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Type: Preset list created by ahef1963

Description: Just a list of my favourites, please feel free to tell me what you think of the books that are close to my heart.

Members: 2 participating members (show all)

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2
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
31,940 members, 452 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: Ruby_Ann_Wright (2), ahef1963 (6)

Score: 5.92

3
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
21,958 members, 274 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: Ruby_Ann_Wright (3), ahef1963 (17)

Score: 5.01

4
The Selfish Giant
by Oscar Wilde
769 members, 17 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: Ruby_Ann_Wright (4), ahef1963 (38)

Score: 4.44

5
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
20,501 members, 888 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: Ruby_Ann_Wright (5), ahef1963 (49)

Score: 4.19

6
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
by H. P. Lovecraft
638 members, 5 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: Ruby_Ann_Wright (6), ahef1963 (55)

Score: 4.03

7
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
71,010 members, 1,254 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

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Score: 4

8
Testament of Youth
by Vera Brittain
1,939 members, 50 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

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Score: 3.36

9
Jane Eyre [unidentified version]
by Charlotte Brontë
164 members, 5 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Score: 3.04

10
Armadale
by Wilkie Collins
1,140 members, 30 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

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Score: 2.83

11
Notes from a Small Island
by Bill Bryson
9,146 members, 202 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

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Score: 2.68

12
An Autobiography
by Agatha Christie
1,654 members, 36 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7)

Score: 2.46

13
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
10,070 members, 254 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

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Score: 2.38

14
The Conservationist
by Nadine Gordimer
726 members, 22 reviews
3.21 stars (3.21 stars)

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Score: 2.31

15
Microserfs
by Douglas Coupland
4,724 members, 61 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

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Score: 2.25

16
To Serve Them All My Days
by R. F. Delderfield
816 members, 19 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

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Score: 2.2

17
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
by Fannie Flagg
8,151 members, 169 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

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Score: 2.11

18
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
14,531 members, 427 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

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Score: 2.07

19
The Shadow of the Sun
by Ryszard Kapuściński
1,896 members, 46 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

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Score: 2.03

20
Goodnight Mister Tom
by Michelle Magorian
2,303 members, 62 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

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Score: 2

21
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner
5,063 members, 166 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

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Score: 1.94

22
Riders in the Chariot
by Patrick White
615 members, 15 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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Score: 1.92

23
Gerald Durrell: The Authorized Biography
by Douglas Botting
126 members, 2 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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Score: 1.89

24
My Family and Other Animals
by Gerald Durrell
4,674 members, 141 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

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Score: 1.87

25
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
by Donald C. Johanson
983 members, 7 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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Score: 1.85

26
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
13,537 members, 262 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

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Score: 1.83

27
The Complete Little House Nine-Book Set
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
4,056 members, 50 reviews
4.37 stars (4.37 stars)

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Score: 1.81

28
The Way the Crow Flies
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
2,119 members, 58 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

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Score: 1.79

29
Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
by Ewan McGregor
1,130 members, 19 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

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Score: 1.77

30
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
by Nelson Mandela
4,206 members, 58 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

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Score: 1.76

31
My Traitor's Heart
by Rian Malan
614 members, 11 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

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Score: 1.74

32
South Sea Stories
by W. Somerset Maugham
47 members, 2 reviews
5 stars (5 stars)

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Score: 1.72

33
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
11,386 members, 240 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

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Score: 1.71

34
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
37,003 members, 1,060 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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Score: 1.7

35
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
16,563 members, 349 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (32)

Score: 1.68

36
State of Wonder
by Ann Patchett
5,685 members, 368 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (33)

Score: 1.67

37
I Am the Messenger
by Markus Zusak
5,961 members, 320 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (34)

Score: 1.66

38
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
8,337 members, 175 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (35)

Score: 1.65

39
A Complicated Kindness
by Miriam Toews
2,129 members, 64 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (36)

Score: 1.63

40
Too Late the Phalarope
by Alan Paton
622 members, 12 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (37)

Score: 1.62

41
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
8,464 members, 168 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

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Score: 1.6

42
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
19,376 members, 190 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (40)

Score: 1.59

43
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
18,631 members, 230 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (41)

Score: 1.58

44
The Guide
by R. K. Narayan
868 members, 7 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (42)

Score: 1.57

45
The Nun's Story
by Kathryn Hulme
462 members, 9 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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Score: 1.56

46
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
32,450 members, 345 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (44)

