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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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  • Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi) by Michael Pronko
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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
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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
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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
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  • The List of my Desires by Gregoire Delacourt
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  • The Sellout by Paul Beatty
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  • The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins
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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
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  • Ghosts of Karnak by George Mann
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  • Red Dog by Louis de Bernieres
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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
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  • Coraline by Neil Gaiman
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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
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  • Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
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  • Running Girl by Simon Mason
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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
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  • The Novel in the Viola by Natasha Solomons
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  • A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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  • Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
    ...Children's Literature]] - whilst we figure out what we can bump from that list to fit in ''Pippi Longstocking''. There's something of Pippi in Jenny Valen {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2010}}
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling by Howard J Booth (editor)
    ...ither of those things, it should make it to the top of your Christmas wish list.
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  • The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick
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  • Genesis by Bernard Beckett
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  • Iggy Peck's Big Project Book for Amazing Architects by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts
    ...on to Iggy and his interest, we get the same safety warnings and equipment list as we had in this book's sister volume, and then we're off, jumping in righ ...d David Roberts]] is the sister book, which had a more successfully varied list of missions, and which also took you away from the page to work in other wa
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  • The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
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  • Sonnets, Bonnets and Bennetts: A Literary Quiz Book by James Walton
    ...nd while having only as much of a personality as a list of questions and a list of answers could have, did the job perfectly.
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  • The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
    Sunjeev Sahota made the ''Granta'' list of Best Young British Novelists in 2013, after releasing his debut novel, ' {{toptentext|list=Man Booker Prize 2015}}
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  • The Thrift Book: Live Well and Spend Less by India Knight
    ...o be the book for me. Despite having two books in the top ten best seller list India Knight knew the bailiffs well and was facing bankruptcy. It wasn't t {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books To Help Down-Size And Make Ends Meet}}
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  • I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
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  • May 2017 Newsletter
    ...g'' what to read makes you a more well-rounded person. We love a good book list here at Bookbag and our site contains an entire section dedicated to them. ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • Great House by Nicole Krauss
    ...or it. And don't be surprised if this features on this year's Orange Prize list. {{toptentext|list=Orange Prize 2011}}
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  • The Hunt for the Nightingale by Sarah Ann Juckes
    ...d for so long. He actually packs his bag relatively sensibly - I liked the list of items, which included a whistle for emergencies. And yet, it is still th ...little segments of writing breaking up the text too. Like Jasper's packing list for the items he takes on his journey. And as well as facts about birds, we
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  • The Toucan Brothers by Tor Freeman
    ...me again, and I've already added another of this author's books to my wish list for Amazon. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Picture Books of 2013}}
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  • May 2011 Newsletter
    ...are are also good at forgetting, we haven't done it yet. It's on the to-do list, though. Last time we did this exercise the redoubtable Delia Smith was in ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink by Olivia Laing
    ...ntieth-century literature were written by those with a drink problem. The list soon became a long one – Dylan Thomas, Raymond Chandler, Jack London, Jea ...and a thorough bibliography. I was a little puzzled by the inclusion of a list of captions for all eight rather fuzzily-reproduced photographs on the last
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  • The Popes: A History by John Julius Norwich
    ...e from time to time, this book may well be a good addition to your reading list.
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  • A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke
    ...corruption, angry farmers, sex-mad Parisiennes and gun-happy hunters, the list goes on) keeps you turning the pages long after you ought to have put it do {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Tube Reads}}
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Isabella Davidson
    ...y and another list of those who were not to be asked. I was on the second list, the maid explained, without being asked. But which are you? I had a look
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  • My Best Friend's Life by Shari Low
    ...– an old school report, a diary entry, a magazine article, a library loan list – were great for carrying on the story in different ways. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Your Girlfriend}}
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  • The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
    ...ally count diplomacy as one of his gifts, Wanda the kindly US agent... the list goes on.
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  • Shopped by Joanna Blythman
    ...ude clothing, household good, electronics, insurance, internet access. The list is endless. You might think this is a good thing. You might think that supe And oh, the list goes on... and on... and on...
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  • Unexploded by Alison MacLeod
    ...lison the icing on the cake was having ''Unexploded'' included in the long list. {{toptentext|list=Man Booker Prize 2013}}
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  • If I Forget You by T C Greene
    ...eene|The Headmaster's Wife]] above, which romped its way up the bestseller list. I would also like to suggest you take a look at [[Hilary and David by Laur {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Women's Fiction Books of 2016}}
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  • In The Heart Of The Canyon by Elisabeth Hyde
    ...o different that you can't really muddle them up. It is handy to have that list to refer back to whilst you are getting into the book, but trust me, you wo
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  • The Last Horseman by David Gilman
    ...that I love this novel and a prequel trilogy would be on my literary wish list for the future. So, Mr Gilman if you ever have an idle moment… please? {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Historical Fiction Books of 2016}}
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  • The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller
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  • The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams and Stephen Fry
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Tube Reads}} ...I was disappointed. After reading this review it's gone on my "must-read" list!
