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As voted by customers of WH Smith... makes for mildly interesting reading... 1. 1984 - George Orwell* 2. The Alchemist - Paul Coelho 3. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 4. Animal Farm - George Orwell* 5. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 6. Anne Of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 7. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer 8. The BFG - Roald Dahl* 9. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 10. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell 11. Bleak House - Charles Dickens 12. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 13. Brideshead Revisted - Evelyn Waugh 14. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding 15. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 16. Catch-22 - Joseph L Heller* 17. The Catcher In The Rye - JD Salinger* 18. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl* 19. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens* 20. The Clan Of The Cave Bear - Jean M Auel 21. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 22. The Colour Of Magic - Terry Pratchett* 23. The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas 24. Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 25. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 26. Double Act - Jacqueline Wilson 27. Dune - Frank Herbert* 28. Emma - Jane Austen 29. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 30. Girls In Love - Jacqueline Wilson 31. The God Of Small Things - Arundhati Roy 32. The Godfather - Mario Puzo 33. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 34. Good Omens - Terry Practchett & Neil Gaiman 35. Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian 36. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake 37. The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck 38. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 39. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 40. Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett* 41. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling* 42. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets - JK Rowling* 43. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban - JK Rowling* 44. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire - JK Rowling* 45. His Dark Materials Trilogy - Phillip Pullman* 46. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams* 47. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien* 48. Holes - Louis Sac |
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48. Holes - Louis Sachar 49. I Capture The Castle - Dodie Smith 50. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 51. Kane And Abel - Jeffrey Archer 52. Katherine - Anya Seton 53. The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 54. Little Women - Louisa Mary Alcott 55. Lord Of The Flies - William Golding* 56. The Lord Of The Rings - JKK Tolkien* 57. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 58. The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton 59. Magician - Raymond E Feist 60. The Magus - John Fowles 61. Matilda - Roald Dahl* 62. Memoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golden 63. Middlemarch - George Elliot 64. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie 65. Mort - Terry Pratchett* 66. Nightwatch - Terry Pratchett* 67. Noughts And Crosses - Malorie Blackman 68. Of Mice And Men - John Steinbeck* 69. On The Road - Jack Kerouac 70. One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 71. Perfume - Patrick Suskind 72. Persuasian - Jane Austen 73. The Pillars Of The Earth - Ken Follett 74. A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving 75. Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen 76. The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot 77. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell 78. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 79. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 80. The Secret History - Donna Tartt 81. The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher 82. The Stand - Stephen King* 83. The Story Of Tracey Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson 84. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 85. Swallows And Amazons - Arthur Ransome 86. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 87. Tess Of The D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy 88. The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCollough 89. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee 90. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 91. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson* 92. The Twits - Roald Dahl* 93. Ulysses - James Joyce 94. Vicky Angel - Jacqueline Wilson 95. War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy 96. Watership Down - Richard Adams* 97. The Wind In The Willows - Kenneth Grahame 98. Winnie The Pooh - AA Milne 99. The Woman In White - Wilkie Collins 100. Wuthering He |
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100. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte *indicates I've read it |
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i wonder how many of those i read/ saw as a movie, |
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its amazing how they are all voted in alphabetical order like that... |
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a lotta childrens books i see |
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I've read about a quarter of these, this list has made me curious though and I'll probably get some of these. Books missing, imo, from this list: 'Trainspotting' - Irvine Welsh; 'American Psycho' - Bret Easton Ellis; 'The Beach' - Alex Garland. I can understand the first two not being there due to their contriversial content but 'The Beach' I'm suprised at not making the list. |
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It's not in order of popularity, silly! :P |
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yeah indicates they're familair with the alphabet, who would suspected! |
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I've read a good amount of those. I agree with your thought on notable omissions though. |
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Not even a single one of the native son Ballard? Shameful. |
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As an American, I can attest to viewing over half of these films. |
