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Dune (1965) - Frank Herbert ??/10

Starship Troopers (1959) - Robert A. Heinlein 07/10

The Time Machine (1895) - H. G. Wells ??/10

The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) - H. G. Wells ??/10

The War of the Worlds (1898) - H. G. Wells 08/10

The Invisible Man (1897) - H. G. Wells ??/10

Jurassic Park (1990); The Lost World (1995) - Michael Crichton ??/10

1984 (1949) - George Orwell ??/10

Fahrenheit 451 (1953) (Paperback 2008) - Ray Bradbury 08/10

A Clockwork Orange (1962) - Anthony Burgess ??/10

The Handmaid's Tale (1985); The Testaments (2019) - Margaret Atwood 08/10

One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) (Paperback in original Spanish 2024 Purchased at El Ateneo Grand Splendid in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2025) - Gabriel García Márquez 06/10

The Hunger Games (2008) (Hardback 2008); Catching Fire (2009) (Hardback 2009); Mockingjay (2010) (Hardback 2010) - Suzanne Collins 09/10

A Song of Ice and Fire: A Game of Thrones (1996); A Clash of Kings (1998); A Storm of Swords (2000); A Feast for Crows (2005); A Dance with Dragons (2011) (Paperback Boxset 2012) - George R. R. Martin ??/10

The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) (The Great Writers Library Hardback 1986) - Edgar Allan Poe ??/10

The Pit and the Pendulum (1842) (The Great Writers Library Hardback 1986) - Edgar Allan Poe ??/10

The Black Cat (1843) (The Great Writers Library Hardback 1986) - Edgar Allan Poe 07/10

The Masque of the Red Death (1842) (The Great Writers Library Hardback 1986) - Edgar Allan Poe ??/10

The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) (The Great Writers Library Hardback 1986) - Edgar Allan Poe 08/10

The Island Of The Fay (1841) (The Great Writers Library Hardback 1986) - Edgar Allan Poe ??/10

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1919) - Edgar Allan Poe 07/10

Herbert West - Reanimator (1922) (Necronomicon Hardback Commemorative Edition 2008 Purchased at San Diego Comic-Con in 2016) - H. P. Lovecraft 06/10

The Hound (1924) (Necronomicon Hardback Commemorative Edition 2008 Purchased at San Diego Comic-Con in 2016) - H. P. Lovecraft 06/10

The Call of Cthulhu (1926) (Necronomicon Hardback Commemorative Edition 2008 Purchased at San Diego Comic-Con in 2016,) - H. P. Lovecraft 06/10

The Dunwich Horror (1929) (Necronomicon Hardback Commemorative Edition 2008 Purchased at San Diego Comic-Con in 2016) - H. P. Lovecraft 05/10

From Beyond (1920) (Necronomicon Hardback Commemorative Edition 2008 Purchased at San Diego Comic-Con in 2016) - H. P. Lovecraft 06/10

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) (Stirling Unabridged Classic Hardback 2013 Purchased at Sunnyside in Sleepy Hollow in 2015) - Washington Irving 05/10

The Prague Golem (2012) (Paperback 2012 Collection of Jewish Stories Purchased at the Bookstore opposite the Old-New Synagogue in Prague, 2013) ??/10

Frankenstein (1818) (Hardback 2018) - Mary Shelley ??/10

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) (Centenary Edition Hardback 1993) - Robert Louis Stevenson ??/10

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) (Wordsworth Library Collection Hardback 2007) - Oscar Wilde 07/10

Lord Arthur Saville's Crime (1891) (Wordsworth Library Collection Hardback 2007) - Oscar Wilde ??/10

The Canterville Ghost (1891) (Wordsworth Library Collection Hardback 2007) - Oscar Wilde 08/10

The Metamorphosis (1915) (Hardback 2012 Purchased Kafka Museum in Prague in 2014) - Frank Kafka 07/10

