Your Love Affair With Books...
After a long day of tasks completed and ticked off or on the way or abandoned, how great is it to curl up in bed - with a good book, allowing yourself to be swept off your feet by the story, characters and scenes? Your cares being massaged away as your fingers turn the pages? How many stories have you laughed at and cried over been moved and inspired by? Yes books are sexy!
100 Novels Everyone Should Read
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Modern Classics |
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Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas The Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens Great Expectations, Charles Dickens Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray Moby-Dick Herman Melville Sybil Benjamin Disraeli Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence The Portrait of a Lady Henry James Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes Tom Jones Henry Fielding Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust The War of the Worlds by HG Wells Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne |
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho Beloved, Toni Morrison The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell Catch-22, Joseph Heller A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute Scoop, Evelyn Waugh His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera |
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Children’s classics |
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Black Beauty, Anna Sewell The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens Little Women, Louisa May Alcott The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame |
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Modern Classics |
Chlidren’s Modern Classics |
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A Passage to India E. M. Forster The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien Lord Of The Flies, William Golding Animal Farm, George Orwell The Trial, Franz Kafka Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck The Road Less Famished, Ben Okri A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth Ulysses, James Joyce Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez The Tin Drum Gunter Grass Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe The Periodic Table Primo Levi The Quiet American Graham Greene Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy. The Life of Pi, yann martel The Outsider, albert camus Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres Dune, Frank Herbert Brave New World, Aldous Huxley Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde |
Charlotte's Web E. B. White The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson The Twits, Roald Dahl Matilda, Roald Dahl The BFG, Roald Dahl Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee Iron Man, Ted Hughes Watership Down, Richard Adams A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak Madeline, Ludwig Bemelmans The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Bill’s New Frock, Anne Fine Horton Hatches the Egg, Dr Seuss |
Some books are recommended from 2003 BBC survey called the Big Read which aimed to find Britain's favourite book.
Some books are recommended from the classic must read lists of The Telegraph, Observer, Times and New York Times
