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1001 great books from Bexley Libraries 1. Achebe, Chinua - Anthills of the Savannah

2. Ackroyd, Peter - London the concise biography

3. Ackroyd, Peter – Hawksmoor

4. Adams, Douglas - The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy:

5. Adams, Richard - Watership Down

6. Adams, Douglas - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

7. Adichie, Chimamanda - Half of a yellow sun

8. Adiga, Aravind - The White Tiger

9. Aesop - Aesop's fables

10. Agee, James - Let us now praise famous men

11. Akutagawa, Ryunosuke - Rashomon

12. Alcott, Louisa M - Little women

13. Aldiss, Brian - Hothouse

14. Algren, Nelson - The man with the golden arm

15. Allende, Isabel - The house of the spirits

16. Allingham, Margery - Hide my eyes

17. Alther, Lisa - Kinflicks

18. Amado, Jorge - The violent land

19. Ambler, Eric - Journey into fear

20. Ambrose, Stephen E. - Band of Brothers

21. Amis, Kingsley - The old devils

22. Amis, Kingsley - Lucky Jim

23. Amis, Martin - London Fields

24. Amis, Kingsley - Girl, 20

25. Amis, Martin - The Rachel papers

26. Ammaniti, Niccolo - I`m not scared

27. Anand, Mulk Raj - Untouchable

28. Andersen, Hans Christian.- Fairy tales

29. Andric, Ivo - The Bridge over the Drina

30. Angelou, Maya - I know why the caged bird sings

31. Appignanesi, Lisa - Losing the dead

32. Arabian nights

33. Arendt, Hannah - Eichmann in Jerusalem

34. Armitage, Simon (ed) - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

35. Asimov, I - I Robot

36. Asimov, Isaac - complete short stories

37. Asimov, Isaac - Foundation

38. Atkinson, Kate - One good turn

39. Atwood, Margaret - The handmaid's tale

40. Atwood, Margaret - Alias Grace

1001 great books from Bexley Libraries

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41. Atwood, Margaret - The blind assassin

42. Auel, Jean M.- The clan of the cave bear

43. Austen, Jane - Emma

44. Austen, Jane - Persuasion

45. Austen, Jane - Pride & prejudice

46. Austen, Jane - Sense and sensibility

47. Auster, Paul - Timbuktu

48. Ba, Mariama - So long a letter

49. Bainbridge, Beryl - Sweet William

50. Baldwin, James - Go tell it on the mountain

51. Baldwin, James - Giovanni's room

52. Ballard, J.G - Crash

53. Ballard, J.G. - Empire of the sun

54. Ballard, J.G. - Cocaine nights

55. Balzac, Honore de - Eugenie Grandet

56. Balzac, Honore de - Old Man Goriot

57. Banks, Iain - The wasp factory

58. Banks, Ian - The crow road

59. Banks, Iain M - Feersum endjinn

60. Banks, Russell - The darling

61. Banville, John - The Sea

62. Banville, John - The book of evidence

63. Barbery, Muriel - The elegance of the hedgehog

64. Barbusse, Henri - Under fire

65. Baricco, Alessandro - Silk

66. Barker, Pat - The regeneration trilogy

67. Barnes, Julian - Flaubert's parrot

68. Barnes, Djuna - Nightwood

69. Barrie, J.M. - Peter Pan

70. Barthelme, Donald - Forty stories

71. Bassani, Giorgio - The garden of the Finzi-Continis

72. Bates, H.E. - Fair stood the wind for France

73. Baum, L.Frank - The Wizard of Oz

74. Bawden, Nina - Circles of deceit

75. Beauvoir, Simone De - The second sex

76. Beckett, Samuel - Murphy

77. Bedford, Sybille - A legacy

78. Beerbohm, Max - Zuleika Dobson

79. Beeton, Mrs Isabella Mary - Mrs Beeton's book of household management

80. Beevor, Antony - Stalingrad

81. Behan, Brendan - Borstal boy

82. Behn, Aphra - Oroonoko

83. Belloc, Hilaire - Cautionary Tales


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84. Bellos, Alex - Alex's adventures in Numberland

85. Bellow, Saul - Humboldt's gift

86. Bellow, Saul - Collected stories

87. Bennett, Alan - Talking heads

88. Bennett, Arnold - The old wives' tale

89. Bennett, Arnold - Anna of the five towns

90. Benson, E.F. - Mapp and Lucia

91. Beowulf

92. Berger, John - Ways of seeing

93. Bernanos, Georges - Mouchette

94. Bernhard, Thomas - Old masters

95. Bernhard, Thomas - Woodcutters

96. Bernstein, Karl - All the President's men

97. Betjeman, John - The best of Betjeman

98. Blackman, Malorie - Noughts and crosses

99. Blackmore, R.D. - Lorna Doone

100. Blake, William - Selected poems

101. Blume, Judy - It's not the end of the world

102. Blunden, Edmund - Undertones of war

103. Blythe, Ronald - Akenfield

104. Boccaccio, Giovanni - The Decameron

105. Bolano, Roberto - The Savage Detectives

106. Boll, Heinrich - Billiards at half past nine

107. Boll, Heinrich - The silent angel

108. Bonfiglioli, Kyril - Don't point that thing at me

109. Borges, Jorge - Labyrinths

110. Borowski, Tadeusz - This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen

111. Boulle, Pierre - Planet of the apes

112. Bowen, Elizabeth - The heat of the day

113. Bowen, Elizabeth - Eva Trout

114. Bowles, Paul - The sheltering sky

115. Boyd, William - New confessions

116. Boyle, T.Coraghessen - World's End

117. Boyne, John - The boy in the striped pyjamas

118. Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451

119. Braddon, M.E. - Lady Audley's secret

120. Brautigan, Richard - Trout fishing in America

121. Brearley , Mike - Art of captaincy

122. Breton, Andre - Nadja

123. Brink, Andre - A dry white season

124. Brittain, Vera - Testament of friendship

125. Brittain, Vera - Testament of youth

126. Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre


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127. Bronte, Anne - The tenant of Wildfell Hall

128. Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights

129. Brown, Dee - Bury my heart at Wounded Knee

130. Bryson, Bill - Notes from a small island

131. Buchan, John - The thirty-nine steps

132. Buck, Pearl S. - The good earth

133. Bulgakov, Mikhail - The master and Margarita

134. Bunyan, John - The pilgrim's progress

135. Burgess, Anthony – A Clockwork orange

136. Burgess, Anthony - The complete Enderby

137. Burleigh, Michael - The Third Reich: a new history

138. Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The secret garden

139. Burney, Fanny - Evelina

140. Burroughs, Edgar R - Tarzan of the apes

141. Burroughs, William S - Naked lunch

142. Burroughs, William S - Junky

143. Butler, Samuel - The way of all flesh

144. Buzzati, Dino - The Tartar steppe

145. Byatt, A.S. - The children's book

146. Byatt, A.S. - The virgin in the garden

147. Cain, James M - The postman always rings twice

148. Callil,Carmen - Bad faith

149. Calvino,Italo - If on a winter's night a traveller

150. Camus, Albert - The outsider

151. Camus, Albert - The plague

152. Canetti, Elias - Auto da fe

153. Capek, Karel - War with the newts

154. Capote, Truman - Breakfast at Tiffany's

155. Capote, Truman - In cold Blood

156. Carey, Peter - Oscar and Lucinda

157. Carey, Peter - Jack Maggs

158. Carlson, Richard - Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

159. Carnegie, Dale - How to win friends and influence people

160. Carr, J.L - A month in the country

161. Carr, J.L. - How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers won the FA Cup

162. Carroll, Lewis - Alice's adventures in Wonderland: and, through the looking glass

163. Carson, Rachel - Silent spring

164. Carter, Angela - Nights at the circus

165. Carter, Angela - Fireworks

166. Carver, Raymond - Elephant and other stories

167. Cather, Willa - The professor's house

168. Celine, Louis-Ferdinand - Journey to the end of the night

169. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de - Don Quixote


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170. Chandler, Raymond - The big sleep

171. Chandler, Raymond -The long goodbye

172. Chandrasekaran, Rajiv - Imperial life in the Emerald City

173. Chang, Jung - Wild swans

174. Charriere, Henri - Papillon

175. Chatwin, Bruce - On the black hill

176. Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury tales

177. Cheever, John - The stories of John Cheever

178. Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich - The lady with the little dog, and other stories

179. Chesterton, G.K. - The complete Father Brown stories

180. Childers, Erskine - The riddle of the sands

181. Chopin, Kate - The Awakening

182. Christie, Agatha - Murder on the Orient Express

183. Christie, Agatha - The murder of Roger Ackroyd

184. Chua, Amy - Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

185. Churchill, Winston - The Second World War

186. Churchill, Winston S. - The gathering storm

187. Clark, Alan - The donkeys

188. Clarke, Arthur C - 2001 a space odyssey

189. Cleland, John - Fanny Hill, or, Memoirs of a woman of pleasure

190. Cocteau, Jean - Les enfants terribles

191. Coe, Jonathan - What a carve up!

192. Coe, Jonathan - Like a fiery elephant

193. Coelho, Paulo - Veronika decides to die

194. Coetzee, J.M. - In the heart of the country

195. Coetzee, J.M. - Life and times of Michael K

196. Coetzee, J.M. - Waiting for the barbarians

197. Cohen, Albert - Her lover (Belle du Seigneur)

198. Colegate, Isabel - The shooting party

199. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - The rime of the ancient mariner

200. Colette - Claudine's house

201. Colfer, Eoin - Artemis Fowl

202. Collins, Willkie - The Moonstone

203. Collins, Willkie - The Woman in white

204. Collins, Norman - London belongs to me

205. Collis, John Stewart - The worm forgives the plough

206. Collodi, Carlo - Adventures of Pinocchio

207. Compton-Burnett, Ivy - Pastors and masters

208. Comyns, Barbara - Our spoons came from Woolworths

209. Conrad, Joseph - Heart of darkness

210. Conrad, Joseph - Nostromo

211. Conrad, Joseph - The Secret Agent

212. Cooper, James Fenimore - The last of the Mohicans


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213. Coover, Robert - Pricksongs and descants

214. Cope, Wendy - Making cocoa for Kingsley Amis

215. Covey, Stephen - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

216. Crace, Jim - Quarantine

217. Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of courage

218. Crispin, Edmund - Love lies bleeding

219. Cummings, E.E. - The enormous room

220. Cunningham, Michael - The hours

221. Dahl, Roald - Boy: tales of childhood

222. Dahl, Roald - Charlie and the chocolate factory

223. Dalrymple, William - Return of a King

224. Dangarembga, Tsitsi - Nervous conditions

225. Dante Alighieri - Inferno

226. Darwin, Charles - The origin of species; and, the voyage of the Beagle

227. Davies, Robertson - The Salterton trilogy

228. Davis, Norman (ed) - The Paston letters

229. Davis, Wade - Into the silence

230. Dawkins, Richard - The selfish gene

231. Dawood, N.J - Tales from the thousand and one nights

232. De Bernieres, Louis - Captain Corelli's mandolin

233. De Botton, Alain - Status anxiety

234. De Quincey, Thomas - Confessions of an English opium-eater

235. De Waal, Edmund - The hare with amber eyes

236. Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe

237. Defoe, Daniel - Moll Flanders

238. Delafield, E.M. - The diary of a provincial lady

239. Demick, Barbara - Nothing to envy

240. Desai, Anita -Clear light of day

241. Desai, Kiran -The inheritance of loss

242. Dexter, Colin - Morse's greatest mystery and other stories

243. Diamond, Jared M. - Guns, germs and steel

244. Diamond, John - C: because cowards get cancer too -

245. Dick, Philip K.-Do androids dream of electric sheep?

246. Dickens, Charles - Bleak House

247. Dickens, Charles - David Copperfield

248. Dickens, Charles - Oliver Twist

249. Dickens, Charles - tale of two cities

250. Dickens, Monica - One pair of feet

251. Didion, Joan - Play it as it lays

252. Didion, Joan - The year of magical thinking

253. Dikotter, Frank - Mao's great famine

254. Dinesen, Isak - Out of Africa

255. Dinesen, Isak - Babette's feast and other stories


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256. Disraeli, Benjamin - Sybil

