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1 Richard Adams 2 Watership Down Animals Adult Joan Aiken 2 The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (first in series) Classic Children Louisa May Alcott 2 Little Women (first in series) Historical Young Adult Jane Austen 3 Emma Classic Adult Jane Austen 3 Pride and Prejudice Classic Adult Jane Austen 3 Sense and Sensibility Classic Adult R M Ballantyne 1 The Coral Island Adventure Children J G Ballard 3 Empire of the Sun War Adult Iain M Banks 3 The Player of Games Science Fiction Adult Pat Barker 3 Regeneration War Adult Nina Bawden 1 Carrie's War War Children EF Benson 2 Mapp and Lucia Humour Adult Malory Blackman 2 Noughts and Crosses (First in series) Dystopian Young Adult R D Blackmore 2 Lorna Doone Historical Adult Jorge Luis Borges 3 Short Stories Modern Classic Adult Ray Bradbury 3 Fahrenheit 451 Science Fiction Adult Elizabeth Braddon 3 Lady Audley's Secret Historical Adult Charlotte Bronte 3 Jane Eyre Bildungsroman Adult Emily Bronte 3 Wuthering Heights Classic Adult Anthony Buckeridge 2 Jennings (first in series) School Children Sheila Burnford 1 The Incredible Journey Animals Children Albert Camus 3 The Outsider Modern Classic Adult Albert Camus 3 The Plague Modern Classic Adult Edward Carey 1 Heap House (first in series) Eccentric Children Soman Chainani 1 The School For Good and Evil (first in series) Fairy Tales Children G K Chesterton 2 The Club of Queer Trades Eccentric Adult G K Chesterton 2 The Man Who was Thursday Spy Adult Agatha Christie 1 Death on the Nile Detective Adult Agatha Christie 1 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Detective Adult Agatha Christie 1 They Do It with Mirrors Detective Adult Wilkie Collins 3 No Name Classic Adult Wilkie Collins 3 The Law and the Lady Classic Adult Wilkie Collins 3 The Moonstone Classic Adult Wilkie Collins 3 The Woman in White Classic Adult Arthur Conan Doyle 3 Sherlock Holmes Detective Adult Arthur Conan Doyle 2 The Lost World Science Fiction Adult Joseph Conrad 3 Heart of Darkness Classic Adult Joseph Conrad 3 Lord Jim Classic Adult

2 Susan Coolidge 1 What Katy Did (first in series) Adventure Children Daniel Defoe 1 Robinson Crusoe Adventure Children Charles Dickens 3 A Christmas Carol Classic Adult Charles Dickens 3 A Tale of Two Cities Classic Adult Charles Dickens 3 Oliver Twist Classic Adult Philip K Dicks 2 Counter-Clock World Science Fiction Adult Philip K Dicks 2 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Science Fiction Adult Philip K Dicks 2 The Man in the High Castle Science Fiction Adult Fyodor Dostoyevsky 3 Crime and Punishment Classic Adult Daphne Du Maurier 3 My Cousin Rachel Modern Classic Adult Daphne Du Maurier 3 Rebecca Modern Classic Adult Alexander Dumas 3 The Count of Monte Cristo Classic Adult Alexander Dumas 3 The Man in the Iron Mask Classic Adult Alexander Dumas 3 The Three Musketeers Classic Adult J Meade Falkner 1 Moonfleet Adventure Children Rachel Ferguson 2 The Brontes Went to Woolworths Eccentric Adult Henry Fielding 3 Tom Jones Classic Adult Ian Fleming 2 Casino Royale Spy Adult Neil Gaiman 1 Coraline Eccentric Young Adult Neil Gaiman 2 Neverworld Adventure Adult Neil Gaiman 1 The Graveyard Book Eccentric Young Adult Alan Garner 1 Elidor Adventure Children Alan Garner 1 The Owl Service Adventure Children Elizabeth Gaskell 3 Cranford Classic Adult Stella Gibbons 3 Cold Comfort Farm Classic Adult William Golding 3 The Lord of the Flies Classic Adult Elizabeth Goudge 1 The Little White Horse Animals Children Kenneth Graham 1 The Wind in the Willows Animals Children Robert Graves 3 I, Claudius Historical Adult Graham Greene 3 Brighton Rock Modern Classic Adult Graham Greene 3 The Heart of the Matter Modern Classic Adult Thomas Hardy 3 Far From the Madding Crowd Classic Adult Thomas Hardy 3 Jude the Obscure Classic Adult Thomas Hardy 3 Tess of d'urbervilles Classic Adult Thomas Hardy 3 The Mayor of Casterbridge Classic Adult Joseph Heller 3 Catch-22 War Adult Charlie Higson 1 The Enemy (First in series) Dystopian Young Adult Frances Hodgson-Burnett 1 Little Lord Fauntleroy Classic Children

