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  • Category:John List
    [[Category:Authors|List, John]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 15:51, 1 September 2020
  • Category:Uri Gneezy and John List
    [[Category:Authors|List, John]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 17:14, 5 March 2014
  • Category:Books In Top Tens
    You can also read the [[:Category:Lists|full list of Top Tens]], or all the [[Features|features sorted by date order]].
    1,402 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 16:54, 20 March 2011
  • Quarry's List by Max Allan Collins
    |title=Quarry's List ...l 1970s run of books. Once known as ''The Broker's Daughter'', ''Quarry's List'' is the second book in the series that may not introduce you to the charac
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  • A Hundred Pieces of Me by Lucy Dillon
    ...precious, meaningful items that she will keep. As she begins to create her list, each item evokes powerful memories, opening windows in time and enabling G ...guing. As Gina created her list, it was impossible not to start creating a list of my own and I imagine that the same debate will be played out countless t
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  • The Little Pieces of You and Me by Vanessa Greene
    ...d the same when I was 17 and nannying in Italy for the summer. I found the list maybe 10 years later and it made me smile, remembering what was important t A few years later, Isla is living her list. A job doing what she dreamed of, a life abroad, it's all come together. So
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  • Emily's Numbers by Joss Langford
    ...of the list were even numbers, but the other half were odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occured when you counted in threes which she called '' ...en you counted in fives but weren't even and didn't appear in the threeven list. These numbers she called ''fiven''. She made a pie chart: half of it con
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  • Little by Little by Amber Stewart and Layn Marlow
    ...h mud sliding, making sandcastles and slippery-rock hopping. The Can't-do list was very short. There was only one thing on it. ...ble's Mummy said ''being kind to otters is not on bear and beaver's Can-do list.'' Scramble had found a way of looking as though he was swimming. He'd ho
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  • Dinosaur Detective's Search-and-Find Rescue Mission by Sophie Guerrive
    ...n with hidden depths, and as a result the finding of several things on the list (or otherwise) generally creates a suitable vocal noise as a result. ...or I soon realised the answer pages at the back gave six answers, when the list was only five items long… Yes, as soon as you get to the end, you are re
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  • The Never List by Koethi Zan
    |title=The Never List |sort=Never List
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  • How We Met by Katy Regan
    ...year, the group decide to share out and complete all the activities on the list as a tribute to their friend. ...ch more difficult. The problem is that, the more they get caught up in the list, the more the cracks start to appear in their fragile friendships. Was Liv
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  • Rules for Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
    ...ere another link to Malcolm Kershaw? Can the killer be stopped before the list is completed? ...ight compare to their fictional equivalents. Surely a story based on this list would be just too ''contorted''? Well, I was wrong on both counts. This i
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  • So Few Of Me by Peter H Reynolds
    ...y things to do that he decided it would be best if he made a list. But the list of things to do just got longer and longer. ...d Leo did help, but then HE found more jobs that needed to be done and the list just kept growing. Soon they were joined by a third Leo, but it wasn't enou
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  • Favourite Nursery Rhymes by Brian Wildsmith
    ...shness and brightness. Although it might seem difficult to make an endless list of people, cats and geese seem different, each illustration imbues the nurs {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Timeless Picture Books To Treasure Forever}}
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  • The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson
    |summary=A memoir by one of the youngest people on Oskar Schindler's list of Jews saved from the Nazis. Simply, but evocatively and heartbreakingly t This is the memoir of one of the youngest people on Oskar Schindler's famous list of Jews saved from the Nazis during World War II. It opens between the wars
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  • Rowan the Strange by Julie Hearn
    ...hat this novel will find itself on the national curriculum suggested texts list before long. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Book Recommendations From Twitterers}}
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  • The Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson
    ...ed when he was just three years old. They were killed by Number One on the List, The Prayer, the most dangerous alien on Earth. ...to see it in the library, but it certainly won't make my Amazon pre-order list.
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  • Sod That!: 103 Things Not To Do Before You Die by Sam Jordison
    ...on a full fortnight tour of Iceland. But closer to home, were I to have a list, there would be many things left on it – I've been nowhere near Bath, or However I don't have such a list. There are things I would like to do, but I'm not one of those people who
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  • Hang the DJ: An Alternative Book of Music Lists by Angus Cargill (Editor)
    Ah, the music list... balm to pop obsessives (see Nick Hornby's ''High Fidelity''), makeweight ...d Nick Cave particularly keep cropping up, the former even getting a whole list to himself.
