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The Book List
Over the last few months I put together a list of my friends and family favourite books. It's a great list......
The books are listed in order of popularity – there were 2 joint ‘winners’. Any which was the choice of only one person are ordered alphabetically. Also given is the original language it was written in and the publication date. So – I did a little math and the statistics are pretty interesting. I will let you read on below but all that is left is to say is that I hope the list provides some inspiration.
63 people voted
270 different books were named
61 were chosen by more than one person (22.5%)
Nobody had a totally unique list
Only one person had a totally ‘un-unique’ list (but it is a great choice of books and lots of people obviously agree!)
Languages:
84 % of the books were written in English
Joint 2nd French and surprisingly German
3rd Spanish
4th Russian
5th Greek
6th Italian
7th Czech
Joint 8th Portuguese, Norwegian and Turkish
Publication Dates:
1st - 66 % published in the 20th Century
2nd - 18 % in the 21st Century
3rd - 10.1 % in the 19th Century
Joint 4th Written B.C and the 17th Century
5th 18th Century
6th 1st Century
Books published in the 1900’s also throw up some interesting results:
1900s:
1st - 17% were published in the 1950s
2nd - 16% 1990s
3rd - 14% 1980s
4th - 1970s
Joint 5th 1960s and 1940s
6th 1920s
7th 1930s
8th 1900s
9th 1910s (only 2 books)
Finally the most popular writers:
Graham Greene: 5 Books
Evelyn Waugh: 4 books
Salman Rushdi: 3 Books
Gabriel García Márquez: 3 Books
Jane Austen: 3 Books
George Macdonald Fraser: 3 books
William Shakespeare: 3 Books
John Steinbeck: 3 books
Stephen King: 3 Books
Roald Dahl: 3 books
THE LIST
Midnights Children – Salman Rushdi (8)
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh (8)
Lord of the Rings – J.R. Tolkien (7)
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (6)
The Alchemist – Paulo Choelo (6)
The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (6)
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez (5)
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald (5)
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (4)
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee (4)
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (4)
His Dark Materials Trilogy – Philip Pullman (4)
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (3)
Wild Swans - Jung Chang (3)
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks (3)
Other Men’s Flowers – A. P. Wavell (anthology) (3)
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene (3)
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (3)
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry (2)
Long walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela (2)
Atonement - Ian McEwan (2)
Cry the Beloved Country – Alan Paton (2)
Flashman in the Great Game – George Macdonald Fraser (2)
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis (2)
Macbeth – William Shakespeare (2)
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (2)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (2)
The Art of Happiness - Howard Cutler conversations with Dali Lama (2)
The BFG - Roald Dahl (2)
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (2)
The Faraway Tree Series- Enid Blyton (2)
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (2)
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James (2)
An Equal Music - Vikram Seth (2)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (2)
Iliad - Homer (2)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (2)
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver (2)
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (2)
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith (2)
Perfume - Patrick Suskind (2)
The Master and Margarita – Mikail Bulgakov (2)
1984 - George Orwell (2)
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (2)
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell (2)
Kim - Rudyard Kipling (2)
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (2)
On the Road – Jack Kerouac (2)
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier (2)
The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh (2)
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (2)
The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe – CS Lewis (2)
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (2)
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (2)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (2)
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway (2)
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (2)
Troublesome Offspring of Cardin Guzman/The War of Don - Emmanuel's Nether Parts/Senor - Vivo and the Coca Lord - Louis de Bernieres 2)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera (2)
East of Eden - John Steinbeck (2)
Rabbit series (Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit at Rest) - John Updike (2)
1,000 places to see before you die
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
A Cure for Serpents - The Duke of Pirajno
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
A Pony For Sale - Diana Pullein Thompson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
A Room with a View – E. M. Forster
A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
A Soldier of the Great War - Mark Helprin
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
A Time of Gifts - Patrick Leigh Fermor
Ake - Wole Soyinka
Alcoholics Anonymous - Bill Wilson
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erch Maria Remarque
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
Antony and Cleopatra – William Shakespeare
Arabian Sands - Wilfred Thesinger
Arthur and George - Julian Barnes
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
Banker to the Poor - Muhammad Yunus
Beloved one - Evelyn Waugh
Blandings Castle – (Empress of Blandings) - PG Wodehouse
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Bread for the Journey - Henri Nouwen
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
Candide - Voltaire
Cannery Row - Jon Steinbeck
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Christ stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi
Collection of short stories - W. Somerset Maugham
Complete Works - George Herbert
Complete works - Lord Byron
Complete Works – W.B.Yeats
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Dubrovsky - Alexander Pushkin.
Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert.
Emma - Jane Austen
Engleby - Sebastian Faulks
Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Experience - Martin Amis
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
Fantastic Mr Fox - Roald Dahl
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates - Tom Robbins
Flashman and the Dragon - George MacDonald Fraser
Flight of the Heron – DK Broster
Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Frenchman’s Creek – Daphne de Maurier
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
Gospel of John
Guess How Much I Love You - Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Haroun and the Sea of Stories – Salman Rushdie
Harry Potter Series – J.K. Rowling
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Here be Dragons – Sharon Penman
High Society - Ben Elton
His Illegal Self - Peter Carey
House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
How Soccer Explains the World - Franklin Foer
If This is a Man - Primo Levi
Imperium – Robert Harris
In Patagonia - Bruce Chatwin
In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick
Intimacy - Osho
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
It - Stephen King
Jaws - Peter Benchley
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke
Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
Just William - Richard Cropmton
Katherine - Anya Seton
Lake Wo begon - Garrison Keillor
Law, Love and Language - Herbert McCabe
Leave it to Psmith - P. G.Wodehouse
Letters to a young poet - Rainer Maria Rilke.
Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
Love is My Meaning - Elizabeth Basset
Mediterranean food - Elizabeth David
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
Morning - Julian Fane
Mountains of the Mind - Robert Macfarlane
Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
My Antonia - Willa Cather
Nine Coaches Waiting - Mary Stewart
Noggin the Nog - Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin
Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
Of Love and other Demons - Gabriel García Márquez
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - T. S. Eliot
Omnivores Dilemma - Michael Pollan
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
Opened Ground - Seamus Heaney
Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene
Parades End - Ford Madox Ford
Patrick Melrose Trilogy (Bad News, Never Mind & Some Hope), Edward St Aubyn
Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
Pompeii - Robert Harris
Possession - A.S. Byatt.
Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
Psmith in the City – P.G.Wodehouse
Q and A - Vikas Swarup
Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
Riders - Jilly Cooper
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption - Stephen King
Santa Clause in Summer - Compton Mackenzie
Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Secret History - Donna Tart
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
Shadow of the Moon - M M Kaye
Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Shame - Salman Rushdie
Shogun - James Clavell
Siddartha - Hermann Hesse
Silk - Alessandro Baricco
Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Snow - Orhan Pamuk
Something Understood - Mark Tully
Sophie’s World - Jostein Gaarder
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A Heinlein
Struwwel-Peter - Heinrich Hoffmann
Sunset Song – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The Adventure Series by Enid Blyton
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
The Bell – Iris Murdoch
The Blood of flowers - Anita Amirrezvani
The Body Artist - Don De Lillo
The book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
The Brothers Karamozov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Cazalet Chronicles - Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Crucible – Arthur Miller
The Emperor Series by - Con Iggulden
The Enchanted Places - Christopher Milne
The Fall - Albert Camus
The Far Pavilions – M. M Kaye
The General Danced at Dawn - George Macdonald Fraser
The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Grand Sophy - Georgette Heyer
The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
The Gunslinger - Stephen King
The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
The Hobbit - J.R. Tolkein
The Horse and his Boy – C.S. Lewis
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
The Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Little White Horse - Elizabeth Goudge
The Magus- John Fowles
The Mitford Girls - Mary Lovell
The Odyssey - Homer
The Old Man and The Sea - Hemingway
The Other Boleyn Girl - Phillipa Gregory
The Outsider - - Albert Camus
The Outsiders – S.E Hinton
The Oxford Book of English Verse
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
The Queen & I – Sue Townsend
The Rings of Saturn – W.G Sebald
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
The Sheep Pig - Dick King Smith
The Siberian Princes - Christine Sutherland
The Sound of Laughter - Peter Kaye
The Spy who came in from the Cold - John le Carre
The thirteen & a half lives of Captain Bluebear – Walter Moers
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Tiger who came to Tea - Judith Kerr
The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennet
The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare
The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar, and other stories – Roald Dahl
The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
These Old Shades – Georgette Heyer
Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
Travels with my Aunt – Graham Greene
Twilight of the Idols - Friedrich Nietzsche
Ulysses – James Joyce
Vanity Fair - William Thackeray
Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
When we were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
Winter in Madrid - C. J. Sansom
Witches Abroad – Terry Pratchett
Woman in Black - Susan Hill
World's Fair - E.L. Doctorow
Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
See More
The books are listed in order of popularity – there were 2 joint ‘winners’. Any which was the choice of only one person are ordered alphabetically. Also given is the original language it was written in and the publication date. So – I did a little math and the statistics are pretty interesting. I will let you read on below but all that is left is to say is that I hope the list provides some inspiration.
