101 books to read before you die (Chapter four)...

And we're into the top 50...

50 Possession by A.S. Byatt
49 The Secret History by Donna Tartt
48 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
47 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
46 Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
45 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
44 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
43 A suitable boy by Vikram Seth
42 I know this much is true by Wally Lamb
41 The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
40 Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
39 Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie
38 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
37 The English Patient by Michale Ondaatje
36 The Grapes of Wrath by John STeinbeck
35 Atlas shrugged by Ayn Rand
34 Atonement by Ian McEwan
33 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
31 A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Oi! The less said about how I scored on this list the better... only eight of the above books even ring a familiar bell – never mind not having read 99% of the novels I haven't even heard of half of them. "tsk! tsk!" I can hear my mother say...

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The Monday morsel...

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