Literature Phrases
Phrases about literature
- 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 little learning is a dangerous thing (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
- 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)
- Adaptive learning
- 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
- Author of your own misfortune
- Balancing the books
- Bell, book and candle
- 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)
- 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)
- Burn After Reading (George Clooney movie)
- 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)
- Character driven fiction
- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl book)
- Chick lit
- 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)
- Distance learning
- 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)
- Fact not fiction
- 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)
- Learning curve
- Learning difficulties
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos De Laclos book)
- Light reading
- 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)
- Mansfield Park (Jane Austen novel)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Paperback Writer (Beatles song)
- Play it by the book
- Poetry In Motion (Johnny Tillotson song)
- Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen novel)
- Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino movie)
- Purple prose
- Round Ireland With A Fridge (Tony Hawks book)
- Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen novel)
- So many books, so little time (Frank Zappa quotation)
- Stranger than fiction
- Swallows And Amazons (children's adventure story by Arthur Ransome)
- Talking Book (Stevie Wonder album)
- Tender Is The Night (F Scott Fitzgerald novel)
- 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 Grapes Of Wrath (John Steinbeck novel and Henry Fonda movie)
- The Great Bird of the Galaxy (Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry)
- 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 Reading Rifle (Nickname of Carl Furillo)
- The Remains Of The Day (Kazuo Ishiguro novel and Anthony Hopkins movie)
- The Riddle Of The Sands (Erskine Childers book)
- The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett book)
- 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 Wind in the Willows (children’s book by Kenneth Grahame)
- The Woman In White (Wilkie Collins book)
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid (Jane Austen quotation)
- 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)
- Truth is stranger than fiction
- 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)
- Wuthering Heights (Merle Oberon / Laurence Olivier movie)
- You can’t tell a book by looking at its cover
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