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  • A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
    The Man Booker 2015 short list has been dubbed a misery fest by those who have read more of them than I ha {{toptentext|list=Man Booker Prize 2015}}
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  • The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis
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  • Single, Again, and Again, and Again by Louisa Pateman
    ...d: Louisa wanted a soulmate and compromise wasn't on the cards. She had a list of requirements: it seemed cold and emotionless. Her late aunt had told he {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Self-Published Books 2020}}
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  • November 2009 Newsletter
    ...s for great books for every type of reader you can think of. Check out the list [[Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009|here]]. ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • The Gospel of Loki by Joanne M Harris
    ...th laughter in a most unladylike manner before even emerging from the cast list. Once past the cast, individual episodes are as accessible as 'dip-ins' as {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Fantasy Novels of 2014}}
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  • Patio Produce by Paul Peacock
    ...Veg Patch: River Cottage Handbook No 4 by Mark Diacono|Veg Patch]] and the list of plants which you can grow is impressive if slightly impersonal. Persona {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books To Help Down-Size And Make Ends Meet}}
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  • Owl Song at Dawn by Emma Claire Sweeney
    ...on award short lists, including ''The Guardian's'' 'Not the Booker Prize' list for 2016. It's no surprise that it's ''Owl Song at Dawn'' taking her there ...ng havoc and, by coincidence, another on the aforementioned Guardian prize list: [[Fell by Jenn Ashworth]].
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  • The Novel Habits of Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
    ...lean for the following day and mentally added five more things to my to-do list. Perhaps Isabel and I are not so different? Except her daily ponderings a You can find a list of the books in order here [[Alexander McCall Smith's The Sunday Philosophy
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  • Italian Street Food by Paola Bacchia
    ...lives. I could eat that on a daily basis. Puffed cheese bites are on the list to try and I'm very taken with the idea of crescentine - pan-cooked flatbr ...l I read the recipe, which does contain sugar and sultanas. That's on the list of 'might try one day...' Italy's the home of ice cream and there are some
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  • English Gothic: Classic Horror Cinema 1897-2015 by Jonathan Rigby
    ...lings as and when appropriate. And whereas there are already copious film list books, where we go A-Zombie through a select few titles in self-contained f ...uccinct, detailed, well-written, authoritative, up-to-date (he ends with a list of films still being made at my time of reviewing, no less) and intelligent
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  • 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain by Quentin Letts
    ...ago, I suspect that the author might have been at the top of some people's list of culprits for using that naughty b-word. Good grief, man, you can't poss {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books about Britain, Britishness, and the Brits}}
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  • Everlost by Neal Shusterman
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  • An Offer You Can't Refuse by Jill Mansell
    {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Chick Lit Picks}} What a great website you have - I've just added it to my favourites list and shall be visiting you often from now on.
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  • The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
    ...Booker and working your way through some of the others on this year's long list. We've enjoyed [[Room by Emma Donoghue]], [[The Thousand Autumns of Jacob d {{toptentext|list=Man Booker Prize 2010}}
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  • November 2010 Newsletter
    ...things to buy. Well, Bookbag's no different. We have produced our very own list of Christmas - there, we said it - purchase suggestions. Sorry! But we thin ...rite [[Top Ten Teen Books of 2010|teen books]] of the year. It's a diverse list, ranging from hard sci-fi through apocalyptic and historical fantasy right
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  • Bellebrook's Secrets by Helen Stafford
    ...you? If you do and you're a fan of the genre, this is one to add to your list. ...eading we've just emerged from with the [[Man Booker Prize 2015|Man Booker list]]. The further good news is that Helen is currently working on a sequel so
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  • February 2016 Newsletter
    ...ooks/what-to-read/david-bowie-the-man-who-loved-books/ top 100 books]. The list is as eclectic as you'd expect and inspirational, too. ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • People of the Day 3: The Rich and Famous Caricatured by Peter Wynter Bee and Lucy Clapham
    ...potted biography and you have a winner. Oh – and you'd better add to the list of plusses the fact that production values are high, with glossy paper and So, who's in the 2008 book then? Well, I'm not going to give you a list because that would spoil the surprises when you buy the book, but I don't m
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  • The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
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  • Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy by Marina Hyde
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  • The Hello Atlas by Ben Handicott and Kenard Pak
    ...ght this could have been an opportunity to branch out. Secondly, we have a list of phrases at the back, with English translations….and in a number of cas ...the excellent pictures that feature in the book, you're just looking at a list of vocab. Also, I found it odd that at this stage we still didn't have the
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  • The Deceived by Brett Battles
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  • Life On The Line by Jeremy Bullard
    ...iory convinced him that he had to rethink his life choices and high on the list was a long-distance trip on a motorbike. The first two trips - from London If the Galapagos interests you then we've various reviews of books about [[List Of Books To Celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th Anniversary|Charles Darwin]].