257. Doctorow, E.L. - Ragtime

258. Doctorow, E.L. - The book of Daniel

259. Dodge, Jim - Stone junction

260. Dos Passos, John - USA

261. Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Crime and punishment

262. Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Notes from underground

263. Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of Frederick Douglass

264. Doyle, Arthur C - Hound of the Baskervilles

265. Doyle, Arthur Conan - The adventures of Sherlock Holmes

266. Doyle, Roddy - The Commitments

267. Drabble, Margaret - The Red Queen

268. Dreiser, Theodore - Sister Carrie

269. Du Maurier, Daphne- Rebecca

270. Du Maurier, Daphne - The birds

271. Du Maurier, Daphne - The infernal world of Branwell Bronte

272. Dumas, Alexandre - The three musketeers

273. Dumas, Alexandre - The count of Monte-Cristo

274. Dunant, Sarah - The birth of Venus

275. Duncker, Patricia - Hallucinating Foucault

276. Dunn, Nell - Poor cow

277. Dunn, Nell - Up the junction

278. Durbridge, Francis - The Tyler mystery: a Paul Temple story

279. Durrell, Gerald - My family and other animals

280. Durrell, Lawrence - The Alexandria quartet

281. Eco, Umberto - Foucault's pendulum

282. Eco, Umberto - The name of the rose

283. Edgeworth, Maria - Castle Rackrent; and, Ennui

284. Eggers, Dave - A heart-breaking work of staggering genius

285. Eliot, George - Adam Bede

286. Eliot, George - Middlemarch

287. Eliot, George - The mill on the Floss

288. Eliot, T.S. - The waste land and other poems

289. Ellis, Bret Easton - American Psycho

290. Ellis, Bret Easton - Less than Zero

291. Ellison, Ralph - Invisible man

292. Ellroy, James-The black dahlia

293. Endo, Shusaku - Volcano

294. Enright, Anne - The gathering

295. Equiano, Olaudah - The interesting narrative

296. Esquivel, Laura - Like water for chocolate

297. Eugenides, Jeffrey - Middlesex

298. Eugenides, Jeffrey - The virgin suicides


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299. Faber, Michel- Under the skin

300. Falkner, John Meade - Moonfleet

301. Fallada, Hans - Alone in Berlin

302. Farrell, J.G-The siege of Krishnapur

303. Farrell, J.G. - Troubles

304. Faulkner, William - The sound and the fury

305. Faulks, Sebastian - Birdsong

306. Feist, Raymond E. - Magician

307. Fermor, Patrick Leigh - A time of gifts

308. Fielding, Helen - Bridget Jones's diary

309. Fielding, Henry - The history of Tom Jones, a foundling

310. Fielding, Henry - Joseph Andrews

311. Fiennes, William - The Snow Geese

312. Figes, Orlando - A people's tragedy

313. Findley, Timothy - The wars

314. Fitzgerald, Scott - Tender is the night

315. Fitzgerald, Scott - The great Gatsby

316. Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary

317. Fleming, Ian - Casino Royale

318. Fleming, Ian – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

319. Fleming, Ian - Thrilling cities

320. Foer, Jonathan S - Everything is illuminated

321. Follett, Ken - Pillars of the earth

322. Ford, Ford Madox - Parade's End

323. Ford, Ford Madox - The good soldier

324. Ford, Richard - The sportswriter

325. Forester, C.S. - The young Hornblower

326. Forna, Aminatta - The devil that danced on the water

327. Forster, E.M - A passage to India

328. Forster, E.M - A room with a view

329. Forster, E.M. - Howard's End

330. Fowler, H.W. - A dictionary of modern English usage

331. Fowles, John - The French lieutenant's woman

332. Fowles, John - The Magus

333. Fowles, John - A Maggot

334. Frame, Janet - An angel at my table

335. Frame, Janet - Faces in the water

336. Frank, Anne - The diary of a young girl

337. Franklin, Miles - My brilliant career

338. Franzen, Jonathan - The corrections

339. Frazer, James George, Sir - The Golden Bough

340. French, Marilyn - The women's room

341. Freud, Esther - Hideous kinky


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342. Freud, Sigmund - On murder, mourning and melancholia

343. Friedan, Betty - The feminine mystique

344. Frisch, Max - Homo Faber

345. Fukuyama, Francis - The end of history

346. Funder, Anna - Stasiland

347. Gaddis, William - Carpenter's Gothic

348. Gage, Nicholas - Eleni

349. Gaiman, Neil - American gods

350. Galbraith, John Kenneth - The Affluent Society

351. Galloway, Janice - The trick is to keep breathing

352. Galsworthy, John - The Forsyte Saga 1



355. Gandhi, Mohandas - Story of My Experiments with Truth

356. Garcia Marquez, - Gabriel Love in the time of cholera

357. Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - One hundred years of solitude

358. Gaskell, Elizabeth - Cranford

359. Gaskell, Elizabeth - North and south

360. Gemmell, David - Legend

361. Ghosh, Amitav - the shadow lines

362. Gibbon, Edward - The decline and fall of the Roman Empire

363. Gibbons, Stella - Cold Comfort Farm

364. Gibson, William - Neuromancer

365. Gide, Andre - The immoralist

366. Gissing, George - New Grub Street

367. Gladwell, Malcolm - Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking

368. Godden, Rumer - Black narcissus

369. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang - Faust

370. Gogol, Nikolai - Dead Souls

371. Gogol, Nikolai - The nose

372. Goldacre, Ben - Bad science

373. Golden, Arthur - Memoirs of a geisha

374. Golding, William - Lord of the flies

375. Golding, William - Rites of Passage

376. Golding, William - The spire

377. Goldsmith, Oliver - The vicar of Wakefield

378. Gombrich, E.H - A little history of the world

379. Gordimer, Nadine - Burger's daughter

380. Gordimer, Nadine - July's people

381. Goscinny - Asterix the Gaul

382. Gosse, Edmund - Father and son

383. Grahame, Kenneth - The wind in the willows

384. Grass, Gunter - The tin drum


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385. Graves, Robert - Goodbye to all that

