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I prefer online sites for buying Books. So generally i am buying books from Amazon. Because Amazon always have some pretty good offers on books and even I get an email every week from them with good deals.
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Nice post Janet! I've read some of these, but I've just added more to my wish list! And also thanks for seprating books by age group.
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I had read these three books, which really good. Will read another books from the list. Thanks for good post.
Tan Twan Eng - The Garden of Evening Mists
Alison Moore - The Lighthouse
Will Self - Umbrella -
Thanks for sharing such a good information, But there is also some of good listed books below:
1) The Great Gatsby
2) Brave New World
3) The Grapes of Wrath
4) A Passage to India
5) Life of Pi8) The Unknown Leader
9) Hamlet
10) The Wind in the Willows
11) The Diary of a Young Girl
12) The Picture of Dorian Gray
13) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
14) Gulliver's Travels
15) Heart of Darkness
16) Men Without Women -
My favourites there are Me Before You (Jojo Moyes), A Land of Decoration (Grace McCleen) and The Snow Child (Eowyn Ivey)... I hope they do well, I'll be watching with interest, thanks for posting MIchelle.
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I agree that some of those books are excellent Never Let Me Go, Life of Pi, Fingersmith and Lovely Bones And I've read Atonement, A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Lovely Bones from that list. Thanks for sharing such a good Informatic list.
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This is a nice list, It has a lot of books I've either read or want to read, and I'll definitely have a look at the ones I haven't heard of so thanks.
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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien ~ 1
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling ~ 2
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible ~ 3
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ~ 4
8 1984 - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D�Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ~5
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (Currently reading)
19 The Time Traveller�s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker�s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ~6
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen-
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli�s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown ~ 7
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid�s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens ~ 8
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon ~ 9
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez-
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac-
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones�s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight�s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ~10
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ~ 11
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -
87 Charlotte�s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -
Following are Books Name, Which helps to Read Before You Die:
The Great Gatsby
Brave New World
The Grapes of Wrath
A Passage to India
Life of PiHamlet
The Wind in the Willows
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Gulliver's Travels
Heart of Darkness
Men Without Women -
Black Water Rising - it was one of my favourite reads. I've heard of a few of the books on the list but Pity Help did not get short listed. It was fabulous. Thanks for the list.
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Amezone is really good hub to buy books. Amezone also offers good Deals for customers. And one more Waterstones online are doing 'buy one get one free' on their young adult section.