Books Everyone Should Read

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Pulitzer Prize winners (Fiction 1948-, Novel pre1948)
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July 2009-June 2010 206 bones 7th heaven 7th heaven 8th confession
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011) Anna Karenina Blake Breakfast of Champions Decline and Fall
(1918-2010) A Bell for Adano A Confederacy of Dunces A Death in the Family
http://ask.metafilter. com/42616/A-bookeveryone-shouldread [accessed 23 Feb 2011] 1984 Aesop's Fables
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Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read 1984 1984 1984 A Bend in the A Christmas Carol River A Christmas Carol A Confederacy of A Dance to the A Clockwork Dunces Music of Time Orange A Prayer for Owen A Fine Balance A Passage to India Meany A Prayer for Owen Alice's Adventures A Tale of Two Meaney in Wonderland Cities All Quiet on the Western Front Anna Karenina Atonement A Thousand Splendid Suns A Tree Grows in Brooklyn All Quiet on the Western Front 1984 A Clockwork Orange Catch-22 Crime and Punishment 1974 1984 A Clockwork 1977 Orange A Confederacy of 1984 Dunces 52 Pick-up A Bend in the River 1984 Amsterdam A Clockwork Orange Disgrace A Confederacy of Dunces G. Heat and Dust
Goodreads.com Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once (top 100)
1001 Books You Should Read Oprah's Book Club Before You Die List (Cassell, 2005)
Author's own top five...
http://www.oprah. com/oprahsbookclub/Complete-List-of-Oprahs-Book-Club-Books [updated Sept 17 2010, accessed 24 we didn't include Feb 2011] this A Million Little Pieces A New Earth Anna Karenina As I Lay Dying Cry, the Beloved Country
A darker domain
A Fable A Good Scent from a Strange An Explanation of His Dark Materials Mountain the Birds Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell A Summons to Memphis
Against the Grain Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Animal Farm
Anna Karenina
David Copperfield
A darker domain Animal Farm Brave New World Breaking Dawn Catch-22 Crime and Punishment Eclipse Emma Ender's Game Fahrenheit 451 Harry Potter Jane Eyre A Suitable Boy A Tale of Two Cities Adventures of Sherlock Holmes For Whom the Bell A Canticle for Tolls Leibowitz A Clockwork Lolita Orange A Confederacy of Lord of the Flies Dunces A Connecticut One Hundred Yankee in King Years of Solitude Arthur's Court A Dance to the Siddhartha Music of Time The Catcher in the A Dark-Adapted Rye Eye A Dry White The Great Gatsby Season The Lord of the A Fairy Tale of Rings New York The Master and A Far Cry from Margarita Kensington The Wind in the Willows A Farewell to Arms To Kill a Mockingbird Walden
A darker place Legacy A good woman Les Misrables A most wanted man Letters to a Young Poet Alice Adams A most wanted man Libra A mother's hope Little Dorrit A prisoner of birth Little Women A thousand splendid suns A week in December About face Rebecca Alex Cross's trial Remembrance of Things Past Remembrance of Things Past Breathing Lessons Collected Stories (Jean Stafford) Collected Stories (Katherine Anne Porter) Dragon's Teeth Cigarettes Crime and Punishment Life of Pi Lord of the Flies Memoirs of a Geisha New Moon One Hundred Years of Solitude Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility SlaughterhouseFive Beloved Catch-22 Moby-Dick Post Captain Andersonville Angle of Repose Arrowsmith Briarpatch Brideshead Revisited Candide American Pastoral Brave New World All the King's Men Boy's Life Blindness A Thousand Acres Atlas Shrugged Advise and Aunt Julia and the Consent Scriptwriter
A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms A Series of Unfortunate Events A I Lay Dying A Portrait of the All Quiet on the Artist as a Young Western Front Man A Prayer for Owen Animal Farm Meany A Tale of Two Beloved Cities A Thousand Splendid Suns Absalom, Absalom! Animal Farm Anna Karenina Anne of Green Gables Atlas Shrugged
Holiday
Hotel du Lac How late it was, how late In a Free State
East of Eden Freedom Light in August Love in the TIme of Cholera Middlesex
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Austerlitz Animal Farm Anna Karenina Anne of Green Gables Atonement Birdsong Bleak House Beloved Brighton Rock Catch-22 Cider with Rosie Clarissa
Animal Farm Anne of Green Gables Atlas Shrugged Brave New World Catch-22
Blood Meridian Cannery Row Catch-22 Crash Crime and Punishment David Copperfield
Last Orders Life and Times of Michael K Life of Pi
Night One Hundred Midnight's Children Years of Solitude Say You're One of Moon Tiger Them Offshore The Good Earth The Heart is a Oscar and Lucinda Lonely Hunter Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Possession: A Romance The Measure of a Man The Pillars of the Earth
Charlotte's Web Crime and Cold Comfort Farm Punishment
Aliens love underpants! All the colours of darkness
Brave New World Brideshead Revisited Bridget Jones's Diary Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Cranford Crash Crime and Punishment David Copperfield Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Don Quixote Ender's Game
A Fatal inversion A Fine Balance
Der Struwwelpeter Atonement Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Beloved Don Quixote Blood Meridian
Scoop All the colours of darkness Arctic drift Star Maker
Cryptonomicon Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Fahrenheit 451 Flowers for Algernon Gone with the Wind Goodnight Moon Green Eggs and Ham Harry Potter I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Invisible Man
War and Peace
A Flag for Sunrise Dune A Girl in Winter A Glastonbury Romance A Good Man in Africa A Gun for Sale A Handful of Dust Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World Cat's Cradle
Rites of Passage Sacred Hunger
The Road The Sound and the Fury The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Assegai
The Cairo Trilogy The Diary of a Nobody
Early Autumn Elbow Room Empire Falls Foreign Affairs
Don Quixote Einstein's Dreams Ender's Game Fahrenheit 451
Catch-22 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Disgrace Charlotte's Web Cloud Atlas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Catch-22 For Whom the Bell Crime and Tolls Punishment Foundation David Copperfield
Saville Schindler's Ark Something to Answer For Staying On
At my mother's knee ... : and other low joints The Fountainhead Azincourt The Glass Bead Game Bad luck and trouble The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Beautiful people The Leopard Being Elizabeth The Leopard The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman The Man Without Qualities
Don Quixote Dr Zhivago
Heart of Darkness Don Quixote
Gilead Gone With the Wind
Faust Fool On The Hill For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Cold Comfort Farm Eugene Onegin The Catcher in the Count of Monte Rye Cristo Frankenstein The Chronicles of Narnia Crime and Punishment
Guard of Honor
Germinal
Jane Eyre
A Heart So White A High Wind in Jamaica A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
His Dark Materials Dracula Infinite Jest Dune
The Blind Assassin The Bone People The Conservationist
Invisible Man
East of Eden
Biscuit Bear
His Family
Foundation
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time David Copperfield The Da Vinci Code Dracula
Go Tell It On the Mountain Gulliver's Travels
Les Misrables Life of Pi
Blind eye
Honey in the Horn Gravity's Rainbow
A House for Mr Biswas Lolita A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Lord of the Flies
Emma Ender's Game
The Elected Member The English Patient
July 2009-June 2010 Bloodline Bones
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011) The Pillars of the Earth The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
(1918-2010) House Made of Dawn
http://ask.metafilter. com/42616/A-bookeveryone-shouldread [accessed 23 Feb 2011] Henderson the Rain King
http://www. librarything. com/z_books.php [accessed 23 Feb 2011] The Golden Compass
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) A Kestrel for a The Famished Dune Heart of Darkness Little Women Knave Lord of the Rings Fahrenheit 451 Road Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read If On a Winter's Night a Traveller The Finkler Question
http://www.oprah. com/oprahsbookclub/Complete-List-of-Oprahs-Book-Club-Books [updated Sept 17 2010, accessed 24 we didn't include Feb 2011] this
Humboldt's Gift
His Dark Materials
Book of the Dead The Selfish Giant Born bad Born to trouble Breaking dawn Treasure Island Breaking the rules Vanity Fair Brute force War and Peace Careless in red War and Peace Change of heart Winnie the Pooh Child 44 Zanoni Cookie March Island Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer Lamb Middlesex Corsair Now in November Cross Olive Kitteridge Cross Country One of Ours Dead tomorrow Rabbit At Rest Deadly intent Rabbit Is Rich Dear Fatty Scarlet Sister Mary Maldoror December Devil bones Divine justice Don't look twice Doors open So Big Tales of the South Pacific The Able McLaughlins The Age of Innocence The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay The Bridge of San Luis Rey The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The Caine Mutiny Even money The Color Purple Evidence The Confessions of Nat Turner Parliament of Whores Pale Fire Moby-Dick My Name is Asher Lev Mysteries Of Human Bondage Lonesome Dove Lolita Lion and Blue Leaves of Grass Life: A User's Manual Le Grand Meaulnes Lonesome Dove Ishmael Laughing Boy Invisible Man The Songlines To Kill A Mockingbird Independence Day Hunger Interpreter of Maladies I, Claudius If on a Winter's Night Ironweed a Traveller Journey in the Dark Illusions Lamb in His Bosom Invisible Cities In This Our Life House of Mirth
The Great Gatsby The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hobbit The Kite Runner The Lord of the Rings
Emma Far From the Madding Crowd Germinal Gone with the Wind Grapes of Wrath
Lolita
A Kind of Loving
Moby-Dick
Fight Club
Jane Eyre Les Misrables Life: A User's Manual Lolita
Lord of the Flies Memoirs of a Geisha Moby-Dick Night Of Mice and Men Oh, the Places You'll Go!
A Legacy A Long Long Way A Lost Lady
Naked Lunch
For Whom the Bell Tolls The Gathering Frankenstein Gone with the Wind The Ghost Road The God of Small Things The Inheritance of Great Expectations Loss Harry Potter The Line of Beauty
The Lovely Bones Great Expectations London Fields The Stranger The Time Traveler's Wife To Kill A Mockingbird Twilight Harry Potter Lucky Jim
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Hundred His Dark Materials Middlemarch Years of Solitude Pride and Jane Eyre Midnight's Children Prejudice Heart of Darkness Madame Bovary
On the Road SlaughterhouseFive Stranger in a A Married Man Strange Land A Month in the The Adventures of Country Huckleberry Finn The Atrocity A Passage to India Exhibition A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Bell Jar A Prayer for Owen The Catcher in the Meany Rye A Princess of Mars The Color Purple A Quiet Belief in Angels A Rage in Harlem The Grapes of Wrath The Great Gatsby The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Jungle The Old Man and the Sea The Road The Stranger The Sun Also Rises To Kill a Mockingbird Underworld Up from Slavery War and Peace
Heart of Darkness The Old Devils The Remains of His Dark Materials the Day Invisible Man Jane Eyre The Sea The Sea, the Sea The Siege of Krishnapur The White Tiger True History of the Kelly Gang Vernon God Little
Wuthering Heights Jude the Obscure Les Misrables
Moby-Dick Mrs Dalloway
Corduroy mansions
Siddhartha SlaughterhouseFive The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Book Thief The Brothers Karamazov The Cat in the Cat The Catcher in the Rye The Chronicles of Narnia The Color Purple The Fountainhead The Giver
Les Misrables Life of Pi
Life of Pi Little Women Lolita
My Name is Red Nausea Old Gorit
A Rich Full Death A Room with a View A Season in Sinji A Sentimental Journey A Sport and a Passtime A Study in Scarlet A Suitable Boy A Tale of a Tub A Tale of Two Cities A Taste for Death
Little Women Lolita
Lord of the Flies On the Road Love in the Time of One Hundred Cholera Years of Solitude One Thousand Madame Bovary and One Nights Memoirs of a Geisha Oscar and Lucinda Pride and Middlemarch Prejudice Remembrance of Midnight's Children Things Past Moby-Dick Robinson Crusoe
