The Big Read was a survey on books carried out by the BBC in the United Kingdom in 2003, where over three quarters of a million votes were received from the British public to find the nation's best-loved novel of all time. The year-long survey was the biggest single test of public reading taste to date, and culminated with several programmes hosted by celebrities, advocating their favourite books.
Read more about The Big Read: Purpose, Top 200 Novels in The United Kingdom, Authors With Multiple Novels On The List
Famous quotes containing the words big and/or read:
“That big gun in your hand makes you look grown up—you think! I’ll bet you spend hours posing in front of a mirror holding it, trying to look tough!... You scum!”
—Richard Brooks (1912–1992)
“Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)