Books Alive's 50 Books You Must Own (2004)
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| Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|
| A Time to Kill | John Grisham | 1989 |
| All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy | 1992 |
| Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris | Sarah Turnbull | 2004 |
| Battleaxe | Sara Douglass | 1995 |
| Bridget Jones's Diary | Helen Fielding | 1996 |
| Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction | Luke Davies | 1998 |
| Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier | 1997 |
| Dirt Music | Tim Winton | 2001 |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | 1965 |
| Eat Me | Linda Jaivin | 1998 |
| Enduring Love | Ian McEwan | 1997 |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 1953 |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson | 1971 |
| Fight Club | Chuck Palahniuk | 1996 |
| Girl with a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier | 1999 |
| High Fidelity | Nick Hornby | 1995 |
| Ice Station | Matthew Reilly | 1998 |
| It | Stephen King | 1986 |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | 1847 |
| Life of Pi | Yann Martel | 2001 |
| My Brilliant Career | Miles Franklin | 1901 |
| Oscar and Lucinda | Peter Carey | 1988 |
| Palace Walk | Naguib Mahfouz | 1956 |
| Perfect Match | Jodi Picoult | 2002 |
| Perfume | Patrick Suskind | 1985 |
| Possession: A Romance | A. S. Byatt | 1990 |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 1813 |
| Sophie's World | Jostein Gaarder | 1991 |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | 1988 |
| The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood | 2000 |
| The Constant Gardener | John le Carre | 2001 |
| The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | 2001 |
| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | 2003 |
| The Eyre Affair | Jasper Fforde | 2001 |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1937 |
| The Hunt for Red October | Tom Clancy | 1984 |
| The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America | Bill Bryson | 1990 |
| The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | 2002 |
| The Mosquito Coast | Paul Theroux | 1982 |
| The Poet | Michael Connelly | 1996 |
| The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | 1998 |
| The Secret History | Donna Tartt | 1992 |
| The Shipping News | E. Annie Proulx | 1993 |
| The Surgeon of Crowthorne | Simon Winchester | 1998 |
| The Vampire Lestat | Anne Rice | 1985 |
| This Side of Brightness | Colum McCann | 1998 |
| Three Dog Night | Peter Goldsworthy | 2003 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1960 |
| Tully | Paullina Simons | 1995 |
| Year of Wonders | Geraldine Brooks | 2001 |