Lord of the Flies Wolf Hall Love in the Time of Cholera Madame Bovary Memoirs of a Geisha Middlemarch Moby-Dick Of Human Bondage Of Mice and Men
Double cross Eat your peas
On The Road One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Hundred Years of Solitude Our Town
Of Mice and Men Oliver Twist
Scoop Suite Francaise
The Giving Tree The Good Earth
A Thousand Acres Watership Down A Time to be Born
On the Road One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Hundred Years of Solitude Persuasion Pride and Prejudice
Eclipse
On the Road One Hundred Years of Solitude Persuasion
Tess of the The Grapes of D'Urbervilles Wrath The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Great Gatsby The Big Sleep The Hiding Place The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
A Time to Kill A Town Like Alice A Voyage to Arcturus Absolute Beginners
Possession
The Cairo Trilogy
Rebecca
July 2009-June 2010 Exit music Farewell to Lancashire
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010) The Edge of Sadness The Executioner's Song
http://ask.metafilter. com/42616/A-bookeveryone-shouldread [accessed 23 Feb 2011] Pride and Prejudice Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters Razor's Edge Remembrance of Things Past
http://www. librarything. com/z_books.php [accessed 23 Feb 2011]
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) Pride and The Catcher in the According to Remembrance of Prejudice Rye The Hobbit Queeney Things Past Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read The Code of the Woosters The Dream of the Red Chamber The Glass Bead Game The Golden Notebook The Grapes of Wrath
Fatal last words The Fixer Fever of the bone Finger lickin' fifteen First family Folly Ford County : stories The Killer Angels Found wanting The Known World Fractured The Late George Apley The Magnificent Ambersons The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love The Old Man and the Sea Gone tomorrow The Optimist's Daughter Gruffalo The Reivers Guernica : a novel The Road Gypsy The Shipping News Gypsy The Stone Diaries The Dharma Bums Handle with care Hard girls Harry Potter Heart and soul Hetty Feather The Way West Hold tight The Yearling Honour thyself Horrid Henry and the abominable snowman Horrid Henry and the bogey babysitter Horrid Henry and the football fiend Tinkers To Kill A Mockingbird Years of Grace The Handmaid's Tale The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Jungle The Last Days The Life of Pi The Green Mile The Town The Grapes of Wrath The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters The Great Gatsby The Store The Stories of John Cheever The Fountainhead The Good Earth The Darkroom of Damocles The Conversions The Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad The Catcher in the Rye The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Alexandria Quartet The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay The Beautiful and the Damned The Adventures of Augie march The Actual The Good Earth The Grapes of Wrath
Slaughterhouse-Five Stranger in a The Hours Strange Land The Keepers of the Tess of the House d'Urbervilles
Rebecca Sense and Sensibility Swallows and Amazons Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The Kite Runner The Last Lecture The Little House Collection The Little Prince The Lord of the Rings The Metamorphosis The Old Man and the Sea
Ada or Ardor Adam Bede Affinity After London; or, Wild England Afternoon Men Air Alberta and Jacob
Siddhartha SlaughterhouseFive Tess of the D'Urbervilles The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Alchemist The Bell Jar The Brothers Karamazov The Catcher in the Rye The Chronicles of Narnia The Count of Monte Cristo
Friday nights Genesis
The Bell Jar The Catcher in the Rye The Great Gatsby The Chronicles of The Handmaid's Narnia Tale The Hitchhiker's Guide to the The Color Purple Galaxy The Curious Incident of the Dog The Home and the in the Night-Time World The Hound of the The Da Vinci Code Baskervilles The Faraway Tree Collection The House of Mirth The Five People You Meet in Heaven The Leopard The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, The Great Gatsby Gentleman The Handmaid's The Lord of the Tale Rings The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Moonstone The Name of the Rose The Portrait of a Lady The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Outsiders The Picture of Dorian Gray The Poisonwood Bible
Ali and Nino Alice's Adventures in Wonderland All Quiet on the Western Front
The Red Tent
All Souls Day All the Pretty Horses
The Da Vinci Code
Girl missing
The Scarlet Letter
The Fountainhead
The Secret Garden The Stand
Alms for Oblivion American Gods
The Grapes of Wrath The Great Gatsby The Handmaid's Tale The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hobbit The Idiot The Kite Runner The Lord of the Rings The Master and Margarita The Name of the Rose The Old Man and the Sea The Picture of Dorian Gray The Poisonwood Bible The Road The Scarlet Letter
The Stranger The Time Traveler's Wife To Kill a Mockingbird Twlight Uncle Tom's Cabin War and Peace Where the Sidewalk Ends Where the Wild Things Are
American Pastoral
The Hobbit The Kite Runner The Little Prince The Lord of the Rings
American Psycho Amongst Women An American Tragedy An Ice-Cream War And Then There Were None Andersonville Angel Anglo-Saxon Attitudes Animal Farm Anna Karenina Anthills of the Savannah Any Human Heart
The Rabbit The Red and the The Lovely Bones Black The Remains of The Savage the Day Detectives The Sorrows of The Secret Garden Young Werther The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr The Secret History Hyde The Shadow of the Wind The Stranger The Three Musketeers The Tale of Genji The Time The Three Traveler's Wife Musketeers The Wasp Factory The Tin Drum
Winnie the Pooh Wuthering Heights
July 2009-June 2010 Horrid Henry and the mega-mean time machine Horrid Henry meets the Queen Horrid Henry robs the bank I, Alex Cross In the dark In time for Christmas
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010)
http://ask.metafilter. com/42616/A-bookeveryone-shouldread [accessed 23 Feb 2011] The Lions of AlRassan The Little Prince The Magic Mountain The Marriage of Heaven and Hell The Master and Margarita The Once and Future King The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold The Power Broker The Prizewinner of Defiance Ohio
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read The Wind in the Willows The Woman in White To Kill a Mockingbird Ulysses Vanity Fair Around the World in Eighty Days Arturo's Island As I Lay Dying Ascent Asterix the Gaul At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept At-Swim-TwoBirds Atomised Atonement Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man Austerlitz Auto-da-Fe Babbitt Ballet Shoes Barchester Towers Beauty and Saddness Before Lunch Behind the Scenes at the Museum Being Dead Bel-Ami Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel Beloved Berlin Alexanderplatz Beyond Black Billy Liar Birdsong The Sound and the Fury The Stand The Stranger The Sun Also Rises The Three Musketeers The Time Traveler's Wife The Tril The Twilight Saga The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Trial The Unbearable Lightness of Being The Voyeur The War of the Worlds The Warden
War and Peace Watership Down Winnie the Pooh
It's the little things Judge and jury Juliet, naked Just take my heart
Things Fall Apart Tinker, Tailer, Solder, Spy To Kill a Mockingbird
Wuthering Heights Tom Jones
Keeping the dead Kill for me Lessons in heartbreak Library of the dead Long lost Love letters Love lies Lustrum Maisy, Charley and the wobbly tooth Mary, Mary Matters of the heart Medusa Midnight fugue My sister Jodie Mystery Man New moon Nine dragons
The Rape of Nanking The Scarlet Letter The Sirens of Titan The Sound and the Fury The Story of B The Stranger The Sunday of Life The Tale of Genji The Tin Drum Through the Looking-Glass Tlooth To Kill A Mockingbird Trilogy (C S Lewis) Under the Volcano Walden Witch Grass Zazie in the Metro Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Ulysses Under the Net Underworld Waiting for the Mahatma Wuthering Heights
To Kill A Mockingbird To the Lighthouse Ulysses War and Peace Watership Down Wuthering Heights
No time for goodbye Not in the flesh Notes from an exhibition Nothing lasts forever Nothing to lose Once in a lifetime One day at a time Palace Council Pants Past imperfect Paths of glory Paths of glory
Black and Blue Black Beauty Black Mischief Black Sunday Blacklist Bleak House Blindness Blood Meridian Blott on the Landscape Bold as Love Bomber Bones and Silence Bonjour Tristesse
July 2009-June 2010 Play dead Portobello Presumed guilty Promises in death Relentless Remember me? Roadside crosses Rogue Rumour has it Run for your life Sail Scarpetta
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010)
http://ask.metafilter. com/42616/A-bookeveryone-shouldread [accessed 23 Feb 2011]
Secrets Shark in the park! Silent scream Silks Someone special Songbird Southern lights Starting over Step on a crack Stick man Swimsuit Tea time for the traditionally built Testimony The 19th wife The 6th target The angel's game The appeal The associate The beach house The best of times The bodies left behind The brass verdict The broken window The brutal art The burning land The business The cellist of Sarajevo The collaborator The complaints The Daisy Club The flight of swallows The front The Gargoyle The gift The girl next door The girl who kicked the hornets' nest
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) Bouvard et Pcuchet Brave New World Breakfast at Tiffany's Breakfast of Champions Breathing Lessons Brewster's Millions Bridget Jones's Diary Bright Lights, Big City Brighton Rock Buddenbrooks Burmese Days Cakes and Ale Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard Call it Sleep Camp Concentration Candide Caprice Captain Blood Carrie's War Casino Royale Castle Rackrent Cat's Eye Catch-22 Changing Places Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read Charade Cheese Cheri Childhood's End Chronicle in Stone Cider with Rosie Clarissa Claudine a l'ecole Clayhanger Cloud Atlas Cold Comfort Farm Cold Mountain Confederates Confessions of Zeno Consider Phlebas Cop Hater Count Belisarius Couples Covenant with Death Cover Her Face Cranford Crash Crime and Punishment Crome Yellow Cry, the Beloved Country
(Feb 2008-Feb July 2009-June 2010 2011) The girl who played with fire The girl with the dragon tattoo The great lover The Gruffalo's child The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society The host : a novel The house at Riverton The island The kill call The little stranger The loner The lost symbol The lovers
(1918-2010)
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read Cryptonomicon Daniel Deronda Darkmans Darkness at Noon Darkness Falls from the Air Darwin's Radio Day Day of the Triffids De Niro's Game Dead Lagoon Dead Souls Death and the Penguin Death at the President's Lodging Death in Summer Death in Venice Death of a Hero Decline and Fall Deliverance Delta of Venus Devil in a Blue Dress Diary of a Mad Old Man Diary of a Nobody Dirty Tricks Disgrace Dissolution Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Doctor Zhivago Dolores Claiborne Dom Casmurro Joaquim Dombey and Son Don Quixote Double Indemnity Dracula Dune Earthly Powers East Lynne East of Eden Effi Briest Elmer Gantry Emma Empire of the Sun Enduring Love Enemies, a Love Story
The monster in the box The other hand The other queen The outcast The overlook The Piano Teacher The price of love The prodigal wife The quickie The return The return journey : and other stories The scarecrow The Scarpetta factor
The secret life of Evie Hamilton The secret scripture : a novel The unbearable lightness of scones The white queen The white tiger The white tiger : Aravind Adiga. The wolf at the door The wrecker This year it will be different Too close to home True detectives Twenties girl Twilight Vision in white Watch the skies We're going on a bear hunt Wedding season
(Feb 2008-Feb July 2009-June 2010 2011) What to do when someone dies When will there be good news? Where the wild things are Where's Spot? Wolf Hall You've been warned