3 Frances Hodgson-Burnett 1 The Secret Garden Classic Children E T A Hoffman 2 The Nutcracker and the Mouse King Fairy Tales Children Thomas Hughes 1 Tom Brown's Schooldays (first in series) School Children Aldous Huxley 3 Brave New World Dystopian Adult Washington Irving 2 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Gothic Adult Kazuo Ishiguro 3 Never Let Me Go Dystopian Adult Kazuo Ishiguro 2 The Remains of the Day Historical Adult Henry James 3 The Portrait of a Lady Classic Adult Captain W. E. Johns 1 Biggles novels War Children Captain W. E. Johns 1 Worrals novels War Children Franz Kafka 3 The Castle Science Fiction Adult Franz Kafka 3 The Trial Science Fiction Adult John Kennedy Toole 2 A Confederacy of Dunces Eccentric Adult Judith Kerr 1 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (first in series) War Children Rudyard Kipling 3 Kim Spy Adult Ursula Le Guin 1 Earthsea (first in series) Fantasy Children Harper Lee 3 To Kill a Mockingbird Bildungsroman Adult C S Lewis 1 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (first in series) Fantasy Children Matthew Lewis 3 The Monk Gothic Adult Jack London 2 White Fang Animals Adult Jack London 2 The Call of the Wild Animals Adult Katherine Mansfield 2 The Garden Party and Other Stories Modern Classic Adult Frederick Marryat 1 The Children of the New Forest Adventure Children Haruki Marukami 3 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Eccentric Adult Charles Maturin 3 Melmouth the Wanderer Classic Adult Cormac McCarthy 3 The Road Dystopian Adult Carson McCullers 2 The Ballad of the Sad Café Modern Classic Adult Carson McCullers 2 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Modern Classic Adult Ian McEwan 3 Atonement War Adult John Milton 3 Paradise Lost Classic Adult L M Montgomery 1 Anne of Green Gables (first in series) Adventure Children Michael Morpurgo 1 Private Peaceful War Children Michael Morpurgo 1 War Horse War Children E Nesbit 1 Five Children and It Classic Children E Nesbit 1 The Railway Children Classic Children E Nesbit 1 The Treasure Seekers Classic Children Kate O'Brien 2 That Lady Historical Adult Kate O'Brien 3 The Land of Spices Bildungsroman Adult

4 Michael Ondaatje 3 Anil's Ghost Modern Classic Adult Michael Ondaatje 2 The English Patient War Adult George Orwell Dystopian Adult George Orwell 2 Animal Farm Dystopian Adult Arturo Perez-Reverte 2 The Dumas Club Adventure Adult Edgar Allen Poe 3 The Raven Gothic Adult Eleanor Porter 1 Pollyanna (first in series) Classic Children Phillip Pullman 2 The Northern Lights (First in series) Fantasy Children Thomas Pynchon 2 The Crying of Lot 50 Science Fiction Adult Anne Radcliffe 3 The Italian Gothic Adult Anne Radcliffe 3 A Sicilian Romance Gothic Adult Anne Radcliffe 3 The Mysteries of Udolpho Gothic Adult Arthur Ransome 1 Swallows and Amazons (first in series) Adventure Children Jean Rhys 3 The Wild Sargasso Sea Gothic Adult H Rider Haggard 2 Allan Quartmain Adventure Adult H Rider Haggard 2 King Solomon's Mines Adventure Adult H Rider Haggard 2 She Adventure Adult J K Rowling 1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (first in series) Magic Children (HH Munro) Saki 3 Short Stories Satire Adult J D Salinger 3 The Catcher in the Rye Bildungsroman Adult Jose Saramago 2 Blindness Eccentric Adult Walter Scott 3 Ivanhoe Historical Adult Mary Elizabeth Shelley 3 Frankenstein Science Fiction Adult Lemony Snicket 1 The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events) (first in series) Eccentric Children Alexander Solzhenitsyn 3 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Dystopian Adult John Steinbeck 3 Of Mice and Men Classic Adult John Steinbeck 3 The Grapes of Wrath Modern Classic Adult Robert Louis Stevenson 3 Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde Science Fiction Adult Robert Louis Stevenson 1 Kidnapped Adventure Children Robert Louis Stevenson 1 Treasure Island Adventure Children Bram Stoker 3 Dracula Classic Adult William Makepeace Thackeray 3 Vanity Fair Classic Adult J R R Tolkien 2 The Hobbit Fantasy Adult J R R Tolkien 3 The Lord of the Rings Fantasy Adult Leo Tolstoy 3 Anna Karenina Classic Adult Anthony Trollope 3 The Warden Classic Adult Mark Twain 3 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Adventure Children

5 Jules Verne 2 A Journey to the Center of the Earth Classic Children Jules Verne 2 Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Classic Children Kurt Vonnegut 3 Slaughterhouse 5 Science Fiction Adult Alice Walker 3 The Colour Purple Modern Classic Adult Horace Walpole 3 The Castle of Otranto Gothic Adult Evelyn Waugh 3 Brideshead Revisited Satire Adult Evelyn Waugh 3 Scoop Satire Adult Evelyn Waugh 3 Sword of Honoour Trilogy War Adult Fay Weldon 2 Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen Eccentric Adult H G Wells 3 The Invisible Man Science Fiction Adult H G Wells 3 The Island of Dr Moreau Science Fiction Adult H G Wells 3 The Time Machine Science Fiction Adult Edith Wharton 3 House of Mirth Classic Adult Edith Wharton 2 The Age of Innocence Classic Adult Oscar Wilde 3 The Picture of Dorian Gray Classic Adult Oscar Wilde 2 The Picture of Dorian Gray Classic Adult Henry Williamson 1 Tarka the Otter Animals Adult P G Wodehouse 3 The Blandings Castle novels Humour Adult P G Wodehouse 3 The Golden Bat School Children P G Wodehouse 3 The Jeeves and Wooster novels Humour Adult Virgina Woolf 2 A Room of One's Own Modern Classic Adult Virgina Woolf 3 Mrs Dalloway Modern Classic Adult Virgina Woolf 2 Orlando Modern Classic Adult Diana Wynne Jones 1 Charmed Life (first in series) Magic Children Diana Wynne Jones 1 Howl's Moving Castle Magic Children Marguerite Yourcenar 3 Memoirs of Hadrian: And Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian Historical Adult

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