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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