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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
30,412 members, 415 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: Ruby_Ann_Wright (2), ahef1963 (6)

Score: 5.92

3
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
21,027 members, 264 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: Ruby_Ann_Wright (3), ahef1963 (17)

Score: 5.01

4
The Selfish Giant
by Oscar Wilde
715 members, 17 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: Ruby_Ann_Wright (4), ahef1963 (38)

Score: 4.44

5
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
19,402 members, 856 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: Ruby_Ann_Wright (5), ahef1963 (49)

Score: 4.19

6
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
by H. P. Lovecraft
578 members, 5 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: Ruby_Ann_Wright (6), ahef1963 (55)

Score: 4.03

7
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
63,801 members, 1,206 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1)

Score: 4

8
Testament of Youth
by Vera Brittain
1,840 members, 48 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2)

Score: 3.36

9
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
0 members, 0 reviews

Lists: ahef1963 (3)

Score: 3.04

10
Armadale
by Wilkie Collins
1,087 members, 29 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

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Score: 2.83

11
Notes from a Small Island
by Bill Bryson
8,830 members, 191 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5)

Score: 2.68

12
An Autobiography
by Agatha Christie
1,536 members, 36 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7)

Score: 2.46

13
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
9,733 members, 248 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8)

Score: 2.38

14
The Conservationist
by Nadine Gordimer
683 members, 20 reviews
3.22 stars (3.22 stars)

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Score: 2.31

15
Microserfs
by Douglas Coupland
4,649 members, 58 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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Score: 2.25

16
To Serve Them All My Days
by R. F. Delderfield
779 members, 16 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

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Score: 2.2

17
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
by Fannie Flagg
7,587 members, 160 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

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Score: 2.11

18
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
13,677 members, 406 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

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Score: 2.07

19
The Shadow of the Sun
by Ryszard Kapuściński
1,801 members, 46 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (15)

Score: 2.03

20
Goodnight Mister Tom
by Michelle Magorian
2,167 members, 60 reviews
4.3 stars (4.3 stars)

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Score: 2

21
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner
4,825 members, 162 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

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Score: 1.94

22
Riders in the Chariot
by Patrick White
588 members, 14 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19)

Score: 1.92

23
Gerald Durrell: The Authorized Biography
by Douglas Botting
121 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
4,384 members, 131 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

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Score: 1.87

25
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
by Donald C. Johanson
948 members, 7 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

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Score: 1.85

26
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
12,591 members, 248 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
3,864 members, 48 reviews
4.37 stars (4.37 stars)

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Score: 1.81

28
The Way the Crow Flies
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
2,073 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
1,103 members, 19 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

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Score: 1.77

30
Long Walk to Freedom
by Nelson Mandela
3,884 members, 54 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

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Score: 1.76

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

Lists: ahef1963 (28)

Score: 1.74

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

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Score: 1.72

33
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
10,878 members, 229 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (30)

Score: 1.71

34
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
34,841 members, 1,008 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (31)

Score: 1.7

35
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
15,818 members, 340 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (32)

Score: 1.68

36
State of Wonder
by Ann Patchett
5,351 members, 357 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (33)

Score: 1.67

37
I Am the Messenger
by Markus Zusak
5,646 members, 315 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (34)

Score: 1.66

38
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
8,052 members, 169 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (35)

Score: 1.65

39
A Complicated Kindness
by Miriam Toews
2,063 members, 64 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (36)

Score: 1.63

40
Too Late the Phalarope
by Alan Paton
601 members, 12 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (37)

Score: 1.62

41
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
8,124 members, 154 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (39)

Score: 1.6

42
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
18,549 members, 183 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (40)

Score: 1.59

43
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
17,647 members, 224 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (41)

Score: 1.58

44
The Guide: A Novel
by R. K. Narayan
815 members, 6 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (42)

Score: 1.57

45
The Nun's Story
by Kathryn Hulme
444 members, 9 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (43)

Score: 1.56

46
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
30,190 members, 318 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (44)

Score: 1.55

47
I, Robot
by Isaac Asimov
12,596 members, 226 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (45)

Score: 1.54

48
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
46,104 members, 648 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (46)

