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• 1066 And All That: A Memorable History Of England ( W. C. Sellar book )
• A Bouquet Of Barbed Wire ( Andrea Newman book )
• A Brief History Of Time ( Stephen Hawking book )
• A Case Of Identity ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• A Christmas Carol ( Charles Dickens book )
• A Clockwork Orange ( Anthony Burgess book and Stanley Kubrick movie )
• A Fatal Inversion ( Barbara Vine book )
• A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Future: Twists And Turns, And Lessons Learned ( Michael J. Fox book )
• A Journey To The Center Of The Earth ( Jules Verne book )
• A Kestrel For A Knave ( Barry Hines book )
• A Murder Is Announced ( Agatha Christie book )
• A Passage To India ( E. M. Forster book and David Lean movie )
• A Perfect Spy ( John Le Carre book )

• A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man ( James Joyce book )
• A Prayer For Owen Meany ( John Irving book )
• A Room With A View ( E M Forster book )
• A Scandal in Bohemia ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• A Short History Of Nearly Everything ( Bill Bryson book )
• A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian ( Marina Lewycka book )
• A Streetcar Named Desire ( Tennessee Williams play )
• A Study in Scarlet ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• A Suitable Boy ( Vikram Seth book )
• A Tale Of Two Cities ( Charles Dickens book )
• A Thousand Splendid Suns ( Khaled Hosseine book )
• A Town Like Alice ( Nevil Shute book )
• A legend in his own lifetime ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• A legend in the making
• Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall ( Spike Milligan book )
• All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye ( Christopher Brookmyer book )
• All Quiet On The Western Front ( Erich Maria Remarque book and WWII movie )
• Always have your nose in a book
• America's story teller ( Kodak advertising slogan )
• An everyday story of country folk ( A catchphrase from The Archers )
• And The Band Played On ( Randy Shilts book )
• And Then There Were None ( Agatha Christie book )
• And thereby hangs a tale
• Angela's Ashes ( Frank McCourt book )
• Animal Farm ( George Orwell book )
• Anna Karenina ( Leo Tolstoy book )
• Anne Of Green Gables ( Lucy Maud Montgomery book )
• Around The World In Eighty Days ( Jules Verne book )
• Art Of War ( Sun Tzu book )
• As I Lay Dying ( William Faulkner book )
• As many chins as a Chinese phone book
• Be under no illusion
• Beat to a pulp
• Bell, book and candle ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• Billy Liar ( Novel and play by Keith Waterhouse and Tom Courtenay / Julie Christie movie )
• Black Beauty ( Anna Sewell book )
• Bleak House ( Charles Dickens book )
• Book him
• Book him Danno ( A catchphrase from Hawaii Five-O )
• Book learning
• Book worm
• Brave New World ( Aldous Huxley book )
• Breakfast At Tiffany's ( Truman Capote book )
• Breakfast Of Champions ( Kurt Vonnegut book )
• Breaking story
• Brideshead Revisited ( Evelyn Waugh book )
• Bright Lights, Big City ( Jay Mcinerney book )
• Bring to book
• Brought to book
• Build A Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies ( Dilbert )
• By the book ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin ( Louis de Bernieres book )
• Captain Underpants And The Invasion Of The Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space ( Dav Pilkey book )
• Captain Underpants And The Perilous Plot Of Professor Poopypants ( Dav Pilkey book )
• Captain Underpants And The Wrath Of The Wicked Wedgie Woman ( Dav Pilkey book )
• Catch 22 ( Joseph Heller book ) ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• Character driven fiction
• Charlie And The Chocolate Factory ( Roald Dahl book )
• Closed book
• Cloud Atlas ( David Mitchell book )
• Cock and bull story ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• Cold Comfort Farm ( Stella Gibbons book )
• Cover story
• Crack a book
• Crime And Punishment ( Fyodor Dostoyevsky book )
• Crooked House ( Agatha Christie book )
• Cut a long story short
• David Copperfield ( Charles Dickens book )
• Dead Man Walking ( Helen Prejean book )
• Death On The Nile ( Agatha Christie book )
• Death On The Orient Express ( Agatha Christie book )
• Dee plane, dee plane ( A catchphrase from Fantasy Island )
• Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? ( Philip K. Dick book )
• Don't just book it, Thomas Cook it ( Thomas Cook advertising slogan )
• Eats, Shoots And Leaves ( Lynne Truss book )
• End of story
• Even Cowgirls Get The Blues ( Tom Robbins book )
• Every picture tells a story ( Doanes Backache Kidney Pills advertising slogan )
• Every trick in the book
• Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask ( David Reuben book )
• Evil Under The Sun ( Agatha Christie book )
• Fact not fiction