(1918-2010)
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) England, Their England Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read Enigma Ennui Epileptic Epitaph for a Spy Erewhon Eugenie Grandet Evelina Everything is Illuminated Excellent Women Exit Music Extinction Fahrenheit 451 Fair Stood the Wind for France Family Matters Fantomas Far From the Madding Crowd Fatherland Fathers and Sons Fight Club Fingersmith Finnegans Wake Fireflies First Love Flashman Flaubert's Parrot Flowers for Algernon For Whom the Bell Tolls Foreign Affairs Fortunes of War Foucault's Pendulum Foundation Frankenstein Friday the Rabbi Slept Late From Here to Eternity Frost in May Fun Home G Gargantua and Pantagruel GB84 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Germinal Get Shorty Gilead Giovanni's Room Girlfriend in a Coma Go Tell it on the Mountain
July 2009-June 2010
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010)
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) God's Bit of Wood Goldfinger Gone With the Wind Good Behaviour Goodbye to Berlin Gorky Park Gravity's Rainbow Great Apes Great Expectations Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest Greenmantle Gulliver's Travels Handley Cross Hangover Square Hard Revolution Hard Times Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Headlong Hall Heart of Darkness Heavy Weather Hello Summer, Goodbye Herland Herzog Hideous Kinky High Fidelity His Dark Materials History House of Leaves How Green was My Valley How Late it Was, How Late How the Dead Live Howards End Humboldt's Gift Hunger Hurrah for St Trinian's Hyperion I Am Legend I Capture the Castle I Served the King of England I'll Go to Bed at Noon If Not Now, When? Illywhacker In the Country of Last Things Independence Day Infinite Jest Ingenious Pain Institute Benjamenta Invisible Cities Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
July 2009-June 2010
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010)
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) Invitation to the Waltz Ivanhoe Jacques the Fatalist and his Master Jane Eyre Jimmy Corrigan, The Smarest Kid on Earth Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Joseph Andrews Journey into Fear Journey to the End of the Night Joy in the Morning Jude the Obscure Judgment in Stone Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise July's People Jurassic Park Just William Justine Kidnapped Kim Kindred King Solomon's Carpet King Solomon's Mines L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane La Bete Humaine La Comedie Humaine La Condition Humaine LA Confidential La Disparition La Vie Mode d'Emploi Lady Audley's Secret Lady Chatterley's Lover Lake Wobegon Days Lanark Lark Rise to Candleford Last Exit to Brooklyn Last Seen Wearing Le Grand Meaulnes Le Pere Goriot Les Enfants Terrible Les Liaisons Dangereuses Les Miserables Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
July 2009-June 2010
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010)
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) Les Revenentes Less Than Angels Life and Fate Light Light Years Little Dorritt Little Women Live Flesh Living Loitering with Intent Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male Lolly Willowes London Fields Lonesome Dove Look At Me Lord Jim Lord of the Flies Lorna Doone Lost Souls Love for Lydia Love in a Cold Climate Love in the Time of Cholera Love on the Dole Love Story Lucky Jim Lush Life Madame Bovary Main Street Malice Aforethought Malone Dies Manon Lescaut Manservant and Maidservant Mansfield Park Martin Chuzzlewit Martin Eden Mary Barton Master and Commander Master Georgie Maurice Guest Maus McTeague Melmoth the Wanderer Memet my Hawk Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf Memoirs of a Survivor Men at Arms Microserfs Middlemarch Middlesex Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
July 2009-June 2010
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010)
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) Midnight's Children Millennium People Misery Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow Mister Johnson Moby-Dick or, The Whale Molesworth Moll Flanders Molloy Money Monkey Moo Moon over Africa More Die of Heartbreak Morvern Callar Mother Mother London Motherless Brooklyn Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House Mr Norris Changes Trains Mrs Dalloway Murder Must Advertise Music and Silence My Antonia My Cousin Rachel My Family and Other Animals My Name Is Asher Lev My Name is Red My New York Diary My Search for Warren Harding Naked Lunch Narziss and Goldmund Native Son Neuromancer New Grub Street News from Nowhere Nice Work Nightmare Abbey Nights at the Circus Nightwood No Bed for Bacon No Country for Old Men No Orchids for Miss Blandish Non-Stop North and South Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
July 2009-June 2010
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010)
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) Northanger Abbey Norwegian Wood Nostromo Notes from the Underground Novel on Yellow Paper Oblomov Of Human Bondage Of Love and Hunger Of Mice and Men Office Politics Oliver Twist On Beauty On the Road One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Hundred Years of Solitude One of Ours Only Forward Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Orlando Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave Oscar and Lucinda Our Man in Havana Palace Walk Pale Fire Pamela Parade's End Passing Patience and Sarah Peace in War Penrod Perfume Personality Persuasion Piccadilly Jim Pictures from an Institution Pig Tales Play It As It Lays Pnin Poetic Justice Pointed Roofs Porterhouse Blue Portnoy's Complaint Portrait of a Lady Possession Postmortem Pride and Prejudice Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
July 2009-June 2010
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010)
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) Puckoon Pudd'nhead Wilson Put Out More Flags Quarantine Queen Lucia Rasselas Ratking Rebecca Red Dragon Red Harvest Red Shift Regency Buck Regeneration Remembering Babylon Remembrance of Things Past Revelation Space Revolutionary Road Richshaw Boy Riddley Walker Ringworld Robinson Crusoe Rogue Male Rogue Moon Room at the Top Room Temperature Roxana Rubyfruit Jungle Ruth Sacaramouche Samarkand Sanctuary Satanic Verses Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Schindler's Ark Scoop Sense and Sensibility Sentimental Education Shame Sharpe's Eagle She: A History of Adventure Shirley Sidetracked Silas Marner Silence Silence of the Grave Silver Stallion Sirens of Titan Sister Carrie Slaughter-House Five Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
July 2009-June 2010
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010)
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) Slouching Towards Kalamazoo Snow Crash So Long, See you Tomorrow Solaris Solomon Gursky Was Here Something Fresh Song of Solomon Sons and Lovers Sophie's Choice Sour Sweet South Riding South Wind Spies Squire Haggard's Journal Star Maker Staying On Steppenwolf Strait is the Gate Stranger in a Strange Land Strangers on a Train Suite Francaise Sunset Song Swiss Family Robinson Sybil or The Two Nations Tales of the City Tales of the South Pacific Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness Tender is the Night Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thank You Jeeves The Accidental Tourist The Adventures of Augie March The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle The Adventures of Roderick Random The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The African Queen The Age of Innocence The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
July 2009-June 2010
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010)
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) The Ambassadors The Andromeda Strain The Ascent of Rum Doodle The Asphalt Jungle The Assistant The Awakening The Bamboo Bed The Baron in the Trees The Beach The Beast Must Die The Bell Jar The Betrothed The Big Blowdown The Big Nowhere The Big Sleep The Black Prince The Blackwater Lightship The Blind Assassin The Blue Flower The Blue Room The Bluest Eye The Bonfire of the Vanities The Book of Daniel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting The Book of the New Sun The Bottle Factory Outing The Bourne Identity The Brothers Karamazov The Buddha of Suburbia The Butcher Boy The Caine Mutiny The Call of the Wild The Case of Comrade Tulayev The Case of the Gilded Fly The Castafiore Emerald The Castle The Castle of Otranto The Catcher in the Rye The Charterhouse of Parma The Chateau The Child in Time Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
July 2009-June 2010
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010)
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) The Children of Men The Children of the New Forest The Chronicles of Narnia The Code of the Woosters The Color Purple The Coming Race The Commitments The Constant Gardener The Corrections The Count of Monte Cristo The Counterfeiters The Crab with the Golden Claws The Crime of Father Amado The Crow Road The Cruel Sea The Crying of Lot 49 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time The Daughter of Time The Day of the Jackal The Day of the Locust The Death of the Heart The Death of Virgil The Debacle The Debt to Pleasure The Devil to Pay in the Backlands The Discworld Series The Driver's Seat The Drowned World The Earthsea Series The Echoing Grove The Egoist The Einstein Intersection The End of the Affair The End of the World News The English Patient The Expedition of Humphry Clinker The Face of Another Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
July 2009-June 2010
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010)
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) The Family Moskat or The Manor or The Estate The Famished Road The Far Pavillions The Female Man The Forever War The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney The Fountain Overflows The Four Just Men The French Lieutenant's Woman The Friends of Eddie Coyle The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis The Gathering The Getaway The Girls of Slender Means The Glass Bead Game The Glass Key The Go-Between The God of Small Things The Godfather The Golden Notebook The Good Companions The Good Soldier The Good Soldier Svejk The Graduate The Grapes of Wrath The Grass is Singing The Great Gatsby The Great Impersonation The Group The Guns of Navarone The Handmaid's Tale The Hanging Gardens The Harpole Report The Haunting of Hill House The Hearing Trumpet The Heart is a Lonely Hunter The Heat of the Day The History Man Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
July 2009-June 2010
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010)
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) The History of Mr Polly The History of Pompey the Little The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hobbit The Hollow Man The Home and the World The Horse's Mouth The Hound of the Baskervilles The House of Mirth The House of the Seven Gables The Human Stain The Hunters The Idiot The Immoralist The Infamous Army The Influence The Information The Insult The Invisible Man The Ipcress File The Island of Dr Moreau The Jungle The King of Torts The Kingdom of this World The Kite Runner The L Shaped Room The Last Chronicle of Barset The Last September The Laughing Policeman The League of Frightened Men The Lecturer's Tale The Left Hand of Darkness The Leopard The Life and Loves of a She-Devil The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman The Line of Beauty The Little Prince The Little World of Don Camillo The Lonely Londoners Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
July 2009-June 2010
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010)