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  • The Guest List by Lucy Foley
    |title=The Guest List |sort=Guest List
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  • Donkey's Busy Day by Natalie Russell
    ...well but none of the other animals are prepared to help him with the long list of jobs that has been left so it looks like it will be a long day. To avoid ...r a day at the seaside and has left him in charge. He has also been left a list of things to do that is as long as your arm. When Donkey tells the rest of
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  • Joy Ellis's DI Rowan Jackman and DS Maria Evans Books in Chronological Order
    ...king for Joy Ellis's Galena and Easter series, you'll find a chronological list [[Joy Ellis's DI Nikki Galena and DS Joseph Easter 'Fens' series in Chronol
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  • Mick Herron's Jackson Lamb (Slough House) Novels in Chronological Order
    {{amazonurl|isbn=B073B77VY6|title=The List}} (2015)
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  • What's That in Dog Years? by Ben Davis and Julia Christians
    ...t be around for very much longer, and so he begins to write Gizmo a bucket list, of all the adventures that they can still have together in Gizmo's last da ...ship with his dog is very clear, and I really loved the idea of his bucket list for Gizmo which includes such delights as having an ice cream (as Gizmo's b
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  • Books that Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History by Andrew Taylor
    ...a round-up of classic works of literature, without exactly being a bucket-list of things one must read before one dies. (I certainly hope so, for I have ...ut my mind was not changed about any of the others. Yes, I feel the final list of 50 is a great one, and all herein seems very well argued, but this itsel
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  • Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson
    ...s been no phone call, text, or e-mail. Then, two weeks later, Emily gets a list in the mail from Sloane, giving her tasks to do. If she does them all, can ...aging to build new friendships as she tries to complete Sloane’s list. The list itself is excellent, taking Emily out of her comfort zone and giving her lo
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  • The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
    ...e, former Director-General of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington. Also on the long list is [[Snowdrops by A D Miller]] which also looks at life in the Eastern bloc {{toptentext|list=Man Booker Prize 2011}}
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  • Paddington and the Disappearing Sandwich by Michael Bond and R W Alley
    ...the roadworks were some cones! There are still quite a few shapes on his list though - an oval, a circle, a star, a diamond and a heart. It was the hear
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  • Category:Reviewed by Ani Johnson
    ...book glutton' doesn't it?) This is also why her 'top 10 favourite books' list includes over 100.
    745 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 11:19, 4 March 2015
  • When Mr Dog Bites by Brian Conaghan
    ...king time bomb. He'll be dead by March. So Dylan makes his very own bucket list of ''cool things to do before I cack it''. It has just three items on it: It might only be a short list but it's an ambitious one. None of these wishes will be easily achieved. Bu
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  • Nation by Terry Pratchett
    {{toptentext|list=Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2009}} {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Beach Reads For Teens}}
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  • The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life by Andy Miller
    ...life was no longer his own and he had no time for reading. He devised a 'list of betterment' - fifty great books and two which were not - which he read o ...s an entirely different matter. With the help of his wife he developed a 'list of betterment' - initially a limited number of great books which he determi
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  • The War On Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe by R I Moore
    ...shows how much research has gone into the book, while his further reading list will be invaluable to those who want more detail on just about any aspect.
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  • Me Being Me Is Exactly as Insane as You Being You by Todd Hasak-Lowy
    ...evice. We were worn out by it. Darren is entirely relatable but again, the list format puts up a bit of a barrier between reader and central character. A b ...is written entirely in lists. Yes. All 600-plus pages. Some lists are very list-y - just one word or phrase per entry. Some lists have multi-paragraph entr
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  • The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life by Uri Gneezy and John List
    |author=Uri Gneezy and John List ...te people to change their behaviour? An invigorating account of Gneezy and List’s ground-breaking research in behavioral economics, aka making the world
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  • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Quirky Kids' Books}} {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books With Gorgeous Illustrations}}
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  • 101 Things To Do When You're Not Drinking by Robert Short
    ...estions are not so much things to do as ''plans''. We open with ''write a list of the three things you're going to buy with the money you've saved from no ...ing to juggle and I think I might give that one a go. I'm getting quite a list of things to do!
