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frabjousday's "45 Favourite Books"

Yes, I call all of these forty-five my favourites. I include things I read from the age of seven onward. Damn it, they’re all "worth consuming"! They’re not in order.
1. Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
2. Bleak House (Modern Library Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
3.
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 David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
  
4.
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 Dickens, Charles-Hard Times  
5.
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 Collins, Wilkie-The Moonstone  
6.
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 Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
  
7.
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 Emma  
8.
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 Villette  
9. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Thrift Edition)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  
10. The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
11. The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
12.
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 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
  
13. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
by Lewis Carroll
  
14. Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
  
15.
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 Rosy Is My Relative
by Gerald Durrell
  
16. My Family and Other Animals
by Gerald Durrell
  
17. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Pernnial Moderns Classics)
by Harper Lee
  
18. The BFG
by Roald Dahl
  
19.
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 The Witches
by Roald Dahl
  
20. Matilda
by Roald Dahl
  
21.
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 Shakespeare - Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
  
22. The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
23. Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot)
by Agatha Christie
  
24. Pygmalion (Penguin Classics)
by George Bernard Shaw
  
25. Caesar and Cleopatra
by George Bernard Shaw
  
26. Expedition to Earth
by Arthur C. Clarke
  
27. The Long Long Dances
by Eric Malpass
  
28. All Creatures Great and Small
by James Herriot
  
29.
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 Witness for the Prosecution: A Play in Three Acts
by Agatha Christie
  
30. Man For All Seasons (Modern Plays)
by Robert Bolt
  
31. The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  
32. A Little Princess (Puffin Classics)
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  
33. Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
by Jonathan Swift
  
34. Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
35.
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 20000 Leagues Under the Sea  
36.
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 A Murder Is Announced (1950)  
37. Anne of Avonlea (Dover Juvenile Classics)
by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
  
38.
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 I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
  
39. Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
by P.G. Wodehouse
  
40. Meet Mr. Mulliner (Collector's Wodehouse)
by P.G. Wodehouse
  
41. Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)
by E. M. Forster
  
42.
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 The Classics Reclassified
by Richard Armour
  
43. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)
by J. K. Rowling
  
44.
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 Temple Shakespeare - The Tempest  
45. The Complete Calvin And Hobbes
by Bill Watterson
  
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Created by frabjousday on Oct 04, 2008.