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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
(
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)
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