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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

100 books to read before you die.

What’s to be on the list?

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

The Kite Runner

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Harry Potter series (I know, who would have thought I would answer with that one?!)

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By *wesomepearWoman
over a year ago

Northamptonshire

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - don’t know if it’s a top 100 but recently read this and it was so good, I couldn’t put it down.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lolita

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Steppenwolf

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood

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By *JohnMan
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

Jim Dodge, "Fup"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Bible and hope for some redemption

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By *wesomepearWoman
over a year ago

Northamptonshire

"The Harry Potter series (I know, who would have thought I would answer with that one?!)"

I completely agree with this too!!

I’m jealous of my daughter getting to read them for the first time... I wish I could start again not knowing how good they are.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

The English patient..

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

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By *edmark07Man
over a year ago

liverpool

No one for the bible then

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By *Cocksucker84Man
over a year ago

newcastle

"The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood"

My favourite of the Atwoods. Alias Grace is up there as well.

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

Atonement - Ian McEwan

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"No one for the bible then

It’s been said

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Harry Potter series (I know, who would have thought I would answer with that one?!)

I completely agree with this too!!

I’m jealous of my daughter getting to read them for the first time... I wish I could start again not knowing how good they are. "

I’m the same. I can’t remember the first time I read them. I wish I knew what my thoughts were

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks"

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Any book by Iain M Banks (not Iain Banks - same guy, different genre).

Iain M Banks writes about a pan galactic humanity that has spread to become the dominant species in the universe.

Only.. A picture of what we could become.. if we bucked our ideas up and went full Utopian.

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez.

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By *Cocksucker84Man
over a year ago

newcastle

The Sound and the Fury and

Absalom, Absalom- William Faulkner.

Mrs Dalloway- Virginia Woolf

For more modern:

Wolf Hall- Hilary Mantel

Middlesex- Jeffrey Eugenedis

American Pastoral- Philip Roth

Bastard out of Carolina- Dorothy Allison.

I'm being greedy, I know.

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Any book by Iain M Banks (not Iain Banks - same guy, different genre).

Iain M Banks writes about a pan galactic humanity that has spread to become the dominant species in the universe.

Only.. A picture of what we could become.. if we bucked our ideas up and went full Utopian."

Use of Weapons

Although I love The Crow Road (Iain Banks)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The book thief by Markus Zusak and great expectations by Dickens

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

"Mrs Dalloway- Virginia Woolf

Such a yes for this.

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"The book thief by Markus Zusak and great expectations by Dickens "

There’s a great female lead in the latter.

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Mrs Dalloway- Virginia Woolf

Such a yes for this.

Thirded.

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By *c1989Woman
over a year ago

Manchester

A clockwork orange. Anthony Burgess.

And the long walk by Stephen king. My favourite of his and his most fucked up in my opinion.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A clockwork orange. Anthony Burgess.

And the long walk by Stephen king. My favourite of his and his most fucked up in my opinion. "

The Long Walk fucked me uo

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you haven't read any Roald Dahl books you haven't yet lived! And you're never too old for 'em!

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust

....in French

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Schindler's list xx

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

My Orwell pick would actually be:

Down and Out in Paris and London

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By *astyEricMan
over a year ago

Hull

Dune

King Rat

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By *Cocksucker84Man
over a year ago

newcastle

Bleak House- Dickens

One of the Donna Tartt novels has to be in there too. Either The Goldfinch or The Secret History.

The Regeneration Trilogy- Pat Barker.

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark

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By *oAngelsCouple
over a year ago

Sutton

Anything by John Niven!

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

For absolute hoots and the best named cows ever.

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Bleak House- Dickens

One of the Donna Tartt novels has to be in there too. Either The Goldfinch or The Secret History.

The Regeneration Trilogy- Pat Barker. "

Secret History hits a particular nostalgia for me.

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By *Cocksucker84Man
over a year ago

newcastle

Beloved- Toni Morrison.

In cold Blood- Truman Capote.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Reading books is overrated. If a book was any good they'd turn it into a film.

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Any book by Iain M Banks (not Iain Banks - same guy, different genre).

Iain M Banks writes about a pan galactic humanity that has spread to become the dominant species in the universe.

Only.. A picture of what we could become.. if we bucked our ideas up and went full Utopian.

Use of Weapons

Although I love The Crow Road (Iain Banks)"

Oooh The Player of Games

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Reading books is overrated. If a book was any good they'd turn it into a film."

