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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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
23,036 members
373 reviews
½ 3.6
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Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
22,306 members
925 reviews
3.8
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David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
20,155 members
262 reviews
4.1
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The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
19,861 members
455 reviews
4.2
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Gulliver's Travels: Lilliput and Brobdingnag
by Jonathan Swift
1,427 members
13 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
27,401 members
1,026 reviews
4.1
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Atonement
by Ian McEwan
25,981 members
614 reviews
3.9
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Sophie's World
by Jostein Gaarder
18,402 members
280 reviews
3.8
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
by Haruki Murakami
9,472 members
196 reviews
4.1
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The Story of Art
by E. H. Gombrich
4,597 members
36 reviews
½ 4.3
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
by Richard P. Feynman
3,774 members
38 reviews
4.1
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Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
by Ben Goldacre
3,146 members
102 reviews
4.1
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
by Ross King
2,536 members
30 reviews
3.9
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The Path to the Spiders' Nests
by Italo Calvino
1,649 members
23 reviews
½ 3.6
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On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way it Does
by Simon Garfield
1,437 members
63 reviews
½ 3.6
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Why We Took the Car
by Wolfgang Herrndorf
926 members
31 reviews
3.9
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Wolf Totem
by Jiang Rong
760 members
27 reviews
3.8
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The Crime of Father Amaro
by José Maria Eça de Queirós
740 members
21 reviews
4
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Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
by Mary Beard
636 members
20 reviews
½ 3.6
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To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite
by Eli Maor
353 members
3 reviews
3.8
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Almost Everyone's Guide to Economics
by John Kenneth Galbraith
189 members
1 review
3.1
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The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects
by Deyan Sudjic
176 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape
by Harm J. De Blij
134 members
5 reviews
3.9
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The Iliad
by Homer
38,686 members
373 reviews
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The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
13,547 members
297 reviews
4
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
11,791 members
645 reviews
3.8
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
8,801 members
130 reviews
3.8
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by Matt Ridley
3,591 members
47 reviews
4.1
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The Affluent Society
by John Kenneth Galbraith
1,678 members
13 reviews
3.8
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The Horse's Mouth
by Joyce Cary
1,181 members
19 reviews
3.9
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Music: A Very Short Introduction
by Nicholas Cook
398 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
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Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing
by David Harel
229 members
2 reviews
3.9
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Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics
by Peter Singer
223 members
3.8
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In Defence of Politics
by Bernard Crick
210 members
4
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The First Crusade: The Call From The East
by Peter Frankopan
166 members
1 review
3.8
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The Sea of Faith
by Don Cupitt
130 members
2 reviews
3.8
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Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World
by Samuel Shimon
91 members
23 reviews
3.2
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The Case for Religion
by Keith Ward
40 members
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