Eton's list - the books every bright 16 year-old should read

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Printed, with an interview with the headmaster, in the Times Magazine - June 2015
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Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
26,846 members
1,014 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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2
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
26,396 members
431 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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3
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
24,121 members
325 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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4
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
23,867 members
514 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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5
On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way it Does
by Simon Garfield
1,655 members
63 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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Gulliver's Travels: Lilliput and Brobdingnag
by Jonathan Swift
1,597 members
14 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
30,982 members
1,107 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Atonement
by Ian McEwan
28,763 members
665 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
by Jostein Gaarder
20,792 members
317 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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10
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (abridged)
by Haruki Murakami
9,298 members
179 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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11
The Story of Art
by Ernst Gombrich
5,484 members
46 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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12
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
by Richard Feynman
4,487 members
45 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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13
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
by Ben Goldacre
3,514 members
114 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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14
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
by Ross King
2,844 members
31 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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15
The Path to the Spiders' Nests
by Italo Calvino
1,935 members
27 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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16
Why We Took the Car
by Wolfgang Herrndorf
1,106 members
33 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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17
The Crime of Father Amaro
by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros
922 members
26 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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18
Wolf Totem
by Jiang Rong
854 members
27 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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19
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
by Mary Beard
794 members
20 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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20
To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite
by Eli Maor
396 members
2 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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21
The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects
by Deyan Sudjic
210 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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22
Almost Everyone's Guide to Economics
by John Kenneth Galbraith
210 members
1 review
½ 3.3
2 Members
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23
The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape
by Harm de Blij
151 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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25
The Iliad
by Homer
47,627 members
447 reviews
4
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26
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
15,826 members
335 reviews
4
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27
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
13,174 members
694 reviews
3.8
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28
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
9,729 members
142 reviews
3.8
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29
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by Matt Ridley
4,021 members
51 reviews
4.1
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30
The Affluent Society
by John Kenneth Galbraith
1,937 members
15 reviews
3.8
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31
The Horse's Mouth
by Joyce Cary
1,334 members
20 reviews
3.9
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32
Music: A Very Short Introduction
by Nicholas Cook
458 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
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33
The First Crusade: The Call From The East
by Peter Frankopan
248 members
2 reviews
3.8
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34
In Defence of Politics
by Bernard Crick
244 members
4
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35
Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing
by David Harel
243 members
2 reviews
3.9
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36
Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics
by Peter Singer
236 members
3.8
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37
The Sea of Faith
by Don Cupitt
157 members
2 reviews
3.8
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38
Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World
by Samuel Shimon
97 members
23 reviews
3.2
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The Case for Religion
by Keith Ward
48 members
3
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