- - you’re dumped - -

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Works of Shakespeare, Byron, Oscar Wilde, Dostoyevsky, Beaumont & fletcher, Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Francis bacon and Chaucer.

Arabian nights, Gibbon’s decline and fall of the Roman Empire, travels of Captain James Cook, Greek mythologies/philosophy. Pulci’s Morgante maggiore.

Alastair Gray - Lanark (very trippy book)

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, William beckford - vathek, American psycho (mixture of comedy and absolute hell)

Clockwork orange, Virginia woolf’s to the light house, Charles maturin’s melmoth the wanderer, Walter Scott’s Waverley novels, John Milton’s paradise lost, Huysman’s Là-bas and à rebours.

There are more, I just haven’t the time to type them out, nor remember them all. I have a secret enjoyment of Dan brown books also. They’re my junk food esque literature

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By *c1989Woman
over a year ago

Manchester

"A clockwork orange. Anthony Burgess.

And the long walk by Stephen king. My favourite of his and his most fucked up in my opinion.

The Long Walk fucked me uo "

Crazy book. There is a film in the works. But they've been saying that for years.

I'm a huge HP book fan too though. It would be my mastermind specialist subject Haha.

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

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By * nicstimMan
over a year ago

Hemel Hempstead

Cry, the Beloved Country

By Alan Paton.

Short but hard hitting.

Not a happy ending

Nic xx

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By *JohnMan
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

Ovid, Heroides. The women of (mostly) Greek mythology get to answer back, and they're not happy.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Works of Shakespeare, Byron, Oscar Wilde, Dostoyevsky, Beaumont & fletcher, Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Francis bacon and Chaucer.

Arabian nights, Gibbon’s decline and fall of the Roman Empire, travels of Captain James Cook, Greek mythologies/philosophy. Pulci’s Morgante maggiore.

Alastair Gray - Lanark (very trippy book)

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, William beckford - vathek, American psycho (mixture of comedy and absolute hell)

Clockwork orange, Virginia woolf’s to the light house, Charles maturin’s melmoth the wanderer, Walter Scott’s Waverley novels, John Milton’s paradise lost, Huysman’s Là-bas and à rebours.

There are more, I just haven’t the time to type them out, nor remember them all. I have a secret enjoyment of Dan brown books also. They’re my junk food esque literature

Lord of the rings and the hobbit also, my forgetfulness

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

a wizard of earthsea- Ursula K. le Guin ( my fave book as a child)

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

Possession - AS Byatt

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By *c1989Woman
over a year ago

Manchester

"If you haven't read any Roald Dahl books you haven't yet lived! And you're never too old for 'em! "

Sometimes when I cant sleep i will YouTube the George's marvelous medicine audiobook... but Danny the champion of the world I could read over and over.

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

a wizard of earthsea- Ursula K. le Guin ( my fave book as a child)

Wizard of E is a great book!!!

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

"Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut "

Excellent choice!

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

With Remains of the Day a close second.

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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago

All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest

Dune by Frank Herbert

Masterpiece

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over a year ago

"Schindler's list xx"

Apologies for some appalling pedantry, the book is Schindler's Ark.

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

"Any book by Iain M Banks (not Iain Banks - same guy, different genre).

Iain M Banks writes about a pan galactic humanity that has spread to become the dominant species in the universe.

Only.. A picture of what we could become.. if we bucked our ideas up and went full Utopian."

Any book by Iain Banks (not Iain M Banks - same guy, different genre).

Heck, read all the books by both of him!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.

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By *egasus NobMan
over a year ago

Merton

Quality over quantity...i'm not just another book you can pick and throw away

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

I was going to say Birdsong but as it's already been mentioned will add one which was recommended on here off the back of me praising Birdsong and is the perfect accompaniment to it.....

My Dear I Wanted To Tell You... - Louisa Young

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Quality over quantity...i'm not just another book you can pick and throw away

You’re more graphic novel, no?

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

Any of the Mr Men and Little Miss books.

But in all seriousness I'm not a big reader of classic fiction. If I read, I prefer to read either nonfiction or historical fiction.

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

The Lord of the Rings should be on the list.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Christmas Mystery - Jostein Gaarder

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

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By *ittleAcornMan
over a year ago

visiting the beach

"Any book by Iain M Banks (not Iain Banks - same guy, different genre).

Iain M Banks writes about a pan galactic humanity that has spread to become the dominant species in the universe.

