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message 1: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie | 26 comments Yeah, I am a glutton for punishment. I better not take on anymore challenges now until I am close to finishing one!

1) Philip Larkin
2) George Orwell - 1984
3) William Golding - Lord of the Flies
4) Ted Hughes
5) Doris Lessing
6) J.R.R. Tolkien
7) V.S. Naipaul
8) Muriel Spark
9) Kingsley Amis
10) Angela Carter
11) C.S. Lewis
12) Iris Murdoch
13) Salman Rushdie
14) Ian Fleming
15) Jan Morris
16) Roald Dahl - Matilda
17) Anthony Burgess
18) Mervyn Peake
19) Martin Amis
20) Anthony Powell
21) Alan Sillitoe
22) John le Carre
23) Penelope Fitzgerald
24) Philippa Pearce
25) Barbara Pym
26) Beryl Bainbridge
27) J.G. Ballard
28) Alan Garner
29) Alasdair Gray
30) John Fowles
31) Derek Walcott
32) Kazuo Ishiguro
33) Anita Brookner
34) A.S. Byatt
35) Ian McEwan - Atonement
36) Geoffrey Hill
37) Hanif Kureishi
38) Iain Banks
39) George MacKay Brown
40) A.J.P. Taylor
41) Isaiah Berlin
42) J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
43) Philip Pullman
44) Julian Barnes
45) Colin Thubron
46) Bruce Chatwin
47) Alice Oswald
48) Benjamin Zephaniah
49) Rosemary Sutcliff
50) Michael Moorcock


message 2: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie | 26 comments The Grass is Singing is on its way from Amazon any day now, exciting! Never read any Doris Lessing but thought this sounded really good.


message 3: by Em (new)

Em (emmap) | 2702 comments I haven't read The Grass is Singing but I've loved other books by Doris Lessing, hope it's good!


message 4: by Mandy (new)

Mandy Read the diaries of Jane Somers.. good book and quite thought provoking at times.


message 5: by Alison (new)

Alison (alison8) | 5 comments What a challenge. Suggestion for A.J.P. Taylor is The Origins of The Second World War. Controversial even now and very readable .
Will watch your progress with interest.


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