Guess Your Teachers' Favourite 3 Books! Favourite Sets of Titles
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Hint: Teacher's Subject
Great Expectations - C. Dickens War of the worlds - HG Wells
English
The Colour Purple - A. Walker
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Breath - Tim Winton The Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry
Arts (Visual/Theatre/Music)
Wolf Lullaby - Lucy Bell
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The Catch - Kenzaburu Oe Kokoro - Natsume Sooseki
Modern Languages
Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata
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Blind watchmaker – Steven Dawkins A short history of nearly everything – Bill Bryson
Science
Last Chance to See – Douglas Adams
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Notes on a Small Island – Bill Bryson; In Search of Kazakhstan - Christopher Robbins
English
The Quiet American – Graham Greene.
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Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott The 39 Steps - John Buchan
Arts (Visual/Theatre/Music)
The Yellow Frigate - James Grant
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A Brief History of Time - S. Hawking Siddharta - Herman Hesse
Science
War and Peace - L. Tolstoy
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Life – Keith Richards Get in the Van, On the Road with Black Flag – Henry Rollins
Arts (Visual/Theatre/Music)
Captain Beefheart, Through the eyes of magic – John French
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Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord - Louis de Bernieres Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
English
The Twits - Roald Dahl
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Kim – Rudyard Kipling A Time of Gifts - Patrick Leigh Fermour
Miscellaneous
Running in the Family - Michael Ondaatje
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Islands in the Stream- Ernest Hemingway The Snows of Kilimanjaro- Ernest Hemingway
Economics
Triad - Derek Lambert
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The man who mistook his wife for a hat - Oliver sacks A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson
Chemistry
The very hungry caterpillar - Eric Carle
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Garrincha - Rui Castro The adventures of Tintin: the Blue Lotus - Herge A Man - Oriana Fallaci
Science
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The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency – Alexander Call Smith Taken on Trust – Terry Waite
Geography
Don’t tell Kathy - Ian Botham
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Cloud Street - Tim Winton The Dumb Waiter - Harold Pinter
Arts (Visual/Theatre/Music)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
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Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen Anne of Green Gables - Lucy M Montgomery
Arts (Visual/Theatre/Music)
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
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A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini Neither Here Nor There – Bill Bryson
Miscellaneous
Chaos: Making a new science – James Gleick
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The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts – Louis de Bernieres High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
Modern Languages
Feliz Ano Velho – Marcelo Rubens Paiva
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Elephants on Acid – Alex Boese The Female Eunuch – Germaine Greer
Social Science
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
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Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton - M.L. Van Creveld Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky - N. Chomsky
History
Global Rift: The Third World Comes of Age - L.S. Stavrianos
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The Big short: Inside the doomsday machine - Michael Lewis A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson
Economics
Crow Road - Iain Banks
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‘The selfish gene’ - Richard Dawkins The Girl who played with fire - Stieg Larsson
Science
The Lost world - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust Middlemarch – George Elliot
English
The Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
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One Day - David Nicholls Time Travellers Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
PE
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
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Bravo Two Zero – Andy McNab Ronnie – Ronnie O'Sullivan autobiography
Geography
Neither here Nor There – Bill Bryson
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The Grimm Legacy - P. Shulman Birdsong - Sebastian Faulkner
Miscellaneous
Buddha - Osamu Tezuka
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Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle Antal Szerb: Journey by Moonlight
Mathematics