Only.. A picture of what we could become.. if we bucked our ideas up and went full Utopian.

Use of Weapons

Although I love The Crow Road (Iain Banks)

And The Wasp Factory, loved that, though it's possibly a bit odd!

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

"The Lord of the Rings should be on the list. "

I've read that, and 1984. I've been trying to get Jurassic park on the kindle but Amazon doesn't appear to sell it.

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By *ibertine_mindsCouple
over a year ago

Staffs/ Derbys/ Peak District

A little off centre here . . .

Doctor Dogbody’s Leg by James Norman Hall

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By *andm_69Couple
over a year ago

Stevenage

Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass)

The only series Mr M has reread. Also can not wait for the the series to come out after the film flopped hard

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

One to read aloud to your children, and love it yourself - "The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear" by Walter Moers. I've worn out two copies of this with my grandchildren!

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

Bram Stoker - Dracula

Thomas More - Utopia

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By *Cocksucker84Man
over a year ago

newcastle

"Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

With Remains of the Day a close second. "

YES!!!! I remember being half-way through NLMG and the shocking realisation of what was going on dawning on me. It haunted me for months after reading but so beautiful. I remember when the film was released and they revealed the full plot on the back of the cover and I thought, 'what the fuck was the point in that?'

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

"Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass)

The only series Mr M has reread. Also can not wait for the the series to come out after the film flopped hard"

Very good trilogy, although I found the end a bit disappointing. But not nearly as disappointing as the film, what a shame they ruined it.

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By *ittleAcornMan
over a year ago

visiting the beach

Robin Hobb's Live Ships series

Julian May's Intervention

Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea

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By *ittleAcornMan
over a year ago

visiting the beach

"Bram Stoker - Dracula

Thomas More - Utopia

I remember clearly reading Utopia at about 11/12 (my dad went to college at 40). It blew my mind a bit, but then so did The Making of the British Working Class...

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

With Remains of the Day a close second.

I know! That sudden moment when your brain goes, hang on, are they, no, what, no, oh god.

Amazing.

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By *odjamMan
over a year ago

woodford

Bleak House Charles Dickens

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

Shakespeare’s full works.

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

The Prince - Machiavelli

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over a year ago

The Innocent Man by John Grisham.

I love non fiction, and military history type books. Band of brothers was an excellent read.

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters - Julian Barnes

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By *ust ClareTV/TS
over a year ago

Settlewick!

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

David Copperfield

Alice In Wonderland

The Lovely Bones

The Mayor of Casterbridge

and finally,Renegade,the biography of Mark E Smith,the funniest book about the music biz ever

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

Viriconium by M. John Harrison.

Anything by Umberto Eco.

Everything by Terry Pratchett.

"In the penal colony", "Metamorphosis" and "The Trial" by Franz Kafka.

"The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges is a 10 page short story that contains every possible book!

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over a year ago

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over a year ago

We need to talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

The divine comedy - Dante

Emma - Jane Austin

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By *iss.RedWoman
over a year ago

somewhere

Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass)

The only series Mr M has reread. Also can not wait for the the series to come out after the film flopped hard

Very good trilogy, although I found the end a bit disappointing. But not nearly as disappointing as the film, what a shame they ruined it. "

They were frustrating reading to me. I liked the premise and setting but something didn't quite click for me.

The same for The Thomas Covenant Chronicles trilogies by Stephen R Donaldson. I stick with these reads in the hope they come good though

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over a year ago

Catch 22

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"100 books to read before you die.

What’s to be on the list? "

Marshall Cavendish's "Doctor's Answers" would be my advice. You never know, you might spot something they've missed.

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By *JohnMan
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

Have we had any Murakami? I'll go with A Wild Sheep Chase. It was my first, and left the strongest impression.

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Viriconium by M. John Harrison.

Anything by Umberto Eco.

Everything by Terry Pratchett.

"In the penal colony", "Metamorphosis" and "The Trial" by Franz Kafka.

"The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges is a 10 page short story that contains every possible book!"

Yes! The Name of the Rose and Foucoult’s Pendulum

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Have we had any Murakami? I'll go with A Wild Sheep Chase. It was my first, and left the strongest impression."

Or Dance Dance Dance

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Bartimaeus Trilogy

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"We need to talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

The divine comedy - Dante

Emma - Jane Austin"

Kevin is an excellent shout.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This should be re-read before I die...