63 people voted
270 different books were named
61 were chosen by more than one person (22.5%)
Nobody had a totally unique list
Only one person had a totally ‘un-unique’ list (but it is a great choice of books and lots of people obviously agree!)
Languages:
84 % of the books were written in English
Joint 2nd French and surprisingly German
3rd Spanish
4th Russian
5th Greek
6th Italian
7th Czech
Joint 8th Portuguese, Norwegian and Turkish
Publication Dates:
1st - 66 % published in the 20th Century
2nd - 18 % in the 21st Century
3rd - 10.1 % in the 19th Century
Joint 4th Written B.C and the 17th Century
5th 18th Century
6th 1st Century
Books published in the 1900’s also throw up some interesting results:
1900s:
1st - 17% were published in the 1950s
2nd - 16% 1990s
3rd - 14% 1980s
4th - 1970s
Joint 5th 1960s and 1940s
6th 1920s
7th 1930s
8th 1900s
9th 1910s (only 2 books)
Finally the most popular writers:
Graham Greene: 5 Books
Evelyn Waugh: 4 books
Salman Rushdi: 3 Books
Gabriel García Márquez: 3 Books
Jane Austen: 3 Books
George Macdonald Fraser: 3 books
William Shakespeare: 3 Books
John Steinbeck: 3 books
Stephen King: 3 Books
Roald Dahl: 3 books
THE LIST
Midnights Children – Salman Rushdi (8)
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh (8)
Lord of the Rings – J.R. Tolkien (7)
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (6)
The Alchemist – Paulo Choelo (6)
The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (6)
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez (5)
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald (5)
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (4)
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee (4)
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (4)
His Dark Materials Trilogy – Philip Pullman (4)
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (3)
Wild Swans - Jung Chang (3)
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks (3)
Other Men’s Flowers – A. P. Wavell (anthology) (3)
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene (3)
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (3)
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry (2)
Long walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela (2)
Atonement - Ian McEwan (2)
Cry the Beloved Country – Alan Paton (2)
Flashman in the Great Game – George Macdonald Fraser (2)
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis (2)
Macbeth – William Shakespeare (2)
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (2)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (2)
The Art of Happiness - Howard Cutler conversations with Dali Lama (2)
The BFG - Roald Dahl (2)
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (2)
The Faraway Tree Series- Enid Blyton (2)
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (2)
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James (2)
An Equal Music - Vikram Seth (2)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (2)
Iliad - Homer (2)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (2)
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver (2)
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (2)
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith (2)
Perfume - Patrick Suskind (2)
The Master and Margarita – Mikail Bulgakov (2)
1984 - George Orwell (2)
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (2)
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell (2)
Kim - Rudyard Kipling (2)
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (2)
On the Road – Jack Kerouac (2)
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier (2)
The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh (2)
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (2)
The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe – CS Lewis (2)
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (2)
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (2)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (2)
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway (2)
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (2)
Troublesome Offspring of Cardin Guzman/The War of Don - Emmanuel's Nether Parts/Senor - Vivo and the Coca Lord - Louis de Bernieres 2)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera (2)
East of Eden - John Steinbeck (2)
Rabbit series (Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit at Rest) - John Updike (2)
1,000 places to see before you die
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
A Cure for Serpents - The Duke of Pirajno
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
A Pony For Sale - Diana Pullein Thompson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
A Room with a View – E. M. Forster
A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
A Soldier of the Great War - Mark Helprin
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
A Time of Gifts - Patrick Leigh Fermor
Ake - Wole Soyinka
Alcoholics Anonymous - Bill Wilson
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erch Maria Remarque
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
Antony and Cleopatra – William Shakespeare
Arabian Sands - Wilfred Thesinger
Arthur and George - Julian Barnes
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
Banker to the Poor - Muhammad Yunus
Beloved one - Evelyn Waugh
Blandings Castle – (Empress of Blandings) - PG Wodehouse
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Bread for the Journey - Henri Nouwen
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
Candide - Voltaire
Cannery Row - Jon Steinbeck
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Christ stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi
Collection of short stories - W. Somerset Maugham
Complete Works - George Herbert
Complete works - Lord Byron
Complete Works – W.B.Yeats
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Dubrovsky - Alexander Pushkin.
Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert.
