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The Big Read

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By Mark Flanagan, About.com

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