Lord of the Rings

Robinson Crusoe

Black Beauty

Moby Dick

Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Call of the Wild

The Belgariad

Frankenstein

The list could probably be almost endless if I put every book down I wanted to re-read plus those I want to read then I would guess it would certainly be more than just 100

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bill Bryson. A short history of nearly everything.

Mind blowing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Ablom

In fact anything by this author

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By *cgkcCouple
over a year ago

Hitchin

The Life And Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.

One of the earliest novels in the English language which has every post-modern trick in the book, and is funny and lovely to boot.

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By *etAnotherDomMan
over a year ago

london

Ones I dont think I have seen:

Holes

Inkheart

Dr Seuss(various)

Gormenghast

Shadow of the wind

Labyrinth - Kate Mosse

The story of O

The man in the iron mask

Don Quixote

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Ones I dont think I have seen:

Holes

Inkheart

Dr Seuss(various)

Gormenghast

Shadow of the wind

Labyrinth - Kate Mosse

The story of O

The man in the iron mask

Don Quixote

The Kate Mosse one’s are a guilty pleasure of mine!

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By *etAnotherDomMan
over a year ago

london

"Ones I dont think I have seen:

Holes

Inkheart

Dr Seuss(various)

Gormenghast

Shadow of the wind

Labyrinth - Kate Mosse

The story of O

The man in the iron mask

Don Quixote

The Kate Mosse one’s are a guilty pleasure of mine! "

Awww...why guilty..they are terribly low brow!

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By *etAnotherDomMan
over a year ago

london

"Ones I dont think I have seen:

Holes

Inkheart

Dr Seuss(various)

Gormenghast

Shadow of the wind

Labyrinth - Kate Mosse

The story of O

The man in the iron mask

Don Quixote

The Kate Mosse one’s are a guilty pleasure of mine!

Awww...why guilty..they are terribly low brow!"

....not....

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

A Room with a View - EM Forster

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By *JohnMan
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

"Dance Dance Dance"

That one broke my brain. On the very first page.

Have you been raiding my bookshelves, Estella, or have I been raiding yours?

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By *etAnotherDomMan
over a year ago

london

Lord of the flies

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

"Viriconium by M. John Harrison.

Anything by Umberto Eco.

Everything by Terry Pratchett.

"In the penal colony", "Metamorphosis" and "The Trial" by Franz Kafka.

"The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges is a 10 page short story that contains every possible book!

Yes! The Name of the Rose and Foucoult’s Pendulum

Have you read Baudolino, or The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana?

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over a year ago

the penal colony. amazing book

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

crime and punishment . dostoyevsky

njals saga .

treasure island

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Ones I dont think I have seen:

Holes

Inkheart

Dr Seuss(various)

Gormenghast

Shadow of the wind

Labyrinth - Kate Mosse

The story of O

The man in the iron mask

Don Quixote

The Kate Mosse one’s are a guilty pleasure of mine! "

I loved Labrynth and Sepulchre...not read Citadel yet though...be a holiday read I think

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Viriconium by M. John Harrison.

Anything by Umberto Eco.

Everything by Terry Pratchett.

"In the penal colony", "Metamorphosis" and "The Trial" by Franz Kafka.

"The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges is a 10 page short story that contains every possible book!

Yes! The Name of the Rose and Foucoult’s Pendulum

Have you read Baudolino, or The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana?"

No, The island of the Day Before and Numero Zero are the only others I have - I’ll check them out!

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By *JohnMan
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

If you liked Foucault's Pendulum, you might like Laurent Binet "The Seventh Function of Language". Tongue-firmly-in-cheek semiological conspiracy thriller.

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Ones I dont think I have seen:

Holes

Inkheart

Dr Seuss(various)

Gormenghast

Shadow of the wind

Labyrinth - Kate Mosse

The story of O

The man in the iron mask

Don Quixote

The Kate Mosse one’s are a guilty pleasure of mine!

I loved Labrynth and Sepulchre...not read Citadel yet though...be a holiday read I think"

I even have her husband’s book Secrets if the Labyrinth

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"If you liked Foucault's Pendulum, you might like Laurent Binet "The Seventh Function of Language". Tongue-firmly-in-cheek semiological conspiracy thriller."

Oooh okay, noted

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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By *etAnotherDomMan
over a year ago

london

Atlas Shrugged

House of leaves - would have to be book 100 as I'd likely die trying to get anywhere with it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Ones I dont think I have seen:

Holes

Inkheart

Dr Seuss(various)

Gormenghast

Shadow of the wind

Labyrinth - Kate Mosse

The story of O

The man in the iron mask

Don Quixote

The Kate Mosse one’s are a guilty pleasure of mine!

