I remember voting in the BBC's Big Read contest some months ago. Now the results have been announced and I'm not sure if I should be pleased with the winners or disappointed that my tastes are so plebeian. are top of my favourite novel list as well. Hitchhikers Guide, the third most popular, probably ties for third with Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, although I'd have a hard time picking a favourite out of all of them.

I've never read numbers 4 or 5 but here are some more of my top reads:

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Issac Asimov, Foundation's Edge
Michael Crighton, Jurassic Park
George Eliot, Middlemarch
Umberto Eco, Focault's Pendulum