386. Graves, Robert - I, Claudius

387. Green, Henry - Loving: Living: Party going

388. Greene, Graham - Brighton rock

389. Greene, Graham - The power and the glory

390. Greene, Graham - The quiet American

391. Greer, Germaine - The female eunuch

392. Grimm tales: for young and old (retold by Philip Pullman)

393. Grossman, Vasilii - Life and fate

394. Grossmith, George - The diary of a nobody

395. Guareschi, Giovanni - The Little world of Don Camillo

396. Gunn, Neil Miller - The silver darlings

397. Guthrie, Woody - Bound for glory

398. Haasse, Hella S. - The black lake

399. Haddon, Mark - The curious incident of the dog in the night-time

400. Haggard, H.Rider - King Solomon's mines

401. Hall, Radclyffe - The well of loneliness

402. Hamilton, Patrick - Hangover Square

403. Hammett, Dashiell - The thin man

404. Hammett, Dashiell - Maltese Falcon

405. Hamsun, Knut - Hunger

406. Hanff, Helene - 84 Charing Cross Road

407. Hardy, Thomas - Far from the madding crowd

408. Hardy, Thomas - Jude the obscure

409. Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the D'Urbervilles

410. Harris, Thomas - Red dragon

411. Hart, Josephine - Damage

412. Hartley, L.P. - The go-between

413. Hasek, Jaroslav - The Good soldier Svejk

414. Hawking, Stephen - A Brief History of Time

415. Hawks, Tony - Playing the Moldovans at tennis

416. Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The scarlet letter

417. Head, Bessie - A question of power

418. Heinlein, Robert A. - Stranger in a strange land

419. Heller, Joseph - Catch-22

420. Hemingway, Ernest - Fiesta: the sun also rises

421. Hemingway, Ernest - For whom the bell tolls

422. Hemingway, Ernest -The old man and the sea

423. Hemon, Aleksandar - Nowhere man

424. Herbert, Frank – Dune

425. Herge – Red Rackham’s Treasure (Tintin)

426. Herr, Michael - Dispatches

427. Hesse, Hermann - Steppenwolf


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428. Hesse, Hermann - Siddhartha

429. Highsmith, Patricia - The talented Mr Ripley

430. Highsmith, Patricia - Strangers on a train

431. Hill, Susan - The woman in black

432. Himes, Chester - All shot up

433. Hines, Barry - A kestrel for a knave

434. Hoare, Philip - Leviathan

435. Hoeg, Peter - Miss Smilla's feeling for snow

436. Hoffmann, E.T.A. - Tales of Hoffmann

437. Hogg, James - The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner

438. Hoggart, Richard - The uses of literacy: aspects of working-class life

439. Holland, Tom - Rubicon

440. Hollinghurst, Alan - Line of Beauty

441. Hollinghurst, Alan - The swimming-pool library

442. Holmes, Richard - The age of wonder

443. Holtby, Winifred - South Riding

444. Hope, Anthony - The prisoner of Zenda

445. Hornby, Nick - Fever pitch

446. Horowitz, Anthony - Stormbreaker

447. Hosseini, Khaled - The kite runner

448. Houellebecq, Michael - Atomised

449. Household, Geoffrey - Rogue male

450. Howell, Georgina - Daughter of the desert

451. Hrabal, Bohumil - Dancing lessons for the advanced in age

452. Huff, Darrell - How to lie with statistics

453. Hughes, Robert - The shock of the new

454. Hughes, Robert - The Fatal Shore

455. Hughes, Ted - Poems

456. Hughes, Thomas - Tom Brown's schooldays

457. Hughes-Hallett, Lucy - The Pike

458. Hugo, Victor - The hunchback of Notre-Dame

459. Hugo, Victor - Les miserables

460. Hurston, Zora Neale - Their eyes were watching God

461. Hustvedt, Siri - What I loved

462. Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World

463. Huxley, Aldous - Chrome yellow

464. Huxley, Elspeth - Red strangers

465. Huxley, Elspeth - The flame trees of Thika

466. Innes, Hammond - The blue ice

467. Irving, John - A prayer for Owen Meany

468. Irving, John - The cider house rules

469. Irving, John - The world according to Garp

470. Isherwood, Christopher - Goodbye to berlin


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471. Isherwood, Christopher - Mr. Norris changes trains

472. Ishiguro, Kazuo - A pale view of hills

473. Ishiguro, Kazuo - An artist of the floating world

474. Ishiguro, Kazuo - The remains of the day

475. Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never let me go

476. James, Henry - The portrait of a lady

477. James, Henry - What Maisie knew

478. James, Henry - The ambassadors

479. James, Henry - The wings of the dove

480. James, C.L.R. - Beyond a boundary

481. James, M.R. - Collected ghost stories

482. Jameson, Storm - A day off

483. Jansson, Tove - The summer book

484. Jelinek, Elfriede - The piano teacher

485. Jenkins, Elizabeth - The tortoise and the hare

486. Jenkins, Roy - Churchill

487. Jerome, Jerome K. - Three men in a boat

488. Johnson, B.S. - House mother normal

489. Jong, Erica - Fear of flying: a novel

490. Joyce, James - Finnegan’s wake

491. Joyce, James - Ulysses

492. Joyce, James - A portrait of the artist as a young man

493. Junger, Ernst - Storm of steel

494. Junger, Sebastian - The perfect storm

495. Kadare, Ismail - Broken April

496. Kafka, Franz - Amerika

497. Kafka, Franz - The Castle

498. Kafka, Franz - The Trial

499. Kapuscinski, Ryszard - Shah of shahs

500. Kapuscinski, Ryszard - The emperor: downfall of an autocrat

501. Kawabata, Yasunari - Beauty and sadness

502. Kazantzakis, Nikos - Zorba the Greek

503. Keane, Molly - Loving and giving

504. Kelman, James - How late it was, how late

505. Keneally, Thomas - Schindler's ark

506. Kennedy, A.L. - On bullfighting

507. Kennedy, Margaret - The constant nymph

508. Kerouac, Jack - On the road

509. Kertesz, Imre - Kaddish for an unborn child

510. Kesey, Ken - One flew over the cuckoo's nest

511. Kilvert, Francis - Kilvert's diary 1870 - 1879

512. King, Stephen - The shining

513. King, Stephen - The stand


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514. Kingsley, Charles - The water-babies

