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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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    ...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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    ...items needed. Some of the more technical items can be ordered online and a list of useful websites is provided. The instructions are detailed and clear, wi
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    ...nd has no trouble getting men to do exactly what she wants. Despite a long list of younger lovers providing a pleasurable distraction, her one true love is ...hem. Thankfully, the author remedies the situation by creating a wonderful list of ancillary characters like friendly gardener Sam, who immediately becomes
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    ...-list of books that will teach you how to think quicker: this is a helpful list for those who are trying to kick start their careers online.
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  • Come Death and High Water (George and Molly Palmer-Jones) by Ann Cleeves
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    ...completely facetious (the answers provided by you) which will delight the list-makers, the questionnaire-fillers and the graph-makers among us. Possibly o ...from 1 to 10 on several dimensions each? Do you have one of the books that list ''100 things to do before you die'' or ''500 books to read in your life'' (
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    ...though she's getting into the big time when Stefan and Anette Sorensen (A-list billionaires) choose Ivy House for their son and daughter. There's another ...s not an innocent seventeen year old. School doesn't figure highly on her list of priorities and she'd much rather bunk off and do some horizontal jogging
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    ...t scars and a false passport. Investigations reveal that there was a long list of people who would have good reason to want him dead, but who could have g If you would like to read the series in order you'll find a list [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Orde
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  • Criminal Capital: How the Finance Industry Facilitates Crime by Stephen Platt
    ...respectability. MPs briefly took the top spot, but for many years now the list has been topped by bankers following the 2008 financial crisis, when huge t ...ney to either fund the crime or reward those who participated. It's not a list for the faint-hearted; drug trafficking, bribery and corruption, piracy, tr
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  • Red Riding Hood and the Sweet Little Wolf by Rachael Mortimer and Liz Pichon
    ...her to be exactly like them. This is why they send her out with a shopping list for dinner which along with the onions, potatoes and carrots includes 'one ...ions. Some of the words are big and bold for emphasis, there is a shopping list and a letter, and every time that Red Riding Hood reads from her book the w
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    ...one of the most interesting in the book for me. The book finishes with a list of further reading and other resources.
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    ...lpful list of further reading and web resources along with a very tempting list of gardens to visit. There's a liberal supply of colour images which are w
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  • How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant by Elen Caldecott
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  • Thin Paths: Journeys in and Around an Italian Mountain Village by Julia Blackburn
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  • Unlock Your Reading Potential: 5 Simple Tips to Dive into More Books
    ...c days and wonder how to read more. But do not worry; we've put together a list of doable tactics to encourage you to turn the pages more often and enjoyab ...c days and wonder how to read more. But do not worry; we've put together a list of doable tactics to encourage you to turn the pages more often and enjoyab
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  • A Sherlock Holmes Who's Who (With of Course Dr.Watson) by Molly Carr
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  • The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld
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  • The Big Snuggle-up by Brian Patten and Nicola Bayley
    ...ging these lines rather than just reading them!In the end, there is a huge list:
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  • The Sarkozy Phenomenon by Nick Hewlett
    ...t – with Silvio Berlusconi and Nicholas Sarkozy at the head of my personal list. My [[Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni: The True Story by Valerie Benaim an ...k for examples outside France and it wasn't long before I had quite a long list of western leaders who exhibited at least some of the characteristics of Bo
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  • The Boy Book by Emily Lockhart
    ...a fancy-schmancy school in Seattle. In this, the sequel to ''The Boyfriend List'' she is sans-friends and sans-boyfriend following the mortifying making-pu ...positive future. If only the rest of the world would just forget that darn list.
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  • Rogues by George R R Martin and Gardner Dozois (Editors)
    ...thor of considerable renown. Here, the two collect twenty one stories by a list of well known and hugely loved authors. Rogues - Everybody loves them. Han Solo, Flashman, Byron, Robin Hood, the list is long and ever popular. The authors here use either their own characters,
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  • Higher Ed by Tessa McWatt
    ...are assisted by an admirable list of supporting players, too extensive to list here.
