1.Lady Chatterley’s Trial
2.Eric Schlosser, Cogs in the Great Machine
3.Nick Hornby, Otherwise Pandemonium
4.Albert Camus, Summer in Algiers
5.P.D. James, Innocent House
6.Richard Dawkins, The View from Mount Improbable
7.India Knight, How to Shop
8.Marian Keyes, Nothing Bad Ever Happens in Tiffany’s
9.Jorge Luis Borges, The Mirror of Ink
10.Roald Dahl, A Taste of the Unexpected
11.Jonathan Safran Foer, The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightening
12.Homer, The Cave of the Cyclops
13.Paul Theroux, Two Stars
14.Elizabeth David, Of Pageants and Picnics
15.Anais Nïn, >Artists and Models
16.Antony Beevor, Christmas at Stalingrad
17.Gustave Flaubert, The Desert and the Dancing Girls
18.Anne Frank, The Secret Annexe (from The Diary of Anne Frank)
19.James Kelman, Where I Was
20.Hari Kunzru, Noise
21.Simon Schama, The Bastille Falls
22.William Trevor, The Dressmaker’s Child
23.George Orwell,In Defence of English Cooking
24.Michael Moore, Idiot Nation
25.Helen Dunmore, Rose, 1944
26.J.K. Galbraith, The Economics of Innocent Fraud
27.Gervase Phinn, The School Inspector Calls
28.W.G. Sebald, Young Austerlitz
29.Redmond O’Hanlon,Borneo and the Poet
30.Ali Smith, Ali Smith’s Supersonic 70s
31.Sigmund Freud, Forgetting Things
32.Simon Armitage, King Arthur in the East Riding
33.Hunter S Thompson, Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson
34.Vladimir Nabokov, Cloud, Castle, Lake
35.Niall Ferguson, 1914: Why the World Went to War
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36.Muriel Spark, The Snobs
37.Steven Pinker, Hotheads
38.Tony Harrison, Under the Clock
39.John Updike, Three Trips
40.Will Self, Design Faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo
41.H.G. Wells, The Country of the Blind
42.Noam Chomsky, Doctrines and Visions
43.Jamie Oliver, Something for the Weekend
44.Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting
45.Zadie Smith, We Happy Few
46.John Mortimer, The Scales of Justice
47.F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
48.Roger McGough, The State of Poetry
49.Ian Kershaw, Death in the Bunker
50.Gabriel García Márquez,Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen
51.Steven Runciman, The Assault on Jerusalem
52.Sue Townsend, The Queen in Hell Close
53.Primo Levi, Iron Potassium Nickel
54.Alistair Cooke, Letters from Four Seasons
55.William Boyd, Protobiography
56.Robert Graves, Caligula
57.Melissa Banks, The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine
58.Truman Capote, My Side of the Matter
59.David Lodge, Scenes of Academic Life
60.Anton Chekhov, The Kiss
61.Claire Tomalin, Young Bysshe
62.David Cannadine,The Aristocratic Adventurer
63.P.G. Wodehouse,Jeeves and the Impending Doom
64.Franz Kafka,The Great Wall of China
65.Dave Eggers, Short Short Stories
66.Evelyn Waugh, The Coronation of Haile Selassie
67.Pat Barker,War Talk
68.Jonathan Coe, 9th and 13th
69.John Steinbeck, Murder
70.Alain de Botton, On Seeing and Noticing
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