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Books rated (by me).

10 - Brilliant, a flawless gem of literature.
9 - Fantastic
8 - A delightful read
7 - Good
6 - Good in places
5 - Mediocre
4 - Soporific
3 - Bad
2 - Truly Awful
1 - Best thrown on the fire

Peter Ackroyd

The Plato Papers = 7

Douglas Adams

The hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy = 9
The restaurant at the end of the universe = 8
Life, the universe & everything = 5
So long & thanks for all the fish = 9
Mostly harmless = 4
The Meaning of liff = 6
Last chance to see = 7
Dirk Gently's Holistic detective agency = 10
The long, dark tea-time of the soul = 9

Martin Amis

Night Train = 3

Heavy water and other stories = 5

Jane Austin

Persuasion = 6

Iain Banks

The Wasp Factory = 6
Song of stone = 4

Viktor Bokris

Lou Reed = 8
What's Welsh for Zen? (with John Cale) = 8
Patti Smith = 6

Brian Boyd

Vladimir Nabokov - The American Years = 9
Vladimir Nabokov - The Russian Years = 9

Malcolm Bradbury

Doctor Criminale = 6

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre = 8

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights = 6

Terry Brooks

The scions of shannara = 3

John Buchan

The 39 steps = 7

Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork orange = 5

William Burroughs

Exterminator! = 2

Truman Capote

Breakfast at Tiffany's = 5

Orson Scott Card

The Worthing saga = 5

Peter Carey

The tax inspector = 6

Angela Carter

Fireworks = 6

Carolyn Cassady

Off the road = 6

Anton Chekhov

The party = 7
5 great stories = 8
The cherry orchard = 6
The three sisters = 8
Uncle Vanya = 8
The Seagull = 10
Ivanov = 7
Selected early stories = 9

Erskine Childers

The riddle of the sands = 4

Leonard Cohen

Beautiful Losers = 6

Joseph Conrad

Heart of darkness = 6

Len Deighton

Game, Set & Match = 7
Hook, Line & Sinker = 9
Faith, Hope & Charity = 7
Violent Ward = 7
SS GB = 9
Mamista = 6

Suzannah Dunn

Tenterhooks = 6

Adrian Edmonson

The Gobbler = 4

Umberto Eco

Travels in hyperreality = 6
The name of the rose = 8
Misreadings = 8

F.Scott Fitzgerald

The great gatsby = 6
The diamond as big as the ritz = 8

Fanny Flagg

Fried Green Tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe = 8

Jostein Garder

Sophies world = 6

William Golding

Lord of the Flies = 8

Graham Greene

The captain & the enemy = 6
The Confidential Agent = 7
The Quiet American = 10
Our man in Havana = 9
May we borrow your husband? = 8
The tenth man = 7
Brighton rock = 7
The Power & the glory = 8
Loser takes all = 9
The heart of the matter = 7
Twenty-one stories = 9
A sense of reality = 9
The honory Consul = 8
The end of the affair = 9
Stamboul Train = 8
Dr. Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party = 8
The Third Man & the Fallen Idol = 9
The Human Factor = 7
A gun for sale = 9
Getting to know the General = 6
Travels with my Aunt = 8
In search of a character = 5
It's a battlefield = 6
Monsignor Quixote = 8
England made me = 6

Joseph Heller

Catch-22 = 9

Frank Herbert

Children of Dune = 8
God Emperor of Dune = 7

Homer

The oddyssey = 7
The Illiad = 5

Ted Hughs

Birthday Letters = 9

John Irving

A Prayer for Owen Meany = 10
Setting Free the Bears = 5
The Water-Method man = 7
A widow for one year = 7

James Joyce

Dubliners = 7
Ulysses = 7
Finnegans Wake = 1

Jack Kerouac

On the road = 10
The vanity of Dulouz = 6
Lonesome Traveller = 5
Maggie Cassidy = 7
The Dharma bums = 8
Desolation angels =8
Big Sur = 7

Rudyard Kipling

Plain tales from the hills = 10
Just so stories = 6
Kim = 6
Puck of pook's hill = 4
The man who would be king = 8
A diversity of creatures = 7
The light that failed = 5
The Days work = 7

Choderlos de Laclos

Les Liasons Dangereuses = 10

Laurie Lee

Cider with Rosie = 7
A rose for winter = 8
As I walked out one midsummer morning - 7

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Chronicle of a death foretold = 7
Of love & other demons = 8
News of a kidnapping = 8
Collected Stories = 9
The General in his labrynth = 7
Strange pilgrims = 9
100 Years of solitude = 8

Patrick McGrath

Dr.Haggards disease = 7
Asylum = 8

Hector Hugh Munroe

The complete works of Saki = 8

Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita = 9
Pale fire = 9
Collected Stories = 9
Laughter in the Dark = 6
Mary = 6
Bend Sinister = 5
Glory = 5

George Orwell

Animal farm = 10
1984 = 9

Robert M. Pirsig

Zen & the art of motorcycle maintainance = 6

Terry Pratchett

The colour of magic = 8
The light fantastic = 8
Equal rites = 6
Mort = 9
Sourcery = 8
Wyrd Sisters = 3
Guards, guards = 4
Reaper man = 5
Truckers = 7
Diggers = 6
Wings = 6

E. Annie Proulx

Brokeback Mountain = 5
Accordion Crimes = 8
The shipping news = 9

Thomas De Quincey

Confessions of an English Opium Eater = 9
Selections = 6

Francoise Sagan

Bonjour Tristesse = 5

J.D.Sallinger

Franny & Zooey = 3
The catcher in the rye = 1

Will Self

Tough, tough toys for tough, tough boys = 6

Vikram Seth

The golden gate = 8

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein = 6

Norman Sherry

The Life of Graham Greene Vol.1 = 9
The Life of Graham Greene Vol.2 = 8

William Thackery

Vanity Fair = 8

J.R.R.Tolkein

The Hobbit = 8
The Lord of the Rings = 10
The Silmarillion = 9

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina = 8

John Updike

The Afterlife & other stories = 8
Your lover just called = 9
S = 8
Couples = 8
In the Beauty of the Lilies = 7
The Same door = 6
Towards the end of time = 7
Forty Stories = 8
Bech at bay = 5
Rabbit, run = 9
Poems = 8
Rabbit Redux = 7

Charles Webb

The Graduate = 5

Nigel Williams

The Wimbledon poisoner = 8
Scenes from a poisoner's life = 7

Jeanette Winterson

Oranges are not the Only Fruit = 6

John Wyndham

The seeds of time = 10
The day of the triffids = 8
The midwich cuckoos = 9
The Kraken wakes = 9
The trouble with lichen = 6
Web = 7
Wanderers of time = 5
The outward urge = 5
Stowaway to mars = 4
Consider her ways & others = 8
Jizzle = 9
Sleepers of Mars = 4
Chocky = 6
The secret people = 4
The crysalids = 6