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  • The Soul Collector by Paul Johnston
    ...y=A fairly fast paced thrill-ride of a read from the author of ''The Death List'' ...with death sees Matt Wells spend many months at the top of the best seller list and make him much envied among his fellow authors. Interest in the minutia
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  • The Twelve Days of Christmas by Britta Teckentrup
    .... The format if familiar and predictable: each day taken in turn, with the list building up until we have the twelfth day and all the goodies. The presenta ...k, right down to the font size which has to accommodate an ever-increasing list of items in the song. Not only that, but the cut out section in the middle
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  • Iggy and Me and the Happy Birthday by Jenny Valentine
    .... There's a real ear for how children are. When Iggy's making her birthday list, number 9 is pants with days of the week on. ''"Those," she said, "are actu ...scamp, the tongue poking out as she puts on her busy face as she writes a list.
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  • I Am Not Sleepy And I Will Not Go To Bed by Lauren Child
    ...ody is eating her toothpaste; and the whales are swimming in the bath. The list is endless especially where the highly imaginative Lola is concerned. Howev {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Picture Books of 2013}}
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  • Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld
    {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Easter Eggs}} {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009}}
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  • Now is Good by Jenny Downham
    ...d though, is that she must die in any way incomplete. So she makes a to-do list, full of everything she wants to experience before the dying of the light. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Love Stories For Teenagers}}
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  • An Alphabet by Oliver Jeffers
    ...e playing an alphabet game these aren't the ones that might be top of your list and yet if you were playing eye-spy, out in the real world, well then so ma ...tle else to say about this book, except it's as good as any other alphabet list, and may, on occasion, be much easier on the eye for adult caregivers. Neat
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  • Hope: a Tragedy by Shalom Auslander
    ...He's moved to a rural location, and found houses like his are on the hit-list of an arsonist, but his new home has an even more unusual secret...
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  • Runaway Success by S W Parry
    ...t means it's not just a list of things that exist, whilst also not being a list of cheesy jokes that wear thin. It all works wonderfully in creating a reco
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  • Bella and Monty: A Hairy, Scary Night by Alex T Smith
    ...onderfully for children who are dealing with their own fears. Monty's long list of fears will be a mix of things that make perfect sense to be scared of, l {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Picture Books For Overcoming Bedtime Woes}}
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  • What July Knew by Emily Koch
    ...be interested in having an answer. The most crucial List, though, is the List of facts that she knows about her mother, Maggie. She's been told that she ...riting is excellent too: there are some authors who could write a shopping list and you know that you have to read it. I read right to the end of ''What J
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  • A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton
    {{toptentext|list=Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2012}} {{toptentext|list=The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013}}
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  • When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
    {{toptentext|list=Richard and Judy Shortlist 2009}} {{toptentext|list=Independent Booksellers' Prize 2009}}
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  • The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey
    |title=The List of Suspicious Things |sort=List of Suspicious Things
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  • Baby Baby Blah Blah Blah! by Jonathan Shipton and Francesca Chessa
    ...nt, Emily makes a list of all the good things about a new baby and another list of all the bad things. Emily's worried that she's going to have to wear bab
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  • The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
    The Lighthouse is - in August 2012 - on the Booker Long List. I hope it progresses but in the meantime you might enjoy another long lis {{toptentext|list=Man Booker Prize 2012}}
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  • Children's Picture Books for Review
    ''' ''If the links to Amazon are loading slowly you'll find a list of the books we have available above the shelf - with a link to Amazon, whe
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  • Where Is Home, Little Pip? by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Picture Books of 2008}} {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books With Gorgeous Illustrations}}
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  • The Diabolic by S J Kincaid
    ...and an outstanding plot. Highly recommended, make sure to add this to your list of books to read – you won't regret it! {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels 2016}}
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  • Wanderlust by Elisabeth Eaves
    ...onsidered. Others might tick off a few and have the remainder on a ‘to do’ list. It’s probably only a small subset who will have passed through all of th
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  • Exposure by Mal Peet
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Teen Books That Adults Should Read}} {{toptentext|list=Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2009}}
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  • Dying to Know You by Aidan Chambers
    When Fiorella gives Karl a list of questions and asks him to write down his views on aspects of love, Karl {{toptentext|list=Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2012}}
