My all time top 25 favourite Novels.

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The Lord of The Rings (Based on the 50th Anniversary Single volume edition 2004)
1.  The Lord of The Rings (Based on the 50th Anniversary Single volume edition 2004) by J. R. R. Tolkien
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  "The greatest novel ever written, (now a major motion picture!)"
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Howards End (Penguin Modern Classics)
2.  Howards End (Penguin Modern Classics) by E. M. Forster
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  "Leonard Bast is a brilliant, I got lost in this book. Greatest novel of one of the greatest English writers."
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
3.  Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
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  "Forget the crap film, this book is stunning, gripping and beautifully written."
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
4.  The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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  "Never fails to amaze with inventiveness and startling conclusions. My favourite literary hero."
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Foundation (The Foundation Series)
5.  Foundation (The Foundation Series) by Isaac Asimov
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  "Everyone a work of genius, gave me an early love of sci-fi, a truly unique theory in Psychohistory and the brilliant Harry Seldon.."
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Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
6.  Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
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  "Eliot never wrote a novel that was anything less than a work of genius."
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Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics)
7.  Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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  "A  brilliant psychological study set in the dark slums of working class St.Petersburg"
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Les Miserables (Classics)
8.  Les Miserables (Classics) by Victor Hugo
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  "They just don't write em like they used too. The greatest characters I've ever seen in literature."
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Wordsworth Classics)
9.  The Count of Monte Cristo (Wordsworth Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
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  "Possibly the greatest plot ever devised."
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The Famished Road
10.  The Famished Road by Ben Okri
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  "Beautifully written, surreal and stunning, a deserved booker prize winner."
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Anna Karenina (Wordsworth Classics)
11.  Anna Karenina (Wordsworth Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
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  "A long slog, but well worth it, beats trying to attempt War and Peace."
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The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
12.  The Woman in White (Penguin Classics) by Wilkie Collins
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  "One of the original dectective novels, still one of the best. Kept me up all night, Count Fosco is an ingenious creation."
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Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Popular Classics)
13.  Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Popular Classics) by Thomas Hardy
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  "Poor Hardy gets a hard time. Underappreciated, dark, risque, ahead of his time, one of my favourite writers."
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George Orwell Omnibus: The Complete Novels: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and, 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four
14.  George Orwell Omnibus: The Complete Novels: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and, 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four 
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  "Never a dull word, one of the greatest visionaries in literature."
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The Sound And The Fury (Vintage Classics)
15.  The Sound And The Fury (Vintage Classics) by William Faulkner
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  "You'll be confused, disturbed and treated to the writing of one of the US's greatest writers."
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The Secret History
16.  The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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  "The most amazing debut I've ever read, murder most academic."
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The Big Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Mystery (Penguin Fiction)
17.  The Big Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Mystery (Penguin Fiction) by Raymond Chandler
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  "Phillip Marlowe was one of the original tough, hard drinking PIs, still one of the best."
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Goodbye To Berlin
18.  Goodbye To Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
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  "Brilliantly sketched characters in pre-war Nazi Germany, Isherwood's best."
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Birdsong
19.  Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
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  "The most harrowing, realistic WW1 story I've ever read. Brilliantly captures one of the darkest scars in European history"
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The Shining
20.  The Shining by Stephen King
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  "One of the first I read, he made me a fan for life. The true master of suspense."
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Possession: A Romance
21.  Possession: A Romance by A S Byatt
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  "Brilliant! I could put any Byatt book here but this is a masterpiece.."
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Lightning
22.  Lightning by Dean Koontz
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  "Great characters, great plot and an amazing twist. A great thriller from a superbly talented writer."
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Wuthering Heights (Collector's Library)
23.  Wuthering Heights (Collector's Library) by David Pinching
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  "The least prolific of all the Brontes but definitely the best novel of the lot. Dark and brilliant."
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The Maltese Falcon (CRIME MASTERWORKS)
24.  The Maltese Falcon (CRIME MASTERWORKS) by Dashiell Hammett
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  "One of the best PI novels ever, situations that will never be recreated. A master storyteller."
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Le Grand Meaulnes (Penguin Modern Classics)
25.  Le Grand Meaulnes (Penguin Modern Classics) by Henri Alain-Fournier
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  "The only novel from a young writer killed on the Somme during WW1. A touching, nostalgic, brilliant story that takes a long time to forget."
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