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Old 05-18-2003, 06:09 AM
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Default the top 100 best books as voted on the bbc website

harry bloody potter has 4 books -what tosh.

1984, George Orwell, Author profile
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho, Theatre review
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, Author profile
Animal Farm, George Orwell, Author profile
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, Author profile
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery, Author profile
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer, Author profile
The BFG, Roald Dahl, Author profile
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks, Author profile
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell, Feature on children's fiction
Bleak House, Charles Dickens, Dickens site
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, Author profile
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Interview
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding, Film review
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres, Film review
Catch 22, Joseph Heller, Author profile
The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger, Author profile
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl, Author profile
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Dickens site
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel, Author profile
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons, Film interview
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett, Author profile
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas, Film review
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment site
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens, Dickens site
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson, Author profile
Dune, Frank Herbert, Discussion
Emma, Jane Austen, Author profile
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy, Author profile
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson, Author profile
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy, Author profile
The Godfather, Mario Puzo, Film review
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell, Film review
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Discussion
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast site
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck, Author profile
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, Dickens site
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald, Author profile
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett, Author profile
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling, Author profile
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling, Author profile
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling, Author profile
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling, Author profile
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman, Author profile
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams, Author profile
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien, Author profile
Holes, Louis Sachar, Author profile
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith, Film review



Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë, Feature
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer, Author profile
Katherine, Anya Seton, BBCi History
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis, Author profile
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Children's fiction
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding, Author profile
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien, Author profile
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez, Author profile
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton, Author profile
Magician, Raymond E Feist
The Magus, John Fowles, Author profile
Matilda, Roald Dahl, Author profile
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden, Author profile
Middlemarch, George Eliot, Author profile
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie, Author profile
Mort, Terry Pratchett, Author profile
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett, Author profile
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck, Author profile
On The Road, Jack Kerouac, Author profile
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez, Author profile
Perfume, Patrick Süskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen, Author profile
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett, Author profile
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving, Theatre review
Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen, Author profile
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot, Author interview
The Ragged Trousered Philantrhopists, Robert Tressell
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier, Book discussion
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Author profile
The Secret History, Donna Tartt, Author profile
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Stand, Stephen King, Author profile
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson, Author profile
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth, Interview
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome, Author profile
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, Dickens site
Tess Of The D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy, Author profile
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson, Author profile
The Twits, Roald Dahl, Author profile
Ulysses, James Joyce, Author profile
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson, Author profile
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy, Author profile
Watership Down, Richard Adams, Discussion
The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame, Author profile
Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne, Author profile
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë, Feature



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His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
"The most ambitious work since Lord of the Rings... As intellectually thrilling as it is magnificent." -- Amanda Craig. The New Statesman. --

That says it all.
These are the most captivating books I've ever read !
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The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
my favourite book

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Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
great book!

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The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
classic

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Perfume, Patrick Süskind
READ READ READ!
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this top sucks.


Where is Kafaka????
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Old 05-18-2003, 11:54 AM
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this top sucks.


Where is Kafaka????
You mean Kafka ?
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this top sucks.


Where is Kafaka????
You mean Kafka ?
yes i meant KAFKA.
My typing sucks...sorry.


Where is he???in the top i mean...
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Where is he???in the top i mean...
Nowhere, I'm afraid. Not that I care though.
I've only read the one about that guy who wakes up as a bug.
Even though it's a pretty good critic on society, intolerance etc... I thought it was weird.
(Sorry, I don't know the english name).

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this top sucks.


Where is Kafaka????
"A goes to H to vistit B..."
Sorry, but I wouldn't like something like that to be in the list. :P
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Bah!! - No 'Power of One'

Still.. good to see 'To kill a mocking bird' & 'Lord of the Flies' getting recognition.
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