|
|
|
1990
|
1
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Our Man in Havana
|
Graham Greene
|
3/5
|
1
|
1991
|
1
|
Mort
|
Terry Pratchet
|
2/5
|
2
|
1994
|
1
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1984
|
George Orwell
|
5/5
|
3
|
|
2
|
Guards Guards!!
|
Terry Pratchet
|
1/5
|
4
|
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3
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The Colour of Magic
|
Terry Pratchet
|
2/5
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5
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1995
|
1
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
|
George Orwell
|
3/5
|
6
|
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2
|
Brighton Rock
|
Graham Greene
|
3/5
|
7
|
|
3
|
Travels with My Aunt
|
Graham Greene
|
2/5
|
8
|
|
4
|
Foucalt's Pendulum
|
Umberto Eco
|
3/5
|
9
|
|
5
|
The Honoury Console
|
Graham Greene
|
3/5
|
10
|
|
6
|
Tess of the d'Urbevilles
|
Thomas Hardy
|
4/5
|
11
|
|
7
|
Far From the Madding Crowd
|
Thomas Hardy
|
4/5
|
12
|
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8
|
The Invisible Invaders
|
Peter Radetsky
|
3/5
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13
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1996
|
1
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Jude the Obscure
|
Thomas Hardy
|
4/5
|
14
|
|
2
|
The Moonstone
|
Wilkie Collins
|
3/5
|
15
|
|
3
|
Good Omens
|
T. Pratchett and Neil Gaimen
|
2/5
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16
|
|
4
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The Woman in White
|
Wilkie Collins
|
2/5
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17
|
|
5
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
|
Thomas Hardy
|
4/5
|
18
|
|
6
|
Victory
|
Joseph Conrad
|
1/5
|
19
|
|
7
|
Sophie's World
|
Jostein Gaarder
|
2/5
|
20
|
|
8
|
Around the World in 80 Days
|
Jules Verne
|
2/5
|
21
|
|
9
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Desperate Remedies
|
Thomas Hardy
|
3/5
|
22
|
|
10
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In Search of Shrodinger's Cat
|
John Gibben
|
3/5
|
23
|
|
11
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Gulliver's Travels
|
Jonathan Swift
|
2/5
|
24
|
|
12
|
Dubliners
|
James Joyce
|
3/5
|
25
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1997
|
1
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Dracula
|
Bram Stoker
|
3/5
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26
|
|
2
|
Ghost Stories
|
M. R. James
|
1/5
|
27
|
|
3
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The Road to Wigan Pier
|
George Orwell
|
3/5
|
28
|
|
4
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The Romans and Their Gods
|
R. M. Ogilvie
|
2/5
|
29
|
|
5
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The Return of the Native
|
Thomas Hardy
|
3/5
|
30
|
|
6
|
Pooh and the Philosophers
|
John Tyerman Williams
|
1/5
|
31
|
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7
|
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
|
Robert Louis Stevenson
|
2/5
|
32
|
|
8
|
Stark
|
Ben Elton
|
1/5
|
33
|
|
9
|
Fermat's Last Theorem
|
Simon Singh
|
2/5
|
34
|
|
10
|
Hurry on Down
|
John Wain
|
3/5
|
35
|
|
11
|
The Light and the Dark
|
C. P. Snow
|
2/5
|
36
|
1998
|
1
