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Thursday 15 December 2011

The List Is Growing!

The List was at 51 books last time I posted it - thanks to many more suggestions from visitors to the site - it is now numbering 74 amazing books.  Is your favourite book on the list?  


1.    Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
2.    Jamaica Inn – Daphne Du Maurier
3.    Iliad – Homer
4.    War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
5.    Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
6.    1984 – George Orwell
7.    Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
8.    Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
9.    Lord Of The Flies  - William Golding
10. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
11. Tess of The D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
12. Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
13. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
14. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
15. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
16. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
17. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?  - Philip K. Dick
18. Murders In The Rue Morgue – Edgar Allen Poe
19. Middlemarch – George Elliot
20. The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
21. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
22. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
23. The Time Machine – HG Wells
24. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
25. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
26. Ulysses – James Joyce
27. Paradise Lost – Milton
28. The Pearl – John Steinbeck
29. Twenty thousand Leagues Under The Sea – Jules Verne
30. I Claudius – Robert Graves
31. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
32. East Of Eden - John Steinbeck
33. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
34. Odyssey – Homer
35. Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
36. Diceman - George Cockcroft
37. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Berniéres
39. Persuasion – Jane Austen
40. Animal Farm – George Orwell
41. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
42. Lord Of The Rings – JRR Tolkien
43. Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
44. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
45. Neuromancer – William Gibson
46. A Perfect Spy – John Le Carré
47. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
48. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
49. 100 Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
50. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
51. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
52. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
53. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
54. Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man – James Joyce   
55. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
56. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
57. The Sound and The Fury – William Faulkner
58. Sons and Lovers – DH Lawrence
59. The Wings Of The Dove – Henry James
60. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
61. As I Lay Dying- William Faulkner
62. The French Lieutentant’s Woman – John Fowles
63. Howards End – EM Forster
64. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
65. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
66. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
67. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
68. The Call of the Wild – Jack London
69. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
71. Naked Lunch – William S Burroughs
72. The Magus – John Fowles
73. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
74. A Town Like Alice – Neville Shute