Emma - Jane Austen
Engleby - Sebastian Faulks
Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Experience - Martin Amis
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
Fantastic Mr Fox - Roald Dahl
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates - Tom Robbins
Flashman and the Dragon - George MacDonald Fraser
Flight of the Heron – DK Broster
Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Frenchman’s Creek – Daphne de Maurier
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
Gospel of John
Guess How Much I Love You - Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Haroun and the Sea of Stories – Salman Rushdie
Harry Potter Series – J.K. Rowling
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Here be Dragons – Sharon Penman
High Society - Ben Elton
His Illegal Self - Peter Carey
House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
How Soccer Explains the World - Franklin Foer
If This is a Man - Primo Levi
Imperium – Robert Harris
In Patagonia - Bruce Chatwin
In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick
Intimacy - Osho
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
It - Stephen King
Jaws - Peter Benchley
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke
Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
Just William - Richard Cropmton
Katherine - Anya Seton
Lake Wo begon - Garrison Keillor
Law, Love and Language - Herbert McCabe
Leave it to Psmith - P. G.Wodehouse
Letters to a young poet - Rainer Maria Rilke.
Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
Love is My Meaning - Elizabeth Basset
Mediterranean food - Elizabeth David
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
Morning - Julian Fane
Mountains of the Mind - Robert Macfarlane
Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
My Antonia - Willa Cather
Nine Coaches Waiting - Mary Stewart
Noggin the Nog - Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin
Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
Of Love and other Demons - Gabriel García Márquez
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - T. S. Eliot
Omnivores Dilemma - Michael Pollan
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
Opened Ground - Seamus Heaney
Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene
Parades End - Ford Madox Ford
Patrick Melrose Trilogy (Bad News, Never Mind & Some Hope), Edward St Aubyn
Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
Pompeii - Robert Harris
Possession - A.S. Byatt.
Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
Psmith in the City – P.G.Wodehouse
Q and A - Vikas Swarup
Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
Riders - Jilly Cooper
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption - Stephen King
Santa Clause in Summer - Compton Mackenzie
Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Secret History - Donna Tart
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
Shadow of the Moon - M M Kaye
Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Shame - Salman Rushdie
Shogun - James Clavell
Siddartha - Hermann Hesse
Silk - Alessandro Baricco
Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Snow - Orhan Pamuk
Something Understood - Mark Tully
Sophie’s World - Jostein Gaarder
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A Heinlein
Struwwel-Peter - Heinrich Hoffmann
Sunset Song – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The Adventure Series by Enid Blyton
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
The Bell – Iris Murdoch
The Blood of flowers - Anita Amirrezvani
The Body Artist - Don De Lillo
The book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
The Brothers Karamozov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Cazalet Chronicles - Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Crucible – Arthur Miller
The Emperor Series by - Con Iggulden
The Enchanted Places - Christopher Milne
The Fall - Albert Camus
The Far Pavilions – M. M Kaye
The General Danced at Dawn - George Macdonald Fraser
The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Grand Sophy - Georgette Heyer
The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
The Gunslinger - Stephen King
The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
The Hobbit - J.R. Tolkein
The Horse and his Boy – C.S. Lewis
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
The Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Little White Horse - Elizabeth Goudge
The Magus- John Fowles
The Mitford Girls - Mary Lovell
The Odyssey - Homer
The Old Man and The Sea - Hemingway
The Other Boleyn Girl - Phillipa Gregory
The Outsider - - Albert Camus
The Outsiders – S.E Hinton
The Oxford Book of English Verse
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
The Queen & I – Sue Townsend
The Rings of Saturn – W.G Sebald
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
The Sheep Pig - Dick King Smith
The Siberian Princes - Christine Sutherland
The Sound of Laughter - Peter Kaye
The Spy who came in from the Cold - John le Carre
The thirteen & a half lives of Captain Bluebear – Walter Moers
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Tiger who came to Tea - Judith Kerr
The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennet
The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare
The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar, and other stories – Roald Dahl
The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
These Old Shades – Georgette Heyer
Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
Travels with my Aunt – Graham Greene
Twilight of the Idols - Friedrich Nietzsche
Ulysses – James Joyce
Vanity Fair - William Thackeray
Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
When we were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
Winter in Madrid - C. J. Sansom
Witches Abroad – Terry Pratchett
Woman in Black - Susan Hill
World's Fair - E.L. Doctorow
Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
See More
Friday, May 8, 2009
The First Post
As this is the first post let me say this – I will try to avoid at all costs being a crashing bore and getting too close to being a would be writer/thinker/photographer – I am none of these and there are far far better ‘bloggers’ than I.
If I fall for the various egotistical temptations associated with having your own web page – please forgive me (although I realise the title of my blog already places me in a slightly precarious position in this respect...) See More
If I fall for the various egotistical temptations associated with having your own web page – please forgive me (although I realise the title of my blog already places me in a slightly precarious position in this respect...) See More
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