In a switch-about from the last time the question was asked (the BBC's "Big Read" competition a few years back), Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice had edged out J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings as the favorite book of the British. As The Telegraph reports, the new survey asked UK readers to list ten books they "couldn't live without."

Also on the list: the Harry Potter books at #4, Nineteen Eighty-Four at #8, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy also at #8 (that's an interesting tie), and The Hobbit at #16.