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...read about the Top 30 titles

Thank you to all 13,800 of you who voted for your Watershed novel from the list below. The Top 10 titles will be announced on 8 December in a live programme from the Norfolk & Norwich Millennium Library. We'll also publish the list on this website.

Find out the 100 plus titles that didn't make it to the Top 30

Angelique by Sergeanne Golon
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
Game Of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Unless by Carol Shields
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
The Women's Room by Marilyn French

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