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  • Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
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  • A Gate At The Stairs by Lorrie Moore
    ...Prize and it’s well worth checking out some of the other titles from that list including [[The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton]], [[Secret Son by Laila Lalami
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  • We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
    ...open, described by Son Number 2 as one of the lighter Man Booker 2014 long-list offerings. It may be light but for me the attraction is the intrigue about ...y value and subject matter (not to mention page 77) makes it a worthy long list addition. I wish Karen well and reassure her with the fact that my annual
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  • The Savage by David Almond and Dave McKean
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  • Driving Mad: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Club by Graham Fulbright
    ...side it's useful to know that they're taking a yoga break. There's even a list of preferred accessories, including combat extras. I'm tempted by the Ben ...ren comes in handy - along with your personal taser. We're quickly into a list of hallmarks which will demonstrate your status - the pit-stop start when l
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  • Where the River Ends by Charles Martin
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    ...style of Young's writing that didn't always appeal to me; she's fond of a list and some of the passages are a bit 'choppy', but there's no denying the pow ...rize, it wouldn't surprise me to see it appearing on the 2012 Orange Prize list as well.
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  • Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way
    ...ou might like to visit (with contact details) as well as a concise reading list.
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  • The Child's Secret by Amanda Brooke
    ...spects in any missing child case, with the parents often at the top of the list. In the case of 8 year old Jasmine, though, there's someone else who catche ...me time. Anna, Sam's girlfriend and Jasmine's teacher, rounds off the cast list. I couldn't quite get a reading on her, because she seemed to become someon
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  • Billy Monster's Daymare by Alan Durant and Ross Collins
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  • Rumbelow's Dance by John Yeoman and Quentin Blake
    ...em for him even though it is a long way. After his mother gives him a long list of very precise directions, he sets off. Although it is a very hot day, he ...of the story you need to take a really big breath to get through the long list of things that are going on. It also means that, if they want to, young chi
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  • Unthology: No. 3 by Robin Jones and Ashley Stokes (Editors)
    ''Terra Cotta'' is just one of so many favourites I can't list them all. I'll therefore not mention the hauntingly touching story of a re ...l mixture, some of the story gifts may not be at the top of your Christmas list. For me, for instance, the apocalyptic ''Trans-Neptune'', feels a little
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  • Valeria's Last Stand by Marc Fitten
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  • The Billion Pound Lie by Bill Dare
    ...ars ago. That's so much money that it landed them on the Sunday Times Rich List of the UK's thousand most wealthy people. So a billion pounds. That's a lot ...n organised crime. It's cleverly plotted so that each in a large character list has a significant part to play and you'll be guessing how everything fits t
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  • July 2016 Newsletter
    ...e books parents and teachers remember as inspirational. We'd like to see a list produced by the children themselves, if only to compare. ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • Under A Silent Moon by Elizabeth Haynes
    ...ed than you get in most police procedurals. You know when the team gets a list of activity on a mobile phone and everything magically slips into place? W {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Crime Novels 0f 2013}}
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  • The Body on the Island by Nick Louth
    ...free on 2 July 2019. He appeared to be a reformed character but he had a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revenge. ...t if you'd prefer to read the books in order you'll find the chronological list here:
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  • Never Say No to a Princess! by Tracey Corderoy and Kate Leake
    ...y is how good children behave (the ones that get to stay on Santa's ''Good List'') then the little princess is a terrific example, particularly for little ...hat the elves were definitely going to be crossing her name off of Santa's list this year. We were both entirely captivated by the journey the story took
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  • Pirates Magnified: With a 3x Magnifying Glass by David Long and Harry Bloom
    ...-written paragraphs concerning the subject, and everything on your to-find list has a little detail about it, too, so you can learn about letters of marque
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  • The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Peerless Peer by Philip Jose Farmer
    ...is day and age, would be objecting at all. As for the other titles in the list I can't as yet tell, but would be eager to try, and am now expecting a very
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  • How to Climb Mont Blanc in a Skirt: A Handbook for the Lady Adventurer by Mick Conefrey
    ...ive them a gold star if they can name a single female entrant to history's list. Hence this book, for while some mountains have been topped by a lady firs ...ge Conefrey offers us does get in the way somewhat. The middle chunk is a list of bullet-points, really, and I sometimes found the arrangement of them on
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  • Pugh's New Year's Resolutions by Jonathan Pugh
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  • The Declaration by Gemma Malley
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  • The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
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  • Invasion by Luke Rhinehart
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  • The First Thing You See by Gregoire Delacourt
    ...ophile market, it’s probably going to rip its way up the French bestseller list and rightly so. From a literary perspective, it’s odd enough to compete ...t W&N for sending us this copy for review. We also have a review of [[The List of my Desires by Gregoire Delacourt]].
