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This is a selection of books featured weekly in The Daily Express & The Sunday Express where famous people select their favourite 6 books.



1984 — George Orwell

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A Moveable Feast — Ernest Hemingway

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Animal Farm — George Orwell

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Anna Karenina — L N Tolstoy

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As far as My Feet Will Carry Me — J M Bauer

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Birdsong — Sebastian Faulkes

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Blandings Castle and Elsewhere — P.G Wodehouse

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Bleak House — Charles Dickens

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Bonfire of the Vanities — Tom Wolfe

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Boudica Dreaming the Eagle — Manda Scott

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Brideshead Revisited — Evelyn Waugh

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Butcher Boy — Patrick McCabe

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Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer

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Carry On, Jeeves — P.G.Wodehouse

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Catch 22 — Joseph Heller

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Catcher in the Rye — J.D Salinger

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Cider With Rosie — Laurie Lee

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Code of the Woosters — P.G. Wodehouse

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Cold Comfort Farm — Stella Gibbons

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Colour Purple — Alice Walker

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Conservationist — Nadine Gordimer

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Corrections — Jonathan Franzen

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Cranford Chronicles — Elizabeth Gaskell

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Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Death of Faith — Donna Leon

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Diary of a Nobody — George Grossmith

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Disgrace — J M Coetzee

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Down and Out in Paris and London — George Orwell

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Emma — Jane Austen

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Empire of the Sun — J G Ballard

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Empire — Niall Ferguson

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End of the Affair — Graham Greene

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Enduring Love — Ian McEwan

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Father's and Sons — Ivan Turgenev

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — Hunter S Thompson

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Fermat's Last Theorem — Simon Singh

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Fever Pitch — Nick Hornby

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For Whom the Bell Tolls — Ernest Hemingway

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Full Moon — P.G.Wodehouse

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Germinal — Emile Zola

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Ghost Road — Pat Barker

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Girl at the Lion D'Or — Sebastian Faulks

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Gone With the Wind — Margaret Mitchell

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Good Soldier — Ford Madox Ford

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Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck

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Great Deliverance — Elizabeth George

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Great Expectations — Charles Dickens

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Great Gatsby — Scott Fitzgerald

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Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad

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Hiding Place — Corrie Ten Boom

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Hobbit — J R R Tolien

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Hound of the Baskervilles — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Iliad — Homer

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In the Skin of a Lion — Michael Ondaajte

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Inimitable Jeeves — P.G.Wodehouse

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Jane Eyre — Charlotte Bronte

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull — Richard Bach

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Just William — Richmal Crompton

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Keep the Aspidestra Flying — George Orwell

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Kidnapped — Robert Stevenson

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Kim — Rudyard Kipling

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Lady Chatterley's Lover — D.H.Lawrence

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Lady in the Lake — Raymond Chandler

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Lady's Maid — Margaret Forster

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Last Enemy — Richard Hillary

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Leave it to Psmith — P. G .Wodehouse

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Liar — Stephen Fry

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Long Goodbye — Raymond Chandler

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Love in the Time of Cholera — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Madam Bovary — Gustave Flaubert

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Magus — John Fowles

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Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat — Oliver Sachs

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Mansfield Park — Jane Austen

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Master and Commander — Patrick O'Brian

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Mayor of Casterbridge — Thomas Hardy

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Midnight's Children — Salman Rushdie

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Misfits — Arthur Miller

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Mists of Avalon — Marion Zimmer Bradley

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Nanda Devi; A Journey to the Last Sanctuary — Hugh Thomson

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Nicholas Nickleby — Charles Dickens

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No Country for Old Men — Cormac McCarthy

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Of Human Bondage — Somerset Maugham

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Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck

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Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemmingway

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Oliver Twist — Charles Dickens

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One Hundred Years of Solitude — Garcia Gabriel Marquez

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Oscar and Lucinda — Peter Carey

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Outsider — Albert Camus

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Passage to India — E M Forster

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Perfume — Patrick Suskind

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Pickwick Papers — Charles Dickens

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Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde

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Porterhouse Blue — Tom Sharpe

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Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner — James Hogg

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Radetzky March — Philip Roth

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Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro

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Right Ho Jeeves — P.G Wodehouse

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Scoop — Evelyn Waugh

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Secret Garden — Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Ship of the Line — C S Forester

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Short History of Tractors in Ukranian — Marina Lewycka

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Siege of Krishnapur — J G Farrell

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Silver Pigs — Lindsey Davis

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Steppenwolf — Herman Hesse

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Sunbird — Wilbur Smith

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Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens

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Therese Raquin — Emile Zola

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — John Le Carre

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To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee

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Treasure Island — Robert Louis Stevenson

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Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera

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Valley of the Dolls — Jacqueline Susann

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Very Good, Jeeves — P.G.Wodehouse

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Wide Sargasso Sea — Jean Rhys

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Woman in White — Wilkie Collins

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Women in Love — D.H Lawrence

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World According to Clarkson — Jeremy Clarkson

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World of Pooh Collection — A A Milne

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Wuthering Heights — Emily Bronte

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