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne The Long Goodbye The Lord of the Rings The Loved One The Lover The Luck of Barry Lyndon The MachineGunners The Madman of Bergerac The Magic Mountain The Magnificent Ambersons The Magus The Maltese Falcon The Man in the High Castle The Man of Property The Man Who Loved Children The Man who was Thursday The Man with the Golden Arm The Man Without Qualities The Manchurian Candidate The Mandarins The Map of Love The Mark of Zorro The Mask of Dimitrios The Master and Margarita The Mayor of Casterbridge The Member of the Wedding The Midwich Cuckoos The Mighty Walzer Howard The Military Philosophers The Mill on the Floss The Millstone The Ministry of Fear The Monk The Moon and the Bonfire The Moonstone The Moviegoer Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
July 2009-June 2010
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010)
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) The Murder at the Vicarage The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Mysteries of Udolpho The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Mysterious Stranger The Naked and the Dead The Name of the Rose The Neon Rain The New York Trilogy The Night Sessions The Night Watch The Odd Women The Old Man and the Sea The Old Men at the Zoo The Old Wives' Tale The Ordeal of Richard Feverek The Outsider The Painted Bird The Painter of Signs The Parasites The Passion The Passion of New Eve The Piano Teacher The Pickwick Papers The Picture of Dorian Gray The Plague The Pledge The Poisoned Chocolates Case The Polygots The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas The Postman Always Rings Twice The Power and the Glory The Prestige The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie The Princess of Cleves The Prisoner of Zenda Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
July 2009-June 2010
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010)
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner The Professor's House The Provincial Lady The Pursuit of Love The Rabbit Omnibus The Radetzky March The Ragazzi Pier The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists The Rainbow The Reader The Recognitions The Rector's Daughter The Red and the Black The Red Badge of Courage The Red Room The Reluctant Orphan The Remains of the Day The Remorseful Day The Restraint of Beasts The Return of the Soldier The Riddle of the Sands The Rings of Saturn The Road The Sacred Book of the Werewolf The Savage Detectives The Scar The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Pimpernel The Secret Adversary The Secret Agent The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 The Secret History The Sheltering Sky The Shining The Ship The Shipping News Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
July 2009-June 2010
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010)
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) The Shrimp and the Anemone The Siege of Krishnapur The Sign of Four The Silent Duchess The Slaves of Solitude The Snow Goose The Soldier's Art The Sorrow of War The Sorrows of Young Werther The Sound and the Fury The Sound of my Voice The Space Merchants The Sportswriter The Spy Who Came in from the Cold The Stars My Destination The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen The SwimmingPool Library The Sword in the Stone The Talented Mr Ripley The Thin Man The Things They Carried The Third Man The Third Policeman The Thirty-Nine Steps The Three Musketeers The Three Paradoxes The Three Sisters The Time Machine The Time of Indifference The Time Ships The Time Traveler's Wife The Tin Drum The Tin Roof Blowdown Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
July 2009-June 2010
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010)
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) The Tortoise and the Hare The Towers of Trebizond The Transit of Venus The Tree of Man The Trial The Turn of the Screw The Unbearable Bassington The Unbearable Lightness of Being The Uncommon Reader The Unconsoled The Unfortunates The Vagabond The Valley of Bones The Vatican Cellars The Vicar of Wakefield The Victorian Chaise-longue The Virgin in the Garden The Virgin Suicides The Virginian The Wapshot Chronicle The War of the Worlds The Wasp Factory The Way of All Flesh The Way We Live Now The Weather in the Streets The Well of Loneliness The Westminster Alice The Wimbledon Poisoner The Wind in the Willows The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle The Wings of the Dove The Witches of Eastwick The Woman in White The Woodlanders The Years of Rice and Salt The Young Lions Their Eyes Were Watching God Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
July 2009-June 2010
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010)
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) Therese Raquin They Were Counted Things Fall Apart This Sporting Life Three Men in a Boat Three Soldiers Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Tintin in Tibet Titmuss Regained Titus Groan To Each his Own To Kill a Mockingbird To The Ends of the Earth trilogy To the Lighthouse Tobacco Road Tom Brown's Schooldays Tom Jones Tono Bungay Topper Takes a Trip Tourist Season Towards the End of the Morning Toxic Shock Trainspotting Travels with My Aunt Treasure Island Trent's Last Case Tropic of Cancer Tropic of Ruislip True History of the Ned Kelly Gang Two Serious Ladies Ulysses Uncle Silas Uncle Tom's Cabin Under the Net Under the Skin Under the Volcano Under Western Eyes Underworld Unless Untouchable USA V Valley of the Dolls Vanity Fair Vathek Vendetta Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
July 2009-June 2010
(Feb 2008-Feb 2011)
(1918-2010)
Bspcn.com 30 Bighow.com 100 Books Everyone Guardian 1000 Greatest Books of The Best 100 Lists World Book Day Should Read Novels Everyone All Time Everyone Top 100 Novels of Man Booker Prize Poll (top 100) Before They're 30 Must Read Must Read All Time winners Latest relevant poll year is 2007: http: //www.guardian.co. uk/books/2007/mar/01/news (Books you can't live without) [accessed 24 Feb 2011]. Subsequent polls ask which (Created July 11, (2010) http: books people talk 2008, ongoing) //bighow. about (2008), have http://www. com/news/the-100- http://www. lied about reading (2009) http://www. goodreads. (2010) http://www. (2009) http://www. greatest-books-of- thebest100lists. (2009) and would telegraph.co. com/list/show/264. bspcn. guardian.co. all-time-everyone- com/best100novels/ like to pass on to uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html Books_that_everyone_should_read_at_least_once com/2010/08/03/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-theyre-thirty/ 24 Feb uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction [accessed must-read their children [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb [accessed 24 Feb 2011, last updated (2010). 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2011] 2 Feb 2011] (1969-2010) Venus on the HalfShell Victory: An Island Tale Vileodies Vilette Vineland Voss Vurt Waiting for the Barbarians War and Peace Washington Square Waterland We We Need to Talk About Kevin Weaveworld What a Carve Up! When the Wind Blows Whisky Galore White Man Falling White Noise White Teeth Who Do You Think You Are? Whose Body? Wide Sargasso Sea Wieland Williwaw Wise Children Women in Love Wuthering Heights You Only Live Twice Z Zami Zazie in the Metro Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Zorba the Greek Zuleika Dobson Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
Title 1974 1977 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 206 bones 52 Pick-up 7th heaven 7th heaven 8th confession A Bell for Adano A Bend in the River A Bend in the River A Canticle for Leibowitz A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange A Confederacy of Dunces A Confederacy of Dunces A Confederacy of Dunces A Confederacy of Dunces A Confederacy of Dunces A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court A Dance to the Music of Time A Dance to the Music of Time A Dark-Adapted Eye A darker domain A darker domain A darker place
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Title No of mentions A Death in the Family A Dry White Season A Fable A Fairy Tale of New York A Far Cry from Kensington A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms A Fatal inversion A Fine Balance A Fine Balance A Flag for Sunrise A Girl in Winter A Glastonbury Romance A Good Man in Africa A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain A good woman A Gun for Sale A Handful of Dust A Heart So White A High Wind in Jamaica A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters A House for Mr Biswas A I Lay Dying A Journey to the Centre of the Earth A Kestrel for a Knave A Kind of Loving A Legacy A Long Long Way A Lost Lady A Married Man A Million Little Pieces A Month in the Country A most wanted man A most wanted man A mother's hope A New Earth A Passage to India A Passage to India A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Title A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man A Prayer for Owen Meany A Prayer for Owen Meany A Prayer for Owen Meany A Prayer for Owen Meany A Princess of Mars A prisoner of birth A Quiet Belief in Angels A Rage in Harlem A Rich Full Death A Room with a View A Season in Sinji A Sentimental Journey A Series of Unfortunate Events A Sport and a Passtime A Study in Scarlet A Suitable Boy A Suitable Boy A Summons to Memphis A Tale of a Tub A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities A Taste for Death A Thousand Acres A Thousand Acres A thousand splendid suns A Thousand Splendid Suns A Thousand Splendid Suns A Time to be Born A Time to Kill A Town Like Alice A Tree Grows in Brooklyn A Voyage to Arcturus A week in December About face Absalom, Absalom! Absolute Beginners According to Queeney
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Title Ada or Ardor Adam Bede Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Advise and Consent Aesop's Fables Affinity After London; or, Wild England Afternoon Men Against the Grain Air Alberta and Jacob Alex Cross's trial Ali and Nino Alice Adams Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Aliens love underpants! All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front All Souls Day All the colours of darkness All the colours of darkness All the King's Men All the Pretty Horses Alms for Oblivion American Gods American Gods American Pastoral American Pastoral American Psycho Amongst Women Amsterdam An American Tragedy An Explanation of the Birds An Ice-Cream War And Then There Were None
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Title No of mentions Andersonville Andersonville Angel Angels and Demons Angle of Repose Anglo-Saxon Attitudes Animal Farm Animal Farm Animal Farm Animal Farm Animal Farm Animal Farm Animal Farm Anna Karenina Anna Karenina Anna Karenina Anna Karenina Anna Karenina Anna Karenina Anna Karenina Anne of Green Gables Anne of Green Gables Anne of Green Gables Anthills of the Savannah Any Human Heart Arctic drift Around the World in Eighty Days Arrowsmith Arturo's Island As I Lay Dying As I Lay Dying Ascent Assegai Asterix the Gaul At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept At my mother's knee ... : and other low joints At-Swim-Two-Birds Atlas Shrugged
Title No of mentions Atlas Shrugged Atlas Shrugged Atomised Atonement Atonement Atonement Atonement Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter Austerlitz Austerlitz Auto-da-Fe Azincourt Babbitt Bad luck and trouble Ballet Shoes Barchester Towers Beautiful people Beauty and Saddness Before Lunch Behind the Scenes at the Museum Being Dead Being Elizabeth Bel-Ami Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel Beloved Beloved Beloved Beloved Beloved Berlin Alexanderplatz Beyond Black Billy Liar Birdsong Birdsong Biscuit Bear Black and Blue Black Beauty Black Mischief
Title Black Sunday Blacklist Blake Bleak House Bleak House Blind eye Blindness Blindness Blood Meridian Blood Meridian Blood Meridian Bloodline Blott on the Landscape Bold as Love Bomber Bones Bones and Silence Bonjour Tristesse Book of the Dead Born bad Born to trouble Bouvard et Pcuchet Boy's Life Brave New World Brave New World Brave New World Brave New World Brave New World Brave New World Breakfast at Tiffany's Breakfast of Champions Breakfast of Champions Breaking dawn Breaking Dawn Breaking the rules Breathing Lessons Breathing Lessons Brewster's Millions Briarpatch Brideshead Revisited