515. Kingsolver, Barbara - The poisonwood bible

516. Kipling, Rudyard - Kim

517. Kipling, Rudyard - The jungle book

518. Klein, Naomi - No logo

519. Koestler, Arthur - Darkness at noon

520. Kotzwinkle, William - Swimmer in the secret sea

521. Krasznahorkai, Laszlo - Satantango

522. Krauss, Nicole - Great House

523. Kundera, Milan - Unbearable Lightness of Being

524. Kundera, Milan - The book of laughter and forgetting

525. Kureishi, Hanif - The Buddha of Suburbia

526. Kureishi, Hanif - Intimacy

527. Laclos, Choderlos - Dangerous liaisons

528. Laforet, Carmen - Nada

529. Lagerlof, Selma - The saga of Gosta Berling

530. Lao, She - Mr Ma and son

531. Larkin, Philip - Jill

532. Larsen, Nella - Quicksand

533. Lawrence, D.H - Lady Chatterley's lover.

534. Lawrence, D.H - The rainbow.

535. Lawrence, D.H. - Sons and lovers

536. Lawrence, T.E - Seven pillars of wisdom

537. Laxness, Haldor - Independent people

538. Laye, Camara - The radiance of the king

539. Le Carre, John - Smiley's people

540. Le Carre, John - The spy who came in from the cold

541. Le Carre, John - Tinker tailor soldier spy

542. Le Fanu, Sheridan - Uncle Silas

543. Le Guin, Ursula K. - The dispossessed

544. Lear, Edward - The complete nonsense and other verse

545. Leavitt, David - While England sleeps

546. Leavitt, David - The lost language of cranes

547. Lee, Harper - To kill a mockingbird

548. Lee, Laurie - Cider with Rosie

549. Lehmann, Rosamond - Invitation to the waltz

550. Lem, Stanislaw - Solaris

551. Leonard, Elmore - Get Shorty

552. Lessing, Doris - The grass is singing

553. Levi, Primo - If this is a man; and, the truce

554. Levi, Primo - If not now when?

555. Levi, Carlo - Christ stopped at Eboli

556. Levitt, Steven D - Freakonomics


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557. Lewis, M.G. - The monk

558. Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt

559. Lewis, Sinclair - Main Street

560. Lewis, Wyndham - Tarr

561. Lewis, C.S. - The lion, the witch and the wardrobe

562. Lewis, Ted - Get Carter

563. Lewycka, Marina - A short history of tractors in Ukrainian

564. Lindgren, Astrid - Pippi Longstocking

565. Lindsay, Joan Weigall - Picnic at Hanging Rock

566. Lispector, Clarice - The hour of the star

567. Lispector, Clarice -The passion according to G.H.

568. Lively, Penelope - Moon Tiger

569. Lively, Penelope - Oleander, Jacaranda

570. Lomax, Eric –The Railway Man

571. London, Jack - The call of the wild

572. Lord, Walter – A Night to Remember

573. Lovecraft, H.P. - At the mountains of madness

574. Lovelock, J.E. - The revenge of Gaia

575. Lowry, Malcolm - Under the volcano

576. MacFarlane, Robert - Mountains of the Mind

577. MacGregor, Neil - A history of the world in 100 objects

578. Machiavelli, Niccolo - The Prince

579. MacInnes, Colin - Absolute beginners

580. Mackenzie, Compton - The monarch of the glen

581. Magorian, Michelle - Goodnight Mister Tom

582. Mahfuz, Najib - The Cairo trilogy

583. Mailer, Norman - Marilyn

584. Mailer, Norman - The naked and the dead

585. Malamud, Bernard - The tenants

586. Malcolm X - The autobiography of Malcolm X

587. Malraux, Andre - Man's fate

588. Malthus, T.R. - An essay on the principle of population

589. Mandela, Nelson - Long walk to freedom

590. Mankell, Henning - Faceless killers

591. Mann, Thomas - Death in Venice

592. Mann, Thomas - Buddenbrooks

593. Mann, Thomas - Magic Mountain

594. Manning, Frederic - Her privates we

595. Manning, Olivia - The Balkan trilogy

596. Mansfield, Katherine - The garden party

597. Mantel, Hilary - Giving up the ghost: a memoir

598. Mantel, Hilary - Wolf Hall

599. Manto, Saadat Hasan - Bombay stories


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600. Marai, Sandor - Embers

601. Marias, Javier - The infatuations

602. Markson, David - Wittgenstein's Mistress

603. Martel, Yann - Life of Pi

604. Martin, George R.R. - a game of Thrones

605. Massie, Robert K. - Peter the Great

606. Masters, Alexander - Stuart: a life backwards

607. Matthiessen, Peter - The snow leopard

608. Maugham, W.Somerset - Of human bondage

609. Maugham, W.Somerset - The razor's edge

610. Maupassant, Guy de - Bel-Ami

611. Mauriac, François - Therese Desqueyroux

612. Mayhew, Henry - London labour and the London poor

613. Mazzantini, Margaret - Don't move

614. McCabe, Patrick - The butcher boy

615. McCarthy, Cormac - Blood meridian

616. McCarthy, Cormac - the Road

617. McCourt, Frank - Angela's ashes

618. McCoy, Horace - They shoot horses, don't they?

619. McCullers, Carson - The heart is a lonely hunter

620. McCullough, Colleen - The thorn birds

621. McDougall, Christopher - Born to run

622. McEwan, Ian - Atonement

623. McEwan, Ian -The cement garden