Score: 1.54

49
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
27,729 members, 247 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (47)

Score: 1.53

50
The Sea, the Sea
by Iris Murdoch
3,031 members, 84 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (48)

Score: 1.52

51
Tales of the South Pacific
by James A. Michener
1,525 members, 26 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (50)

Score: 1.5

52
Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne
11,691 members, 184 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (51)

Score: 1.5

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

Lists: ahef1963 (52)

Score: 1.49

54
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
36,364 members, 1,205 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (53)

Score: 1.48

55
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
by Mordecai Richler
1,224 members, 15 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (54)

Score: 1.48

56
Christy
by Catherine Marshall
3,021 members, 33 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (56)

Score: 1.46

57
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
by Terry Pratchett
29,027 members, 686 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

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Score: 1.46

58
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
8,445 members, 89 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (58)

Score: 1.45

59
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
32,113 members, 446 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (59)

Score: 1.44

60
A Woman of Independent Means
by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
585 members, 10 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (60)

Score: 1.44

61
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
5,859 members, 95 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (61)

Score: 1.43

62
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
11,103 members, 179 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (62)

Score: 1.43

63
Different Seasons
by Stephen King
7,653 members, 114 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Score: 1.42

64
Gaudy Night
by Dorothy L. Sayers
4,739 members, 129 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (64)

Score: 1.41

65
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
32,886 members, 582 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (65)

Score: 1.41

66
Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
8,728 members, 102 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (66)

Score: 1.4

67
Endless Night
by Agatha Christie
2,322 members, 54 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

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Score: 1.4

68
The Singing Sands
by Josephine Tey
1,232 members, 36 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
87,936 members, 855 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (69)

Score: 1.39

71
The Dark Is Rising
by Susan Cooper
7,249 members, 200 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (71)

Score: 1.38

72
His Dark Materials
by Philip Pullman
12,600 members, 192 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (72)

Score: 1.37

73
The Chronicles of Narnia
by C. S. Lewis
29,527 members, 274 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (73)

Score: 1.37

74
Neverwhere
by Neil Gaiman
22,315 members, 521 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (74)

Score: 1.36

75
Reaper Man
by Terry Pratchett
10,061 members, 122 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (75)

Score: 1.36

76
The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
19,471 members, 726 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (76)

Score: 1.36

77
Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis
6,959 members, 328 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (77)

Score: 1.35

78
In a Sunburned Country
by Bill Bryson
8,168 members, 214 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
42 members, 1 review
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (79)

Score: 1.34

80
The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
15,381 members, 369 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (80)

Score: 1.34

81
The Complete McAuslan
by George MacDonald Fraser
189 members, 5 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (81)

Score: 1.33

82
All Creatures Great and Small
by James Herriot
6,333 members, 110 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (82)

Score: 1.33

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

Lists: ahef1963 (83)

Score: 1.33

84
November (Vintage)
by David Mamet
54 members, 4 reviews
3.45 stars (3.45 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (84)

Score: 1.32

86
The Solid Mandala
by Patrick White
314 members, 6 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (86)

Score: 1.31

87
Proof
by Dick Francis
1,364 members, 25 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (87)

Score: 1.31

88
Paddle to the Amazon: The Ultimate 12,000 Mile Canoe Adventure
by Don Starkell
168 members, 4 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (88)

Score: 1.31

89
The Moon and Sixpence
by W. Somerset Maugham
2,991 members, 56 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (89)

Score: 1.3

90
A Boy of Good Breeding
by Miriam Toews
271 members, 8 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (90)

Score: 1.3

91
Baltasar and Blimunda
by José Saramago
2,053 members, 44 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (91)

Score: 1.3

92
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
30,595 members, 399 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (92)

Score: 1.29

93
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
12,743 members, 118 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
12,167 members, 293 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (94)

Score: 1.29

95
The Book of Negroes
by Lawrence Hill
3,200 members, 168 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (95)

Score: 1.28

96
The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
18,618 members, 1,170 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (96)

Score: 1.28

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