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katey
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Here are a few of teh lists....
Birth and Motherhood in 20 books
Adam Bede by George Elliot
Babies and their Mothers- DW Winnicott
Baby and Childcare by Benjamin Spock
A Chapter from her Upbringing-Ivy Goodman
The Child in Time-Ian McEwan
The Crimson Petal and teh White-Michel Faber
The Dollmaker-Harriette Arnow
Ghost Story-Toby Litt
Infants without Families-Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham
Macbeth-Shakespeare
madame Bovary-Gustav Flaubert
Newborn-Kate Clancy
Notes from a Small Island-Andrea Levy
Post-partum Document-Mary Kelly
Room Temperature-Nicholson Baker
The Shawl-Cynthia Ozick
Sons and Lovers-DH Lawrence
Tess of the D'Urbervilles-Thomas Hardy
We need to talk about Kevin-Lionel Shriver
Woolworth Madonna-Elizabeth Troop
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katey
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Top 10 Innocence
As if-Blaine Morrison
Daisy Miller-Henry James
The Death of the Heart-Elizabeth Bowen
The Inheritors-William Golding
Innocence-Penelope Fitzgerald
Oliver Twist-Charles Dickens
The Railway Children-E Nesbitt
The social Contract- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Songs of Innocence and Experience-William Blake
The way I found her-Rose Tremain
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katey
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Critics Choice-Opening LInes
The Adventures of Augie March-Saul Bellow
Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy
the Bible
The Communist Manifesto-Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
in Search of Lost Time-Marcel Proust
Invisible Man-Ralph Ellison
Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov
Metamorphosis-Franz Kafka
Middlesex-jeffrey Eugenides
1984-George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen
The Satanic Verses-Salman Rushdie
A Portrait of teh Artist as a Young Man-James Joyce
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katey
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I will add to the lists when I get chance for anyone who is interested! (and Glynis, I have this book earmarked for you to have when I have finished with it as it was on your wishlist!)
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katey
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20 classic childrens books
Anne of Green Gables-LM Montgomery
Ballet Shoes_ Noel streatfield
Black Beauty-anna Sewell
The Borrowers-Mary Norton
Charlotte's Web-EB White
The enchanted Wood- Enid Blyton
James and the Giant Peach- Roald Dahl
The Jungle Book- Rudyard Kipling
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe- CS Lewis
The Little Prince- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Peter Pan- JM Barrie
The Phantom Tollbooth-Norton Juster
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson-Burnett
The Silver sword-Ian Serralier
Stig of the Dump-Clive King
Swallows and Amazons- Arthur Ransome
Tom's Midnight Garden- Phillippa Pearce
Treasure Island - RL Stevenson
watership Down- Richard Adams
Winnie the Pooh- AA Milne
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heathera
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These are great lists Katey. Defintely some food for thought in there...!
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wonderlake
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Mmm, book lists
Thanks for the posts, I love lists of books 
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katey
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I will do a few more when I get chance!
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katey
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Critics Choice--Scary Children
Bad Influence-William Sutcliffe
Border Crossing-Pat Barker
deadkidsongs-Toby Litt
Lord of the flies-William Golding
The Midwich Cuckoos-John Wyndham
Spies-Michael Frayn
The Turn of the screw-Henry James
We Need to Talk about Kevin- Lionel Shriver
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katey
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Critics Choice-Siblings
Atomised-Michael Houllebecq
The Brothers Karamazov- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Cement Garden-Ian McEwan
The Correction-Jonathan Franzen
East of Eden-John Steinbeck
Franny and Zooey-JD Salinger
The God of Small Things-Arundhati Roy
The Mill on the Floss-George Eliot
Tales ofa Fourth Grade Nothing-Judy Blume
A Thousand Acres-Janet Smiley
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katey
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~Love and Romance in 20 books
The Accidental Tourist-Anne Tyler
The Age of Innocence-Edith Wharton
Any Human Heart-William Boyd
Doctor Zhivago- Boris Pasternak
Idylls of the King-Alfred, lord Tennyson
The letters of Abelard and Heloise
Love in the Time of Cholera-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love's Work- Gillian Rose
Loving-Henry Green
Oscar and Lucinda- Peter Carey
The Passion-Jeanette Winterson
possession-AS Byatt
The Rainbow-DH Lawrence
The Remains of the Dat- Kazuo Ishiguro
A Room With A VIew-EM Forster
The Scarlet Letter-nathaniel Hawthorne
A suitable boy-Vikram seth
The Unbearable Lightness of Being-Milan Kundera
The Well of Loneliness-Radcliffe Hall
The Woodlanders-Thomas Hardy
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katey
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Critics Choice-Illicit liaisons
Anna Karenina-Tolstoy
Asylum-Patrick McGrath
Closer-Patrick Marber
Dangerous Liaisons- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The End of the Affair-Graham Greene
The English Patient-Michael Ondaatje
An Equal Music-Vikram Seth
The French Lieutenants Woman- John Fowles
The Go-between- LP Hartley
The Golden Bowl-Henry James
The Good Life-Jay McInerney
Laughter in the Dark- Vladimir Nabokov
The Return-Joseph Conran
The Severed Head-Iris Murdoch
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katey
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Critics Choice- unrequited love
Astrophil and Stella- Sir Phillip Sidney
Breakfast at Tiffany's- Truman Capote
Enduring Love- Ian McEwan
Notes on a Scandal- Zoe Heller
The sorrows of Young Werther- JW Goethe
Villette- Charlotte Bronte
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katey
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Critics Choice- Drugs
Artificial Paradise- Charles Baudelaire
Confessions of An English Opium Eater- Thomas de Quincey
The Doors of Perception-Aldous Huxley
Fear anbd Loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter S Thompson
NakedLunch-William Burroughs
On Hashish- Walter Benjamin
A Scanner Darkly- Philip K D ick
The Sign of Four- Arthur Conan Doyle
Trainspotting-Irvine Welsh
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katey
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I have now copied all the lists in the innocence, childhood and adolescence sections- will do adulthood, middle age, old age and death in the next week or so!