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The Gun Seller
|
Hugh Laurie
|
1/5
|
37
|
|
2
|
Of Mice and Men
|
John Steinbeck
|
4/5
|
38
|
|
3
|
Les Miserables
|
Victor Hugo
|
4/5
|
39
|
|
4
|
Armadale
|
Wilkie Collins
|
3/5
|
40
|
|
5
|
Two on a Tower
|
Thomas Hardy
|
3/5
|
41
|
|
6
|
Dorian Grey
|
Oscar Wilde
|
3/5
|
42
|
|
7
|
The Plague
|
Albert Camus
|
2/5
|
43
|
1999
|
1
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THHGTTG, Books 1 + 2
|
Douglas Adams
|
3/5
|
44
|
|
2
|
Cold Comfort Farm
|
Stella Gibbons
|
3/5
|
45
|
|
3
|
A Walk in the Woods
|
Bill Bryson
|
3/5
|
46
|
|
4
|
The Woodlanders
|
Thomas Hardy
|
3/5
|
47
|
|
5
|
Notes From a Small Island
|
Bill Bryson
|
3/5
|
48
|
|
6
|
Three Men in a Boat
|
Jerome K. Jerome
|
1/5
|
49
|
|
7
|
The Great Gatsby
|
Scott F. Fitzgerald
|
2/5
|
50
|
|
8
|
Hard Times
|
Charles Dickens
|
2/5
|
51
|
|
9
|
Thrust
|
Richard Noble
|
3/5
|
52
|
|
10
|
The Temp
|
Serena Mackesy
|
2/5
|
53
|
|
11
|
Northanger Abbey
|
Jane Austen
|
2/5
|
54
|
|
12
|
Under the Greenwood Tree
|
Thomas Hardy
|
3/5
|
55
|
2000
|
1
|
Rogue Trader
|
Nick Leeson
|
2/5
|
56
|
|
2
|
THHGTTG, Books 1 - 5
|
Douglas Adams
|
3/5
|
57
|
|
3
|
The Jesus Mysteries
|
Timothy Freke + Peter Gandy
|
3/5
|
58
|
|
4
|
Egypt, Myths and Legends
|
Lewis Spence
|
1/5
|
59
|
|
5
|
The Monk + the Philosopher
|
Jean Francois Revel + Matteieu Ricard
|
3/5
|
60
|
|
6
|
Damascus
|
Richard Beard
|
2/5
|
61
|
|
7
|
Life, An Unauthorised Biography
|
Richard Fortey
|
2/5
|
62
|
|
8
|
The Year 1000
|
Robert Lacey/ Danny Danziger
|
3/5
|
63
|
|
9
|
The Last Days of Socrates (Euthyphro/ The Apology/ Crito/ Phaedo)
|
Plato
|
3/5
|
64
|
|
10
|
The Birth of Christ, Exploding the Myth
|
PAH Seymour
|
2/5
|
65
|
|
11
|
To Kill a Mockingbird
|
Harper Lee
|
4/5
|
66
|
|
12
|
The Gnostic Gospels
|
Elaine Pagels
|
2/5
|
67
|
|
13
|
Republic
|
Plato
|
3/5
|
68
|
|
14
|
Weaving the Web
|
Tim Berners-Lee
|
3/5
|
69
|
|
15
|
Cicero on the Good Life (Discussions at Tusculum (V), On Duites (II), Laelius on Friendship, On the Orator (I), The Dream of Scipio)
|
Marcus Tullius Cicero
|
3/5
|
70
|
2001
|
1
|
A Song of Stone
|
Iain Banks
|
3/5
|
71
|
|
2
|
Secrets + Lies (Digital Security in a Networked World)
|
Bruce Schneier
|
3/5
|
72
|
|
3
|
Early Socratic Dialogues (Ion, Laches, Lysis, Charmides, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Euthydemus)
|
Plato
|
3/5
|
73
|
|
4
|
Elizabethan England
|
Alison Plowden
|
3/5
|
74
|
|
5
|
Heaven's Mirror
|
Graham Hancock
|
2/5
|
75
|
|
6
|
Zero
|
Charles Seife
|
2/5
|
76
|
|
7
|
The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls
|
Chris Morton and Ceri Louise Thomas
|
1/5
|
77
|
|
8
|
Legend, The Genesis of Civilisation
|
David Rohl
|
3/5
|
78
|
|
9
|
Notes from a Big Country
|
Bill Bryson
|
3/5
|
79
|
|
10
|
Philosophy, Made Simple
|
Richard H. Popkin and Avrum Stroll
|
3/5
|
80
|
|
11
|
Symposium
|
Plato
|
2/5
|
81
|
|
12
|
Stickleback
|
John McCabe
|
3/5
|
82
|
|
13
|
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
|
Robert M. Pirsig
|
4/5
|
83
|
|
14
|
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
|
Louis de Bernieres
|
3/5
|
84
|
|
15
|
The Secret Country (More Mysterious Britain)
|
Janet and Colin Bored
|
2/5
|
85
|
|
16
|
Crome Yellow
|
Aldous Huxley
|
1/5
|
86
|
|
17
|