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Title Brideshead Revisited Bridget Jones's Diary Bridget Jones's Diary Bright Lights, Big City Brighton Rock Brighton Rock Brute force Buddenbrooks Burmese Days Cakes and Ale - Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard Call it Sleep Camp Concentration Candide Candide Cannery Row Caprice Captain Blood Captain Corelli's Mandolin Careless in red Carrie's War Casino Royale Castle Rackrent Cat's Cradle Cat's Eye Catch-22 Catch-22 Catch-22 Catch-22 Catch-22 Catch-22 Catch-22 Catch-22 Catch-22 Change of heart Changing Places Charade Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlotte's Web Charlotte's Web
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Title No of mentions Cheese Cheri Child 44 Childhood's End Chronicle in Stone Cider with Rosie Cider with Rosie Cigarettes Clarissa Clarissa Claudine a l'ecole Clayhanger Cloud Atlas Cloud Atlas Cold Comfort Farm Cold Comfort Farm Cold Comfort Farm Cold Mountain Collected Stories (Jean Stafford) Collected Stories (Katherine Anne Porter) Confederates Confessions of Zeno Consider Phlebas Cookie Cop Hater Corduroy mansions Corsair Count Belisarius Count of Monte Cristo Couples Covenant with Death Cover Her Face Cranford Cranford Crash Crash Crash Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment
Title Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment Crome Yellow Cross Cross Country Cry, the Beloved Country Cry, the Beloved Country Cryptonomicon Cryptonomicon Daniel Deronda Darkmans Darkness at Noon Darkness Falls from the Air Darwin's Radio David Copperfield David Copperfield David Copperfield David Copperfield David Copperfield Day Day of the Triffids De Niro's Game Dead Lagoon Dead Souls Dead tomorrow Deadly intent Dear Fatty Death and the Penguin Death at the President's Lodging Death in Summer Death in Venice Death of a Hero December Decline and Fall Decline and Fall Deliverance
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Title Delta of Venus Der Struwwelpeter Devil bones Devil in a Blue Dress Diary of a Mad Old Man Diary of a Nobody Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Dirty Tricks Disgrace Disgrace Disgrace Dissolution Divine justice Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Doctor Zhivago Dolores Claiborne Dom Casmurro Joaquim Dombey and Son Don Quixote Don Quixote Don Quixote Don Quixote Don Quixote Don Quixote Don't look twice Doors open Double cross Double Indemnity Dr Zhivago Dracula Dracula Dracula Dragon's Teeth Dune Dune Dune Dune Early Autumn
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Title Earthly Powers East Lynne East of Eden East of Eden East of Eden Eat your peas Eclipse Eclipse Effi Briest Einstein's Dreams Elbow Room Elmer Gantry Emma Emma Emma Emma Empire Falls Empire of the Sun Ender's Game Ender's Game Ender's Game Ender's Game Enduring Love Enemies, a Love Story England, Their England Enigma Ennui Epileptic Epitaph for a Spy Erewhon Eugene Onegin Eugenie Grandet Evelina Even money Everything is Illuminated Evidence Excellent Women Exit music Exit Music Extinction
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Title Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451 Fair Stood the Wind for France Family Matters Fantomas Far From the Madding Crowd Far From the Madding Crowd Farewell to Lancashire Fatal last words Fatherland Fathers and Sons Faust Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Fever of the bone Fight Club Fight Club Finger lickin' fifteen Fingersmith Finnegans Wake Fireflies First family First Love Flashman Flaubert's Parrot Flowers for Algernon Flowers for Algernon Folly Fool On The Hill For Whom the Bell Tolls For Whom the Bell Tolls For Whom the Bell Tolls For Whom the Bell Tolls For Whom the Bell Tolls Ford County : stories Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs
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Title Fortunes of War Foucault's Pendulum Found wanting Foundation Foundation Foundation Fractured Frankenstein Frankenstein Frankenstein Freedom Friday nights Friday the Rabbi Slept Late From Here to Eternity Frost in May Fun Home G G. Gargantua and Pantagruel GB84 Genesis Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Germinal Germinal Germinal Get Shorty Gilead Gilead Giovanni's Room Girl missing Girlfriend in a Coma Go Tell It On the Mountain Go Tell it on the Mountain God's Bit of Wood Goldfinger Gone tomorrow Gone With the Wind Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind
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Title Gone With the Wind Good Behaviour Goodbye to Berlin Goodnight Moon Gorky Park Grapes of Wrath Gravity's Rainbow Gravity's Rainbow Great Apes Great Expectations Great Expectations Great Expectations Green Eggs and Ham Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest Greenmantle Gruffalo Guard of Honor Guernica : a novel Gulliver's Travels Gulliver's Travels Gypsy Gypsy Handle with care Handley Cross Hangover Square Hard girls Hard Revolution Hard Times Harry Potter Harry Potter Harry Potter Harry Potter Harry Potter Harry Potter Headlong Hall Heart and soul Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness
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Title Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness Heat and Dust Heavy Weather Hello Summer, Goodbye Henderson the Rain King Herland Herzog Hetty Feather Hideous Kinky High Fidelity His Dark Materials His Dark Materials His Dark Materials His Dark Materials His Dark Materials His Dark Materials His Family History Hold tight Holiday Honey in the Horn Honour thyself Horrid Henry and the abominable snowman Horrid Henry and the bogey babysitter Horrid Henry and the football fiend Horrid Henry and the mega-mean time machine Horrid Henry meets the Queen Horrid Henry robs the bank Hotel du Lac House Made of Dawn House of Leaves House of Mirth How Green was My Valley How late it was, how late How Late it Was, How Late How the Dead Live Howards End
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Title Humboldt's Gift Humboldt's Gift Hunger Hunger Hurrah for St Trinian's Hyperion I Am Legend I Capture the Castle I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings I Served the King of England I, Alex Cross I, Claudius I'll Go to Bed at Noon If Not Now, When? If on a Winter's Night a Traveller If On a Winter's Night a Traveller Illusions Illywhacker In a Free State In the Country of Last Things In the dark In This Our Life In time for Christmas Independence Day Independence Day Infinite Jest Infinite Jest Ingenious Pain Institute Benjamenta Interpreter of Maladies Invisible Cities Invisible Cities Invisible Man Invisible Man Invisible Man Invisible Man Invitation to the Waltz Ironweed Ishmael Island
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Title It's the little things Ivanhoe Jacques the Fatalist and his Master Jane Eyre Jane Eyre Jane Eyre Jane Eyre Jane Eyre Jane Eyre Jimmy Corrigan, The Smarest Kid on Earth Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Joseph Andrews Journey in the Dark Journey into Fear Journey to the End of the Night Joy in the Morning Jude the Obscure Jude the Obscure Judge and jury Judgment in Stone Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise Juliet, naked July's People Jurassic Park Just take my heart Just William Justine Keeping the dead Kidnapped Kill for me Kim Kindred King Solomon's Carpet King Solomon's Mines L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane La Bete Humaine La Comedie Humaine La Condition Humaine
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Title LA Confidential La Disparition La Vie Mode d'Emploi Lady Audley's Secret Lady Chatterley's Lover Lake Wobegon Days Lamb Lamb in His Bosom Lanark Lark Rise to Candleford Last Exit to Brooklyn Last Orders Last Seen Wearing Laughing Boy Le Grand Meaulnes Le Grand Meaulnes Le Pere Goriot Leaves of Grass Legacy Les Enfants Terrible Les Liaisons Dangereuses Les Misrables Les Misrables Les Misrables Les Misrables Les Misrables Les Misrables Les Revenentes Less Than Angels Lessons in heartbreak Letters to a Young Poet Libra Library of the dead Life and Fate Life and Times of Michael K Life of Pi Life of Pi Life of Pi Life of Pi Life of Pi
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Title Life of Pi Life: A User's Manual Life: A User's Manual Light Light in August Light Years Lion and Blue Little Dorrit Little Dorritt Little Women Little Women Little Women Little Women Little Women Live Flesh Living Loitering with Intent Lolita Lolita Lolita Lolita Lolita Lolita Lolita Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male Lolly Willowes London Fields London Fields Lonesome Dove Lonesome Dove Lonesome Dove Long lost Look At Me Lord Jim Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies
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Title No of mentions Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies Lorna Doone Lost Souls Love for Lydia Love in a Cold Climate Love in the Time of Cholera Love in the Time of Cholera Love in the TIme of Cholera Love in the Time of Cholera Love letters Love lies Love on the Dole Love Story Lucky Jim Lucky Jim Lush Life Lustrum Madame Bovary Madame Bovary Madame Bovary Madame Bovary Main Street Maisy, Charley and the wobbly tooth Maldoror Malice Aforethought Malone Dies Manon Lescaut Manservant and Maidservant Mansfield Park March Martin Chuzzlewit Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer Martin Eden Mary Barton Mary, Mary Master and Commander Master Georgie Matters of the heart
Title Maurice Guest Maus McTeague Medusa Melmoth the Wanderer Memet my Hawk Memoirs of a Geisha Memoirs of a Geisha Memoirs of a Geisha Memoirs of a Geisha Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf Memoirs of a Survivor Men at Arms Microserfs Middlemarch Middlemarch Middlemarch Middlemarch Middlesex Middlesex Middlesex Midnight fugue Midnight's Children Midnight's Children Midnight's Children Midnight's Children Millennium People Misery Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow Mister Johnson Moby-Dick Moby-Dick Moby-Dick Moby-Dick Moby-Dick Moby-Dick Moby-Dick Moby-Dick Molesworth Moll Flanders
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Title Molloy Money Monkey Moo Moon over Africa Moon Tiger More Die of Heartbreak Morvern Callar Mother Mother London Motherless Brooklyn Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House Mr Norris Changes Trains Mrs Dalloway Mrs Dalloway Murder Must Advertise Music and Silence My Antonia My Cousin Rachel My Family and Other Animals My Name is Asher Lev My Name Is Asher Lev My Name is Red My Name is Red My New York Diary My Search for Warren Harding My sister Jodie Mysteries Mystery Man Naked Lunch Naked Lunch Narziss and Goldmund Native Son Nausea Neuromancer New Grub Street New moon New Moon News from Nowhere Nice Work
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Title Night Night Nightmare Abbey Nights at the Circus Nightwood Nine dragons No Bed for Bacon No Country for Old Men No Orchids for Miss Blandish No time for goodbye Non-Stop North and South Northanger Abbey Norwegian Wood Nostromo Not in the flesh Notes from an exhibition Notes from the Underground Nothing lasts forever Nothing to lose Novel on Yellow Paper Now in November Oblomov Of Human Bondage Of Human Bondage Of Human Bondage Of Love and Hunger Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men Office Politics Offshore Oh, the Places You'll Go! Old Gorit Olive Kitteridge Oliver Twist Oliver Twist On Beauty On The Road
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Title On the Road On the Road On the Road On the Road On the Road Once in a lifetime One day at a time One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude One of Ours One of Ours One Thousand and One Nights Only Forward Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Orlando Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave Oscar and Lucinda Oscar and Lucinda Oscar and Lucinda Our Man in Havana Our Town Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Palace Council Palace Walk Pale Fire Pale Fire Pamela Pants