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  • Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? by Mick O'Hare
    ...d love this. I'm almost sorry that I've read it and can't now put it on my list!
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  • RSPCA Complete Dog Care Manual by Dr Bruce Fogle
    ...locks and areas which can cause problems are fenced off. There's a useful list of plants which can prove toxic to dogs - and it might cause you to look ca ...problems with at least a degree of knowledge. On the right-hand page is a list of symptoms such as Occasional Vomiting and Persistent Vomiting. Each sympt
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  • Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
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  • Skios by Michael Frayn
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  • Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family by Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive
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  • The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
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  • Seduction of the Innocent by Max Allan Collins
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  • Trieste by Dasa Drndic and Ellen Elias-Bursac (translator)
    ...ion like war crime trial transcripts, and the centrepiece of Trieste – the list of names. ...this they almost expect or anticipate the story behind each name. Then a list of 9,000 names appears. Column after column, page after page of names, no
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  • Paula Weston Talks To Bookbag About Her Dream Dinner Party
    It's surprisingly tough coming up with a dream dinner party guest list. So, to keep things simple, I'm going with a theme of angelic and not-so-an ...ight when it's called for. Which may happen during dinner, given the guest list.
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  • Pitch Black by Alex Gray
    ...during the match, decisions that led directly to Kelvin's defeat, and the list of suspects include not only the whole of the Kelvin FC playing and backroo ...n Chairman, Patrick (Big Pat) Kennedy seems to be next on the killer's hit list. The climax of the novel then becomes a race against time – can Lorimer a
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  • Lucas by Kevin Brooks
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Love Stories For Teenagers}} ...imself in harms way, he sacrifices himself for the good of others, and the list goes on. There is certainly a 'saviour' aspect to him that I'm sure is dire
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  • Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Anne O'Brien
    ...passing reference, to keep up the pace of the story. (I am an inveterate list maker!) Some events just don’t fit and it’s just as important to recog *'''BB: Looking at the top 10 books you list as your favourites in the Devil's Consort, they're mainly historical fictio
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  • The Black Guard (The Long War) by AJ Smith
    ...re a cartophile) as the locations become immaterial. Also ignore the cast list at the back as it contains spoilers. The next tip is not to panic about re ...nderful episodic fights/interludes that stick in our minds. The top of my list for the latter is the exciting dungeon dust-up in which Randall graduates t
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  • All You Need is Love by Carole Matthews
    ...witty outing from your friendly, neighbourhood regular-in-the-best-seller-list, Carole Matthews. So it would appear that having ticked off 'love' from the list of things in her life that need to be going places, Sally takes one look ar
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  • Eat - The Little Book of Fast Food by Nigel Slater
    ...ntities, then method along with any notes. On all these recipes you get a list of ingredients (such as 'ham, bacon, butter, eggs, cheese...') but with the
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  • Black Dove, White Raven by Elizabeth Wein
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  • Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
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  • I Can Has Cheezburger by Eric Nakagawa
    ...in your life, and I suspect that this will be heading for the best seller list in the run up to Christmas.