Brave New World
|
Aldous Huxley
|
2/5
|
87
|
|
18
|
Colditz
|
Henry Chancellor
|
2/5
|
88
|
2002
|
1
|
The Trumpet Major
|
Thomas Hardy
|
3/5
|
89
|
|
2
|
Down Under
|
Bill Bryson
|
2/5
|
90
|
|
3
|
A Very Short Introduction to The Koran
|
Michael Cooke
|
2/5
|
91
|
|
4
|
Eclipse
|
J P McEvoy
|
2/5
|
92
|
|
5
|
The Joy of Pi
|
David Blatner
|
2/5
|
93
|
|
6
|
The Greek Philosophers (from Thales to Aristotle)
|
W.K.C.Guthrie
|
3/5
|
94
|
|
7
|
Waiting for Godo
|
Samuel Becket
|
2/5
|
95
|
|
8
|
The Histories
|
Herodotus
|
2/5
|
96
|
|
9
|
Genome
|
Matt Ridley
|
3/5
|
97
|
|
10
|
The Illiad
|
Homer
|
3/5
|
98
|
|
11
|
The Odyssey
|
Homer
|
3/5
|
99
|
|
12
|
Flight from Deathrow
|
Harry Hill
|
3/5
|
100
|
|
13
|
Emergence
|
Steven Johnson
|
2/5
|
101
|
|
14
|
Whatever
|
Michel Houellebecq
|
3/5
|
102
|
|
15
|
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
|
Milan Kundera
|
2/5
|
103
|
2003
|
1
|
Winter King [1]
|
Bernard Cornwell
|
3/5
|
104
|
|
2
|
1984
|
George Orwell
|
4/5
|
105
|
|
3
|
Behind Deep Blue
|
Feng Hsiung Hsu
|
2/5
|
106
|
|
4
|
The Pattern on the Stone
|
W Daniel Hillis
|
1/5
|
107
|
|
5
|
Immortality
|
Milan Kundera
|
2/5
|
108
|
|
6
|
Midnight's Children
|
Salmen Rushdie
|
2/5
|
109
|
|
7
|
A History of God
|
Karen Armstrong
|
2/5
|
110
|
|
8
|
The Lost Continent
|
Bill Bryson
|
3/5
|
111
|
|
9
|
Life of Pi
|
Yann Martel
|
2/5
|
112
|
|
10
|
Salamander
|
Thomas Wharton
|
3/5
|
113
|
|
11
|
Enemy of God [2]
|
Bernard Cornwell
|
3/5
|
114
|
|
12
|
Michelangelo, Biography of a Genius
|
Bruno Nardini
|
3/5
|
115
|
|
13
|
Empire, How Britain Made the Modern World
|
Niall Ferguson
|
2/5
|
116
|
|
14
|
Prisoner's Dilemma (John Von Neumann, Game Theory and the Puzzle of the Bomb)
|
William Poundstone
|
3/5
|
117
|
|
15
|
Excalibur [3]
|
Bernard Cornwell
|
3/5
|
118
|
2004
|
1
|
Carter Beats The Devil
|
Glen David Gold
|
3/5
|
119
|
|
2
|
Northern Lights [1]
|
Phillip Pullman
|
2/5
|
120
|
|
3
|
The Subtle Knife [2]
|
Phillip Pullman
|
3/5
|
121
|
|
4
|
The Amber Spy Glass [3]
|
Phillip Pullman
|
1/5
|
122
|
|
5
|
Lovely Bones
|
Alice Sebold
|
2/5
|
123
|
|
6
|
Girl With a Pearl Earring
|
Tracy Chevalier
|
3/5
|
124
|
|
7
|
Red Dog
|
Louis de Bernieres
|
2/5
|
125
|
|
8
|
Sea Change
|
Robert Goddard
|
3/5
|
126
|
|
9
|
Animal Farm
|
George Orwell
|
3/5
|
127
|
|
10
|
On The Road
|
Jack Kerouac
|
4/5
|
128
|
|
11
|
The Catcher in the Rye
|
J. D. Salinger
|
3/5
|
129
|
|
12
|
Down and Out in Paris and London
|
George Orwell
|
3/5
|
130
|
|
13
|
The Bookseller of Kabul
|
Asne Seierstad
|
2/5
|
131
|
|
14
|
The Dharma Bums
|
Jack Kerouac
|
3/5
|
132
|
|
15
|
Franny and Zooey
|
J. D. Salinger
|
2/5
|
133
|
|
16
|
Big Sur
|
Jack Kerouac
|
1/5
|
134
|
|
17
|
Desolation Angels
|
Jack Kerouac
|
3/5
|
135
|
|
18
|
Baudolino
|
Umberto Eco
|
3/5
|
136
|
|
19
|
Moby Dick
|
Herman Melville
|
1/5
|
137
|
|
20
|
The Voynich Manuscript
|
Gerry Kenedy + Rob Churchill
|
2/5
|
138
|
|
21
|
A Clockwork Orange
|
Anthony Burgess
|
3/5
|
139
|
2005
|
1
|
The Letters of J R R Tolkien
|
Tolkien/ Humphrey Carpenter / Christopher Tolkien
|
2/5
|
140
|
|
2
|
Emperors of Dreams - Drugs in the Nineteenth Century
|
Mike Jay
|
4/5
|
141
|
|
3
|
The World of Caffeine
|
Bennett Weinberg + Alan Bannte K Bealer
|
2/5
|
142
|
|
4
|
Who Runs This Country?