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Title Parade's End Parliament of Whores Passing Past imperfect Paths of glory Paths of glory Patience and Sarah Peace in War Penrod Perfume Personality Persuasion Persuasion Persuasion Piccadilly Jim Pictures from an Institution Pig Tales Play dead Play It As It Lays Pnin Poetic Justice Pointed Roofs Porterhouse Blue Portnoy's Complaint Portobello Portrait of a Lady Possession Possession Possession Post Captain Postmortem Presumed guilty Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice Promises in death
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Title Puckoon Pudd'nhead Wilson Put Out More Flags Quarantine Queen Lucia Rabbit At Rest Rabbit Is Rich Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters Rasselas Ratking Razor's Edge Rebecca Rebecca Rebecca Rebecca Red Dragon Red Harvest Red Shift Regency Buck Regeneration Relentless Remember me? Remembering Babylon Remembrance of Things Past Remembrance of Things Past Remembrance of Things Past Remembrance of Things Past Remembrance of Things Past Remembrance of Things Past Revelation Space Revolutionary Road Richshaw Boy Riddley Walker Ringworld Rites of Passage Roadside crosses Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe Rogue Rogue Male
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Title Rogue Moon Room at the Top Room Temperature Roxana Rubyfruit Jungle Rumour has it Run for your life Ruth Sacaramouche Sacred Hunger Sail Samarkand Sanctuary Satanic Verses Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Saville Say You're One of Them Scarlet Sister Mary Scarpetta Schindler's Ark Schindler's Ark Scoop Scoop Scoop Secrets Sense and Sensibility Sense and Sensibility Sense and Sensibility Sentimental Education Shame Shark in the park! Sharpe's Eagle She: A History of Adventure Shirley Siddhartha Siddhartha Siddhartha Sidetracked Silas Marner Silence
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Title Silence of the Grave Silent scream Silks Silver Stallion Sirens of Titan Sister Carrie Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five Slouching Towards Kalamazoo Snow Crash So Big So Long, See you Tomorrow Solaris Solomon Gursky Was Here Someone special Something Fresh Something to Answer For Song of Solomon Songbird Sons and Lovers Sophie's Choice Sour Sweet South Riding South Wind Southern lights Spies Squire Haggard's Journal Star Maker Star Maker Starting over Staying On Staying On Step on a crack Steppenwolf Stick man Strait is the Gate
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Title Stranger in a Strange Land Stranger in a Strange Land Stranger in a Strange Land Strangers on a Train Suite Francaise Suite Francaise Sunset Song Swallows and Amazons Swimsuit Swiss Family Robinson Sybil or The Two Nations Tales of the City Tales of the South Pacific Tales of the South Pacific Tea time for the traditionally built Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness Tender is the Night Tess of the D'Urbervilles Tess of the D'Urbervilles Tess of the D'Urbervilles Tess of the D'Urbervilles Tess of the D'Urbervilles Testimony Thank You Jeeves The 19th wife The 6th target The Able McLaughlins The Accidental Tourist The Actual The Adventures of Augie march The Adventures of Augie March The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Title No of mentions The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle The Adventures of Roderick Random The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The African Queen The Age of Innocence The Age of Innocence The Alchemist The Alexandria Quartet The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay The Ambassadors The Andromeda Strain The angel's game The appeal The Ascent of Rum Doodle The Asphalt Jungle The Assistant The associate The Atrocity Exhibition The Awakening The Bamboo Bed The Baron in the Trees The Beach The beach house The Beast Must Die The Beautiful and the Damned The Bell Jar The Bell Jar The Bell Jar The Bell Jar The best of times The Betrothed The Big Blowdown The Big Nowhere The Big Sleep
Title The Big Sleep The Black Prince The Blackwater Lightship The Blind Assassin The Blind Assassin The Blue Flower The Blue Room The Bluest Eye The bodies left behind The Bone People The Bonfire of the Vanities The Book of Daniel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting The Book of the New Sun The Book Thief The Bottle Factory Outing The Bourne Identity The brass verdict The Bridge of San Luis Rey The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The broken window The Brothers Karamazov The Brothers Karamazov The Brothers Karamazov The brutal art The Buddha of Suburbia The burning land The business The Butcher Boy The Caine Mutiny The Caine Mutiny The Cairo Trilogy The Cairo Trilogy The Call of the Wild The Case of Comrade Tulayev The Case of the Gilded Fly The Castafiore Emerald The Castle The Castle of Otranto The Cat in the Cat
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Title The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye The cellist of Sarajevo The Charterhouse of Parma The Chateau The Child in Time The Children of Men The Children of the New Forest The Chronicles of Narnia The Chronicles of Narnia The Chronicles of Narnia The Chronicles of Narnia The Chronicles of Narnia The Code of the Woosters The Code of the Woosters The collaborator The Color Purple The Color Purple The Color Purple The Color Purple The Color Purple The Coming Race The Commitments The complaints The Confessions of Nat Turner The Conservationist The Constant Gardener The Conversions The Corrections The Count of Monte Cristo The Count of Monte Cristo The Counterfeiters
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Title The Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad The Crab with the Golden Claws The Crime of Father Amado The Crow Road The Cruel Sea The Crying of Lot 49 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time The Da Vinci Code The Da Vinci Code The Da Vinci Code The Daisy Club The Darkroom of Damocles The Daughter of Time The Day of the Jackal The Day of the Locust The Death of the Heart The Death of Virgil The Debacle The Debt to Pleasure The Devil to Pay in the Backlands The Dharma Bums The Diary of a Nobody The Discworld Series The Dream of the Red Chamber The Driver's Seat The Drowned World The Earthsea Series The Echoing Grove The Edge of Sadness The Egoist The Einstein Intersection The Elected Member The End of the Affair The End of the World News
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Title The English Patient The English Patient The Executioner's Song The Expedition of Humphry Clinker The Face of Another The Family Moskat or The Manor or The Estate The Famished Road The Famished Road The Far Pavillions The Faraway Tree Collection The Female Man The Finkler Question The Five People You Meet in Heaven The Fixer The flight of swallows The Forever War The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney The Fountain Overflows The Fountainhead The Fountainhead The Fountainhead The Fountainhead The Four Just Men The French Lieutenant's Woman The Friends of Eddie Coyle The front The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis The Gargoyle The Gathering The Gathering The Getaway The Ghost Road The gift The girl next door The girl who kicked the hornets' nest The girl who played with fire The girl with the dragon tattoo The Girls of Slender Means The Giver
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Title The Giving Tree The Glass Bead Game The Glass Bead Game The Glass Bead Game The Glass Key The Go-Between The God of Small Things The God of Small Things The Godfather The Golden Compass The Golden Notebook The Golden Notebook The Good Companions The Good Earth The Good Earth The Good Earth The Good Earth The Good Soldier The Good Soldier Svejk The Graduate The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath The Grass is Singing The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby The Great Impersonation The great lover The Green Mile
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Title The Group The Gruffalo's child The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society The Guns of Navarone The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale The Hanging Gardens The Harpole Report The Haunting of Hill House The Hearing Trumpet The Heart is a Lonely Hunter The Heart is a Lonely Hunter The Heat of the Day The Hiding Place The History Man The History of Mr Polly The History of Pompey the Little The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hobbit The Hobbit The Hobbit The Hobbit The Hobbit The Hollow Man The Home and the World The Home and the World The Horse's Mouth The host : a novel
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Title The Hound of the Baskervilles The Hound of the Baskervilles The Hours The house at Riverton The House of Mirth The House of Mirth The House of the Seven Gables The Human Stain The Hunters The Idiot The Idiot The Immoralist The Infamous Army The Influence The Information The Inheritance of Loss The Insult The Invisible Man The Ipcress File The island The Island of Dr Moreau The Jungle The Jungle The Jungle The Keepers of the House The kill call The Killer Angels The King of Torts The Kingdom of this World The Kite Runner The Kite Runner The Kite Runner The Kite Runner The Kite Runner The Known World The L Shaped Room The Last Chronicle of Barset The Last Days The Last Lecture The Last September
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Title The Late George Apley The Laughing Policeman The League of Frightened Men The Lecturer's Tale The Left Hand of Darkness The Leopard The Leopard The Leopard The Leopard The Life and Loves of a She-Devil The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman The Line of Beauty The Line of Beauty The Lions of Al-Rassan The Little House Collection The Little Prince The Little Prince The Little Prince The Little Prince The little stranger The Little World of Don Camillo The Lonely Londoners The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne The loner The Long Goodbye The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings The lost symbol The Loved One
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Title The Lovely Bones The Lovely Bones The Lover The lovers The Luck of Barry Lyndon The Machine-Gunners The Madman of Bergerac The Magic Mountain The Magic Mountain The Magnificent Ambersons The Magnificent Ambersons The Magus The Maltese Falcon The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love The Man in the High Castle The Man of Property The Man Who Loved Children The Man who was Thursday The Man with the Golden Arm The Man Without Qualities The Man Without Qualities The Manchurian Candidate The Mandarins The Map of Love The Mark of Zorro The Marriage of Heaven and Hell The Mask of Dimitrios The Master and Margarita The Master and Margarita The Master and Margarita The Master and Margarita The Mayor of Casterbridge The Measure of a Man The Member of the Wedding The Metamorphosis The Midwich Cuckoos The Mighty Walzer Howard The Military Philosophers The Mill on the Floss The Millstone
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Title The Ministry of Fear The Monk The monster in the box The Moon and the Bonfire The Moonstone The Moonstone The Moviegoer The Murder at the Vicarage The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Mysteries of Udolpho The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Mysterious Stranger The Naked and the Dead The Name of the Rose The Name of the Rose The Name of the Rose The Neon Rain The New York Trilogy The Night Sessions The Night Watch The Odd Women The Old Devils The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea The Old Men at the Zoo The Old Wives' Tale The Once and Future King The Optimist's Daughter The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold The Ordeal of Richard Feverek The other hand The other queen The outcast The Outsiders The overlook The Painted Bird The Painter of Signs
