Big Read (Hungarian)

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 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. Thorn Castle (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. Thorn Castle (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. The Railroad House About To Start 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. The Funtinel Witch 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. The Treasure-Hunting Smock 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. The Lover of the Sun 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. The Golden Brush by Sándor Dallos
  49. Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight
  50. Winnetou by Karl May
  1. Winter Grove by István Fekete
  2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  3. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  5. The Gold Coffin by Ferenc Móra
  6. The Black Town by Kálmán Mikszáth
  7. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
  8. The Toth Family by István Örkény
  9. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  10. Stop Mommy Teresa! by Zsuzsa Rácz
  11. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  12. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  13. Death is My Trade by Robert Merle
  14. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  15. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  16. The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
  17. The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw
  18. The Sword and the Scythe by Albert Wass
  19. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  20. Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque
  21. School at the Frontier by Géza Ottlik
  22. A Hungarian Nabob by Mór Jókai
  23. This Above All by Eric Knight
  24. Revulsion by László Németh
  25. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  26. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  27. A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy
  28. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  29. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
  30. The Book of Fathers by Miklós Vámos
  31. The Pendragon Legend by Antal Szerb
  32. Just Look at My Time by Klára Fehér
  33. Greg and the Dream-catchers by Gyula Böszörményi
  34. Malevil by Robert Merle
  35. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  36. Für Elise by Magda Szabó
  37. Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
  38. Jadviga's Pillow by Pál Závada
  39. Ida's Novel by Géza Gárdonyi
  40. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
  41. An Old-fashioned Story by Magda Szabó
  42. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  43. The Door by Magda Szabó
  44. The Confessions of a Haut-Bourgeois by Sándor Márai
  45. The Red Lion by Mária Szepes
  46. Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann
  47. Do Not Be Afraid by Anna Jókai
  48. My Happy Days in Hell by György Faludy
  49. PetePite by Gábor Nógrádi
  50. 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. ↑ http://www.anagykonyv.hu/
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sources differ on the order of books ranked 32nd and 33rd.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Népszabadság Online: Vonzódunk a mesékhez
  4. ↑ Index - Az Egri csillagok a kedvenc
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Bookline | Online Áruház

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