• Fairytale ending ( a happy simplistic ending to a story similar to those found in fairy tales )
• Far From The Madding Crowd ( Thomas Hardy book )
• Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas ( Hunter S. Thompson book )
• Fifty Shades of Grey ( E L James book )
• First Among Equals ( Jeffrey Archer book )
• Fishy story
• Go by the book ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• Goodnight Mister Tom book by Michelle Magorian
• Great Expectations ( Charles Dickens book )
• Guards! Guards! ( Terry Pratchett book )
• Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets ( J. K. Rowling book )
• Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban ( J. K. Rowling book )
• Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone ( J. K. Rowling book )
• His Dark Materials ( Philip Pullman book )
• His Last Bow ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• His life's an open book
• How To Win Friends And Influence People ( Dale Carnegie book )
• I Capture The Castle ( Dodie Smith book )
• I can read you like a book
• Inside story
• It was the best of times: it was the worst of times ( the opening line of A Tale Of Two Cities )
• Jane Eyre ( Charlotte Bronte book )
• Kane And Abel ( Jeffrey Archer book )
• L A Story ( Steve Martin movie )
• Larry Legend ( Nickname of Larry Bird )
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses ( Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos De Laclos book )
• Little Women ( Louisa May Alcott book )
• Little black book
• Live to tell the tale
• Living legend
• Lord Of The Flies ( William Golding book )
• Lord Of The Rings ( J R R Tolkien book )
• Love Story ( Ali MacGraw / Ryan O'Neal movie )
• Love Story ( Taylor Swift song )
• Love means never having to say you're sorry ( Love Story )
• Mansfield Park ( Jane Austen novel )
• Memoirs Of A Geisha ( Arthur Golden book )
• Mr. Midshipman Easy ( Frederick Marryat book )
• My side of the story
• Never judge a book by its cover
• Night Watch ( Terry Pratchett book )
• Nineteen Eighty-Four ( George Orwell book )
• Northanger Abbey ( Jane Austen novel )
• Notes From The Underground ( Fyodor Dostoevsky book )
• Noughts And Crosses ( book series by Malorie Blackman )
• Of Mice And Men ( John Steinbeck book )
• Old wives' tale
• On The Origin Of Species ( Charles Darwin book )
• On The Road ( Jack Kerouac book )
• One Hundred Years Of Solitude ( Gabriel Garcia Marquez book )
• One for the book
• One side of the story
• Open book
• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read ( Groucho Marx line )
• Play it by the book
• Poetry In Motion ( Johnny Tillotson song )
• Pride and Prejudice ( Jane Austen novel )
• Pulp Fiction ( Quentin Tarantino movie )
• Round Ireland With A Fridge ( Tony Hawks book )
• Same old story
• Sense and Sensibility ( Jane Austen novel )
• Silver Blaze ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• Sob story
• Story of my life
• Stranger than fiction
• Swallows And Amazons ( children's adventure story by Arthur Ransome )
• Talking Book ( Stevie Wonder album )
• Tattle tale
• Tell tale sign
• Tender Is The Night ( F Scott Fitzgerald novel )
• Tess Of The D'Urbervilles ( Thomas Hardy book )
• The Adventure of Black Peter ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Abbey Grange ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Cardboard Box ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Copper Beeches ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Creeping Man ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Crooked Man ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Dancing Men ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Devil's Foot ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Dying Detective ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Empty House ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Gloria Scott ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Illustrious Client ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Lion's Mane ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Naval Treaty ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Norwood Builder ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Priory School ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Red Circle ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Red-Headed League ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Reigate Squire ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Resident Patient ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Retired Colourman ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Second Stain ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Six Napoleons ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Speckled Band ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Three Gables ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Three Garridebs ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Three Students ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventure of the Yellow Face ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Age Of Reason ( Jean Paul Sartre book )
