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The Millennium Trilogy (Stieg Larsson)
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Deja Dead (Kathy Reichs)
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No Country for Old Men (Cormac McCarthy)
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The Broken Shore (Peter Temple)
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Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand (Fred Vargas)
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Blood from Stone (Frances Fyfield)
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Hypothermia (Arnaldur Indridason)
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The American Boy (Andrew Taylor)
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The Power of the Dog (Don Winslow)
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Death Du Jour (Kathy Reichs)
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Nineteen Seventy-Seven (David Peace)
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Mystic River (Dennis Lehane)
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Fingersmith (Sarah Waters)
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Alex Cross Novels (James Patterson)
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Fire Bringer (David Clement-Davies)
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The Sight (David Clement-Davies)
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One for Sorrow, Two for Joy (Clive Woodall)
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Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
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The First Law Trilogy (Joe Abercrombie)
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Best Served Cold (Joe Abercrombie)
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Harry Potter series (J.K. Rowling)
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The Modern Faerie Tales (Holly Black)
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Terry Pratchett)
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A Song of Ice and Fire (George R. R. Martin)
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Black Magician trilogy (Trudi Canavan)
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His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)
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The Lord of the Rings and associated works (J. R. R. Tolkien)
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The Old Kingdom series (Garth Nix)
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The Earthsea Quartet (Ursula Le Guin)
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Mistborn Trilogy (Brandon Sanderson)
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Elantris (Brandon Sanderson)
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Circle of Magic Series (Tamora Pierce)
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Warbreaker (Brandon Sanderson)
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The Stormlight Archives (Brandon Sanderson)
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The Wind on Fire Trilogy (William Nicholson)
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The Chronicles of Narnia (C. S. Lewis)
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Kingmaker, Kingbreaker (Karen Miller)
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Watchmen (Alan Moore)
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Kingdom Come (Alex Ross and Mark Waid)
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Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)
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Exit Wounds (Rutu Modan)
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Palestine (Joe Sacco)
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American Virgin (Steven Seagle)
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Transmetropolitan (Warren Ellis)
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller)
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The Umbrella Academy (Gerard Way)
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The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
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The Sharpe series (Bernard Cornwell)
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Fatherland (Robert Harris)
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
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The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
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Labyrinth (Kate Mosse)
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Sepulchre (Kate Mosse)
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A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
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The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
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Goodnight Mr Tom (Michelle Magoria)
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The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomassi di Lampedusa
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Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
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Generation Kill (Evan Wright)
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Dracula (Bram Stoker)
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It (Stephen King)
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Duma Key (Stephen King)
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The Magic Cottage (James Herbert)
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Insomnia - Stephen King
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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
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Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (Gary K. Wolf)
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Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
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The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffeneger)
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The Bloody Chamber (Angela Carter)
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Silk - Alessandro Baricco
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1984 (George Orwell)
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The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
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Animal Farm (George Orwell)
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
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The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
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World War Z (Max Brooks)
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Dune (Frank Herbert)
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
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The Foundation Series (Isaac Asimov)
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick
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Perdido Street Station (China Mieville)
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The War of the Worlds (HG Wells)
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Rendezvous with Rama (Arthur C. Clarke)
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The Dragonriders of Pern (Anne McCaffrey)
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Xeelee Sequence (Stephen Baxter)
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Galactic Center Saga (Gregory Benford)
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Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
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Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
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Neuromancer (William Gibson)
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Shade's Children (Garth Nix)
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No Time For Goodbye (Linwood Barclay)
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Jack Ryan Novels (Tom Clancy)
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The Woods (Harlan Coben)
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Brighton Rock (Graham Greene)
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Alex Rider series (Anthony Horowitz)
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Artemis Fowl series (Eoin Colfer)
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How I Live Now (Meg Rosoff)
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The Mortal Engines Quartet (Philip Reeve)
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The Southern Vampire Mysteries (Charlaine Harris) - Vampire
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Hex Trilogy (Rhiannon Lassitter)
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If I Stay (Gayle Foreman)
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Notes on a Scandal (Zoe Heller)
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The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
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Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder)
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London Fields (Martin Amis)
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Lullaby (Chuck Palahniuk)
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The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
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The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
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Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
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Life; A Users Manual (Georges Perec)
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Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
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Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
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The Castle (Franz Kafka)
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Seize The Day (Saul Bellow)
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Rabbit, Run (John Updike)
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Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
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Tales of the City (Armistead Maupin)
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My Best Friend's Girl (Dororthy Koomson)
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The Ice Cream Girls (Dorothy Koomson)
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Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
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My Cousin Rachel (Daphne DuMaurier)
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I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
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Brooklyn (Colm Toibin)
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Kim Edwards)
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
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Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
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Kane and Abel (Jefferey Archer)
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The Harp in the South (Ruth Park)
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McSorley's Wonderful Saloon (Joseph Mitchell)
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Bringing Down the House - Ben Mezrich
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In Her Shoes - Jennifer Weiner
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Everything Is Illuminated, (Jonathan Safran Foer)
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Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux)
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The Portrait of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
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The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) - Classics
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Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
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Poor Things (Alasdair Gray)
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Lanark (Alasdair Gray)
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Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
