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The BBC Big Read

The BBC's 2003 survey to find the UK's best-loved novel. Voted by the British public.

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The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

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Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

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His Dark Materials

by Philip Pullman

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

by J. K. Rowling

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To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

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Winnie-the-Pooh

by A. A. Milne

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

by C. S. Lewis

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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

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Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

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Birdsong

by Sebastian Faulks

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Rebecca

by Daphne du Maurier

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The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

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The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

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Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

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Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

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Captain Corelli's Mandolin

by Louis de Bernières

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War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

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Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

by J. K. Rowling

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

by J. K. Rowling

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

by J. K. Rowling

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The Hobbit

by J. R. R. Tolkien

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Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

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Middlemarch

by George Eliot

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A Prayer for Owen Meany

by John Irving

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The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

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The Story of Tracy Beaker

by Jacqueline Wilson

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel García Márquez

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The Pillars of the Earth

by Ken Follett

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David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

by Roald Dahl

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Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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A Town Like Alice

by Nevil Shute

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Persuasion

by Jane Austen

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Dune

by Frank Herbert

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Emma

by Jane Austen

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Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Watership Down

by Richard Adams

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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

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Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

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Animal Farm

by George Orwell

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A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

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Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

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Goodnight Mister Tom

by Michelle Magorian

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The Shell Seekers

by Rosamunde Pilcher

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The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

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The Stand

by Stephen King

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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

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A Suitable Boy

by Vikram Seth

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The BFG

by Roald Dahl

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Swallows and Amazons

by Arthur Ransome

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Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell

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Artemis Fowl

by Eoin Colfer

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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Noughts & Crosses

by Malorie Blackman

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Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

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A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

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The Thorn Birds

by Colleen McCullough

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Mort

by Terry Pratchett

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The Magic Faraway Tree

by Enid Blyton

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The Magus

by John Fowles

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Good Omens

by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

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Guards! Guards!

by Terry Pratchett

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Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

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Perfume

by Patrick Süskind

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The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists

by Robert Tressell

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Night Watch

by Terry Pratchett

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Matilda

by Roald Dahl

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Bridget Jones's Diary

by Helen Fielding

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The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

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The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

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Ulysses

by James Joyce

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Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

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Double Act

by Jacqueline Wilson

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The Twits

by Roald Dahl

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I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

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Holes

by Louis Sachar

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Gormenghast

by Mervyn Peake

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The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

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Vicky Angel

by Jacqueline Wilson

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Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

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Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

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Magician

by Raymond E. Feist

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On the Road

by Jack Kerouac

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The Godfather

by Mario Puzo

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The Clan of the Cave Bear

by Jean M. Auel

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The Colour of Magic

by Terry Pratchett

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The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

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Katherine

by Anya Seton

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Kane and Abel

by Jeffrey Archer

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Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel García Márquez

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Girls in Love

by Jacqueline Wilson

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The Princess Diaries

by Meg Cabot

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Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

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Three Men in a Boat

by Jerome K. Jerome

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Small Gods

by Terry Pratchett

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The Beach

by Alex Garland

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Dracula

by Bram Stoker

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Point Blanc

by Anthony Horowitz

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The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

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Stormbreaker

by Anthony Horowitz

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The Wasp Factory

by Iain Banks

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The Day of the Jackal

by Frederick Forsyth

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The Illustrated Mum

by Jacqueline Wilson

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Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾

by Sue Townsend

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The Cruel Sea

by Nicholas Monsarrat

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Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

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The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

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The Dare Game

by Jacqueline Wilson

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Bad Girls

by Jacqueline Wilson

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

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Shōgun

by James Clavell

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The Day of the Triffids

by John Wyndham

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Lola Rose

by Jacqueline Wilson

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Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

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The Forsyte Saga

by John Galsworthy

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House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

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The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

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Reaper Man

by Terry Pratchett

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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

by Louise Rennison

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Possession: A Romance

by A. S. Byatt

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The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

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The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

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Danny, the Champion of the World

by Roald Dahl

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East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

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George's Marvellous Medicine

by Roald Dahl

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Wyrd Sisters

by Terry Pratchett

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The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

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Hogfather

by Terry Pratchett

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The Thirty-Nine Steps

by John Buchan

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Girls in Tears

by Jacqueline Wilson

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Sleepovers

by Jacqueline Wilson

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All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

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Behind the Scenes at the Museum

by Kate Atkinson

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High Fidelity

by Nick Hornby

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It

by Stephen King

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James and the Giant Peach

by Roald Dahl

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The Green Mile

by Stephen King

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Papillon

by Henri Charrière

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Men at Arms

by Terry Pratchett

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Master and Commander

by Patrick O'Brian

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Skeleton Key

by Anthony Horowitz

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Soul Music

by Terry Pratchett

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Thief of Time

by Terry Pratchett

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The Fifth Elephant

by Terry Pratchett

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Atonement

by Ian McEwan

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Secrets

by Jacqueline Wilson

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The Silver Sword

by Ian Serraillier

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Ken Kesey

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Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

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Kim

by Rudyard Kipling

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Cross Stitch

by Diana Gabaldon

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Moby-Dick

by Herman Melville

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River God

by Wilbur Smith

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Sunset Song

by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

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The Shipping News

by E. Annie Proulx

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The World According to Garp

by John Irving

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Lorna Doone

by R. D. Blackmore

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Girls Out Late

by Jacqueline Wilson

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The Far Pavilions

by M. M. Kaye

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The Witches

by Roald Dahl

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Charlotte's Web

by E. B. White

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Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

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They Used to Play on Grass

by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams

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The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

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The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco

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Sophie's World

by Jostein Gaarder

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Dustbin Baby

by Jacqueline Wilson

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Fantastic Mr Fox

by Roald Dahl

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Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull

by Richard Bach

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The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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The Suitcase Kid

by Jacqueline Wilson

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Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

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The Power of One

by Bryce Courtenay

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Silas Marner

by George Eliot

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American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

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The Diary of a Nobody

by George and Weedon Grossmith

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Trainspotting

by Irvine Welsh

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Goosebumps

by R. L. Stine

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Heidi

by Johanna Spyri

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Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

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Man and Boy

by Tony Parsons

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The Truth

by Terry Pratchett

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The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

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The Horse Whisperer

by Nicholas Evans

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A Fine Balance

by Rohinton Mistry

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Witches Abroad

by Terry Pratchett

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The Once and Future King

by T. H. White

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

by Eric Carle

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Flowers in the Attic

by V. C. Andrews

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