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Books Phrases

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Phrases about books

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 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 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 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 room without books is like a body without a soul (Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation)
A, B, C, D, E, Your public library has arranged these in ways that make you cry, giggle, laugh, love, hate, wonder, ponder and understand (American Library Association advertising slogan)
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
And The Band Played On (Randy Shilts book)
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie book)
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
Balancing the books
Bell, book and candle
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)
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
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)
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl book)
Close the books
Closed book
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell book)
Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons book)
Cook the books
Crack a book
Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky book)
Crooked House (Agatha Christie book)
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)
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)
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (Tom Robbins book)
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)
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)
Go by the book
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)
Have you read any good books lately?
His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman book)
His life’s an open book
Hit the books
How To Win Friends And Influence People (Dale Carnegie book)
I Capture The Castle (Dodie Smith book)
I can read you like a book
In someone's bad books
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte book)
Kane And Abel (Jeffrey Archer book)
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos De Laclos book)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott book)
Little black book
Lord Of The Flies (William Golding book)
Lord Of The Rings (J R R Tolkien book)
Memoirs Of A Geisha (Arthur Golden book)
Mr. Midshipman Easy (Frederick Marryat book)
Never judge a book by its cover
Night Watch (Terry Pratchett book)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell book)
Notes From The Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky book)
Noughts And Crosses (book series by Malorie Blackman)
Of Mice And Men (John Steinbeck book)
On The Origin Of Species (Charles Darwin book)
On The Road (Jack Kerouac book)
On the books
One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez book)
One for the book
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
Round Ireland With A Fridge (Tony Hawks book)
Sex and shopping
So many books, so little time (Frank Zappa quotation)
Swallows And Amazons (children's adventure story by Arthur Ransome)
Talking Book (Stevie Wonder album)
Tess Of The D’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy book)
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 Buddha Of Suburbia (Hanif Kureishi book)
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 Famous Five (characters in Enid Blyton’s series of children’s book)
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 Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald book)
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 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 Jungle Book (Disney cartoon movie)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales (Oliver Sacks book)
The Mirror Cracked From Side To Side (Agatha Christie book title)
The Name Of The Rose (Umberto Eco book)
The Odyssey (Homer book)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde book)
The Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan book)
The Princess Diaries (Meg Cabot book)
The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe book)
The Rape Of The Lock (Alexander Pope book)
The Riddle Of The Sands (Erskine Childers book)
The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett book)
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 Wind in the Willows (children’s book by Kenneth Grahame)
The Woman In White (Wilkie Collins book)
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)
Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson book)
Turn up for the books
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)
Winnie the Pooh (children’s book by A A Milne)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte book)
You can’t tell a book by looking at its cover

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