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  • A Greyhound of a Girl by Roddy Doyle
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  • One Hundred Days of Happiness by Fausto Brizzi
    If you have any soul at all this will make you stop and (mentally at least) list the things you love about your friends, family, the world around you. We s {{toptentext|list=Top Ten General Fiction Books for 2015}}
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  • Sea Journal by Lisa Woollett
    ...is fascinating on the ecology of the beach - and I laughed out loud at the list of plastics found on the beach, which included a couple of moustaches. ...h a lot more substance. The index is business like and works well and the list of further reading is very tempting. I'd like to thank the publisher for s
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  • The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
    ...r social worker Angus points out, Anais is so much more than just the long list of crimes on her rap sheet. Although she absolutely is the girl from a stri ...ngth of this book, Fagan more than deserves her place on the recent Granta list of young British novelists. She’s a major talent whose work should be wid
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  • A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
    ...Josey Wales (both respected gang elders), a Rolling Stone journalist… The list goes on but each is so well written they lodge themselves firmly in our ima {{toptentext|list=Man Booker Prize 2015}}
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  • Tales of Loving and Leaving by Gaby Weiner
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  • HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
    ...ar is that there are scores to be settled and debts to be repaid. The hit list of scores to be settled is apparently standard operating procedure for any ...seen more exploration of this. The other side of their loyalty is the hit list of people who are to be paid back for their past allegiances - and quite a
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  • Boys for Beginners by Lil Chase
    ...e, this is the debut novel of an author going straight on the One To Watch list. ...d likes football, but when Gwynnie realises he's firmly putting her on his list of mates, not girls, action must be taken. The thing is, for a girl whose c
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  • Kissing Mr Wrong by Sarah Duncan
    ...ile, she also meets Nick who, if she is going to go on the criteria on her list, is definitely not Mr Right. In fact he has to be Mr Wrong particularly as
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  • Highest Mountain, Deepest Ocean by Kate Baker, Zanna Davidson and Page Tsou
    ...shelf, although I don't imagine it in too many household settings. I like list books – and while not everything here is 'the top ten of this or that' we [[Top 10 For Boys 2014 by Paul Terry]] is the kind of list book I used to wallow in while still a child. Before that, the likes of [[
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  • Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants by Alison Maloney
    ...which members of staff were responsible for the others. At the top of the list, we have the obsequious Butler, who oversaw all of the goings-on in the hou {{toptentext|list=Top Ten History Books 2015}}
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  • Potty, Fartwell and Knob by Russell Ash
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  • Someday Angeline by Louis Sachar
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  • Richard and Judy's Summer Reading List 2011
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  • The Escape by Adam Thirlwell
    ...ke's Rabbit and Philip Roth's Portnoy, none of whom feature on Thirlwell's list. Thirlwell's writing isn't derivative as such, but the overriding sense was
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  • Annabel Pitcher Talks To Bookbag About Her New Year Resolutions
    Pen and paper in hand over breakfast the next morning, I made a long list of resolutions. Being a target-driven person, this is something I enjoy doi That’s why resolution nine on my list is to make sure that I read for thirty minutes a day, before I go to sleep.
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  • The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
    ...d [[Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch]] both of which also feature on the list. {{toptentext|list=Orange Prize 2011}}
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  • The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
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  • Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi) by Michael Pronko
    We have a list of the Hiroshi series [[Michael Pronko's Detective Hiroshi Novels in Chrono {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Self-Published Books 2021}}
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  • What! by Kate Lum and Adrian Johnson
    ...do. This is crucial to the story because its always the last thing on the list that Patrick does not have. The second time we read the story both my daugh
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  • Scotland the Best by Peter Irvine
    |summary=A list-based local's guide to Scotland, heavy on hotels and places to eat but with ..., so for example if a location doesn't offer a good hotel, the guide won't list anything. You can see both the advantages and the limits of this approach,
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  • Kisses for Lula by Samantha Mackintosh
    ...the guys in her neighbourhood run a mile. When we join the book, she has a list of potential kissers, none of them particularly attractive, and a few short ...s noticing her. Another boy hangs around but seems rude and defensive. The list goes on, and to be honest the book is a little crowded, both with people an
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  • Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
    ...hey are four or five. It should be one of the first items on your shopping list and is at least as important as the nappies and the cot. ...ht want some ideas for your baby-to-be, or something. Put this one on your list. It's the best sort of picture book you can buy; beautifully simple, beauti
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  • Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Biographies and Autobiographies}} {{Toptentext|list=Top Ten Books About Africa}}
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  • The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books To Read In One Sitting}} ...k on Radio 4, it has gone right to the top of my "must read it for myself" list. An exemplary piece of literature.