• The Art Of The Deal ( Donald Trump slogan and book title )
• The BFG - Big Friendly Giant ( Roald Dahl book )
• The Boscombe Valley Mystery ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Buddha Of Suburbia ( Hanif Kureishi book )
• The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Catcher in the Rye ( J D Salinger book )
• The Count of Monte Cristo ( Alexandre Dumas book )
• The Day Of The Jackal ( Frederick Forsyth book )
• The Devil Wears Prada ( Lauren Weisberger book )
• The Devil's Dictionary ( Ambrose Bierce book )
• The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Famous Five ( characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book )
• The Final Problem ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Five Orange Pips ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The French Have A Word For It ( Josh Lanyon book )
• The Garden Of Eden ( Ernest Hemingway book )
• The Ghost In The Machine ( Arthur Koestler book )
• The Go-Between ( L. P. Hartley book )
• The God Of Small Things ( Arundhati Roy book )
• The Godfather ( Mario Puzo book )
• The Good Book
• The Grapes Of Wrath ( John Steinbeck novel and Henry Fonda movie )
• The Great Gatsby ( F Scott Fitzgerald book )
• The Greatest Story Ever Told ( Charlton Heston movie )
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( Douglas Adams book )
• The Hobbit ( J R R Tokien book )
• The Hound Of The Baskervilles ( Sir Arthur Conan Doyle book )
• The Hound of the Baskervilles ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Hunger Games ( Suzanne Collins book )
• The Hypochondriac's Guide To Life And Death ( Gene Weingarten book )
• The Importance Of Being Earnest ( Oscar Wilde book )
• The Invisible Man ( HG Wells story and later a film )
• The Jungle Book ( Disney cartoon movie )
• The Lord of the Rings ( J R R Tolkien story and Peter Jackson movie )
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales ( Oliver Sacks book )
• The Man with the Twisted Lip ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Mirror Cracked From Side To Side ( Agatha Christie book title )
• The Name Of The Rose ( Umberto Eco book )
• The Odyssey ( Homer book )
• The Palm Beach Story ( Claudette Colbert movie )
• The Philadelphia Story ( Cary Grant / Katharine Hepburn movie )
• The Picture Of Dorian Gray ( Oscar Wilde book )
• The Pilgrim's Progress ( John Bunyan book )
• The Princess Diaries ( Meg Cabot book )
• The Problem of Thor Bridge ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Purloined Letter ( Edgar Allan Poe book )
• The Rape Of The Lock ( Alexander Pope book )
• The Remains Of The Day ( Kazuo Ishiguro novel and Anthony Hopkins movie )
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Riddle Of The Sands ( Erskine Childers book )
• The Scarlet Letter ( Nathaniel Hawthorne story )
• The Secret Garden ( Frances Hodgson Burnett book )
• The Sign of the Four ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Spy Who Came In From The Cold ( John Le Carre novel )
• The Story Of Tracy Beaker ( children's story by Jacqueline Wilson )
• The Tenderness Of Wolves ( Stef Penney book )
• The Thorn Birds ( Colleen McCollough book )
• The Three Musketeers ( Alexandre Dumas book )
• The Valley of Fear ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• The Wind in the Willows ( children's book by Kenneth Grahame )
• The Winters Tale
• The Woman In White ( Wilkie Collins book )
• The man, the myth, the legend
• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid ( Jane Austen quotation )
• Thereby hangs a tale
• Through The Looking Glass, And What Alice Found There ( Lewis Carroll book )
• Throw the book at someone
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ( John Le Carre book )
• To cut a long story short
• To infinty and beyond ( line from the movie Toy Story )
• To make a long story short
• Toy Story ( Tom Hanks movie )
• Treasure Island ( Robert Louis Stevenson book )
• Truth is stranger than fiction
• Vanity Fair ( William Makepeace Thackeray book )
• Vicky Angel ( children's book by Jacqueline Wilson )
• War and Peace ( Leo Tolstoy book )
• Watership Down ( Richard Adams book )
• We Need To Talk About Kevin ( Lionel Shriver book )
• West Side Story ( Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie )
• What becomes a legend most? ( Blackglama Great Lakes Mink advertising slogan )
• What's The Story Morning Glory? ( Oasis album )
• Winnie the Pooh ( children's book by A A Milne )
• Wuthering Heights ( Emily Bronte book )
• Wuthering Heights ( Merle Oberon / Laurence Olivier movie )
• You can't tell a book by looking at its cover