In the U.S., du Maurier won the National Book Award for favourite novel of 1938, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association.[23] In 2003, the novel was listed at number 14 on the UK survey The Big Read conducted by the BBC.[24]
In 2017, it was voted the UK's favourite book of the past 225 years in a poll by bookseller WH Smith. Other novels in the shortlist were To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, and Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.[25]
