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15.10.2009, 17:38 quote

julianb66

I'll start off (in no particular order):-


complete works....shakespeare.
brideshead revisited....evelyn waugh.
middlemarch....george eliott.
any viz annual.
1984....george orwell.
the inimitable jeeves....p.g.wodehouse.
the republic....plato.
complete works....philip larkin.
lord of the flies....william golding.
treatise....david hume

 

15.10.2009, 20:39 quote

grooveme
grooveme Joined: 23 Aug 2008 Posts: 1369 Location: United Kingdom, Scotland, Glasgow
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This is quite hard, but here goes

The Outsiders - S E Hinton
Emma and Me - Elizabeth Flock
Landscape of Love - Sally Beuaman
The Truth At Last - Christine Keeler
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Rebeccas Tale - Sally Beauman
The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
The Man who Kept Secrets - James Spada
Catcher In The Rye - J D Salinger
Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
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15.10.2009, 23:30 quote

oakman
oakman Joined: 07 Jun 2009 Posts: 968 Location: United Kingdom, England, London
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Patrick O'Brian - The Aubrey/Maturin series (20 books but as I'm only allowed 10 on the list I'll go for book 1 - Master and Commander.)
Tim Moore - French Revolutions
Stephen Fry - Moab Is My Waspot
Tim Willocks - Green River Rising
Gary Jennings - The Journeyer
Michael Connelly - The Poet
Bill Bryson - Neither Here Nor There
Fergus Fleming - Barrow's Boys
Henri Charriere - Papillon
Raymond E. Feist - Magician

 

21.10.2009, 20:06 quote

corazones2rotos

For my first list it would have to be...

1. Pride and Prejudice ~*~ Jane Austen
2. Twilight ~*~ Stephenie Meyer
3. New Moon ~*~ Stephenie Meyer
4. Eclipse ~*~ Stephenie Meyer
5. Breaking Dawn ~*~ Stephenie Meyer
6. Where the Red Fern Grows ~*~ Wilson Rawls
7. Little Women ~*~ Louisa May Alcott
8. The Scarlet Letter ~*~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
9. Sense and Sensibility ~*~ Jane Austen
10. Last of the Mohicans ~*~ James Fenimore Cooper

More to follow as I love to read and can't decide between some of my favs!

 

21.10.2009, 20:17 quote

whysoserious1983
whysoserious1983 Joined: 31 Mar 2009 Posts: 1830 Location: United Kingdom, England, Essex
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Ten books only on a desert island? I'd hang myself with a palm leaf.
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21.10.2009, 20:20 quote

corazones2rotos

List Two....

1. Gone with the Wind ~*~ Margaret Mitchell
2. Breakfast at Tiffany's ~*~ Truman Capote
3. Jane Eyre ~*~ Charlette Bronte
4. Wuthering Heights ~*~ Emily Bronte
5. Northanger Abby ~*~ Jane Austen
6. Persuasion ~*~ Jane Austen
7. Emma ~*~ Jane Austen
8. Mansfield Park ~*~ Jane Austen
9. The Color Purple ~*~ Alice Walker
10. To Kill a Mockingbird ~*~ Harper Lee

Still more!! Very Happy

 

02.12.2009, 07:08 quote

whysoserious1983
whysoserious1983 Joined: 31 Mar 2009 Posts: 1830 Location: United Kingdom, England, Essex
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corazones2rotos wrote:


1. Pride and Prejudice ~*~ Jane Austen
2. Twilight ~*~ Stephenie Meyer
3. New Moon ~*~ Stephenie Meyer
4. Eclipse ~*~ Stephenie Meyer
5. Breaking Dawn ~*~ Stephenie Meyer
9. Sense and Sensibility ~*~ Jane Austen


Those would all be amazing in getting the fire started!

So I decided I'd have a crack.

1. Watership Down - Richard Adams
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Fear and Lothing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
4. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
5. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
6. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
7. 1984 - George Orwell
8. The Picture of Dorien Gray - Oscar Wilde
9. The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
10. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
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