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  • Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
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  • Why Evolution is True by Jerry A Coyne
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  • The Conductor by Sarah Quigley
    |summary=A novel that remained at number one in the New Zealand best seller list for 20 weeks, this is a fascinating, fictionalisation of one of the more gr ...guilt and then a greater weight of sadness. (Yes, indeed, I cried.) The list of colourful characters that populate Ms Quigley's Leningrad just go on and
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  • Christmas Designs by Elaine Hill
    ...Christmas with two children sitting on his lap looking at his good and bad list. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books With A Christmas Theme}}
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  • The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels by Danny Fingeroth
    Of course, turning up at your local library with or without a list inspired by this volume will still bewilder the novitiate. In my experienc ...stered indoors for a long time with a [[:Category:Graphic Novels|huge wish-list of graphic novels]] I needed to explore, and a lot of memories of those alr
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  • April 2013 Newsletter
    ...ith the choices? If not, who would have been your choices? Everyone on the list is getting a turn on Radio 4's [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s0f63 Bo ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • October 2011 Newsletter
    ...Julian Barnes]] and if you haven't read it yet, you should put it on your list. ...whether to cheer or weep. But the good news is that we've made it onto the list! Yes, at number 100. If you don't believe us, take a [http://www.guardian.c
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  • The Thrifty Cookbook by Kate Colquhoun
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  • Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders by Adam Morgan
    ...sh approach and proceeding to ''clear definition of core challenges''. The list of possible challenges that a Challenger can make is one of the most inspir ...inctly summarised in a table presenting ''12 Challenger Stances'' and this list alone is worth the price of the purchase. There is also a ready-made schedu
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  • A Classic Case of Dr Seuss by Dr Seuss
    We've reviewed some of the books, but here's a list of what you get in the case:
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  • Mort by Terry Pratchett
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  • The Boss: The Many Sides of Alex Ferguson by Michael Crick
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  • March 2009 Newsletter
    ...which of Bookbag's reviews are most read by its community of surfers. The list is [[Most Read Reviews On Bookbag|here]]. ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
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  • Hairy Maclary by Lynley Dodd
    ...for your child. Put Hairy Maclary and his friends near to the top of your list. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Timeless Picture Books To Treasure Forever}}
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  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
    ...metaphor for lengthy, boring and dull but remains a book on many a bucket list. So which is it to be: best avoided or embraced? Unsurprisingly the BBC c ...our memories. The downside of the spin off publication is that there's no list of characters to refer to at the beginning and the writing is both tightly
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  • The World's Worst Children by David Walliams and Tony Ross
    ...ls ten copies or a million I'll look for the more esoteric titles on their list – the essays not the novels, the short stories that get ignored and not t {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books for Confident Readers 2016}}
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  • Little House In The Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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  • A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love by Richard Dawkins
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  • The Twin Giants: A Love Story by Dick King-Smith
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  • Making Christmas Table Decorations by Polly Pinder
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  • Empire of the Sun by J G Ballard
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  • The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
    ...e Dark Is Rising Sequence. I loved the book so much it topped my Christmas list for years, but sadly Santa never delivered. As an adult, I finally bought t ...or anyone looking for strong females characters making this book top of my list for parents who want a book that empowers girls. Barney has all the magic o
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  • Stuff Every Dad Should Know by Brett Cohen
    ...ppies, a selection of books for sharing (as if [[:Category:For Sharing|OUR list]] was not the be-all and end-all), and more emotional considerations as the
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  • February 2017 Newsletter
    ...ll-1984-sales-surge-kellyanne-conway-alternative-facts Amazon's bestseller list]. Alternative facts are not facts. And thank you, George Orwell, for warnin ...we've seen some exceptional books. [[Top Ten Self-Published Books 2016|Our list]] for last year is in alphabetical order for this reason. They're all great
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  • Book Lover by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack
    ...ing a list of all those books you could talk about in detail. The combined list would be much more immense than if you were doing this exercise on your own
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  • This Belongs to Me: Cool Ways to Personalize Your Stuff by Anna Wray
    Each project is described in detail, with a comprehensive list of all the materials needed and simple step-by step instructions along with
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  • G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart by John Webley
    ...ese feature in the book. What could so easily have been little more than a list of names accompanied by potted biographies has been developed into a fascin {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Self-Published Books 2018}}
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  • August 2010 Newsletter
    ...sorted by category]]. If it's themes you're looking for, try our extensive list of [[:Category:Lists|top tens]]. The highest rated reviews by genre are the ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • Arclight by Josin L McQuein
    ...uein's contemporary novel ''Premeditated'' is at the top of my 'must read' list and I was interested in seeing what her writing was like. This is an intere
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  • Jumpy Jack and Googily by Meg Rosoff and Sophie Blackall
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  • July 2009 Newsletter
    ...sing the right title for a book. The [[Booktrust Teenage Prize 2009]] long list has been announced and there are some fabulous books on there. Which would ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • Darkness Slipped In by Ella Burfoot
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  • The Yips by Nicola Barker
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Jenny Smith
    '''I loved the positive and negative lists in the book! Can we get a list of the positives and negatives of being an author, please?''' * '''BB: That's on my 'to read' list! I don't think I've ever read any of her books but I keep meaning to.'''