Score: 1.55

47
I, Robot
by Isaac Asimov
13,375 members, 245 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (45)

Score: 1.54

48
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
48,475 members, 693 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Score: 1.54

49
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
29,232 members, 265 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (47)

Score: 1.53

50
The Sea, the Sea
by Iris Murdoch
3,205 members, 87 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (48)

Score: 1.52

51
Tales of the South Pacific
by James A. Michener
1,640 members, 31 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (50)

Score: 1.5

52
Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne
12,584 members, 198 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

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Score: 1.5

53
As For Me and My House
by Sinclair Ross
397 members, 10 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (52)

Score: 1.49

54
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
37,242 members, 1,228 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (53)

Score: 1.48

55
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
by Mordecai Richler
1,265 members, 16 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (54)

Score: 1.48

56
Christy
by Catherine Marshall
3,203 members, 37 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (56)

Score: 1.46

57
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
by Terry Pratchett
30,645 members, 724 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

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Score: 1.46

58
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
8,744 members, 89 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (58)

Score: 1.45

59
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
33,849 members, 476 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (59)

Score: 1.44

60
A Woman of Independent Means
by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
603 members, 13 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (60)

Score: 1.44

61
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
6,090 members, 98 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (61)

Score: 1.43

62
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
11,727 members, 181 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (62)

Score: 1.43

63
Different Seasons
by Stephen King
7,985 members, 115 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Score: 1.42

64
Gaudy Night
by Dorothy L. Sayers
5,005 members, 134 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (64)

Score: 1.41

65
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
34,623 members, 607 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (65)

Score: 1.41

66
Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
9,387 members, 109 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

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Score: 1.4

67
Endless Night
by Agatha Christie
2,519 members, 62 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

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Score: 1.4

68
The Singing Sands
by Josephine Tey
1,310 members, 45 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (68)

Score: 1.39

69
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
by J. K. Rowling
91,462 members, 883 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (69)

Score: 1.39

71
The Dark Is Rising
by Susan Cooper
7,644 members, 210 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (71)

Score: 1.38

72
His Dark Materials
by Philip Pullman
13,107 members, 195 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

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Score: 1.37

73
The Chronicles of Narnia
by C. S. Lewis
31,627 members, 290 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

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Score: 1.37

74
Neverwhere
by Neil Gaiman
23,058 members, 542 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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Score: 1.36

75
Reaper Man
by Terry Pratchett
10,491 members, 135 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (75)

Score: 1.36

76
The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
20,249 members, 735 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (76)

Score: 1.36

77
Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis
7,315 members, 340 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (77)

Score: 1.35

78
In a Sunburned Country
by Bill Bryson
8,474 members, 222 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (78)

Score: 1.35

79
No Previous Experience: A Memoir of Love and Change
by Elspeth Cameron
44 members, 1 review
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (79)

Score: 1.34

80
The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
15,628 members, 376 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (80)

Score: 1.34

81
The Complete McAuslan
by George MacDonald Fraser
193 members, 5 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (81)

Score: 1.33

82
All Creatures Great and Small
by James Herriot
6,913 members, 119 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (82)

Score: 1.33

83
The Spotted Sphinx
by Joy Adamson
127 members, 1 review
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (83)

Score: 1.33

84
November (Vintage)
by David Mamet
55 members, 5 reviews
3.25 stars (3.25 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (84)

Score: 1.32

86
The Solid Mandala
by Patrick White
324 members, 7 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (86)

Score: 1.31

87
Proof
by Dick Francis
1,416 members, 27 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (87)

Score: 1.31

88
Paddle to the Amazon: The Ultimate 12,000 Mile Canoe Adventure
by Don Starkell
176 members, 4 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (88)

Score: 1.31

89
The Moon and Sixpence
by W. Somerset Maugham
3,123 members, 60 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (89)

Score: 1.3

90
A Boy of Good Breeding
by Miriam Toews
285 members, 9 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (90)

Score: 1.3

91
Baltasar and Blimunda
by José Saramago
2,186 members, 48 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (91)

Score: 1.3

92
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
32,491 members, 420 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (92)

Score: 1.29

93
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
13,436 members, 130 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (93)

Score: 1.29

94
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
12,809 members, 298 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (94)

Score: 1.29

95
The Book of Negroes
by Lawrence Hill
3,319 members, 173 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (95)

Score: 1.28

96
The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
19,682 members, 1,203 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (96)

Score: 1.28

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