624. McEwan, Ian - The comfort of strangers

625. McGahern, John - Amongst women

626. McGahern, John - That they may face the rising sun

627. Melville, Herman - Moby-Dick,

628. Meyer, Philipp - American Rust

629. Michaels, Anne - Fugitive pieces

630. Miller, Henry - Tropic of Cancer

631. Miller, Arthur - All my sons

632. Milligan, Spike - Puckoon

633. Milne, A.A. - Winnie the Pooh

634. Minney, R.J. Carve her name with pride

635. Mishima, Yukio - The sound of waves

636. Mishra, Pankaj - From the ruins of Empire: the revolt against the West

637. Mistry, Rohinton - A fine balance

638. Mitchell, David - Cloud atlas

639. Mitchell, Margaret - Gone with the wind

640. Mitchell, Gladys - Dead men's Morris

641. Mitford, Nancy - Love in a cold climate

642. Mitford, Nancy | Waugh, Evelyn - The letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh


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643. Mitford, Nancy - the Sun King

644. Mo, Timothy - Sour sweet

645. Mofolo, Thomas - Chaka

646. Moggach, Deborah - Tulip fever

647. Monsarrat, Nicholas - The cruel sea

648. Montaigne, Michel De - Essays

649. Montgomery, L.M. - Anne of Green Gables

650. Moore, Alan - Watchmen

651. Moore, Gerald (ed) - The Penguin book of modern African poetry

652. Moore, Lorrie - Anagrams

653. Moravia, Alberto - Contempt

654. Morris, William - News from nowhere

655. Morris, Jan - Venice

656. Morrison, Toni - Beloved

657. Morrison, Toni - Song of Solomon

658. Mortimer, John - Clinging to the wreckage: a part of life

659. Mulisch, Harry - Discovery of Heaven

660. Munro, Alice - The beggar maid

661. Murakami, Haruki - Norwegian wood

662. Murasaki Shikibu - The tale of Genji

663. Murdoch, Iris - A severed head

664. Murdoch, Iris - The Bell

665. Murdoch, Iris - The Sea, The Sea

666. Musil, Robert - The confusions of young Torless

667. Nabokov, Vladimir V - Lolita

668. Naipaul, V.S. - A bend in the river

669. Naipaul, V.S. - In a free state

670. Narayan, R.K. - Waiting for the Mahatma

671. Nemirovsky, Irene - Suite francaise

672. Nesbit, E - The railway children

673. Ngugi Wa, Thiong'O - The river between

674. Nin, Anais - Delta of Venus

675. Niven, David - The moon's a balloon

676. Njal's saga

677. Nooteboom, Cees - Rituals

678. Nothomb, Amelie - Fear and trembling

679. Oates, Joyce Carol - We were the Mulvaneys

680. Oates, Joyce Carol - Them

681. O’Brian, Patrick - Master and commander

682. O'Brien, Edna - The country girls

683. O'Brien, Flann - The third policeman

684. O’Brien, Tim - In the lake of the woods

685. O'Connor, Flannery - Wise blood


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686. Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

687. Ondaatje, Michael - The English patient

688. O'Rourke, P.J. - Holidays in hell

689. Orwell, George - Animal farm

690. Orwell, George - Homage to Catalonia

691. Orwell, George - Keep the aspidistra flying

692. Orwell, George - Nineteen eighty-four

693. Ousmane, Sembene - God's bits of wood

694. Ovid - Metamorphoses

695. Paasilinna, Arto - The year of the hare

696. Paine, Thomas - Rights of man

697. Palgrave, Francis Turner - The golden treasury

698. Pamuk, Orhan - Snow

699. Pamuk, Orhan - Istanbul

700. Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago

701. Paton, Alan - Cry, the beloved country

702. Peace, David - The damned Utd

703. Peake, Mervyn - Gormenghast

704. Peake, Mervyn - Titus Groan

705. Peck, M Scott - The Road Less Travelled

706. Pelzer, Dave - a child called 'it`

707. Pepys, Samuel – The Diary of Samuel Pepys (anthology ed R Latham)

708. Perec, Georges - A Void

709. Perec, Georges - Life

710. Perrault, Charles - The complete fairy tales

711. Pessoa, Fernando - The book of disquiet

712. Petronius Arbiter - The Satyricon

713. Pierre, D.B.C - Vernon God Little

714. Pilcher, Rosamunde - The shell seekers

715. Pirsig, Robert M - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

716. Plaidy, Jean - The scarlet cloak

717. Plath, Sylvia - The bell jar

718. Plath, Sylvia - the journals of Sylvia Plath

719. Plunkett, James - Strumpet City

720. Poe, Edgar - The fall of the house of Usher

721. Poe, Edgar Allan - The Pit & The pendulum

722. Poetry of the First World War: an anthology (ed Tim Kendall)

723. Potok, Chaim - The chosen

724. Powell, Anthony - A dance to the music of time (Spring)

725. Powell, Anthony - A dance to the music of time (Autumn)

726. Powell, Anthony - A dance to the music of time (Summer)

727. Powell, Anthony - A dance to the music of time (Winter)

728. Pratchett, Terry - The colour of magic


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729. Priestley, J.B. - Selected short stories (What a life)

