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A Listmania! list by KCLS (Edinburgh, Scotland)
 
Whitaker's Almanack 2003: 135th Annual Edition. Standard Edition
1.  Whitaker's Almanack 2003: 135th Annual Edition. Standard Edition 
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  "invaluable reference of everything you dont need to know about britain"
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The Chambers Dictionary
2.  The Chambers Dictionary by Chambers
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  "best english dictionary - beats Oxford easily"
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Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Popular Classics)
3.  Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen
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  "great book, and this has few notes to irritate the reader"
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Now We are Six (Winnie-the-Pooh)
4.  Now We are Six (Winnie-the-Pooh) by A. A. Milne
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  "great primer (I learned to read with this and The Guardian)"
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"The Times" Comprehensive Atlas of the World 2000 (10th Edition)
5.  "The Times" Comprehensive Atlas of the World 2000 (10th Edition) 
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  "recently converted to times atlases - best i've seen and this is the top"
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The Prince (Penguin Classics)
6.  The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
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  "This is an education in how things do not change - and psychs people out too!"
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Wordsworth Special Editions)
7.  The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Wordsworth Special Editions) by William Shakespeare
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  "Trite but true - enough reading of all sorts to keep the desert island going for a while"
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The Penguin Complete Saki (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
8.  The Penguin Complete Saki (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Saki
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  "Essential - Sredni Vastar kept me sane during adolescence and Gabriel Earnest is not to be read at dusk"
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Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes (FF Classics)
9.  Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes (FF Classics) by Walter de la Mare
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  "brilliant route into poetry for the young"
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The Adventure of Hadrian Hedgehog
10.  The Adventure of Hadrian Hedgehog by Candida Lycett Green
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  "out of print, sadly, but as kids poetry it's wonderful - I can still quote reams of it, 35 years later!"
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The Crimson Fairy Book
11.  The Crimson Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
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  "This is for the illustrations - keep an eye out for anything illustrated by HJFord"
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The Agricola and the Germania (Classics S.)
12.  The Agricola and the Germania (Classics S.) by H. Mattingly
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  "Fascinating history, really readable - this makes the millenia appear to shrink to yesterday"
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Nanda Devi: Exploration and Ascent
13.  Nanda Devi: Exploration and Ascent by Eric Shipton
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  "If this is the book I think it is, I read an ancient battered paperback of my Father's and it's the best mountaineering book I've read - it's readable, fascinating routes....."
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Brazilian Adventure (Marlboro Travel)
14.  Brazilian Adventure (Marlboro Travel) by Peter Fleming
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  "a jumble sale treasure, this one - written by Ian (007) Fleming's brother and rather better than the Bond books.  Basically, up the Amazon in a canoe......"
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