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  • Before I Forget by Melissa Hill
    ...she holds dear, Abby re-evaluates the way she has been living and makes a list of all the memorable experiences she hopes to create. She also sets about c ...fun throughout providing the message that life is for living. Abby's wish list is quite inspired especially when friends and family members contribute to
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  • June 2011 Newsletter
    ...hard and Judy's Summer Reading List 2011|Richard and Judy's Summer Reading List]]. ...panel? Leave a prediction on our [[Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2011|list]]!
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  • Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve
    Reeve does include a list of pronunciations at the back (and in the Scholastic paperback version of t {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Retellings of Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales}}
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  • The Odessans by Irina Ratushinskaya
    ...tbulb moment for everyone along with literary memories that animate a cast list and an era. ...the post-Second-World-War Stalin regime. Meanwhile if it's on your bucket list still untouched, do try [[[[War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy|War and Peace]].
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  • Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes
    ...I know. I do, honest. I've just put Marian Keyes in my greatest tearjerker list with Jane Austen here, which is not something I undertake lightly. What I m {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Chick Lit Picks}}
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  • How to be Both by Ali Smith
    {{toptentext|list=Man Booker Prize 2014}} {{toptentext|list=Costa Book Awards 2014}}
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  • The List of my Desires by Gregoire Delacourt
    |title=The List of my Desires |sort=List of my Desires, The
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  • The Sellout by Paul Beatty
    You'll find a list of previous Booker Prize winners [[Booker Prize Winners|here]]. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Literary Fiction Books of 2016}}
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  • The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins
    {{toptentext|list=List Of Books To Celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th Anniversary}}
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  • The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson
    At the end of the book, there is a list of questions and talking points that will be very helpful for classroom or {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Self-Published Books 2018}}
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  • Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
    ...alaysian parents, Tash Aw touched the heady heights of the Man Booker long-list in 2005 with his first novel ''The Harmony Silk Factory'' which he set in 1 {{toptentext|list=Man Booker Prize 2013}}
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  • Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Adrian Cull
    ...which I'd like to read up about (and there is a suggested further reading list available), but I liked this approach. Had it been more detailed I think I {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Self-Published Books 2019}}
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  • Bread: River Cottage Handbook No 3 by Daniel Stevens
    Daniel's first attempt at making bread was based on a two-page list of ingredients and instructions and the results were fed to the birds. You {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009}}
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  • Lessons From The Land Of Pork Scratchings by Greg Gutfeld
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Tube Reads}} {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Your Father}}
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  • Ghosts of Karnak by George Mann
    ...it is their vulnerability that makes them ace to read about. Add to this list George Mann's 'The Ghost', a World War One veteran who returns to New York {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels 2016}}
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  • Red Dog by Louis de Bernieres
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books To Read In One Sitting}} {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Dog Lovers}}
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  • Promotion Packages for Self-Publishing Authors
    ...s we have reviewed over the course of the year. A feature article for each list is permanently displayed on the site and promoted through Twitter. This ext
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  • Fell by Jenn Ashworth
    ...d Light]] and the news that Jenn would be on the BBC TV's ''Culture Show'' list of 12 best new novelists. ''Fell'' is novel number 4 and continues Jenn's {{toptentext|list=Top Ten General Fiction Books of 2016}}
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  • Generation Dead by Daniel Waters
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Children Who Love To Be Scared Silly}} {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Beach Reads For Teens}}
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  • Coraline by Neil Gaiman
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books for Young Readers That Feature a Passage Between Worlds}} {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Easter Eggs}}
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  • War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Melanie Martin
    ...ly appreciated the accompanying guide to pronunciation. I didn't need the list for long though, as Martin is particularly good at putting people in recogn {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Self-Published Books 2019}}
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  • The Allotment Experience by Ruth Binney
    ...ont) garden vegetable growers and are shortly to join an allotment waiting list ourselves. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books To Help Down-Size And Make Ends Meet}}
