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They should not have clumped all of Shakespeare together; otherwise it would have been more then ten for me.


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Mcbeth was a bore.
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i can spot few that i have read.
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[quote="Quinton"]The top 100 books by http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Last Updated: 2:32am GMT 02/03/2007



5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee



7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8= Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck(i tried and couldnt get through it)



32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens


41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez



58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley


65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas(abridged version as a kid)



67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy



74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson(I have read all his travel books, very funny, I recommend highly)


88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn (Albom, not alborn, And this book and Tuesdays with Morrie are not on my hit list, great books by all accounts)

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (one of the greatest books of all time. I see a lot of Ignatius in me looool)

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
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[quote="Cilmiile"] 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (one of the greatest books of all time. I see a lot of Ignatius in me looool) [/quote]

Does that include potential suicide in the offing any time soon? lool. If you are anywhere near the lead character in the book, you got talents.
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he doesnt commit suicide. Myrna the Minx rescues him

The author commited suicide. Not Ignatius
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You are correct me lad, thanks for the correction. Had few seconds to write before the barrel chested sob here breathed on my neck and told me to quit fooling around with the computer Laughing Good catch. The author committs suicide and is given pulitze price posthumously.
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5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare


They pretty much forced me to read these (except for the Guide to the Galaxy) back in my school yrs.
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I have too read Great Expecations for English :S
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Quite a few, on the list.
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[quote="Cilmiile"]
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (one of the greatest books of all time. I see a lot of Ignatius in me looool)[/quote]

Laughing I don't how I missed the resemblance, it's so obvious.
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why is the bible on the list and not the quraan? lamagoodley somali nomads pretending to be seen as sophisticated.
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[quote="PragmaticGal"][quote="Cilmiile"]
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (one of the greatest books of all time. I see a lot of Ignatius in me looool)[/quote]

Laughing I don't how I missed the resemblance, it's so obvious.[/quote]

You minx, you have disturbed my valve.
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