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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.
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ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Ruby_Ann_Wright

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1

by Albert Camus

33,681 members

481 reviews

3.9

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2

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

by Daniel L. Everett

732 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

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3

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

21,575 members

917 reviews

3.8

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4

Pride and Prejudice

75,671 members

1,316 reviews

½ 4.4

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5

The Graveyard Book

20,853 members

1,232 reviews

4.2

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6

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

23,091 members

293 reviews

4.1

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7

Jane Eyre [unidentified version]

by ??

175 members

5 reviews

3.8

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8

The Moon and Sixpence

by W. Somerset Maugham

3,253 members

60 reviews

3.9

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9

The Selfish Giant

121 members

½ 4.7

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10

by Connie Willis

7,638 members

358 reviews

4.1

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11

by Terry Pratchett

11,016 members

145 reviews

4.1

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12

23,929 members

558 reviews

4.1

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13

by Douglas Coupland

4,828 members

61 reviews

3.9

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14

His Dark Materials

by Philip Pullman

13,675 members

201 reviews

½ 4.3

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15

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

8,503 members

179 reviews

4.1

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16

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

15,444 members

452 reviews

4.2

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17

The Dark Is Rising

by Susan Cooper

8,026 members

219 reviews

4.1

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18

The Fionavar Tapestry 1. The Summer Tree 2. The Wandering Fire 3. The Darkest Road

by Guy Gavriel Kay

586 members

6 reviews

4.2

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19

by Robert Louis Stevenson

10,051 members

116 reviews

3.8

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20

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

36,697 members

636 reviews

3.9

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21

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

by E. L. Konigsburg

14,985 members

270 reviews

4.2

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22

by Dorothy L. Sayers

5,208 members

142 reviews

½ 4.3

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23

Different Seasons

by Stephen King

8,463 members

118 reviews

4

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24

Sense and Sensibility

35,983 members

500 reviews

4.1

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25

Journey to the Center of the Earth

13,700 members

212 reviews

½ 3.7

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26

by William Shakespeare

31,069 members

288 reviews

4.2

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27

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

by Terry Pratchett

32,561 members

761 reviews

½ 4.3

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28

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

39,658 members

1,089 reviews

4.1

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29

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

11,980 members

254 reviews

4

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30

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

51,196 members

741 reviews

3.9

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31

by Richard Russo

8,554 members

183 reviews

4

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32

by Isaac Asimov

14,189 members

255 reviews

4

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33

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

20,305 members

201 reviews

½ 3.7

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34

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

34,572 members

356 reviews

½ 3.4

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35

8,816 members

177 reviews

½ 3.6

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36

Testament of Youth

by Vera Brittain

2,045 members

53 reviews

4.1

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37

The Chronicles of Narnia

33,542 members

298 reviews

½ 4.3

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38

The Spotted Sphinx

132 members

1 review

3.9

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39

by Wilkie Collins

1,190 members

31 reviews

4

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40

Notes from a Small Island

9,501 members

212 reviews

3.8

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41

An Autobiography

by Agatha Christie

1,773 members

38 reviews

4.1

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42

by J. M. Coetzee

10,461 members

261 reviews

3.9

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43

The Conservationist

by Nadine Gordimer

764 members

23 reviews

3.2

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44

To Serve Them All My Days

by R. F. Delderfield

856 members

20 reviews

4.2

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45

The Shadow of the Sun

by Ryszard Kapuściński

1,996 members

50 reviews

4.2

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46

The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

by H. P. Lovecraft

710 members

6 reviews

4.2

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47

Good Night, Mr. Tom

by Michelle Magorian

2,456 members

67 reviews

½ 4.3

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48

Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner

5,274 members

178 reviews

½ 4.3

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49

Riders in the Chariot

by Patrick White

652 members

18 reviews

4.1

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50

Gerald Durrell: The Authorized Biography

by Douglas Botting

132 members

2 reviews

3.9

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51

My Family and Other Animals

by Gerald Durrell

4,977 members

147 reviews

4.2

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52

Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind

by Donald C. Johanson

1,027 members

8 reviews

4

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53

The Complete Little House Nine-Book Set

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

4,296 members

50 reviews

½ 4.4

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54

The Way the Crow Flies

by Ann-Marie MacDonald

2,192 members

60 reviews

4.1

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55

Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World

by Ewan McGregor

1,176 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

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56

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

by Nelson Mandela

4,624 members

60 reviews

½ 4.3

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57

My Traitor's Heart

639 members

11 reviews

½ 4.3

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58

South Sea Stories

by W. Somerset Maugham

48 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

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59

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

17,224 members

356 reviews

4.2

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60

State of Wonder

by Ann Patchett

5,910 members

383 reviews

3.9

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61

A Complicated Kindness

by Miriam Toews

2,196 members

65 reviews

½ 3.6

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62

Too Late the Phalarope

650 members

12 reviews

3.8

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63

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

19,495 members

251 reviews

4.1

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64

by R. K. Narayan

919 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

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65

The Nun's Story

by Kathryn Hulme

480 members

9 reviews

3.9

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66

The Sea, the Sea

by Iris Murdoch

3,407 members

90 reviews

3.9

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67

Tales of the South Pacific

by James A. Michener

1,756 members

32 reviews

½ 3.7

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68

As For Me and My House

by Sinclair Ross

414 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

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69

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

38,549 members

1,256 reviews

4.1

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70

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

by Mordecai Richler

1,324 members

16 reviews

3.8

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71

by Catherine Marshall

3,456 members

43 reviews

4.1

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72

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,160 members

93 reviews

½ 3.6

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73

A Woman of Independent Means

by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

625 members

13 reviews

3.9

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74

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,332 members

104 reviews

3.8

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75

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

12,335 members

187 reviews

4

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76

by Agatha Christie

2,725 members

64 reviews

½ 3.6

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77

The Singing Sands

by Josephine Tey

1,381 members

47 reviews

3.8

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78

by Elizabeth Kostova

20,761 members

746 reviews

½ 3.7

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79

In a Sunburned Country

8,784 members

228 reviews

4

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80

No Previous Experience: A Memoir of Love and Change

by Elspeth Cameron

44 members

1 review

3.2

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81

by Anita Diamant

16,413 members

389 reviews

4

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82

The Complete McAuslan

by George MacDonald Fraser

204 members

5 reviews

½ 4.3

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83

All Creatures Great and Small

by James Herriot

7,302 members

126 reviews

½ 4.3

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84

58 members

5 reviews

½ 3.3

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85

Norman Conquests: Table Manners; Living Together; Round and Round in the Garden (An Evergreen book)

by Alan Ayckbourn

217 members

2 reviews

4

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86

The Solid Mandala

by Patrick White

335 members

8 reviews

4.1

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87

by Dick Francis

1,488 members

30 reviews

3.9

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88

Paddle to the Amazon: The Ultimate 12,000 Mile Canoe Adventure

by Don Starkell

189 members

4 reviews

4

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89

A Boy of Good Breeding

by Miriam Toews

296 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

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90

Baltasar and Blimunda

by José Saramago

2,321 members

48 reviews

3.9

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91

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

34,639 members

436 reviews

3.9

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92

by William Shakespeare

14,265 members

143 reviews

4.1

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93

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer

13,598 members

306 reviews

4.2

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94

The Book of Negroes

by Lawrence Hill

3,510 members

176 reviews

½ 4.3

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95

by Markus Zusak

6,251 members

327 reviews

4

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96

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

by J. K. Rowling

96,297 members

909 reviews

½ 4.4

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Started: ahef1963
July 2014
Type: Numbered, Adding restricted

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