Books Alive's "50 Books You Must Own 2004"

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‘50 Books You Must Own’ was part of the 2004 Books Alive project in Australia. The list includes a range of books chosen by booksellers around Australia. There are books by international and Australian writers and from every genre – thrillers, literature, classics, non-fiction, and more.

  1. 1.
    The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
    by Paulo Coelho

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  2. 2.
    The Surgeon of Crowthorne
    by Simon Winchester

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  3. 3.
    Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
    by Jostein Gaarder

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  4. 4.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  5. 5.
    Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert

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  6. 6.
    Battleaxe (Axis Trilogy)
    by Sara Douglass

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  7. 7.
    The Lovely Bones
    by Alice Sebold

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  8. 8.
    Cold Mountain : A Novel
    by CHARLES FRAZIER

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  9. 9.
    The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
    by Barbara Kingsolver

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  10. 10.
    Dirt Music : A Novel
    by Tim Winton

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  11. 11.
    This Side of Brightness: A Novel
    by Colum McCann

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  12. 12.
    Life of Pi
    by Yann Martel

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  13. 13.
    Girl with a Pearl Earring
    by Tracy Chevalier

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  14. 14.
    Oscar and Lucinda: movie tie-in edition
    by Peter Carey

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  15. 15.
    Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy)
    by Naguib Mahfouz

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  16. 16.
    Possession: A Romance
    by A.S. Byatt

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  17. 17.
    Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    by Patrick Suskind

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  18. 18.
    Mosquito Coast, The
    by Paul Theroux

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  19. 19.
    All the Pretty Horses (Vintage International)
    by Cormac Mccarthy

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  20. 20.
    Enduring Love: A Novel
    by Ian Mcewan

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  21. 21.
    Year of Wonders
    by Geraldine Brooks

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  22. 22.
    The Secret History
    by Donna Tartt

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  23. 23.
    The Corrections: A Novel
    by Jonathan Franzen

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  24. 24.
    Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction
    by Luke Davies

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  25. 25.
    High Fidelity
    by Nick Hornby

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  26. 26.
    Fight Club: A Novel
    by Chuck Palahniuk

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    Three Dog Night
    by Peter Goldsworthy

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  28. 29.
    It (Signet Books)
    by Stephen King

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  29. 30.
    The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Book II)
    by Anne Rice

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  30. 31.
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    by Bill Bryson

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  31. 32.
    Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris
    by Sarah Turnbull

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  32. 33.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

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  33. 34.
    The Eyre Affair
    by Jasper Fforde

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  34. 35.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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  35. 36.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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  36. 37.
    My Brilliant Career / My Career Goes Bung
    by Miles Franklin

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  37. 38.
    Tully
    by Paullina Simons

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  38. 39.
    Eat Me
    by Linda Jaivin

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  39. 40.
    Bridget Jones's Diary
    by Helen Fielding

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  40. 41.
    The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown

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  41. 42.
    Ice Station
    by Matthew Reilly

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  42. 43.
    Perfect Match: A Novel
    by Jodi Picoult

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  43. 44.
    The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan Novels)
    by Tom Clancy

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  44. 45.
    The Blind Assassin
    by Margaret Atwood

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  45. 46.
    The Constant Gardener
    by John Le Carre

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  46. 47.
    The Poet
    by Michael Connelly

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  47. 48.
    Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  48. 49.
    The Shipping News
    by E. Annie Proulx

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  49. 50.
    A Time to Kill
    by John Grisham

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Comments

Entitet
Malmo

Books missing — 49 weeks ago

There are now only 48 books on the list. I can’t find the original list – anyone who knows which books actually should be on here?


mvcuervo
Oviedo

Is it me or.... — 1 year ago

...there are only books made into movies in this list? I think there are many others more representative and more essential that aren’t here (Animal Farm, Oliver Twist, The name of the rose, The Unbearable lightness of being…)


Greg
Columbus

The Hobbit and Jane Eyre — 2 years ago

I think those are the only 2 on this list that are actually in our house….and I’ve not actually READ either of them at this point. :/


treespotter
Jakarta

Untitled — 2 years ago

should add Day of the Jackal somewhere there.. i think it should be there.