I loved Labrynth and Sepulchre...not read Citadel yet though...be a holiday read I think

I even have her husband’s book Secrets if the Labyrinth

I remember being told years ago that every book you read will teach you something and that opening a book is like firing a gun you never know how far it will go or where it will land or what the effect will be...So far that has proven to be true.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Harry Potter series (I know, who would have thought I would answer with that one?!)

I completely agree with this too!!

I’m jealous of my daughter getting to read them for the first time... I wish I could start again not knowing how good they are.

I’m the same. I can’t remember the first time I read them. I wish I knew what my thoughts were

And reading them before the films came out and having your own images of ehat they all looked like. Now when I re- read they look like the actors!

I pick up on new things each time I re- read them though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

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over a year ago

The Island - Victoria Hislop

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By *etAnotherDomMan
over a year ago

london

The ragged trousered philanthropists

Some greek mythology...The Odyssey

The curious incident of the dog in the night time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Schindler's list xx

Apologies for some appalling pedantry, the book is Schindler's Ark."

You are correct my apologies xc

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Brighton Rock - Graham Greene

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn"

Yes this one is essential reading! And, although it's a graphic novel, Maus by Art Spiegelman should be mandatory for all. There would be no Holocaust deniers or nazi apologists...

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

From Nell:

Jude the Obscure - Hardy

Birds Without Wings - Louis de Bernieres

The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison

Good Omens - Pratchett and Gaiman

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erik Maria Remarque

Duncton Wood - William Horwood

The People's Act of Love - James Meek

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By *andonmessMan
over a year ago

A world all of his own

H2G2.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A lot of films have better book versions.

Ben Hur.

Jaws.

Both superb.

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

Anyone for any James Joyce?

And another great Irish writer, Flann O'Brien with his remarkable book "The Third Policeman".

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

Another one from Nell:

Suite Française - Irène Némirovsky

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Anyone for any James Joyce?

And another great Irish writer, Flann O'Brien with his remarkable book "The Third Policeman"."

I’ll go Dubliners

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By *etAnotherDomMan
over a year ago

london

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Sherlock Holmes

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

"Anyone for any James Joyce?

And another great Irish writer, Flann O'Brien with his remarkable book "The Third Policeman".

I’ll go Dubliners "
I did enjoy Dubliners, and Portrait of the Artist... Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake I've dipped into, the writing is beautiful, but not been able to settle into reading either systematically.

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By *eclanHMan
over a year ago

Liphook

All genre fiction for me

The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson

Game of Thrones - George Martin

Ship of Magic - Robin Hobb

Foundation - Isaac Asimov

On Basalisk Station - David Weber

Wyvern - AA Attanasio

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

Has anyone come across John Crowley? "Engine Summer" gave me a quite remarkable wtf moment and i had to re-evaluate the entire narrative, the philosophical implication still haunts me thirty years after i read it. "Little Big" was a joy to read, with tears near the end.

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By *iceguydaveMan
over a year ago

Monmouth

Two that I re-read irregularly are Steinbeck's Cannery Row and John Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meany.

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

Dhalgren, and the Neveryona books, by Samuel R Delany. He came to notice in the 70's labelled as a science fiction writer, but his work has nothing to do with planets and spaceships...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

So many books...so little time.

Probably easier to do an author list rather than a book list

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Gulag Archipelago

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Devil's Knot

American Overdose

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Little Women...it still makes me cry when Beth dies and all of EF Bensons Tilling books

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Girl on a train

stephen king 22.11/63

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Gulag Archipelago

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Devil's Knot

American Overdose "

I love To Kill a Mocking Bird, saw it as a play too....it was fantastic!

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By *r and Mrs SexploitCouple
over a year ago

Pontypridd

Animal Farm - Orwell

Not the porn film before someone makes a comment!

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

Too many books, too many authors, too little time. Must have read tens of thousands in my lifetime, i need a whole extra lifetime to re-read just the essentials.

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

"Steppenwolf"

Yes, this i must read.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Gulag Archipelago

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Devil's Knot

American Overdose

I love To Kill a Mocking Bird, saw it as a play too....it was fantastic!"

Agreed. Think it's time for a reread!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Too many books, too many authors, too little time. Must have read tens of thousands in my lifetime, i need a whole extra lifetime to re-read just the essentials.

