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I love your number one. I love that book The Shrike Send a noteboard - 22/04/2010 02:51:15 AM
1. The Thirty Years' War by Veronica Wedgwood.
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
3. Byzantium by John Julius Norwich.
4. 1984 by George Orwell.
5. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

The Dickens one is the only one that I'm most conflicted about. He has many interesting works but that one keeps standing out because it, by virtue of its brevity, is the only one that didn't frustrate me at one point or another.


And so happy to see some other people put non-fiction on their list.
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