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katey
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Critics Choice- Offices
All teh Presidents Men- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
The Brainstorm- Jenny Turner
The Castle- Franz Kafka
Economy and Society-Max Weber
A Far Cry from Kensington- Muriel Spark
The Horned Man- James Lasdun
Indecision- Benjamin Kunkel
Microserfs- Douglas Coupland
Mr Phillips-John Lanchester
Perfect Tense- Michael Bracewell
Post Office- Charles Bukowski
The we came to the end- Joshua Ferris
Towards the End of Morning- michale Frayn
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Critics Choice- Fights
The American-Henry JAmes
Brighton Rock-Graham Greene
David Copperfield-Charles Dickens
Death in the Afternoon-Ernest Hemingway
The Duel-Anton Chekov
The Fight-Norman Mailer
Money-Martin Amis
Hamlet-William Shakespeare
Royal Flash-George Macdonald Fraser
Women in Love- DH Lawrence
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katey
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Food and Feasts in 20 books
Babette's Feast- Isak Dinesen
The Belly of Paris- Emile Zola
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- Roald Dahl
Chocolat-Joanne Harris
Dead Souls- Nikolai Gohol
The Debt to Pleasure-John Lanchester
The Epicurean- Charles Ranhofer
Farmer Boy- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fast Food Nation- Eric Schlosser
Feast -Roy Strong
Feeding Frenzy-Will Self
Five on a Hike Together-Enid Blyton
Heat- Bill Buford
The LIfe of Hunger- Amelie Nothomb
The Life of Pi- Yann Martel
The Man who ate everything- Jeffrey Steingarten
Nose to Tail Eating-Fergus Henderson
The Pedant in teh Kitchen- Julian Barnes
Symposium- Plato
The Wind in the Willows- Kenneth Grahame
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Critics Choice-Midlife Crises
Back When we Were Grown Ups- Anne Tyler
Bliss-Peter Carey
Disgrace-JM Coetzee
The Ice Storm-Rick Moody
The Information-Martin Amis
Intimacy-Hanif Kureishi
Operation Shylock-Philip Roth
Oxygen- Andrew Miller
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katey
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Critics Choice-Diaries and Letters
Clarissa-Samuel Richardson
The Diaries-Kenneth Williams
The Diaries of Samuel Pepys
The Diary of Anne Frank
Dracula-Bram Stoker
Evelina-Fanny Burney
Julie, or th eNew Heloise-jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Letters of Kingsley Amis
The Screwtape Letters-CS Lewis
A Writers Diary-Virginia Woolf
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Critics Choice-Class Struggle
Animal Farm-George Orwell
Capital- Karl Marx
The Making of teh English Working Class- EP Thompson
Mary Barton-Elizabeth Gaskell
Nickel and Dimed-Barbara Ehrenreich
Noblese Oblige-Nancy Mitford
Reflections on the Revolution in France-Edmund Burke
Sybil-Benjamin Disraeli
The Tortilla Curtain- T Coraghessan Boyle
To the Finland Station-Edmund Wilson
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annecater
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| katey wrote: | Critics Choice--Scary Children
Bad Influence-William Sutcliffe
Border Crossing-Pat Barker - I have this on TBR
deadkidsongs-Toby Litt
Lord of the flies-William Golding - one of my all time favourites
The Midwich Cuckoos-John Wyndham
Spies-Michael Frayn
The Turn of the screw-Henry James - read this earlier this year and thought it was just OK
We Need to Talk about Kevin- Lionel Shriver - hated this one |
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| katey wrote: | Critics Choice-Siblings
Atomised-Michael Houllebecq
The Brothers Karamazov- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Cement Garden-Ian McEwan - I'm not a McEwan fan but I did like this one although it's content is quite disturbing.
The Correction-Jonathan Franzen
East of Eden-John Steinbeck - loved the film
Franny and Zooey-JD Salinger
The God of Small Things-Arundhati Roy
The Mill on the Floss-George Eliot - this was written in and set in Gainsborough (St. Oggs is Gainsborough), I've not read it but do have a copy
Tales ofa Fourth Grade Nothing-Judy Blume
A Thousand Acres-Janet Smiley |
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| katey wrote: | Critics Choice- unrequited love
Astrophil and Stella- Sir Phillip Sidney
Breakfast at Tiffany's- Truman Capote - I enjoyed this
Enduring Love- Ian McEwan
Notes on a Scandal- Zoe Heller - loved this one, very unlikeable characters but a great read
The sorrows of Young Werther- JW Goethe
Villette- Charlotte Bronte - have this on TBR |
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| katey wrote: | Food and Feasts in 20 books
Babette's Feast- Isak Dinesen
The Belly of Paris- Emile Zola
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- Roald Dahl
Chocolat-Joanne Harris - beautiful - a real favourite of mine
Dead Souls- Nikolai Gohol
The Debt to Pleasure-John Lanchester
The Epicurean- Charles Ranhofer
Farmer Boy- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fast Food Nation- Eric Schlosser - this is an interesting read
Feast -Roy Strong
Feeding Frenzy-Will Self
Five on a Hike Together-Enid Blyton - oh yes, lashings of ginger beer!