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annecater
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:55 pm Post subject: Re: 'Highlights' from 1000 books to change your life (Time O |
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| katey wrote: | Here are a few of teh lists....
Birth and Motherhood in 20 books
Adam Bede by George Elliot
Babies and their Mothers- DW Winnicott
Baby and Childcare by Benjamin Spock
A Chapter from her Upbringing-Ivy Goodman
The Child in Time-Ian McEwan
The Crimson Petal and teh White-Michel Faber - I was very disappointed by this book, it started well but I got very bored by it
The Dollmaker-Harriette Arnow
Ghost Story-Toby Litt
Infants without Families-Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham
Macbeth-Shakespeare
madame Bovary-Gustav Flaubert
Newborn-Kate Clancy
Notes from a Small Island-Andrea Levy
Post-partum Document-Mary Kelly
Room Temperature-Nicholson Baker
The Shawl-Cynthia Ozick - I read this one earlier in the year - most odd and quite disturbing
Sons and Lovers-DH Lawrence
Tess of the D'Urbervilles-Thomas Hardy
We need to talk about Kevin-Lionel Shriver - I hated this one
Woolworth Madonna-Elizabeth Troop |
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| katey wrote: | Critics Choice-Opening LInes
The Adventures of Augie March-Saul Bellow
Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy
the Bible
The Communist Manifesto-Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
in Search of Lost Time-Marcel Proust
Invisible Man-Ralph Ellison
Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov
Metamorphosis-Franz Kafka - Oh My! What a very odd little tale this one is!
Middlesex-jeffrey Eugenides - I have this on TBR
1984-George Orwell - A classic that I intend to re-read soon
Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen
The Satanic Verses-Salman Rushdie
A Portrait of teh Artist as a Young Man-James Joyce |
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| katey wrote: | 20 classic childrens books
Anne of Green Gables-LM Montgomery - adored this book, and the TV series
Ballet Shoes_ Noel streatfield - I've just bought myself a copy of this
Black Beauty-anna Sewell - another one I loved and the TV series again
The Borrowers-Mary Norton - lovely, lovely, lovely
Charlotte's Web-EB White
The enchanted Wood- Enid Blyton
James and the Giant Peach- Roald Dahl
The Jungle Book- Rudyard Kipling
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe- CS Lewis - I still have my original Narnia box set
The Little Prince- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Peter Pan- JM Barrie
The Phantom Tollbooth-Norton Juster
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson-Burnett - I still have my original copy of this one too
The Silver sword-Ian Serralier
Stig of the Dump-Clive King - Another of my favourites
Swallows and Amazons- Arthur Ransome
Tom's Midnight Garden- Phillippa Pearce
Treasure Island - RL Stevenson
watership Down- Richard Adams - I struggled with this at school but would like to re-read it one day
Winnie the Pooh- AA Milne |
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annecater
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Thanks for the lists Katey - I'm a listaholic! I'll come back and do some more comments later.
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katey
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Men at war in 20 books
The assassin's Gate-America in Iraq- Gerge Packer
Atonement-Ian McEwan
Birdsong-Sebastian Faulks
Company K- William March
Dispatches-Michael Herr
Goodbye to all that- Robert Graves
Henry V- William Shakespeare
If I die in a Combat Zone- Tim O Brien
The Illiad- Homer
The last post-Max Arthur
Life and Fate-Vasily Grossman
The Machine Gunners-Robert Westall
On the Natural History of Destruction-WG SEbald
The Quiet American-Graham Greene
Regeneration-Pat Barker
Three Soldiers-John Dos Passos
The Tin Drum-Gunter Grass
Under Fire- Henri Barbusse
The War Poems- Wilfred Owen
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle- Haruki Murakami
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