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  • Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall
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  • Just Like Tonight by Amber Stewart and Layn Marlow
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  • The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
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  • The Cure by Michael Coleman
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  • November 2011 Newsletter
    ...quite boracic. Take a [[Christmas Gift Recommendations 2011|look]] at our list if you're in need of ideas. We've also updated our [[Amazon Kindle|review]] ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • Tiger by Suzi Eszterhas
    The last page of the book contains a list of interesting facts about tigers. For example, did you know that tigers ha
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  • The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen
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  • Nigella Bites by Nigella Lawson
    ...er and then a stentorian voice would say "... and here is the recipe". The list of ingredients would appear on the screen and there would be complete silen ...This seemed fine. No one was turning over from the boredom of staring at a list of ingredients staring at them and the Radio Times got some free advertisin
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  • What's For Dinner, Mr Gum? by Andy Stanton
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  • One More Hug For Nutmeg by Caroline Jayne Church
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  • 100 Simple Paper Flowers by Kelsey Elam
    ...l guide to the equipment that will be needed before starting, as well as a list of essential and optional materials and tools. We then learn about the vari
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  • Prisoner of the Inquisition by Theresa Breslin
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  • Who Am I?: The Family Tree Explorer by Anthony Adolph
    ...lists from immigrant ships) is available, but there are many others that a list of sources could (and should) include.
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  • Going Vintage by Lindsey Leavitt
    ...the boy, and of the new technology that's the cause of her woes. Finding a list her grandmother wrote as a teen in the Sixties, she decides to go vintage,
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  • Sparrow: The Story of Joan of Arc by Michael Morpurgo
    ...one. It's not quite up there with his best, however - the rest of the cast list, notably the Dauphin and the French noblemen who fight alongside Joan are r
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  • Annabel Pitcher tells us about her ideal dinner party guests
    First on the list of literary guests would have to be [[We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel |comment= Interesting list of guests, there! Actually, I’d go a bit further: I’m always intrigued
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  • The Classic Guide to Famous Assassinations (Classic Guides) by Sarah Herman
    ...uld have had their lives cut short. (One of the most intriguing parts is a list of the ways in which the US government tried to get rid of Fidel Castro!)
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Hayley Long
    * '''BB: Lottie’s list of her ten favourite Welsh people on MyKindaBook is great – how many of t HL: Well thank you, I’m glad you liked Lottie’s Welsh list, I’ll pass that compliment on to her…
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  • When Dragons Are Dreaming by James Mayhew and Lindsey Gardiner
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  • Battlemage by Stephen Aryan
    ...ast which can cause problems in the case of some audio downloads – no cast list to refer to. However in this case it's not a problem at all since Stephen' {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Fantasy Books of 2015}}
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  • The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Murder That Changed the World by Greg King and Sue Woolmans
    ...ppen. Potiorek, the governor-general of Bosnia, was at the head of a long list of guilty men. On the other hand, the suspicion remains that the Archduke ...rld War. Like their elder sister, they also suffered under an astonishing list of petty humiliations from some of the surviving Habsburgs, simply because
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  • Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
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  • The Algebraist by Iain M Banks
    ...es "proper" (which is not perhaps the best word to use for an author whose list includes [[Wasp Factory]]) literary fiction. Iain M. Banks who, on the surf {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Science Fiction Picks}}
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  • The Baby Dragon-Tamer by Jan Fearnley
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  • Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins by Adrian Desmond and James Moore
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  • Birdsong by Ellie Sandall
    ...ge after page, with new calls added to the mix. Rather than simply being a list of calls, there's also a fun plot with a healthy smattering of humour throw
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  • In Glorious Technicolor: A Century of Film and How it has Shaped Us by Francine Stock
    ...assistant taking a pinch of snuff and sneezing. (Not top of the must-see list, I hear you say). One year later saw the birth of special effects, devised ...essarily those which would make a generally-accepted most important movies list of all time. For instance ‘Gone With The Wind’, ‘Citizen Kane’, an
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  • Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten War Novels}} This is next on my must-read list. That's a list I keep of books that ought to be read for the sake of humanity and whether
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  • October 2017 Newsletter
    ...nd and his wonderful messages about openness and inclusivity. But the 2018 list isn't universally popular. Many children's authors, among them Bookbag favo ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • The Red Plague Affair by Lilith Saintcrow
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  • You Can Be Amazing: Transform Your Life with Hypnosis by Ursula James
    ...st helps to sow the seed of success – you can then revisit the rest of the list later, using the same techniques. This process also helps you to overcome t
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  • Crunch! by Carolina Rabei
    ...an food (or dare one say, ''toys''?) and friendship is probably top of the list. There's another moral too (it's great value, this book - far better than
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  • Dark Parties by Sara Grant
    ...d. It's the same with all The Missing – they are erased. But, Neva keeps a list of all The Missing, and she's determined to find out what's happening.