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Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
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The Catcher in the Rye (J.D Salinger)
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Women in Love (D. H. Lawrence)
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Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
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Emma (Jane Austen)
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
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Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
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The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
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The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
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Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)
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The Colour Purple (Alice Walker)
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The Woman in White, (Wilkie Collins)
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The Master and Margarita, (Mikhail Bulgakov)
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F My Life (Maxime Valette, Guillaume Passaglia, Didier Guedj)
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PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives (Frank Warren)
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Watch My Back (Geoff Thompson)
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Cat's Eyes (Margaret Atwood)
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Blair (Anthony Seldon)
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The Periodic Table (Primo Levi)
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Moab is my Washpot (Stephen Fry)
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A History of Modern Britain (Andrew Marr)
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Children of the Killing Fields (Dith Pran)
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
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The Diary of John Evelyn
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Journal of Emily Shore
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The Lives of the Artists (Giorgio Vasari)
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Letters on England (Voltaire)
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The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (Olaudah Equiano)
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The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives (Sebastian Faulks)
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass)
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Journals and Letters (Frances Burney)
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The London Journal 1762- 1763 (James Boswell)
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Rural Rides (William Cobbett)
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Diary of a Country Parson, 1758 – 1802 (James Woodforde)
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The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
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The Confessions (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
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The Life of Samuel Johnson (James Boswell)
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The Pillow Book (Sei Shonagon)
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Taste: The Story of Britain Through its Cooking (Kate Colquhoun)
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The Shocking History of Advertising (E S Turner)
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London: The Biography (Peter Ackroyd)
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Black Sea: The Birthplace of Civilisation and Barbarism (Neil Ascherson)
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A History of Wales (John Davies)
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Chronicles of the Crusades (Joinville & Villehardouin)
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Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America (John Charles Chasteen)
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On Sparta (Plutarch)
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The Histories (Herodotus)
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London Labour and the London Poor (Henry Mayhew)
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Chronicles (Froissart)
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Prehistory of Australia (John Mulvaney)
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Made in America (Bill Bryson)
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The Faber Book of Reportage (John Carey)
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Open Veins of Latin America (Eduardo Galeano)
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Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature (Humphrey Carpenter)
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Mother Tongue (Bill Bryson)
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I’m Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ear and Other Intriguing Idioms from Around the World (Jag Bhalla)
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The Story of English (Robert McCrum)
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The Meaning of Tingo (Adam Jacet de Boinod)
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Joseph Campbell)
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Sir James Frazer)
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Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
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The Mahabharata
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The Vinland Sagas (Leif Eiricksson)
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The Healing Land: The Bushmen of the Kalahari (Rupert Isaacson)
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Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain (Ronald Hutton)
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Tales of Hi and Bye: Greeting and Parting Rituals from Around the World (Torbjorn
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Lundmark)
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King Harald’s Saga (Snorri Sturluson)
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Egyptian Book of the Dead
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The Sutton Companion to the Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain (Marc Alexander)
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Early Irish Myths and Sagas (Jeffrey Gantz)
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Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behaviour (Desmond Morris)
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The Mabinogion (Sioned Davies)
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The Prose Edda (Snorri Sturluson)
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The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (Iona and Peter Opie)
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A History of Western Philosophy (Bertrand Russell)
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Existentialism and Humanism (Jean-Paul Sartre)
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Ideas That Matter (A C Grayling)
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Beyond Good And Evil (Friedrich Nietzsche)
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Through the Lens: National Geographic’s Greatest Photographs
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Water Light Time (David Doubilet)
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Frans Lanting: Jungles (Frans Lanting)
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Empty Quarter: A Photographic Journey to the Heart of the Arabian Desert (George
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Steinmetz)
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Guatemala Rainbow (Gianni Vecchiato)
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The Photography Book (Phaidon Press)
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Over India: Kite’s Eye Photographs of India (Nicolas Chorier)
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African Ceremonies (Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher)
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The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli
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The Road to Serfdom (F A Hayek)
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Orwell and Politics (George Orwell)
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Political Thought, Oxford Reader (Rosen & Wolff)
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Political Ideologies (Andrew Heywood)
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The Man Who Thought His Wife Was A Hat (Oliver Sacks)
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The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Sigmund Freud)
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Interpreting Dreams (Sigmund Freud) (Same as above.)
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Guilty by Reason of Insanity: A Psychiatrist Explore the Minds of Killers (Dorothy Otnow Lewis)
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Sybil: The True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities (Flora Schreiber)
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Extraordinary People: Understanding Savant Syndrome (Darold A Treffert)
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Twin Stories: Their Mysterious and Unique Bond (Susan Kohl)
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Oliver Sacks)
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How To Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
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Think and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill)
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The Richest Man in Babylon (George S Clason)
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The English (Jeremy Paxman)
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Watching the English (Kate Fox)
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1900 - 1950
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (Laurie Lee)
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (Rebecca West)
The Log from the Sea of Cortez (John Steinbeck)
Arabian Sands (Wilfred Thesiger)
Between the Woods and the Water - On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland (Patrick Leigh Fermor)
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1951 - 2001
The Shadow of the Sun (Ryszard Kapuskinski)
Notes From A Big Country - Bill Bryson
The Lost Continent - Bill Bryson
A Writer's World: Travels 1950 - 2000 (Jan Morris)
The Age of Kali (William Dalrymple)
An African in Greenland (Kpomassie Tete-Michel)
Travels With Charley: In search of America (John Steinbeck)
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Eric Newby)
In Patagonia (Bruce Chatwin)
The Songlines (Bruce Chatwin)
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft (Thor Heyerdahl)
The Motorcycle Diaries (Ernesto 'Che' Guevra)
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas (Paul Theroux)
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia (Paul Theroux)
The Lost World of the Kalahari (Laurens Van der Post)
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19th Century
Around the World on a Bicycle (Thomas Stevens)
The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches (Charles Darwin)
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour (Gustave Flaubert)
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Journals of Lewis & Clark
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18th Century
James Cook: The Journals (Captain James Cook)
Ventures in the Interior of Africa (Mungo Park)
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (Henry Fielding)
A Tour Through The Whole Isle of Great Britain (Daniel Defoe)
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Earlier
The Journey Through Wales (Gerald of Wales)
The Travels of Marco Polo
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