Heat- Bill Buford
The LIfe of Hunger- Amelie Nothomb - on my TBR
The Life of Pi- Yann Martel
The Man who ate everything- Jeffrey Steingarten - on my TBR
Nose to Tail Eating-Fergus Henderson
The Pedant in teh Kitchen- Julian Barnes - this is excellent
Symposium- Plato
The Wind in the Willows- Kenneth Grahame |
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katey
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Old Age in 20 books
And When did you Last see your Father- Blake Morrison
Cold Comfort Farm-Stella Gibbons
Collected Later Poems- RS Thomas
Embers by Sandor Marai
Gilead- Marillyn Robinson
House Mother Normal- BS Johnson
The House of the Spirits- Isabel Allende
Indian Summer of a Forsyte- John Galsworthy
Iris-John Bailey
Krapp's Last Tape- Samuel Beckett
Last Orders- Graham Swift
The Lemon Table- Julian Barnes
Old Goriot- Honore de Balzac
The Old Man and the Sea- Ernest Hemingway
Patrimony- Phillip Roth
Prufrock and othe rObservations- TS Eliot
Remind me Who I Am Again- Linda Grant
The Spire- William Golding
Talking Heads-Alan Bennett
A Voyage Round my Father-John Mortimer
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katey
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Critics Choice- Decay
Being Dead- Jom Crace
Death in Venice- Thomas Mann
Dorian- Will Self
The Five Gates of Hell- Rupert Thomson
Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
To the LIghthouse-Virginia Woolf
Midnight's Children- Salman Rushdie
The Picture of Dorian Grey- Oscar Wilde
The Radetzky March- Joseph Roth
The Stories of Venice- JohnRuskin
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katey
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Critics Choice- Nostalgia
Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh
Call It Sleep -Henry Roth
Le Chateau de Ma Mere- Marcel Pagnol
Cider with Rosie- Laurie Lee
Death of a Salesman- Arthur Miller
The Emigrants- WG Sebald
The Enigma of Arrival- VS Naipaul
Ignorance- Milan Kundera
Lost Worlds- Michael Bywater
Norwegian Wood- Haruki Murukami
Our Fathers- Andrew O'Hagan
The Sea- John Banville
A Shropshire Lad- AE Housman
Sunset Song- Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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katey
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Death in 20 books
The American Way of Death Revisited- Jessica Mitford
As I Lay Dying- William Faulkner
The Body Artist- Don Delillo
Chronicle of a death foretold- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Complete Poems- Emily Dickinson
The Death of Artemio Cruz- Carlos Fuentes
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close- Jonathan Safran Foer
The Famished Road- Ben Okri
Fred- Posy Simmonds
A Grief Observed- CS Lewis
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things- Jon McGregor
In the Springtime of the Year- Susan Hill
Journal of a disappointed man- WNP Barbellion
Laments- Jan Kochanowski
Little Women- Louisa May Alcott
The Man with Night Sweats- Thom Gunn
Monopolies of Loss- Adam Mars Jones
The Old Curiosity Shop- Charles Dickens
Selected Poems- Paul Celan
The Wings of a Dove- Henry James
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katey
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Critics Choice- Tragedy
All My Sons- Arthur Miller
Antigone- Sophocles
Anthony and Cleopatra- Shakespeare
The Birth of Tragedy- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Death of Tragedy- George Steiner
Doctor Faustus- Christopher Marlowe
The Duchess of Malfi- John Webster
The Eumenides- Aeschlus
Hedda Gabler- Henrik Ibsen
The Iceman Cometh- Eugene O Neill
Iphigeneia at Aulis- Euripedes
Phaedra- Jean Racine
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katey
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And finally, concluding teh lists in the guide....
Critics Choice- Murders
Alias Grace- Margaret Atwood
An American Tragedy- Theodore Dreiser
Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Deep WAter- Patricia Highsmith
In Cold Blood- Tuuman Capote
The Secret History- Donna Tartt
Perfume- Patrick Suskind
Julius Caesar- Shakespeare
Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck
My Dark PLaces- James Ellroy
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| katey wrote: | And finally, concluding the lists in the guide....
Critics Choice- Murders
Alias Grace- Margaret Atwood
An American Tragedy- Theodore Dreiser
Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Deep Water- Patricia Highsmith
In Cold Blood- Truman Capote
The Secret History- Donna Tartt
Perfume- Patrick Suskind
Julius Caesar- Shakespeare
Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck
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OMG have you really typed out all 1,001 of the recommendations ? 
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katey
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No, I just typed out the lists! There are lots more in the essays which are recommended. I'm good, but not THAT good 
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katey
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Bumping as I am adding more books to my wishlist again!
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How did I miss this when you first posted it!!! I love lists, thanks for doing it, I will study it later on and see what I have read.
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