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My All-Time Fave Books

(Not in order unless stated otherwise!)
1. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 (Sue Townsend)
2. The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
3. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
4. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D.Salinger)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee Harper)

• Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
• The True Confessions of Adrian Mole
• The Vampire Lestat
• Queen of the Damned
• The Outsiders (S.E.Hinton)
• Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
• Book of the Unexplained Vol.1 & 2
  (this was all based on The X-Files stories-most of it is based on fact you know!)
• 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy
  (collection of misheard song lyrics or 'mondogreens'. Hilarious!)
• 101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions
  (weird and often seemingly handy inventions in the art of 'chindoku' but I think it should be pronounced 'chindougu')
• Cult Horror Films
  (a Citadel series title)
• Mr. Cheap's New York
  (a shopping guide for New York for the bargain hunter-not cheap-but thrifty!!!)
• The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road
  (a road trip guide to America with heaps of funny and practical tips-but can be applied to any ocunrty really)

Books I Loved as a Kid

• The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
• Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)
• The Curse of the Egyptian Mummy (?forget)
• George's Marvellous Medicine/ The Witches/ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/ James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl)
  But I loved pretty much all his stuff!
• Penny Pollard's Letters/ Penny Pollard's Diary/ Ratbags and Rascals (Robin Klein)
• Bruno and Boots series/ Who Is Bugs Potter? (Gordon Korman)
• Enclyclopedia Brown series! (?forget)
• The Last Vampire (?no idea!)
• Archie comics!!!
• Heidi (?forget!)
• Noddy series! (Enid Blyton-Adrian Mole was a fan too!) Ok so there's not much here yet. One day I'll get there!

Other Stuff I Like

• Dilbert books (Scott Adams)
• Fortean Times
  (the magazine-their book compilations are so funny! eg "Strange Deaths" and it's got all related stories they published for that year collected in one volume)
• travel guides
  I hate Lonely Planet guides. I like Frommer's and Berlitz!
• Stuff about phenomena
• Beavis and Butt-head books!
• Episode guides of tv shows
• Books on serial killers/true crime/murder etc
  (Horrifying but interesting!)
• poetry!
• Books of quotes

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