730. Proulx, Annie - The shipping news

731. Proust, Marcel - Remembrance of Things Past

732. Puig, Manuel - Kiss of the Spiderwoman

733. Pullman, Philip - Northern Lights

734. Pushkin, Aleksandr - Eugene Onegin

735. Puzo, Mario - The Godfather

736. Pym, Barbara - Excellent women

737. Pym, Barbara - Crampton Hodnet

738. Pynchon, Thomas - Gravity's rainbow

739. Pynchon, Thomas - Vineland

740. Queiros, Eca de - The crime of Father Amaro

741. Queneau, Raymond - Exercises in style

742. Raban, Jonathan - Passage to Juneau

743. Radiguet, Raymond - The devil in the flesh

744. Rand, Ayn - Atlas shrugged

745. Rankin, Ian - Knots & crosses

746. Ransome, Arthur - Swallows and Amazons

747. Raven, Simon - Alms for oblivion

748. Reage, Pauline - Story Of O

749. Reed, John - Ten days that shook the world

750. Remarque, Erich Maria - All quiet on the Western Front

751. Renault, Mary - Fire from heaven

752. Rhys, Jean - Wide Sargasso Sea

753. Rhys, Jean - Good morning, midnight

754. Rice, Anne - Interview with the vampire

755. Richard, Timothy - Monkey King's amazing adventures

756. Richardson, Samuel - : Clarissa

757. Richardson, Samuel - Pamela

758. Ridley, Matt - Genome

759. Rilke, Rainer Maria - The notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

760. Rolfe, Frederick William - Hadrian the Seventh

761. Rossetti, Christina - Poems and prose

762. Roth, Philip- The human stain

763. Roth, Philip - The plot against America

764. Roth, Henry - Call it sleep

765. Roth, Joseph - The Radetzky march

766. Roth, Philip - Portnoy's complaint

767. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - Reveries of the solitary walker

768. Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone

769. Roy, Arundhati - The god of small things

770. Runyon, Damon - Guys and Dolls: and other stories

771. Rushdie, Salman - Midnight's children


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772. Rushdie, Salman - The satanic verses

773. Rushdie, Salman - The Moor's last sigh

774. Ruskin, John - Selected writings

775. Sacks, Oliver W - The man who mistook his wife for a hat

776. Sackville-West, Vita - All passion spent

777. Sadawi, Nawal - Woman at point zero

778. Sagan, Carl - Contact

779. Sagan, Francoise - Bonjour Tristesse

780. Sage, Lorna - Bad blood

781. Said, Kurban - Ali and Nino

782. Saint-Exupery, Antoine de - The little prince

783. Saki - The complete short stories

784. Salih, Al-Tayyib - Season of migration to the north

785. Salinger, J.D. - The catcher in the Rye

786. Sandel, Cora - Alberta and Jacob

787. Sansom, C.J. - Dissolution

788. Saramago, Jose - Baltasar & Blimunda

789. Sartre, Jean-Paul - Nausea

790. Satrapi, Marjane - Persepolis

791. Sayers, Dorothy L. - Murder must advertise

792. Sayers, Dorothy L. - The nine tailors

793. Schlink, Bernhard - The Reader

794. Sciascia, Leonardo - To each his own

795. Scott, Walter - Rob Roy

796. Scott, Robert Falcon - The last expedition

797. Sebald, W.G - The rings of Saturn

798. Sebald, W.G. - Austerlitz

799. Sedaris, David - Me talk pretty one day

800. Seghers, Anna - Transit

801. Selby, Hubert - Last exit to Brooklyn

802. Self, Will - Umbrella

803. Selvon, Samuel - The lonely Londoners

804. Serge, Victor - The case of Comrade Tulayev

805. Seth, Vikram - A Suitable Boy

806. Seton, Anya - Katherine

807. Sewell, Anna - Black Beauty

808. Shackleton, Ernest - South

809. Shakespeare, William - Sonnets

810. Shapiro, James - 1599: a year in the life of William Shakespeare

811. Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein

812. Shields, Carol - The stone diaries

813. Shute, Nevil - A Town like Alice

814. Shute, Nevil - On the beach


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815. Sienkiewicz, Henryk - Quo Vadis

816. Sillitoe, Alan - Saturday night and Sunday morning

817. Sillitoe, Alan - The loneliness of the long distance runner

818. Simenon, Georges - A man's head

819. Simpson, Joe - Touching the void

820. Sinclair, Upton - Babbitt

821. Sinclair, Iain - Lights out for the territory

822. Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle

823. Singer, Isaac Bashevis - The magician of Lublin

824. Skloot, Rebecca - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

825. Slauerhoff, Jan Jacob - The forbidden kingdom

826. Smiles, Samuel - Self help

827. Smith, Dodie - I capture the castle

828. Smith, Zadie - White Teeth

829. Smith, Betty - A tree grows in Brooklyn

830. Smith, Delia - Delia Smith's complete cookery course

831. Smollett, Tobias George - Humphrey Clinker

832. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich

833. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - The Gulag archipelago

834. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - Cancer Ward

835. Sontag, Susan - In America

836. Spark, Muriel - The prime of Miss Jean Brodie

837. Spark, Muriel - The ballad of Peckham Rye

838. Spark, Muriel - The girls of slender means

839. Spiegelman, Art - Maus: a survivor's tale

840. Sprawson, Charles - Haunts of the black masseur

841. Stein, Gertrude - Paris, France

842. Stein, Gertrude - The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

843. Steinbeck, John - Of mice and men

844. Steinbeck, John - The grapes of wrath

845. Stendhal - The red and the black

846. Stephenson, Neal - Cryptonomicon

847. Sterne, Laurence - A sentimental journey

848. Sterne, Laurence - The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman

849. Stevenson, Robert Louis - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

850. Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island

851. Stevenson, Robert Louis - Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes

852. Stoker, Bram - Dracula

853. Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's cabin

854. Strachey, Lytton - Eminent Victorians

855. Struther, Jan - Mrs Miniver

856. Styron, William - Sophie's choice

857. Summerscale, Kate - The suspicions of Mr Whicher


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858. Sun-Tzu - The art of war

