Awards search:The 100 books every school-leaver ought to have read

Afternoon Men

by Anthony Powell
Paperback, 2014
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Just William

by Richmal Crompton
Paperback, 1990
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Just William (1)

Mr. Norris Changes Trains

by Christopher Isherwood
Paperback, 2000
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20th Century & Contemporary BritLit, Classics, Germany & German Literature, Humor - Comedy - Satire, Politics, Sense of Time - Sense of Place
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The Berlin Stories (1), Colección Comodín (131)

Mansfield Park

by Jane Austen
Hardcover, 2012
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Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen
Hardcover, 2008
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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë
Hardcover, 2008
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle
Hardcover, 2018
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The Hobbit

by J. R. R. Tolkien
Digital audiobook, 2020
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The Lord of the Rings (Prelude)

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie
Digital audiobook, 2012
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Hercule Poirot (4)

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas
Digital audiobook, 2013
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Classics, France & French Literature, Historical Fiction, French History, War and Peace
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D'Artagnan Romances (1)

Pride and Prejudice: The Complete Novel, with Nineteen Letters from the Characters' Correspondence, Written and Folded by Hand

by Jane Austen
Hardcover, 2020
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The History of Mr Polly

by H. G. Wells
Paperback, 2005
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Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson
Paperback, 1988
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David Balfour (1)

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas père
CD audiobook, 2002
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D'Artagnan Romances (1)

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens
Hardcover, 2008
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Bleak House

by Charles Dickens
Hardcover, 2011
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The Hobbit

by J. R. R. Tolkien
Paperback, 1986
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The Lord of the Rings (Prelude)

The Iliad

by Homer
Paperback, 1998
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Ancient Classics, Classics, Greece, Mythology, Poetry, History: Greece - Rome - Mediterranean, War and Peace, History of Literature
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Homer's Epic Cycle (1)

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel García Márquez
Hardcover, 2003
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Caribbean, Classics, Hispanic World & Literature, Historical Fiction, Nobel Prize, War and Peace, History: Latin America, History of Literature
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Cien años de soledad

by Gabriel García Márquez
Paperback, 1994
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Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe
Paperback, 2001
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The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1)

Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James
Paperback, 2002
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19th Century American Literature, Banned / Challenged Books, Classics, Italy & Italian Literature, Love and Romance, Sense of Time - Sense of Place, Querelle des femmes, American History, History: Greece - Rome - Mediterranean, Italian History
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Bleak House

by Charles Dickens
Paperback, 1997
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The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Hardcover, 1998
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The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler
Paperback, 1988
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American Mysteries and Crime Fiction, California & Southwestern USA, Classics, Mysteries and Crime Fiction, Sense of Time - Sense of Place, American History
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Philip Marlowe (1)

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck
Paperback, 2002
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20th Century & Contemporary American, Banned / Challenged Books, California & Southwestern USA, Classics, Nature - Gardens - Environment, Nobel Prize, Politics, Sense of Time - Sense of Place, American History, History of Literature
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Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert
Paperback, 2006
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The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger
Paperback, 2001
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The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer
Paperback, 2003
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Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Paperback, 2003
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The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene
Paperback, 1977
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A Farewell To Arms

by Ernest Hemingway
Paperback, 1995
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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Paperback, 1995
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Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray
Paperback, 1994
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Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov
Paperback, 2000
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Animal Farm

by George Orwell
Paperback, 2000
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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Paperback, 2002
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The Adventures of Augie March

by Saul Bellow
Paperback, 2006
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Paradise Lost

by John Milton
Paperback, 2003
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Classics, Poetry, History of Literature
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The Divine Comedy, Part 1: Hell

by Dante Alighieri
Paperback, 1950
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The Divine Comedy (1)

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie
Hardcover, 2006
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Hercule Poirot (4)

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter
Hardcover, 2002
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Peter Rabbit (1)

Dead Souls

by Nikolai Gogol
Paperback, 2004
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Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell
Paperback, 1993
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Origin Of Species

by Charles Darwin
Hardcover, 2004
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Lucky Jim

by Kingsley Amis
Paperback, 2010
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain
Paperback, 2006
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Decline and Fall

by Evelyn Waugh
Paperback, 1999
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark
Paperback, 1999
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding
Paperback, 2005
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