Rebecca (1938) - Daphne du Maurier ??/10

The Birds (1952) - Daphne du Maurier ??/10

Don't Look Now (1971) - Daphne du Maurier ??/10

The Devil Rides Out (1934) - Dennis Wheatley ??/10

To the Devil a Daughter (1953) - Dennis Wheatley  ??/10

Audrey Rose (1975); For the Love of Audrey Rose (1982) - Frank De Felitta  ??/10

The Entity (1978) - Frank De Felitta ??/10

Sardonicus (1961) - Ray Russell  ??/10

Incubus (1981) - Ray Russell  ??/10

Rosemary's Baby (1967) - Ira Levin 06/10

Stepford Wives (1972) - Ira Levin  08/10

The Woman in Black (1983) - Susan Hill  07/10

The Amityville Horror (1977) (Hardback 1977) - Jay Anson ??/10

Murder in Amityville (1979) (Hardback 2007 Collected Edition of Murder in Amityville, The Amityville Curse, The Secret of Amityville) - Hans Holzer ??/10

The Hellbound Heart (1986) - Clive Barker 07/10

Carrie (1974) - Stephen King 06/10

'Salem's Lot (1975) - Stephen King ??/10

The Shining (1977) - Stephen King 09/10

Rage (1977) - Stephen King ??/10

Sometimes They Come Back (1978) - Stephen King ??/10

The Lawnmower Man (1978) - Stephen King ??/10

Children of the Corn (1978) - Stephen King ??/10

The Stand (1978) - Stephen King ??/10

The Long Walk (1979) - Stephen King 06/10

The Dead Zone (1979) - Stephen King ??/10

Firestarter (1980) - Stephen King ??/10

The Mist (1980) - Stephen King ??/10

Roadwork (1981) - Stephen King ??/10

Cujo (1981) - Stephen King ??/10

The Running Man (1982) - Stephen King ??/10

Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (1982) - Stephen King ??/10

The Body (1982) - Stephen King ??/10

Christine (1983) - Stephen King ??/10

Pet Sematary (1983) - Stephen King ??/10

Thinner (1984) - Stephen King 04/10

Survivor Type (1985) - Stephen King ??/10

It (1986) (Hardback 1986) - Stephen King ??/10

Misery (1987) - Stephen King 08/10

The Tommyknockers (1987) - Stephen King ??/10

The Dark Half (1989) - Stephen King 08/10

The Langoliers (1990) - Stephen King 07/10

The Library Policeman (1990) - Stephen King 06/10

Needful Things (1991) (Hardback 1991) - Stephen King 05/10

Gerald's Game (1992) - Stephen King 05/10

Dolores Claiborne (1992) - Stephen King 05/10

Rainy Season (1993) - Stephen King 07/10

Rose Madder (1995) - Stephen King 05/10

The Green Mile (1996) - Stephen King 07/10

Desperation (1996) (First Trade Printing 1996 Hardback) - Stephen King 09/10

The Regulators (1996) (First Trade Printing 1996 Hardback) - Stephen King 10/10

Dreamcatcher (2001) - Stephen King 03/10

1408 (2002) - Stephen King 07/10

The Bad Place (1990) (Hardback 1990) - Dean Koontz 08/10

Dark Rivers of the Heart (1994) (First Trade Printing 1994 Hardback Signed by Author) - Dean Koontz 10/10

False Memory (1999) (Hardback 1999 Signed by Author) - Dean Koontz 06/10

The Taking (2004) (Paperback 2004) - Dean Koontz  09/10

The Fog (1975) - James Herbert  ??/10 

Fluke (1977) - James Herbert ??/10

The Magic Cottage (1986) - James Herbert 07/10

Sepulchre (1987) - James Herbert 06/10

Once (2001) (Paperback 2001) - James Herbert ??/10

The Secret of Crickley Hall (2006) - James Herbert ??/10

One Rainy Night (1991) - Richard Laymon 05/10

The Blair Witch Project: A Dossier (1999) (Paperback 1999) - D. A. Ster 03/10

I, Lucifer (2002) (Paperback) - Glen Duncan 07/10

Weathercock (2003) (Paperback) - Glen Duncan 06/10

Carmilla (1872) - Sheridan Le Fanu 06/10

Dracula (1897) (Collectors Library Hardback 2003 Purchased in Whitby in 2014) - Bram Stoker  05/10

