50 Must Read Books
1984-George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess
A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
American Psycho-Brett Easton Ellis
Breakfast at Tiffany’s-Truman Capote
Brighton Rock-Graham Greene
Catch-22-Joseph Heller
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-Roald Dahl
Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and other stories-Annie Proulx
Devil in a Blue Dress-Walter Mosley
Different Seasons (includes The Shawshank Redemption)-Stephen King
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?-Philip K Dick
Doctor Zhivago-Boris Pasternak
Empire of the Sun-JG Ballard
Fight Club-Chuck Pahluniak
Get Shorty-Elmore Leonard
Goldfinger-Ian Fleming
Goodfellas-Nicholas Pileggi
Heart of Darkness-Joseph Conrad
Jaws-Peter Benchley
LA Confidential-James Ellroy
Les Liaisons Dangereuses-Choderlos de Laclos
Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies-William Golding
Oliver Twist-Charles Dickens
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest-Ken Kesey
Orlando-Virgina Woolf
Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen
Rebecca-Daphne du Maurier
Schindler’s Ark-Thomas Keneally
Sin City-Frank Miller
Tess of the D’Urbevilles-Thomas Hardy
The Day of the Triffids-John Wyndham
The English Patient-Michael Ondaatjee
The French Lieutenant’s Woman-John Fowles
The Godfather-Mario Puzo
The Hound of the Baskervilles-Arthur Conan Doyle
The Jungle Book-Rudyard Kipling
The Maltese Falcon-Dashiell Hammett
The Outsiders-SE Hinton
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie-Muriel Spark
The Railway Children-Edith Nesbitt
The Remains of the Day-Kazuo Ishiguro
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold-John Le Carré
The Talented Mr Ripley-Patricia Highsmith
The Vanishing-Tim Krabbé
To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
Trainspotting-Irvine Walsh
Watership Down-Richard Adams
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