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  • Cliches: Avoid Them Like the Plague by Nigel Fountain
    ...but for the benefit of the discerning reader Nigel Fountain has compiled a list in alphabetical order of these dreaded phrases. I began reading, confident
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  • Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick
    {{toptentext|list=Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2009}} {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Book Recommendations From Twitterers}}
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  • Karen McCombie's You, Me and Thing series in chronological order
    [[Category:List]] [[Category:Confident Readers]] [[Category:Karen McCombie]]
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  • Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts
    ...eally a guide as we know them, more of a pep-talk combined with a resource list. ...inspirational essay, as well as a selection of more practical tips, and a list of further resources. The chapters are interspersed with ''vagabonding prof
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  • The Last Days by Scott Westerfeld
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Children Who Love To Be Scared Silly}} {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books About Vampires}}
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  • The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis by Matthew Cobb
    ...much easier to read. In fact, I found it odd that he didn't include such a list because he does include a glossary and a brief biography of 'what happened
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  • Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Dystopian Books For Children}} {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books for Young Readers That Feature a Passage Between Worlds}}
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  • Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! by Lynne Truss
    ...Truss has an uphill struggle. Punctuation has never been top on a child's list of priorities. I've seen the text messages my son sends to his friends. The ...d is struggling with punctuation at school should put it straight on their list. Every school library should have a dozen copies on its shelves. It would m
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  • Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
    {{toptentext|list=Man Booker Prize 2009}} {{toptentext|list=Booker Prize Winners}}
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  • Before I Die by Jenny Downham
    ...d though, is that she must die in any way incomplete. So she makes a to-do list, full of everything she wants to experience before the dying of the light. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Love Stories For Teenagers}}
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  • Snug as a Bug by Tamsyn Murray and Judi Abbot
    ...woolly hats'' and even ''as hot as three pigs in big purple wigs''. This list of how snug he will be keeps being added to all the way up to ten when Mum This time the list that she gives starts at ten and goes all the way down to ''one freezy fox
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  • The Blood List by Sarah Naughton
    |title=The Blood List |sort=Blood List, The
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  • The Dead Wife's Handbook by Hannah Beckerman
    ...ple of supplies you're going to need before hand. So make a quick shopping list now. ...om it just to recover. Which brings me to the second item on your shopping list.
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  • Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
    ...ight and highly entertaining, but is a somewhat surprising addition to the list and perhaps raises expectations a little too highly. That slight reservatio ...t perhaps less innovative. Also on the 2013 Women's Prize For Fiction long list in a similarly light, entertaining style are [[A Trick I Learned from Dead
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  • Category:Will Gibson
    ...Arthur C. Clarke to namesake William Gibson, it’s long been on his bucket list to write a novel. He started in 2018 writing on an iPhone while on yet anot
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  • The 100 Best Novels in Translation by Boyd Tonkin
    ...at we have in our hands. But all that said, do we really need one of those list books about the subject? I got given a book the other year detailing 1001 p ...entence every time about which translation is the one to go for and why, a list of further reading from within these pages as a suggestion of thematically
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  • The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
    ...ell]], my tip for success that didn't even make it from short list to long list. (I'm not bitter!) {{toptentext|list=Man Booker Prize 2014}}
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  • The Odd Egg by Emily Gravett
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Picture Books of 2008}} {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Easter Eggs}}
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  • Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
    {{toptentext|list=Richard and Judy Shortlist 2008}} {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Your Auntie}}
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  • Precious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith
    ...ourse the trouble with putting a problematic item at the top of your to-do list can then be that nothing gets done because you keep putting off getting any
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  • Darwin's Armada: Four Voyagers to the Southern Oceans and Their Battle for the Theory of Evolution by Iain McCalman
    {{toptentext|list=List Of Books To Celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th Anniversary}}
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  • A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
    ...an Booker judges were looking for originality when they compiled the short list, therefore it's not surprising that Canadian/American author Ruth Ozeki's n ...and [[Unexploded by Alison MacLeod]], neither of which got into the short list, unfortunately. (That's me trying not to be bitter!)
