860 A Ballad for Georg Henig Viktor Paskov 1987 Bulgarian Bulgarian
14 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955 American English