I so so agree...reading has to be one of life's greatest pleasures...alongside sex of course

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

Crime and Punishment and Catch 22 for sure. Utopia certainly. Brave New World.

Roald Dahl were my bread and butter growing up, although I didn't realise picking up My Uncle Oswald at the ripe old age of nine that he'd written books for adults

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erik Maria Remarque"

Oh fuck yes.

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By *guyMan
over a year ago

Wirral

The Odyssey by Homer (not for everybody I appreciate, but I love it!)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Its only really a bookette but Foster by Claire Keegan is lovely.

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By *oxyvixen99Woman
over a year ago

Newtownabbey

The Hearts Invisible Furies

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Odyssey by Homer (not for everybody I appreciate, but I love it!)"

I can’t believe that I forgot Homer, you need the Iliad in there also, specifically Popes translation. Also don Quixote and pilgrims progress.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lolita "

My favorite book of all time

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By *r MoriartyMan
over a year ago

The Land that time forgot (Norfolk)

Thunder and Lightnings by Jan Mark

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Any book by Iain M Banks (not Iain Banks - same guy, different genre).

Iain M Banks writes about a pan galactic humanity that has spread to become the dominant species in the universe.

Only.. A picture of what we could become.. if we bucked our ideas up and went full Utopian.

Use of Weapons

Although I love The Crow Road (Iain Banks)

Oooh The Player of Games "

Yes.. yes and yes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Catcher in the Rye

To Kill a Mockingbird

Wuthering Heights

Great Expectations

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Any book by Iain M Banks (not Iain Banks - same guy, different genre).

Iain M Banks writes about a pan galactic humanity that has spread to become the dominant species in the universe.

Only.. A picture of what we could become.. if we bucked our ideas up and went full Utopian.

Use of Weapons

Although I love The Crow Road (Iain Banks)

Oooh The Player of Games

Yes.. yes and yes."

Whilst dressed as a pirate wench.

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

Non Fiction:

"Down With Big Brother" - Orlando Figes (collapse of the Soviet empire)

"Age of Extremes" - Eric Hobsbawm

"The Selfish Gene" - Richard Dawkins

"The Restless Sea" Robert Kunzig

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Non Fiction:

"Down With Big Brother" - Orlando Figes (collapse of the Soviet empire)

"Age of Extremes" - Eric Hobsbawm

"The Selfish Gene" - Richard Dawkins

"The Restless Sea" Robert Kunzig"

I read Eleanor Marx: A Life by Rachel Holmes after you recommended it on the forum - bloody good.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don Quixote

The Grapes of wrath

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By *ve 63Woman
over a year ago

Newbridge

Salems Lot - Stephen King

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Born to Punt ~ Steve Palmer's Betting Year

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By *irth.Minge.FireMan
over a year ago

Seen in far off places

'The Life and Times of Girth Minge Fire'

Insightful...

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over a year ago

Bradford

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

Mermaid Singing - Val Mcdermid

But my personal fave I recommend to everyone...

Place of execution - Val Mcdermid

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

"Non Fiction:

"Down With Big Brother" - Orlando Figes (collapse of the Soviet empire)

"Age of Extremes" - Eric Hobsbawm

"The Selfish Gene" - Richard Dawkins

"The Restless Sea" Robert Kunzig

I read Eleanor Marx: A Life by Rachel Holmes after you recommended it on the forum - bloody good.

Glad you enjoyed it.

I think everyone should probably read "Das Kapital" - the problem is that the most difficult part to understand is at the beginning. Even if you are a right wing scholar, it is still a valid critique of Capitalism.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Holes, Louis Sachar..its amazing x

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By *ountryfansCouple
over a year ago

huntingdon

The art of driving in the rain. Amazing book really tugs on the heart

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Power - Naomi Alderman

Super-Cannes - JG Ballard

Naked Lunch - William Burroughs

If On A Winter's Night A Traveller - Italo Calvino

House Of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

Labyrinths - Jorge-Luis Borges

Q - 'Luther Blissett'

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By *etAnotherDomMan
over a year ago

london

"Holes, Louis Sachar..its amazing x"

Yay!!! My favourite book!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Road Cormac Mcarthy

Jude The Obscure Thomas Hardy

Just about anything else by Hardy

The Illiad

Lionel Asbo Martin Amis

The Rotters Club Jonathan Coe

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

The challenge now is to read them all!

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

Thanks for all the contributions.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The challenge now is to read them all!

King Solomons Mines

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