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Pomgirl's "99 Favourite Books"

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A list of books which I’ve really loved, bored people by talking about, and recommended to friends, family and various random strangers. It’s a list in progress; I doubt I will ever reach 1001 but ya never know.

  1. 1.
    Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  2. 2.
    Howard's End (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by E.M. Forster

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  3. 3.
    What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories
    by Raymond Carver

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  4. 5.
    Northanger Abbey
    by Jane Austen

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  5. 7.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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  6. 8.
    The House of Mirth
    by Edith Wharton

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  7. 9.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  8. 10.
    The Painter of Signs (Penguin Classics)
    by R. K. Narayan

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  9. 11.
    The Bone People
    by Keri Hulme

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  10. 12.
    Therese Raquin (Penguin Classics)
    by Ãmile Zola

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  11. 13.
    Frost in May (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Antonia White

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  12. 14.
    American Pastoral
    by Philip Roth

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  13. 15.
    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner

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  14. 16.
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    THE GRAPES OF WRATH
    by John Steinbeck

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  15. 17.
    Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  16. 18.
    The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra (The Oxford Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

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  17. 19.
    Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  18. 20.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  19. 21.
    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

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  20. 22.
    The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

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    Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

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  22. 24.
    Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Stella Gibbons

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  23. 26.
    Cousin Bette (Modern Library Classics)
    by Honoré de Balzac

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  24. 27.
    The Age of Innocence (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  25. 28.
    A Patchwork Planet
    by Anne Tyler

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  26. 29.
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
    by Anne Bronte

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  27. 30.
    The Razor's Edge
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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  28. 31.
    What I Loved
    by Siri Hustvedt

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  29. 32.
    Lady's Maid
    by Margaret Forster

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  30. 33.
    Armadale
    by Wilkie Collins

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  31. 34.
    A Heart So White
    by Javier Marias

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  32. 35.
    The Mysteries of Udolpho (Penguin Classics)
    by Ann Radcliffe

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  33. 36.
    Perfume
    by Patrick Suskind

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  34. 37.
    How Late It Was, How Late: A Novel
    by James Kelman

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  35. 38.
    The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  36. 39.
    Possession: A Romance
    by A.S. Byatt

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  37. 40.
    Mary Swann
    by Carol Shields

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  38. 41.
    The Innocent: A Novel
    by Ian Mcewan

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  39. 42.
    Lady Oracle
    by Margaret Atwood

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  40. 43.
    A Perfect Spy
    by John le Carre

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  41. 44.
    Freaky Deaky
    by Elmore Leonard

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  42. 45.
    Middlesex

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  43. 46.
    The World According to Garp (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

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  44. 47.
    Larry's Party
    by Carol Shields

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  45. 48.
    Faces in the Water
    by Janet Frame

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  46. 49.
    Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey
    by Dan Rhodes

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  47. 50.
    The Haunting of Hill House
    by Shirley Jackson

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  48. 51.
    The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3)
    by Philip Pullman

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  49. 52.
    Northern Lights (His Dark Materials)
    by Philip Pullman

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  50. 53.
    The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2)
    by Philip Pullman

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  51. 54.
    Fear of Flying
    by Erica Jong

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  52. 56.
    Volpone and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by Ben Jonson

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  53. 57.
    Collected Poems
    by Philip Larkin

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  54. 58.
    The Year of Magical Thinking
    by Joan Didion

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  55. 59.
    We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Lionel Shriver

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  56. 60.
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    House of Sand and Fog
    by Andre Dubus

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  57. 61.
    The House of Sleep
    by Jonathan Coe

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  58. 62.
    Morvern Callar
    by Alan Warner

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  59. 63.
    Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Harvill Panther)
    by Peter Hoeg

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  60. 64.
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    Oscar and Lucinda
    by Peter Carey

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  61. 65.
    The Judgement of Strangers
    by Andrew Taylor

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  62. 66.
    The Office of the Dead (The Roth Trilogy)
    by Andrew Taylor

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  63. 67.
    Seven Types of Ambiguity
    by Elliot Perlman

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  64. 68.
    The Four Last Things (Roth Trilogy, Bk 1)
    by Andrew Taylor

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  65. 69.
    Asylum
    by Patrick Mcgrath

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  66. 70.
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    Amor y La Sombra (of Love and Shadows)
    by Isabelle Allende

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  67. 71.
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    the salesman - joseph o'connor

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  68. 72.
    The Accidental Tourist
    by Anne Tyler

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  69. 75.
    Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes
    by Roald Dahl

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  70. 76.
    Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    by Emily Dickinson

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  71. 77.
    The Sparrow
    by Mary Doria Russell

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  72. 78.
    Flowers for Algernon
    by Daniel Keyes

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  73. 79.
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    by Dave Eggers

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  74. 80.
    All Souls
    by Javier Marias

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  75. 81.
    Dark Back of Time
    by Javier Marias

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  76. 82.
    Norwegian Wood
    by Haruki Murakami

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  77. 83.
    The Travelling Hornplayer
    by Barbara Trapido

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  78. 84.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

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  79. 85.
    Post Office
    by Charles Bukowski

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  80. 86.
    Morgan's Passing
    by Anne Tyler

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  81. 87.
    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

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  82. 88.
    Harriet the Spy
    by Louise Fitzhugh

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  83. 89.
    Notes on a Scandal
    by Zoe Heller

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  84. 90.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities
    by Tom Wolfe

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  85. 91.
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Winterson, Jeanette)
    by Jeanette Winterson

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  86. 92.
    1984 - George Orwell

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  87. 93.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  88. 94.
    Fingersmith
    by Sarah Waters

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  89. 96.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  90. 97.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  91. 98.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

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  92. 99.
    The Hotel New Hampshire (Black Swan)
    by John Irving

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Created by Pomgirl on Aug 18, 2006.