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I'm also shocked that The Hungry Catterpillar isn't on there!!!!! |
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ONE Dostoyevsky?? They rank Harry Potter and Terry Pratchett books above 'The Idiot'. 'The Brothers Karamazov', 'The House of the Dead' ?? What a fucking joke. And NO Raymond Chandler? NO Agatha Christie? No Mark Twain? No Homer? No Chaucer? No Shakespeare? No Crowley?? No Virgil? Pathetic. |
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Shouldn't that be: "Its not in ordah ah popularity ya daft cunt ya." |
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There are some shocking omissions - but this reflects the public vote. Some stuff being on there doesn't surprise me - it was obvious Harry Potter was going to be there - but some of this shit I've never heard of, ever. It's the Smith's purple rinse brigade I think. |
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Read: Animal farm brave new world catcher in the rye saw charlie and that factory: funny shit crime and punishment saw count of monte cristo dune guards guards? Never heard of it, nor the writer wish i could say the same for harry potter the hobbit i know the band hole lord of the flies mice and men perfume: thats not english: whats the point then; a lot isnt on it, btw their pretty atheist usely the bible is at the top want to read ulysses war and peace watership down is a book too? Winnie the pooh, cute I miss that south american dude, whats he called? What a crap list anyway |
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haheaha |
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what kind of book store is it anyway? |
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No cunt leaves till ah find oot which cunt did eht! |
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Yeah some of them arre not the best books out therre by farr. No doubt alot of childrren voted as well. |
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A pretty crap one. It's a glorified stationers which just diversified. |
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I'm going to have to make more effort to read some of those again though. Haven't read them in ages. I'll maybe make an effort to read the others that I haven't. |
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Of Mice And Men, I love that, and grreat film to. |
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Smith's is alright, it's not as good as Waterstones though. And John Menzies was better cause it sold fags and porn (to be fair Smiths sells fags again now) |
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My dad worrks forr John Menzies, not in a shop howeverr. |
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I was forced to read that for my GCSE. I don't know if it was the pace of the class that made me want to cry or the book but I found it so boring. Admittedly we had kids in our school who had trouble reading the word machine and centre so maybe that's why. |
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Your avatar works wonders for that paragraph. |
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well it is the people's choice than, so to say |
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You have a Menzies? I thought that was just a Scottish store - the equivalent of Smith's. I normally buy my books in Ottakar's, and this old book shop nearby - second hand and old books. |
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Ahh school rreading can rruin any book. rreading because you HAVE to is not the way. Go rre-discoverr it. |
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lenny.. |
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since when did people have a full choice of anything? |
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school reading was good, i thought, reading, or starting to, is always an effort to me anyway, you'd, to some level, better be forced. |
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". . . pick up the gun" |
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Ottakars is wherre I get books. I just wish they had not build a coffee shop into it, that big-city trrendy wanna-be bullshit just does not wash with me. |
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poor guy :( |
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Yes, it's rather annoying when you're choosing which book on Quantum to buy when some fronters are braying 10 feet away and preening themselves like they were dogs at Crufts - stupide vainglorious pride |
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I trust your opinion so I'll give it a whirl. |
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chris, your avatar is making me feel sick ! |
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yeah, i prefer the sad melancholy of of mice and men above the horror of american psycho |
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It's not a 'must have' book by anymeans, but it is a grreat storry. |
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I also read Mice And Men in school, I remember I enjoyed it but you can't really love anything you were forced to do. *insert witty marlowe comment here* :D |
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in dutch schools you can get this inexpensive package of 5 books each year, that's how i got it: it was the small one of the five, other were the power and the glory, the grass is singing, picture of dorian gray, and ? i still know that after eight years! just to show how good that system is |
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Steinbeck's short novels are mainly very good - have a read of 'Tortilla Flat' - great book ! His travelogue, 'Travels with Charley' is an excellent book to read, also |
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i read the sun also riseth i think he's kind of a prick though, but that dont really matter for the story, its the front-generation man! |
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Yeah I will, I'll pick that up. |
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Sorry, I've been dreaming up a new one. It'll be great. I'll launch it on the 17th of this month :P Anus: I'll still check it. |
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I'm a horror man. Loved American Psycho. |
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