|
Anthony Sampson
|
3/5
|
143
|
|
5
|
Free Lunch
|
David Smith
|
3/5
|
144
|
|
6
|
The End of Oil
|
Paul Roberts
|
3/5
|
145
|
|
7
|
Forces of Habit
|
David T Courtwright
|
3/5
|
146
|
|
8
|
War of the Worlds
|
H G Wells
|
4/5
|
147
|
|
9
|
Preséntations de la Philosophie
|
André Comte-Sponville
|
2/5
|
148
|
|
10
|
Rubicon
|
Tom Holland
|
3/5
|
149
|
|
11
|
The Story of the Blues
|
Paul Oliver
|
2/5
|
150
|
2006
|
1
|
The Mystery of Easter Island
|
Katherine Routledge
|
2/5
|
151
|
|
2
|
A Short History of Everything
|
Bill Bryson
|
4/5
|
152
|
|
3
|
Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down
|
Nicey and Wifey
|
3/5
|
153
|
|
4
|
Crime and Punishment
|
Fyodor Dostoevsky
|
4/5
|
154
|
|
5
|
Made in America
|
Bill Bryson
|
4/5
|
155
|
|
6
|
The Bridge
|
Iain Banks
|
4/5
|
156
|
|
7
|
The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick
|
Peter Lamont
|
3/5
|
157
|
|
8
|
Samurai Williams, The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan
|
Giles Milton
|
3/5
|
158
|
|
9
|
The End of Faith
|
Sam Harris
|
3/5
|
159
|
|
10
|
The Wisdom of Crowds
|
James Surowiecki
|
3/5
|
160
|
|
11
|
Breakfast at Tiffany's
|
Truman Capote
|
4/5
|
161
|
|
12
|
On the Edge - The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore
|
Brian Bagnall
|
3/5
|
162
|
2007
|
1
|
In Cold Blood
|
Truman Capote
|
4/5
|
163
|
|
2
|
Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors
|
Lizzie Collingham
|
3/5
|
164
|
|
3
|
Grapes of Wrath
|
John Steinbeck
|
5/5
|
165
|
|
4
|
Earth Work
|
Mark Crutchfield
|
3/5
|
166
|
|
5
|
Kingmaker
|
Mark Crutchfield
|
4/5
|
167
|
|
6
|
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
|
Ken Kesey
|
4/5
|
168
|
|
7
|
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
|
Lynne Truss
|
3/5
|
169
|
|
8
|
Cold War
|
Jeremy Issacs and Taylor Downing
|
3/5
|
170
|
|
9
|
Days Without Number
|
Robert Goddard
|
3/5
|
171
|
2008
|
1
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
|
Bill Bryson
|
3/5
|
172
|
|
2
|
Rebecca
|
Daphne Du Maurier
|
4/5
|
173
|
|
3
|
Memoirs of a Geisha
|
Arthur Golden
|
3/5
|
174
|
|
4
|
A Confederacy of Dunces
|
John Kennedy Toole
|
4/5
|
175
|
|
5
|
Shakespeare
|
Bill Bryson
|
3/5
|
176
|
|
6
|
The Tiger That Isn't
|
Michael Blastland + Andrew Dilnot
|
3/5
|
177
|
|
7
|
The Undercover Economist
|
Tim Harford
|
3/5
|
178
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2009
|
1
|
Bad Science
|
Ben Goldacre
|
3/5
|
179
|
|
2
|
How Fiction Works
|
James Wood
|
2/5
|
180
|
|
3
|
Casino Royale
|
Ian Flemming
|
3/5
|
181
|
|
4
|
Live and Let Die
|
Ian Flemming
|
3/5
|
182
|
|
5
|
Moonraker
|
Ian Flemming
|
3/5
|
183
|
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6
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Mother Tongue
|
Bill Bryson
|
3/5
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184
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