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  • Breaking Away by Anna Gavalda
    ...gh old memories. I felt it sat a little oddly in the book, like reading a list of the songs on a mix tape - it's only listening to the actual music that y
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  • Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela
    ...th a modern, average-paged work of fiction a list of characters is well, a list too far. So, yes, for the first couple of chapters I was constantly flicki {{toptentext|list=Orange Prize 2011}}
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  • Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block
    ...he former series and the cosiness of the latter would place him high on my list of favourites even without his other work. Throw in the comic capers of Eva
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  • The Beauty of the End by Debbie Howells
    ...er writer, so if you're a fan of the genre, you must, must put her on your list. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Crime Novels 2016}}
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  • The Self-sufficientish Bible by Andy Hamilton and Dave Hamilton
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Green Books for Eco-Warriors}} {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Your Auntie}}
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  • The Confession of Katherine Howard by Suzannah Dunn
    {{toptentext|list=Richard and Judy's Summer Reading List 2011}}
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  • The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
    {{toptentext|list=Man Booker Prize 2011}} {{toptentext|list=Costa Prize 2011}}
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  • The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
    ...ent years, but ''The Luminaries'' would not look out of place on the short list of even the vintage years. Definitely recommended. ...ith [[The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt]] featuring on the 2011 short list. [[Harvest by Jim Crace]] remains the clear bookies favourite to take the p
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  • Eon: Rise of the Dragoneye by Alison Goodman
    ...rich and intelligent, it would find a worthy place on any adult's reading list. Opulent, transporting, interesting and of great quality, this one comes hi {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009}}
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  • Scaredy Squirrel at Night by Melanie Watt
    ...line, and I instantly crossed it off my 'books to read aloud at playgroup' list as the kids would never follow it. The humour is on a higher level than I ...er fears will be added to their sleepless child's list - Scaredy Squirrles list of bad dream characters does include ghosts but also has things like unicor
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  • The Psychology of Overeating by Kima Cargill
    ..., I know I should shop online for food because that way I would stick to a list and my good intentions, but I can’t help it. It’s October. I need to kn ...t is incredibly easy to read and understand without being superficial. The list of references at the back, while not surprising, was unusual for a book tha
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  • When God Was A Rabbit by Sarah Winman
    {{toptentext|list=Richard and Judy's Summer Reading List 2011}}
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  • The Poison Garden by Sarah Singleton
    ...aren't many members of the Guild of Medical Herbalists and so the suspect list is fairly short. Thomas proves to be a tremendously attractive detective. H {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books for Young Readers That Feature a Passage Between Worlds}}
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  • Ding Dong Gorilla by Michelle Robinson and Leonie Lord
    ...of those books you take one look at and just know will be on the classics list in 20 years. The pictures are lovely, the story hilarious, and this will es {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Picture Books of 2013}}
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  • The Dangerous Book of Heroes by Conn Iggulden and David Iggulden
    ...on detailing the Battle of Britain, where for about four pages it's just a list of numbers of aircraft shot down by each side. ...of Heroes'' is okay as a starting point, and each chapter does come with a list of further reading suggestions for those who find their imagination capture
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  • The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
    {{toptentext|list=The Desmond Elliott Prize for Debut Fiction Published in the UK 2012}} {{toptentext|list=Man Booker Prize 2012}}
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  • Jackdaw Summer by David Almond
    ...e are so many subtle connections and conflicts that I couldn't even try to list them all. It's about the connection between local and international and his {{Toptentext|list=Top Ten Books To Drag The Kids Away From Computer Games For Ten Minutes At
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  • Big Bad Bill on the Naughty Step by Mark Sperring and Tom McLaughlin
    ..., worst of all, Father Christmas might find out and put you on his naughty list! Big Bad Bill of course reconsiders his position and decides that he will ...the picture of Father Christmas looking worried about amending his naughty list!
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  • Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod
    ...ist violence. But is it really? Soon the godless join the religious on the list of targets and the plot thickens, connecting Scottish clubs, an Australian ...d the 'what?' is guessable earlier than it perhaps should be, the complete list of 'whys?' is left hanging in the air (or, perhaps, floating in space) unti
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