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  • Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty by Alain Mabanckou
    Alain Mabanckou is a prize winning author who, looking at the list of awards and nominations, should be more globally recognised than he is. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten General Fiction Books of 2013}}
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  • The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir
    ...ncisive. She's clearly enthusiastic about this book - my press sheet has a list of quite bullish claims about Cromwell's motives, Anne's accommodation in t {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009}}
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  • Call of the Wild by Jack London
    ...d the abuse of power. I reckon you should put The Call of the Wild on your list. It's such a lovely story; one of those you remember from childhood, one of {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Classics of Children's Literature}}
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  • On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books To Read In One Sitting}} {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Beach Reads For Boys}}
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  • Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
    {{toptentext|list=Orange Prize 2011}} {{toptentext|list=Man Booker Prize 2011}}
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  • Running Girl by Simon Mason
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Teen Books of 2014}} {{toptentext|list=Costa Book Awards 2014}}
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  • Have a Little Faith by Candy Harper
    ...ks! Book two in this series jumps to very near the top of my 'most wanted' list. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Teen Books of 2013}}
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  • The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Historical Fiction Books of 2016}} {{toptentext|list=Top Ten General Fiction Books of 2016}}
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  • The Novel in the Viola by Natasha Solomons
    {{toptentext|list=Richard and Judy's Summer Reading List 2011}}
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  • A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
    {{toptentext|list=Richard and Judy Shortlist 2008}} {{toptentext|list=Independent Booksellers' Prize 2009}}
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  • The Good, the Bad and the Smug by Tom Holt
    ...Tom Holt before now. It's an error I will make up for as my e-reader wish list is now unashamedly dozens of novels longer. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Fantasy Books of 2015}}
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  • The Dreamsnatcher by Abi Elphinstone
    If young readers enjoy this type of story the Bookbag has put together a list of the [[Top Ten Books for Young Readers That Feature a Passage Between Wor {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books for Confident Readers 2015}}
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  • The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
    {{toptentext|list=Booktrust Teenage Prize 2009}} {{toptentext|list=Carnegie Medal Shortlist 2010}}
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  • The Acid Test by Elmer Mendoza
    ...still a lot of names to keep track of and so I would recommend reading the list thoroughly before starting the book. In terms of style, the book is essenti
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  • Curiositree: Natural World: A Visual Compendium of Wonders from Nature by Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley and Owen Davey
    ...in, leaf shapes, eggs, habitat, metamorphosis, classification... There's a list of contents at the front and the book also has a helpful colour coding syst {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Children's Non-Fiction Books of 2016}}
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  • Delia Smith's Christmas by Delia Smith
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Cookery Books}} {{toptentext|list=Most Read Reviews On Bookbag}}
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  • The Trader of Saigon by Lucy Cruickshanks
    ...now ''The Trader of Saigon'' author Lucy Cruickshanks can be added to the list for this superlative snapshot of life post-Vietnam-war inspired by a discus {{toptentext|list=Top Ten General Fiction Books of 2013}}
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  • Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine
    {{toptentext|list=Costa Book Awards 2008}} {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009}}
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  • Keep Your Health and Fitness For Life: Don't Let Age Be A Barrier by Stuart Roberts
    ...tion's not for you, right through to deciding that it's number one on your list. The pressure is taken away: you start with small steps and build up. The ...Your Health and Fitness for Life: Don't Let Age Be A Barrier'' includes a list of further reading and useful resources. I'd like to add [[The Telomere Ef
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  • Notting Hell by Rachel Johnson
    ...ren and Dog In Twelve Months'' I understand, made it on to the best seller list for an indecent period of time. {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Chick Lit Picks}}
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  • Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
    {{toptentext|list=Most Read Reviews On Bookbag}} {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For The Defenders Of Reason}}
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  • The Prancing Jacana by Steven Jon Halasz
    ...ovel ''The Prancing Jacana'' has been on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list for a couple of weeks: her husband, Robert Bersley, isn't doing anything li {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Self-Published Books 2017}}
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  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition with Dame Vivienne Westwood) by Lewis Carroll
    ...most people – will of course be reading them on their unbirthday, but the list does include the current recipient of that honour, ''Alice's Adventures in
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