According to the BBC, there are 100 “must read” books, from classics to children’s books, to current best sellers. The BBC believes that the average person will only read six books off this list in their entire lives!
Why not take a look through the list, and see which ones you have already read (watching any movie adaptations doesn’t count!), and for the ones you haven’t, why not download them onto your Reader?! You may well be pleasantly surprised at the brilliance and joy of such a diverse range of international bestsellers! Don’t forget, your Reader (PRS-650) can also play audio books – so some of these titles you may want to download and ‘listen’ to as opposed to reading – that counts too!
To keep the list of books handy – why not also download this list onto your Reader (download the attached PDF file and copy it across), so you can tick them off as you finish them. Remember, with the Reader “Notes” tool and the “On Screen Annotation” ability, you can highlight the ones you liked, or comment on (and within) the ones you want to reference or recommend to your family and friends!
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Book Title
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Author
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1
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Pride and Prejudice
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Jane Austen
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2
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The Lord of the Rings
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JRR Tolkien
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3
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Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Bronte
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4
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Harry Potter series
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JK Rowling
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5
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Harper Lee
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6
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The Bible
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(just parts, not in entirety)
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7
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Wuthering Heights
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Emily Bronte
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8
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Nineteen Eighty Four (1984)
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George Orwell
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9
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His Dark Materials
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Philip Pullman
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10
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Great Expectations
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Charles Dickens
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11
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Little Women
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Louisa M Alcott
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12
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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Thomas Hardy
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13
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Catch 22
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Joseph Heller
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14
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Complete Works of Shakespeare
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(some titles, not all)
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15
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Rebecca
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Daphne Du Maurier
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16
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The Hobbit
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JRR Tolkien
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17
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Birdsong
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Sebastian Faulks
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18
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Catcher in the Rye
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JD Salinger
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19
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The Time Traveller's Wife
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Audrey Niffenegger
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20
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Middlemarch
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George Eliot
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21
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Gone With The Wind
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Margaret Mitchell
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22
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The Great Gatsby
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F Scott Fitzgerald
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23
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Bleak House
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Charles Dickens
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24
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War and Peace
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Leo Tolstoy
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25
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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Douglas Adams
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26
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Brideshead Revisited
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Evelyn Waugh
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27
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Crime and Punishment
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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28
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Grapes of Wrath
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John Steinbeck
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29
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Alice in Wonderland
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Lewis Carroll
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30
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The Wind in the Willows
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Kenneth Grahame
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31
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Anna Karenina
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Leo Tolstoy
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32
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David Copperfield
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Charles Dickens
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33
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Chronicles of Narnia
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CS Lewis
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34
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Emma
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Jane Austen
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35
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Persuasion
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Jane Austen
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36
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Rainbow Six
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Tom Clancy
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37
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini
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38
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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Louis De Bernieres
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39
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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Arthur Golden
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40
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Winnie the Pooh
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AA Milne
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41
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Animal Farm
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George Orwell
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42
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The Da Vinci Code
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Dan Brown
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43
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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44
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
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John Irving
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45
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The Woman in White
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Wilkie Collins
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46
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Anne of Green Gables
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LM Montgomery
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47
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Far From The Madding Crowd
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Thomas Hardy
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48
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The Handmaid's Tale
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Margaret Atwood
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49
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Lord of the Flies
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William Golding
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50
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Atonement
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Ian McEwan
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51
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Life of Pi
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Yann Martel
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52
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Dune
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Frank Herbert
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53
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Cold Comfort Farm
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Stella Gibbons
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54
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Sense and Sensibility
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Jane Austen
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55
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A Suitable Boy
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Vikram Seth
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56
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The Shadow of the Wind
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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57
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A Tale Of Two Cities
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Charles Dickens
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58
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Brave New World
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Aldous Huxley
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59
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
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Mark Haddon
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60
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Love In The Time Of Cholera
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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61
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Of Mice and Men
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John Steinbeck
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62
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Lolita
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Vladimir Nabokov
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63
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The Secret History
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Donna Tartt
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64
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The Lovely Bones
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Alice Sebold
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65
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Count of Monte Cristo
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Alexandre Dumas
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66
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On The Road
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Jack Kerouac
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67
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Jude the Obscure
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Thomas Hardy
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68
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Bridget Jones's Diary
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Helen Fielding
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69
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Midnight's Children
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Salman Rushdie
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70
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Moby Dick
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Herman Melville
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71
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Oliver Twist
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Charles Dickens
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72
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Dracula
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Bram Stoker
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73
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The Secret Garden
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
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74
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Notes From A Small Island
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Bill Bryson
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75
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Ulysses
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James Joyce
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76
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The Bell Jar
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Sylvia Plath
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77
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Swallows and Amazons
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Arthur Ransome
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78
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Germinal
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Emile Zola
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79
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Vanity Fair
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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80
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Possession
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AS Byatt
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81
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A Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens
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82
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Cloud Atlas
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David Mitchell
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83
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The Color Purple
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Alice Walker
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84
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The Remains of the Day
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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85
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Madame Bovary
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Gustave Flaubert
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86
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A Fine Balance
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Rohinton Mistry
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87
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Charlotte's Web
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EB White
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88
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The Five People You Meet In Heaven
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Mitch Alborn
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89
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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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90
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The Faraway Tree Collection
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Enid Blyton
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91
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Heart of Darkness
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Joseph Conrad
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92
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The Little Prince
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Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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93
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The Wasp Factory
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Iain Banks
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94
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Watership Down
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Richard Adams
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95
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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John Kennedy Toole
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96
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A Town Like Alice
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Nevil Shute
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97
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The Three Musketeers
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Alexandre Dumas
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98
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The Host
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Stephenie Meyer
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99
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Roald Dahl
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100
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Les Miserables
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Victor Hugo
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