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  • The Food We Eat by Joanna Blythman
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  • So Much To Tell by Valerie Grove
    ...recruiting 20,000 members in just two months. Grove says ''The membership list is stuffed with the writers, artists and publishers of the future.'' The ma ...Kate’s private collection in the centre of the book. The acknowledgements list lots of famous authors (and their children) who talked to Valerie Grove abo
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  • My Name Is Mina by David Almond
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  • Faulks on Fiction by Sebastian Faulks
    ...of eminent novelists who have contributed to the exercise (as well as long list of unpaid interns who have read through the books for the author). There's
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  • Living and Working in the UK by Mathew Collins and Nicky Barclay
    ...e the chapter on marriage/fiancée visas is very short and does nothing but list the official information available form pretty much any UK consular outpost ...cation on Tuesdays. The same space could be much more usefully employed to list the main categories of jobs advertised in main broadsheets on particular da
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  • Supercontinent by Ted Nield
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  • Blade, 1: Enemies by Tim Bowler
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  • Whatever You Love by Louise Doughty
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  • The Apple Tart of Hope by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
    ...For other great teen books that everyone should read, check out Bookbag's list: [[Top Ten Teen Books That Adults Should Read]]
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  • Trixie The Witch's Cat by Nick Butterworth
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  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
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  • Tappity-Tap! What Was That? by Claire Freedman and Russell Julian
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  • Success before Start-Up: How to prepare for business, avoid mistakes, succeed by Steve Bridger
    ...you're thinking about this is worth reading, even if you use it as a check list to see that you've covered all the bases. It's one of those books which wi
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  • There but for the by Ali Smith
    ...t, the other being [[The Blue Book by A L Kennedy]]. Both are worthy short list contenders.
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Spadge Whittaker
    ...so something like abseiling (for fun) would never ever appear on my to-do list. My brother was totally unimpressed ''easy or what?'' was his reaction. If ...'t fancy sticking my head in a beehive. I wish dogs had been higher on the list though, I'd have loved the excuse to be covered in dogs or puppies for a fe
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  • Would You Believe...Vatican City is a country?! by Richard Platt
    ...n of crime some of them have had to much notoriety. I liked very much the list of old names tentatively given the skyscraper phenomenon, such as sky-batte
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  • What can you Stack on the Back of a Yak? by Alison Green and Adam Stower
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  • November 2012 Newsletter
    ...their age or interests. We hope you find great gifts for everyone on your list - literary or not - and that you receive some great gifts yourself. And we ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni: The True Story by Valerie Benaim and Yves Azeroual
    ...for a presidential wife with a reputation as a man-eater and an impressive list of former lovers.
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  • Daily Mail Tax Guide 2011/2012 by Jane Vass
    ...fact file at the end of the book includes a very useful and comprehensive list of HMRC leaflets, help sheets and other resources as well as all the addres
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  • The Silly Satsuma by Allan Plenderleith
    ...the story - but I'll leave you to find out what Eric put on his Christmas list the following year!
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  • The Tiger that Isn't by Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Slightly Geeky People}} {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For The Defenders Of Reason}}
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  • My First Mr Men 123 by Roger Hargreaves
    ...names, although they aren't shared in this book, and there isn't a summary list on the back cover as is the case with some of the paperbacks. The Boy picke
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  • Where Bear? by Sophy Henn
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  • It Could Have Been Yours: The enlightened person's guide to the year's most desirable things by Jolyon Fenwick and Marcus Husselby
    ...such things will continue. Hollywood has more to offer, for one, and the list of odd artifacts that pass hands will never shrink. As regards buying this
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  • Leave Me by Gayle Forman
    ...his is Gayle Forman's first work of fiction that is not on the Young Adult list. As I've said many times, it would do us all good to read some Young Adult {{toptentext|list=Top Ten General Fiction Books of 2016}}
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  • August 2015 Newsletter
    ...what can happen and it really is rather glorious. You are all down on the list for this highly entertaining and silly bop around the fruit bowl. ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • Blown Away by Rob Biddulph
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  • East End Paradise: Kitchen Garden Cooking In The City by Jojo Tulloh
    ...f you don't have the luxury of an allotment (and in some areas the waiting list is longer than most people can contemplate) there are still ways that almos
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  • Work From Home by Judy Heminsley
    Each chapter ends with a list of resources: organisations, websites, books and even types of people that {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books To Help Down-Size And Make Ends Meet}}
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  • Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss
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  • The Loving Husband by Christobel Kent
    ...e faintest idea who they are) and her desperation not to be on the suspect list. Kent draws you into her character's exhaustion and makes you rage against ...from homeless to successful, the former of which forms the basis of Fran's list of suspects.
