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Which books do you plan to re-read when you are in the sunset years on the verandah, smoking your pipe in the rocking chair.
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Pride and Prejudice
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Jane Eyre
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Rebecca
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Anna Karenina
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
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Persuasion
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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84 Charing Cross Road.
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A Room with a View
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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War and Peace
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Gone with the Wind
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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The Lord of the Rings
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
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Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales
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The Shell Seekers
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Les Misérables
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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Doktor Schiwago
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A Christmas Carol
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Bleak House
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4.02 avg rating — 112,879 ratings
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Howards End
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East of Eden
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4.43 avg rating — 612,972 ratings
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Charlotte's Web
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4.21 avg rating — 2,009,096 ratings
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Honderd jaar eenzaamheid
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4.12 avg rating — 1,080,774 ratings
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Cousin Bette
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3.85 avg rating — 10,577 ratings
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The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 24,057 ratings
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I Capture the Castle
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3.99 avg rating — 113,878 ratings
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Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #6)
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4.14 avg rating — 33,035 ratings
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.32 avg rating — 1,001,330 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,040,716 ratings
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Animal Farm
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4.01 avg rating — 4,412,182 ratings
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Beowulf
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3.50 avg rating — 340,411 ratings
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 3,085,910 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 274,433 ratings
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Fortune's Favorites (Masters of Rome, #3)
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4.40 avg rating — 8,638 ratings
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The Sunne in Splendour
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4.41 avg rating — 22,574 ratings
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Summer Lightning (Blandings Castle, #4)
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The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 92,607 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 815,668 ratings
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The Baron in the Trees
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I, Claudius
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4.24 avg rating — 72,171 ratings
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North and South
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The Odyssey
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3.83 avg rating — 1,166,579 ratings
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Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)
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Lost Horizon
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The Thirteenth Tale
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Diane Setterfield (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 324,083 ratings
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Dombey and Son
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3.96 avg rating — 16,525 ratings
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The Grand Sophy
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Katherine
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4.21 avg rating — 35,324 ratings
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...And Ladies of the Club
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To Serve Them All My Days
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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3.61 avg rating — 7,387 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 374,842 ratings
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The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
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4.28 avg rating — 698,200 ratings
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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Père Goriot
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3.85 avg rating — 65,566 ratings
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The Thorn Birds
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The Golden Torc (Saga of the Pliocene Exile, #2)
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Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 826,223 ratings
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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Complete Novels Of Charlotte & Emily Brontë
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The Living
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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English Passengers
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Classic Fairy Tales
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The Haunted Bookshop
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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Touch Not the Cat
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The Secret History
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Of Human Bondage
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Dirt Music
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The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
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High Fidelity
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Company of Liars
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Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
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The Enchanted April
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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The Last Days of the Incas
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The Uncommon Reader
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Stories from the Twilight Zone
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Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
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The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)
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Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
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Love in a Cold Climate (Radlett and Montdore, #2)
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Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
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Can I leave out the 'smoking your pipe' bit? :-)
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Booklovinglady wrote: "Can I leave out the 'smoking your pipe' bit? :-)"Course!
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Dagny wrote: "Wanda wrote: "We can blow bubble pipes."Ah, perfect, Wanda, perfect."
Fab! Or licorice...
Some music to go with those galleons:http://youtu.be/givhnw8u8E4
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