Greatest Books I Have Read

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Just wonderful. Partly coming-of-age and partly holding-on-to-youth fiction centred in rural France. The only novel written by Alain Fournier before his death during WW1.

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8   8.5  

The greatest novel ever to come out of Latin America and created a style all of its own. Gabriel Garcia Marquez must be one of the top 3 writers of the last 100 years.

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A classic anti-war novel written from a German point of view. A really excellent, timeless, book by Erich Maria Remarque.

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Yasmina Khadra is a magnificent, accessible writer, who explains, in fictionalised form, what is happening in the Islamic world. This novel deals with several characters, notably a woman, under the rule of the Taliban.

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60   9.1  

An excellent novel about intrigue in Barcelona, written by Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

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The magnificent sequel to "The Shadow of the Wind". Fiction at its best.

299   7.7  

Brilliant novel by Spanish author, Yann Martel, about a boy and a tiger on a boat. Every paragraph contains great wisdom.

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16   7.7  

A beautifully written book by Nicholas Evans that was made into a great movie.

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23   8.2  

The novel that spawned the cartoons and the hit song, "Bright Eyes". Much more than a book about rabbits.

6   8  

Another of those timeless, classic novels for readers of all ages.

5   8  

A sort of easy to understand introduction to philosophy and philosophers in story format. An excellent book by Jostein Gaarder that should be in everyone's bookshelves.

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Garcia Marquez's great fictionalised account of Simon Bolivar's last days as he reexamines his life.

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20   8.5  

Firstly, John Boyne's book is much better than the film. Written in simple yet powerful language, this is a story of Auschwitz from a German child's point of view.

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A brilliant unputdownable novel about Jews in the Warsaw ghetto.

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8   8.8  

Tom Rob Smith's first novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and is set in the horror of Stalin's Russia when crime, according to the State, was non-existent.
His sequel to "Child 44" is "The Secret Speech" and is utterly brilliant writing.

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10   7.3  

In my opinion better than 'The Da Vinci Code.'

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A great novel of Russia, with a chess slant, written by an ex-classmate of mine. With this, Ronan Bennett has proved himself to be a worldclass writer.

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2   10  

The best crime thriller writer in the world gives us a superb novel and two great characters in Lincoln Rhymes and Amelia Sachs. He has written many brilliant thrillers, each with so many twists and turns, but this is still the best, I think.

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5   7  

By Mohsin Hamid.

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9   7.3  

A grand sweeping novel of Ireland and the Irish. Just remember it is a work of fiction, nothing else.

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