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  • Orange Prize 2011
    '''Other books on the long list''' ...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
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  • Blue Chameleon by Emily Gravett
    {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2010}}
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  • The Sword in the Stone by T H White
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Classics of Children's Literature}} {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Retellings of Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales}}
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  • Goodnight Goon by Michael Rex
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  • Top Ten Crime Novels 0f 2013
    |title=The Never List ...they were so cautious it was daft. They'd even composed their own 'Never List'. As long as they stuck to it they'd be safe, and safe they were until tha
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  • Tales of Terror from the Black Ship by Chris Priestley
    {{toptentext|list=Booktrust Teenage Prize 2009}}
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  • I Dreamed You by Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Self-Published Books 2020}}
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  • Don't Call Me Ishmael by Michael Gerard Bauer
    ...e two sequels to this one which will definitely be going onto my 'to read' list.
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  • 15 Things Not to Do with a Baby by Margaret McAllister and Holly Sterling
    ...of ways to play with the babe. Instead, it’s a funny and at times unusual list of things you really shouldn’t do with a newborn. Like, let him play with
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  • The Boy and the Dog by Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
    ...The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discov
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  • How to Read a Novelist: Conversations with Writers by John Freeman
    ...in ten - or twenty - years time. I would have loved an index - or even a list of the authors in alphabetical order - as locating that nugget which it's a
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  • My First Mog ABC by Judith Kerr
    ...e of a rather dim, but happy cat. Using images from the previous books, a list of Mog adventures has been created from A to Z including C for Cats of cour
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  • The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again! by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
    ...his time, they’re in Vegas! I haven’t read the first book but it was on my list when the opportunity arose to review this one. The idea of the League of Pe
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  • The Arty Book by Nikalas Catlow and David Sinden
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Children's Non-Fiction Books of 2016}}
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  • How to Drink by Victoria Moore
    ...t the fact that someone is paying for poor wine. There's something in her list for most tastes. {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009}}
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  • Let Me Off at the Top!: My Classy Life and Other Musings by Ron Burgundy
    ...is schoolmates having names slightly too similar to the ''Star Wars'' cast list, and Mexicans, but dammit it's mostly a well-sustained joke. The voice of
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  • August 2013 Newsletter
    ...on Leyson]] is 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 ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • The Unreliable Life of Harry the Valet: The Great Victorian Jewel Thief by Duncan Hamilton
    Author Duncan Hamilton takes an impressive list of sources - chiefly the Valet's own autobiography, which he admits is not
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  • Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History by Nick Bunker
    ...this time period than for the casual reader, Bunker draws on an impressive list of sources but this can be tough going at times.
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  • Why Does E Equal mc Squared? by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
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  • A Day That Changed History: The Assassination of John F Kennedy by Tracey Kelly
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books on President John F Kennedy}}
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  • Heartburn by Nora Ephron
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Beach Reads For Girls}}
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  • The Lodger by Louisa Treger
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Women's Fiction 2015}}
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  • Tiny Acts of Love by Lucy Lawrie
    ...etails. And when we say ‘the world’ we mean everyone in her email contacts list. Including all her clients. And random tradespeople she might once have got
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  • The Last King of Lydia by Tim Leach
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Historical Fiction Books of 2013}}
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  • Why jewellery is a good gift for Christmas
    ...be earrings, chains and necklaces, rings, eyeglass chains, watches... The list is simply amazing. A large collection of themed jewellery. This is usually
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  • The Red Fairy Book (Hesperus Fairytale Books) by Andrew Lang
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books for Confident Readers 2013}}
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  • The Monster in the Box by Ruth Rendell
    ...light advantage to reading the books in chronological order: you'll find a list [[Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford Novels in Chronological Order|here]].
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  • The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want by Garrett Keizer
    ...eaders to subscribe to; an advice section on tackling noise disputes and a list of organizations involved in noise abatement. {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2010}}
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  • How to find a job in Poland on your own
    If your profession or speciality does not match the list, it does not mean that it is impossible to find a job in Poland with decent
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  • This Is How by M J Hyland
    ...as nominated for the Man Booker Prize. 'This is How' has already been long list nominated for the Orange Prize. ...why not check out some of the other books in this year's Orange Prize long list, such as [[Savage Lands by Clare Clark]] or [[Small Wars by Sadie Jones]].