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Title No of mentions The Parasites The Passion The Passion of New Eve The Piano Teacher The Piano Teacher The Pickwick Papers The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray The Pillars of the Earth The Pillars of the Earth The Plague The Pledge The Poisoned Chocolates Case The Poisonwood Bible The Poisonwood Bible The Polygots The Portrait of a Lady The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas The Postman Always Rings Twice The Power and the Glory The Power Broker The Prestige The price of love The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie The Princess of Cleves The Prisoner of Zenda The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner The Prizewinner of Defiance Ohio The prodigal wife The Professor's House The Provincial Lady The Pursuit of Love The quickie The Rabbit The Rabbit Omnibus The Radetzky March The Ragazzi Pier
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Title The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists The Rainbow The Rape of Nanking The Reader The Recognitions The Rector's Daughter The Red and the Black The Red and the Black The Red Badge of Courage The Red Room The Red Tent The Reivers The Reluctant Orphan The Remains of the Day The Remains of the Day The Remains of the Day The Remorseful Day The Restraint of Beasts The return The return journey : and other stories The Return of the Soldier The Riddle of the Sands The Rings of Saturn The Road The Road The Road The Road The Road The Sacred Book of the Werewolf The Savage Detectives The Savage Detectives The Scar The scarecrow The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Pimpernel The Scarpetta factor
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Title No of mentions The Sea The Sea, the Sea The Secret Adversary The Secret Agent The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 The Secret Garden The Secret Garden The Secret History The Secret History The secret life of Evie Hamilton The secret scripture : a novel The Selfish Giant The Shadow of the Wind The Sheltering Sky The Shining The Ship The Shipping News The Shipping News The Shrimp and the Anemone The Siege of Krishnapur The Siege of Krishnapur The Sign of Four The Silent Duchess The Sirens of Titan The Slaves of Solitude The Snow Goose The Soldier's Art The Songlines The Sorrow of War The Sorrows of Young Werther The Sorrows of Young Werther The Sound and the Fury The Sound and the Fury The Sound and the Fury The Sound and the Fury The Sound of my Voice The Space Merchants The Sportswriter The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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Title No of mentions The Stand The Stand The Stars My Destination The Stone Diaries The Store The Stories of John Cheever The Story of B The Story of Edgar Sawtelle The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Stranger The Stranger The Stranger The Stranger The Stranger The Stranger The Stranger The Sun Also Rises The Sun Also Rises The Sunday of Life The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen The Swimming-Pool Library The Sword in the Stone The Tale of Genji The Tale of Genji The Talented Mr Ripley The Thin Man The Things They Carried The Third Man The Third Policeman The Thirty-Nine Steps The Three Musketeers The Three Musketeers The Three Musketeers The Three Musketeers The Three Paradoxes
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Title The Three Sisters The Time Machine The Time of Indifference The Time Ships The Time Traveler's Wife The Time Traveler's Wife The Time Traveler's Wife The Time Traveler's Wife The Time Traveler's Wife The Tin Drum The Tin Drum The Tin Drum The Tin Roof Blowdown The Tortoise and the Hare The Towers of Trebizond The Town The Transit of Venus The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters The Tree of Man The Trial The Trial The Tril The Turn of the Screw The Twilight Saga The Unbearable Bassington The Unbearable Lightness of Being The Unbearable Lightness of Being The Unbearable Lightness of Being The unbearable lightness of scones The Uncommon Reader The Unconsoled The Unfortunates The Vagabond The Valley of Bones The Vatican Cellars The Vicar of Wakefield The Victorian Chaise-longue The Virgin in the Garden The Virgin Suicides The Virginian
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Title The Voyeur The Wapshot Chronicle The War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds The Warden The Wasp Factory The Wasp Factory The Way of All Flesh The Way We Live Now The Way West The Weather in the Streets The Well of Loneliness The Westminster Alice The white queen The white tiger The White Tiger The white tiger : Aravind Adiga. The Wimbledon Poisoner The Wind in the Willows The Wind in the Willows The Wind in the Willows The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle The Wings of the Dove The Witches of Eastwick The wolf at the door The Woman in White The Woman in White The Woodlanders The wrecker The Yearling The Years of Rice and Salt The Young Lions Their Eyes Were Watching God Therese Raquin They Were Counted Things Fall Apart Things Fall Apart This Sporting Life This year it will be different Three Men in a Boat
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Title Three Soldiers Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Tinkers Tintin in Tibet Titmuss Regained Titus Groan Tlooth To Each his Own To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird To The Ends of the Earth trilogy To the Lighthouse To the Lighthouse Tobacco Road Tom Brown's Schooldays Tom Jones Tom Jones Tono Bungay Too close to home Topper Takes a Trip Tourist Season Towards the End of the Morning Toxic Shock Trainspotting Travels with My Aunt Treasure Island
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Title Treasure Island Trent's Last Case Trilogy (C S Lewis) Tropic of Cancer Tropic of Ruislip True detectives True History of the Kelly Gang True History of the Kelly Gang Twenties girl Twilight Twilight Twilight Two Serious Ladies Ulysses Ulysses Ulysses Ulysses Uncle Silas Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom's Cabin Under the Net Under the Net Under the Skin Under the Volcano Under the Volcano Under Western Eyes Underworld Underworld Underworld Unless Untouchable Up from Slavery USA V Valley of the Dolls Vanity Fair Vanity Fair Vanity Fair Vathek Vendetta
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Title Venus on the Half-Shell Vernon God Little Victory: An Island Tale Vileodies Vilette Vineland Vision in white Voss Vurt Waiting for the Barbarians Waiting for the Mahatma Walden Walden War and Peace War and Peace War and Peace War and Peace War and Peace War and Peace War and Peace War and Peace Washington Square Watch the skies Waterland Watership Down Watership Down Watership Down We We Need to Talk About Kevin We're going on a bear hunt Weaveworld Wedding season What a Carve Up! What to do when someone dies When the Wind Blows When will there be good news? Where the Sidewalk Ends Where the wild things are Where the Wild Things Are Where's Spot?
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Title Whisky Galore White Man Falling White Noise White Teeth Who Do You Think You Are? Whose Body? Wide Sargasso Sea Wieland Williwaw Winnie the Pooh Winnie the Pooh Winnie the Pooh Wise Children Witch Grass Wolf Hall Wolf Hall Women in Love Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights Years of Grace You Only Live Twice You've been warned Z Zami Zanoni Zazie in the Metro Zazie in the Metro Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Zorba the Greek Zuleika Dobson
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Title To Kill a Mockingbird 1984 Catch-22 Crime and Punishment One Hundred Years of Solitude The Catcher in the Rye The Great Gatsby The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Moby-Dick The Lord of the Rings War and Peace Animal Farm Anna Karenina Lolita Lord of the Flies Pride and Prejudice The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Grapes of Wrath The Stranger Brave New World Don Quixote Fahrenheit 451 Harry Potter His Dark Materials Jane Eyre Les Misrables Life of Pi On the Road Remembrance of Things Past Slaughterhouse-Five Wuthering Heights A Clockwork Orange A Confederacy of Dunces Beloved David Copperfield For Whom the Bell Tolls Gone With the Wind Heart of Darkness Little Women Tess of the D'Urbervilles The Chronicles of Narnia The Color Purple The Handmaid's Tale The Hobbit The Kite Runner The Old Man and the Sea The Road The Time Traveler's Wife A Prayer for Owen Meany A Tale of Two Cities Alice's Adventures in Wonderland All Quiet on the Western Front Atonement Dune Emma Ender's Game Invisible Man Love in the Time of Cholera Madame Bovary Memoirs of a Geisha Middlemarch Midnight's Children Of Mice and Men One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Rebecca The Bell Jar The Fountainhead The Good Earth The Leopard The Little Prince The Master and Margarita The Scarlet Letter The Sound and the Fury The Three Musketeers Ulysses A Farewell to Arms A Thousand Splendid Suns Anne of Green Gables Atlas Shrugged Blood Meridian Cold Comfort Farm Crash Disgrace Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dracula East of Eden Foundation Frankenstein Great Expectations Lonesome Dove Middlesex Of Human Bondage Oscar and Lucinda Persuasion Possession Scoop Sense and Sensibility Siddhartha Stranger in a Strange Land The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay The Brothers Karamazov The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
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Title The Da Vinci Code The Glass Bead Game The Jungle The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman The Name of the Rose The Picture of Dorian Gray The Remains of the Day The Tin Drum The Unbearable Lightness of Being The Wind in the Willows Twilight Underworld Vanity Fair Watership Down Winnie the Pooh 7th heaven A Bend in the River A Christmas Carol A Dance to the Music of Time A darker domain A Fine Balance A most wanted man A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man A Suitable Boy A Thousand Acres All the colours of darkness American Gods American Pastoral Andersonville As I Lay Dying Austerlitz Bleak House Breakfast of Champions Breathing Lessons Brideshead Revisited Bridget Jones's Diary Candide Charlotte's Web Cider with Rosie Cloud Atlas Cranford Cry, the Beloved Country Cryptonomicon Decline and Fall Eclipse Exit Music Far From the Madding Crowd Fight Club Flowers for Algernon Foreign Affairs Gilead Go Tell it on the Mountain Gravity's Rainbow Gulliver's Travels Gypsy How Late it Was, How Late Humboldt's Gift Hunger If On a Winter's Night a Traveller Independence Day Infinite Jest Invisible Cities Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Jude the Obscure La Condition Humaine Le Grand Meaulnes Life: A User's Manual Little Dorritt London Fields Lucky Jim Mrs Dalloway My Name Is Asher Lev My Name is Red Naked Lunch New Moon Night Oliver Twist One of Ours Pale Fire Paths of glory Robinson Crusoe Schindler's Ark Star Maker Staying On Suite Francaise Tales of the South Pacific The Adventures of Augie March The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Age of Innocence The Big Sleep The Blind Assassin The Caine Mutiny The Cairo Trilogy The Count of Monte Cristo The Famished Road The Gathering The God of Small Things The Golden Notebook The Heart is a Lonely Hunter The Home and the World
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Title No of mentions The Hound of the Baskervilles The House of Mirth The Idiot The Line of Beauty The Lovely Bones The Magic Mountain The Magnificent Ambersons The Man Without Qualities The Moonstone The Piano Teacher The Pillars of the Earth The Poisonwood Bible The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists The Red and the Black The Savage Detectives The Secret Garden The Secret History The Shipping News The Sorrows of Young Werther The Sound and the Fury The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Sun Also Rises The Tale of Genji The Trial The War of the Worlds The Wasp Factory The White Tiger The Woman in White Things Fall Apart Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy To the Lighthouse Tom Jones Treasure Island True History of the Kelly Gang Uncle Tom's Cabin Under the Volcano Walden Where the Wild Things Are Wolf Hall Zazie in the Metro Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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UK's most borrowed library books

