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Pomgirl's "99 Favourite Books"

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.

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1. Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
2. Howard's End (Penguin Modern Classics)
by E.M. Forster
  
3. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories
by Raymond Carver
  
4. The End of the Affair: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
by Graham Greene
  
5. Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
  
6. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Twentieth Anniversary Edition
by Milan Kundera
  
7. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
8. The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
  
9. Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
10. The Painter of Signs (Penguin Classics)
by R. K. Narayan
  
11. The Bone People
by Keri Hulme
  
12. Therese Raquin (Penguin Classics)
by Ãmile Zola
  
13. Frost in May (Virago Modern Classics)
by Antonia White
  
14. American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
  
15. As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
  
16.
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 THE GRAPES OF WRATH
by John Steinbeck
  
17. Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
18. The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra (The Oxford Shakespeare)
by William Shakespeare
  
19. Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
  
20. Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
21. The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
by Wilkie Collins
  
22. The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics)
by Wilkie Collins
  
23.
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 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton  
24. Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Stella Gibbons
  
25. The "Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood (York Notes Advanced)
by Neil McEwan
  
26. Cousin Bette (Modern Library Classics)
by Honoré de Balzac
  
27. The Age of Innocence (Oxford World's Classics)
by Edith Wharton
  
28. A Patchwork Planet
by Anne Tyler
  
29. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Bronte
  
30. The Razor's Edge
by W. Somerset Maugham
  
31. What I Loved
by Siri Hustvedt
  
32. Lady's Maid
by Margaret Forster
  
33. Armadale
by Wilkie Collins
  
34. A Heart So White
by Javier Marias
  
35. The Mysteries of Udolpho (Penguin Classics)
by Ann Radcliffe
  
36. Perfume
by Patrick Suskind
  
37. How Late It Was, How Late: A Novel
by James Kelman
  
38. The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  
39. Possession: A Romance
by A.S. Byatt
  
40. Mary Swann
by Carol Shields
  
41. The Innocent: A Novel
by Ian Mcewan
  
42. Lady Oracle
by Margaret Atwood
  
43. A Perfect Spy
by John le Carre
  
44. Freaky Deaky
by Elmore Leonard
  
45.
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 Middlesex  
46. The World According to Garp (Modern Library)
by John Irving
  
47. Larry's Party
by Carol Shields
  
48. Faces in the Water
by Janet Frame
  
49. Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey
by Dan Rhodes
  
50. The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
  
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Created by Pomgirl on Aug 18, 2006.