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London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd (82), Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith (24), London Orbital by Iain Sinclair (25), Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd (42), London: A Social History by Roy Porter (20), Mother London by Michael Moorcock (24), Things Can Only Get Better: Eighteen Miserable Years in the Life of a Labour Supporter, 1979-1997 by John O'Farrell (20), Necropolis: London and Its Dead by Catharine Arnold (18), Lights Out for the Territory: 9 Excursions in the Secret History of London by Iain Sinclair (20), The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd (25), The English: A Portrait of a People by Jeremy Paxman (34), Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox (39), The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith (41), 253 by Geoff Ryman (19), Restoration London: Everyday Life in London 1660-1670 by Liza Picard (18), Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840--1870 by Liza Picard (19), How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen (30), Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope (19), Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem by Peter Ackroyd (21), Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd (18), London Street Atlas And Index A-Z [1975] by Geographers' A–Z Map Company Limited (25), Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton (21), Spies by Michael Frayn (29), Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel (28), Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre (34)
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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (144), Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (127), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (118), The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (118), The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (117), Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (116), Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (115), Animal Farm by George Orwell (114), To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (112), Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (109), The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (106), One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (106), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) by J. K. Rowling (105), Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (104), The Odyssey by Homer (104), Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (102), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (100), The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (100), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (100), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (98), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (97), The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (96), Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (96), Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (96), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (95)