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Pulitzer Prize winners (Fiction 1948-, Novel pre1948)

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(1918-2010) A Bell for Adano A Confederacy of Dunces A Death in the Family

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Author's own top five...

Against the Grain Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Animal Farm

Hotel du Lac How late it was, how late In a Free State

Last Orders Life and Times of Michael K Life of Pi

Charlotte's Web Crime and Cold Comfort Farm Punishment

Aliens love underpants! All the colours of darkness

Don Quixote Ender's Game

A Fatal inversion A Fine Balance

Scoop All the colours of darkness Arctic drift Star Maker

Cryptonomicon Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

War and Peace

Brave New World Cat's Cradle

Rites of Passage Sacred Hunger

The Cairo Trilogy The Diary of a Nobody

Early Autumn Elbow Room Empire Falls Foreign Affairs

Don Quixote Einstein's Dreams Ender's Game Fahrenheit 451

Saville Schindler's Ark Something to Answer For Staying On

Don Quixote Dr Zhivago

Heart of Darkness Don Quixote

Gilead Gone With the Wind

Faust Fool On The Hill For Whom the Bell Tolls

His Dark Materials Dracula Infinite Jest Dune

The Blind Assassin The Bone People The Conservationist

Go Tell It On the Mountain Gulliver's Travels

Les Misrables Life of Pi

Honey in the Horn Gravity's Rainbow

Emma Ender's Game

The Elected Member The English Patient

UK's most borrowed library books

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Pulitzer Prize winners (Fiction 1948-, Novel pre1948)

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LibraryThing.com (top 50)

July 2009-June 2010 Bloodline Bones

(1918-2010) House Made of Dawn

http://ask.metafilter. com/42616/A-bookeveryone-shouldread [accessed 23 Feb 2011] Henderson the Rain King

http://www. librarything. com/z_books.php [accessed 23 Feb 2011] The Golden Compass

Author's own top five...

His Dark Materials

Jane Eyre Les Misrables Life: A User's Manual Lolita

A Legacy A Long Long Way A Lost Lady

Wuthering Heights Jude the Obscure Les Misrables

Moby-Dick Mrs Dalloway

Les Misrables Life of Pi

Life of Pi Little Women Lolita

My Name is Red Nausea Old Gorit

Little Women Lolita

Double cross Eat your peas

Of Mice and Men Oliver Twist

Scoop Suite Francaise

The Giving Tree The Good Earth

A Thousand Acres Watership Down A Time to be Born

On the Road One Hundred Years of Solitude Persuasion

A Time to Kill A Town Like Alice A Voyage to Arcturus Absolute Beginners

The Cairo Trilogy

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