859. Susann, Jacqueline - Valley of the Dolls

860. Suskind, Patrick - Perfume

861. Sutcliff, Rosemary - The eagle of the Ninth

862. Svevo, Italo - Zeno's conscience

863. Swift, Graham - Waterland

864. Swift, Jonathan - A modest proposal

865. Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's travels

866. Tagore, Rabindranath - The home and the world

867. Tan, Amy - The Joy Luck club

868. Tanizaki, Jun’Ichiro - Some prefer nettles

869. Tartt, Donna - the secret history

870. Taylor, Elizabeth - Blaming

871. Taylor, Elizabeth - Complete short stories

872. Taylor, Elizabeth - Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

873. Terkel, Studs - Hard times

874. Tevis, Walter S. - The man who fell to Earth

875. Thackeray, William Makepeace - Vanity Fair

876. The Mabinogion

877. The Nation's favourite poems (BBC)

878. Theroux, Paul - The old Patagonian Express

879. Thesiger, Wilfred - My life and travels

880. Thirkell, Angela - The Brandons

881. Thomas, D.M. - The white hotel

882. Thompson, E.P. - The making of the English working class

883. Thompson, Hunter S. - Fear and loathing in Las Vegas

884. Thompson, Flora - Lark rise to Candleford

885. Thompson, Hunter S. - Hell's angels

886. Thoreau, Henry David - Walden

887. Thurber, James - The Thurber carnival

888. Thurber, James - The 13 clocks

889. Toibin, Colm - The master

890. Tolkien, J.R.R. - The hobbit

891. Tolkien, J.R.R. - The lord of the rings

892. Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina

893. Tolstoy, Leo - War and peace

894. Tomalin, Claire - Samuel Pepys

895. Tomasi Di Lampedusa, Giuseppe - The leopard

896. Toole, John Kennedy - Confederacy of Dunces

897. Townsend, Sue - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4

898. Travers, P.L. - Mary Poppins

899. Tremain, Rose - The colour

900. Tressell, Robert - The ragged trousered philanthropists


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901. Trevor, William - The story of Lucy Gault

902. Trevor, William - The children of Dynmouth

903. Trollope, Anthony - Barchester Towers

904. Trumbo, Dalton - Johnny got his gun

905. Truss, Lynne - Eats, shoots and leaves

906. Tuchman, Barbara - Guns of August

907. Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and sons

908. Twain, Mark - The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

909. Twain, Mark - The adventures of Tom Sawyer

910. Tyler, Anne - Dinner at the homesick restaurant

911. Uglow, Jenny - A gambling man

912. Updike, John - Rabbit, run

913. Updike, John - The witches of Eastwick

914. Vargas Llosa, Mario - The feast of the goat

915. Vargas Llosa, Mario - The war of the end of the world

916. Vazquez Montalban, Manuel - The Buenos Aires quintet

917. Verne, Jules - Around the world in 80 days

918. Verne, Jules - Journey to the centre of the Earth

919. Vidal, Gore - Myra Breckinridge

920. Voltaire - Candide

921. Von Arnim, Elizabeth - The enchanted April

922. Von Clausewitz, Carl - On war

923. Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse-five

924. Vonnegut, Kurt - Breakfast of Champions

925. Vonnegut, Kurt - Cat's cradle

926. Walker, Alice - The color purple

927. Wallace, Lew - Ben-Hur

928. Walpole, Horace - The castle of Otranto

929. Walton, Izaak - The compleat angler

930. Warhol, Andy - America

931. Warner, Alan - Morvern Callar

932. Warner, Marina - Indigo

933. Warner, Sylvia Townsend - Summer will show

934. Warren, Robert Penn - All the King's men

935. Washington, Booker T. - Up from slavery

936. Waterhouse, Keith - Billy Liar

937. Waters, Sarah - Tipping the velvet

938. Watson, James D - The double helix

939. Watson, Winifred - Miss Pettigrew lives for a day

940. Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead revisited

941. Waugh, Evelyn - Decline and fall

942. Waugh, Evelyn - The complete short stories

943. Webb, Charles R - The graduate


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944. Webb, Mary - Precious bane

945. Weil, Simone - An anthology

946. Weldon, Fay - The life and loves of a she devil

947. Wells, H.G - The war of the worlds

948. Wells, H.G. - The island of Doctor Moreau

949. Welsh, Irvine - Trainspotting

950. Welty, Eudora - The optimist's daughter

951. Wesley, Mary - The camomile lawn

952. West, Rebecca - The return of the soldier

953. West, Nathanael - Miss Lonelyhearts

954. Wharton, Edith - Ethan Frome

955. Wharton, Edith - The age of innocence

956. Wharton, Edith - The house of mirth

957. White, Patrick - Voss

958. White, Patrick - The tree of man

959. White, T.H. - The once and future king

960. White, Antonia - Frost in May

961. White, E.B. - Charlotte's web

962. White, Edmund - The married man

963. Whitman, Walt - Leaves of grass

964. Wiesel, Elie - Night

965. Wilde, Oscar - The picture of Dorian Gray

966. Wilde, Oscar - Collected works

967. Williamson, Henry - Tarka the otter

968. Wilson, Angus - The Old Men at the Zoo

969. Winchester, Simon - Krakatoa

970. Winterson, Jeanette - Sexing the cherry

971. Winterson, Jeanette - Written on the body

972. Winterson, Jeanette - The Passion

973. Wodehouse, PG - Thank you, Jeeves

974. Wodehouse, P.G. -Laughing gas

975. Wodehouse, P.G. - The code of the Woosters

976. Wolf, Christa - Cassandra

977. Wolfe, Tom - The bonfire of the vanities

978. Wolfe, Tom - . The Right Stuff

979. Woolf, Virginia - Orlando

980. Woolf, Virginia - To the lighthouse

981. Woolf, Virginia - A room of one's own

982. Woolf, Virginia - Mrs Dalloway

983. Wordsworth, William - Selected poetry

984. Worth, Jennifer - Call the midwife

985. Wright, Richard - Native Son

986. Wright, Lawrence - The Looming Tower


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987. Wu Cheng-En, Niccolo - Monkey

988. Wyndham, John - The day of the triffids

989. Wyndham, John - The Midwich cuckoos

990. Wyndham, Joan - Love lessons

991. Wyss, Johann David - The Swiss family Robinson

992. Yates, Dornford - Blind corner

993. Yates, Richard - Revolutionary Road

994. Yeats, W.B. - Collected poems

995. Young, Michael Dunlop - Family and kinship in East London

996. Yourcenar, Marguerite - Memoirs of Hadrian

997. Zamyatin, Yevgeny - We

998. Zola, Emile - Therese Raquin

999. Zola, Emile -Nana

1000. Zusak, Markus - Book thief

1001. Zweig, Stefan - The post office girl

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