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  • The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan
    {{toptentext|list=The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013}}
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  • The Way To The Zoo by John Burningham
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Sharing 2014}}
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  • Bloodline Rising by Katy Moran
    {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Easter Eggs}}
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  • Top Ten Autobiographies and Biographies of 2013
    |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
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  • Tin by Chris Judge
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Sharing 2014}}
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  • What's In The Witch's Kitchen? by Nick Sharratt
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Picture Books For Halloween}}
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  • December by Elizabeth H Winthrop
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  • Too Purply! by Jean Reidy and Genevieve Leloup
    |summary=It might just be little more than a list of adjectives, but ''Too Purply!'' is actually great fun and has wonderful
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  • Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Crime Novels}}
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  • Britspice by Manju Malhi
    ...othing there that's particularly unusual or hard to get hold of. The spice list covers all the spices used in the book, gives the Indian name as well as th
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  • Lob by Linda Newbery
    {{toptentext|list=Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2010}}
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  • The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
    {{toptentext|list=Man Booker Prize 2013}}
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  • The Wrong End of the Dog (Grubtown Tales) by Philip Ardagh
    ...young in at the deep end with a lot of nonsense and asexual names, so the list of who's who at the end might be rather well-used. I could be slammed as a
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  • The Great War: The People's Story by Isobel Charman
    A bare list of assassinations, declarations, battles, and treaties may chart the essent {{toptentext|list=Top Ten History Books of 2014}}
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  • Harry: My Autobiography by Harry Redknapp
    ...actors fairly. He's not someone who will be on the Football Association's list of favourite people, but I thought his views on the England set-up and rece
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  • Murder For Christmas by Francis Duncan
    ...ely cut off from the nearby village, but there's a sufficiently small cast list to encourage speculation as to who might be the murderer and why, but not s
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  • Allotments (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way
    ...e 'having an allotment' is seen as a fashionable hobby with a long waiting list for most sites. There's also a wealth of factoids - such as how the standa
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  • The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
    ...Shortlist 2009]] although we've not been quite so convinced by this year's list.
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  • The Digital Plague by Jeff Somers
    ...t the sci-fi reader put this volume, if not the weaker series opener, on a list marked 'well worth investigation'. {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Science Fiction Picks}}
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  • Stupendous Science by Rob Beattie and Sam Peet
    ...easy to follow. Each project starts with an overview of the experiment, a list of items needed and brief and clear instructions accompanied by illustratio
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  • Horton Hears a Who by Dr Seuss
    ...ng story. Some of the good Doctor’s work is great fun, but is basically a list of silly ideas put onto a page, ‘‘Horton’’ is different. It is a s
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  • The Wolf by Joseph Smith
    {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2010}}
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  • I Will Love You Anyway by Mick Inkpen and Chloe Inkpen
    ...ations will, I believe, see ''I Will Love You Anyway'' being added to this list.
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  • The White Book by Silvia Borando, Elisabetta Pica and Lorenzo Clerici
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Picture Books 2015}}
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  • Leith's Meat Bible by Max Clark and Susan Spaull
    {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2010}}
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  • The Sea Between Us by Emylia Hall
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Women's Fiction 2015}}
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  • The Dudgeon is Coming by Lynley Dodd
    {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009}}
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  • George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books With Gorgeous Illustrations}} {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Children Who Think That Farts Are Funny}}
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  • The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books (British Library Crime Classics) by Martin Edwards
    It would have been simple - but not very effective - to list the books in chronological order and tell us a bit about them, but we learn ...rth of the Golden Age''. ''Trent's Last Case'' has been on my 'must read' list for far too long as this was one of the first books with a more complex plo
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  • The Slither Sisters: Tales from Lovecraft Middle School by Charles Gilman
    ...raight to a cliff-hanger reveal, so the third is already on my mental wish-list with the book reviewing gods.
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  • Melissa Wareham Talks To Bookbag About How She Became An Accidental Author
    ...Dogs] (Ebury Press), which reached number 4 in the Sunday Times bestseller list. Rescue Me was serialised in the Mail on Sunday and made into an audio book
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  • Me Cheeta by James Lever
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  • This Book Just Ate My Dog by Richard Byrne
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Sharing 2014}}
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  • Return to Ribblestrop by Andy Mulligan
    {{toptentext|list=Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2011}}
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  • The Date-A-Base Book 2017 by Dave Haslett and Kate Haslett
    ...s a question for you: how do you go about reviewing a list - especially a list that runs to 3,800 entries and 544 pages? No, I'm not sure either, but I'
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  • Counting By 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
    Written for teens but perfect for everyone, this easily sits alongside our list of [[Top Ten Teen Books That Adults Should Read]]
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  • The Everyday Witch by Liz Martinez and Mark Beech
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Picture Books For Halloween}}
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  • Tom and Millie's Great Big Treasure Hunt by Guy Parker-Rees
    ...illie are excited they're going on a great, big treasure hunt! They have a list of Very Important Things to find.''
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  • Chengdu Could Not, Would Not, Fall Asleep by Barney Saltzberg
    The list of entertaining things about toddlers does not include any of the following
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  • Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
    ...ally that wants to add a heart-warming contemporary book to their reading list.
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  • You Don't Know Me by Sophia Bennett
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Teen Books of 2013}}
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