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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

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

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

  4. 4.
    The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Graham Greene

  5. 5.
    Northanger Abbey (Stage Playscript)
    by Jane Austen

  6. 7.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  7. 8.
    The House of Mirth
    by Edith Wharton

  8. 9.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  9. 10.
    The Painter of Signs (Penguin Classics)
    by R. K. Narayan

  10. 11.
    The Bone People
    by Keri Hulme

  11. 12.
    Therese Raquin (Penguin Classics)
    by Émile Zola

  12. 13.
    Frost in May (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Antonia White

  13. 14.
    American Pastoral
    by Philip Roth

  14. 15.
    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner

  15. 16.
    ?
    THE GRAPES OF WRATH
    by John Steinbeck

  16. 17.
    Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  17. 18.
    The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra (Oxford Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  18. 19.
    Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  19. 20.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  20. 21.
    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

  21. 22.
    The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

  22. 23.
    ?
    Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

  23. 24.
    Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Stella Gibbons

  24. 25.
    Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood (York Notes Advanced)
    by Margaret Atwood

  25. 26.
    Cousin Bette (Modern Library Classics)
    by Honoré de Balzac

  26. 27.
    The Age of Innocence (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

  27. 28.
    A Patchwork Planet
    by Anne Tyler

  28. 29.
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
    by Anne Bronte

  29. 30.
    The Razor's Edge
    by W. Somerset Maugham

  30. 31.
    What I Loved
    by Siri Hustvedt

  31. 32.
    Lady's Maid
    by Margaret Forster

  32. 33.
    Armadale
    by Wilkie Collins

  33. 34.
    A Heart So White
    by Javier Marías

  34. 35.
    The Mysteries of Udolpho (Penguin Classics)
    by Ann Radcliffe

  35. 36.
    Perfume
    by Patrick Suskind

  36. 37.
    How Late It Was, How Late: A Novel
    by James Kelman

  37. 38.
    The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  38. 39.
    Possession
    by A.S. Byatt

  39. 40.
    Mary Swann
    by Carol Shields

  40. 41.
    The Innocent: A Novel
    by Ian McEwan

  41. 42.
    Lady Oracle
    by Margaret Atwood

  42. 43.
    A Perfect Spy
    by John le Carre

  43. 44.
    Freaky Deaky
    by Elmore Leonard

  44. 45.
    Middlesex

  45. 46.
    The World According to Garp (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

  46. 47.
    Larry's Party
    by Carol Shields

  47. 48.
    Faces in the Water
    by Janet Frame

  48. 49.
    Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey
    by Dan Rhodes

  49. 50.
    The Haunting of Hill House
    by Shirley Jackson

  50. 51.
    The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3)
    by Philip Pullman

  51. 52.
    Northern Lights (His Dark Materials)
    by Philip Pullman

  52. 53.
    The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2)
    by Philip Pullman

  53. 54.
    Fear of Flying
    by Erica Jong

  54. 56.
    Volpone and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by Ben Jonson

  55. 57.
    Collected Poems
    by Philip Larkin

  56. 58.
    The Year of Magical Thinking
    by Joan Didion

  57. 59.
    We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Lionel Shriver

  58. 60.
    ?
    House of Sand and Fog
    by Andre Dubus

  59. 61.
    The House of Sleep
    by Jonathan Coe

  60. 62.
    Morvern Callar
    by Alan Warner

  61. 63.
    Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Harvill Panther)
    by Peter Hoeg

  62. 64.
    ?
    Oscar and Lucinda
    by Peter Carey

  63. 65.
    The Judgement of Strangers
    by Andrew Taylor

  64. 66.
    The Office of the Dead (The Roth Trilogy)
    by Andrew Taylor

  65. 67.
    Seven Types of Ambiguity
    by Elliot Perlman

  66. 68.
    The Four Last Things (Roth Trilogy, Bk 1)
    by Andrew Taylor

  67. 69.
    Asylum
    by Patrick McGrath

  68. 70.
    ?
    Amor y La Sombra (of Love and Shadows)
    by Isabelle Allende

  69. 71.
    ?
    the salesman - joseph o'connor

  70. 72.
    The Accidental Tourist
    by Anne Tyler

  71. 75.
    Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes
    by Roald Dahl

  72. 76.
    Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    by Emily Dickinson

  73. 77.
    The Sparrow
    by Mary Doria Russell

  74. 78.
    Flowers for Algernon
    by Daniel Keyes

  75. 79.
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    by Dave Eggers

  76. 80.
    All Souls
    by Javier Marías

  77. 81.
    Dark Back of Time
    by Javier Marias

  78. 82.
    Norwegian Wood
    by Haruki Murakami

  79. 83.
    The Travelling Hornplayer
    by Barbara Trapido

  80. 84.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

  81. 85.
    Post Office
    by Charles Bukowski

  82. 86.
    Morgan's Passing
    by Anne Tyler

  83. 87.
    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

  84. 88.
    Harriet the Spy
    by Louise Fitzhugh

  85. 89.
    Notes on a Scandal
    by Zoe Heller

  86. 90.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities
    by Tom Wolfe

  87. 91.
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
    by Jeanette Winterson

  88. 92.
    1984 - George Orwell

  89. 93.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  90. 94.
    Fingersmith
    by Sarah Waters

  91. 96.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

  92. 97.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  93. 98.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

  94. 99.
    The Hotel New Hampshire (Black Swan)
    by John Irving

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Created by Pomgirl on Aug 18, 2006.
 

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