Interview with the Vampire (1976); The Vampire Lestat (1985); The Queen of the Damned (1988); The Tale of the Body Thief (1992); Memnoch the Devil (1995); The Vampire Armand (1998); Merrick (2000); Blood and Gold (2001); Blackwood Farm (2002); Blood Canticle (2003) - Anne Rice ??/10

Twilight (2005); New Moon (2006); Eclipse (2007); Breaking Dawn (2008) - Stephanie Meyer  07/10

Sins of the Blood (1994) (Paperback 1994 Signed by Author) - Kristine Kathryn Rusch 04/10

Warm Bodies (2010) (Paperback) - Isaac Marion 06/10

Perfume (1985) (Paperback) - Patrick Suskind 07/10

Tokyo (2004) - Mo Hayder 08/10

Deathstalk (1985) (Paperback) - Bruce Clark 02/10

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004) (Hardback 2004 Signed by Author); Dearly Devoted Dexter (2005); Dexter in the Dark (2007); Dexter by Design (2009); Dexter Is Delicious (2010); Double Dexter (2011); Dexter's Final Cut (2013); Dexter is Dead (2015) - Jeff Lindsay ??/10

Red Dragon (1981); The Silence of the Lambs (1988); Hannibal (1999); Hannibal Rising (2006) - Thomas Harris ??/10

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1887) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 07/10

The Sign of the Four (1890) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ??/10

A Study in Scarlet (1902) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ??/10

The Valley of Fear (1915) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ??/10

Murder on the Orient Express (1934) (Paperback Boxset 2015) - Agatha Christie ??/10

And Then There Were None (1939) (Paperback Boxset 2015) - Agatha Christie ??/10

The Murder of Robert Ackroyd (1926) (Paperback Boxset 2015) - Agatha Christie ??/10

A Murder is Announced (1950) - Agatha Christie ??/10

Mysteries (1892) - Knut Hamsun ??/10

Lord of the Flies (1954) - William Golding ??/10

The Catcher in the Rye (1951) - J D Salinger  ??/10

The Bell Jar (1963) - Sylvia Plath ??/10

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) - Ken Kesey ??/10

The Dice Man (1971) - Luke Rhinehart  ??/10

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1972) - Hunter S Thompson ??/10

Fight Club (1996) - Chuck Palahiuk  ??/10

The Butcher Boy (1992) (Paperback 1992) - Patrick McCabe ??/10

American Psycho (1991) - Brett Easton Ellis ??/10

Lunar Park (2005) - Brett Easton Ellis ??/10

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax (2004) - Liz Jensen ??/10

We Need to Talk about Kevin (2003) - Lionel Shriver ??/10

Killing Me Softly (1999) - Nikki French ??/10

Angels and Demons (2000) (Hardback Special Illustrated Collector's Edition 2005); The Da Vinci Code (2003) (Hardback 2003 Signed by Author); The Lost Symbol (2009) (Hardback 2009 Signed by Author); Inferno (2013) (Hardback 2013 Signed by Author) - Dan Brown 06/10

State of Fear (2004) - Michael Crichton ??/10

The Spy who Came in from the Cold (1963) - John le Carre ??/10

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974) - John le Carre ??/10

The Night Manager (1993) - John le Carre ??/10

The Constant Gardener (2001) - John le Carre ??/10

The Thirty Nine Steps (1915) - John Buchan 07/10

The Godfather (1969) (Hardback 1972) - Mario Puzo ??/10

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006) - John Boyne ??/10

Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller ??/10

Enigma (1995) - Robert Harris ??/10

War and Peace (1869) - Leo Tolstoy ??/10

Anna Karenina (1877) - Leo Tolstoy ??/10

All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) - Erich Maria Remarque ??/10

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) (Boxed Folio Society Hardback 1996) - Harper Lee ??/10

Go Set A Watchman (2015) (Hardback 2015) - Harper Lee ??/10

Of Mice and Men (1937) - John Steinbeck ??/10

The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck ??/10

East of Eden (1952) - John Steinbeck ??/10

Heart of Darkness (1902) - Joseph Conrad ??/10

The Color Purple (1982) - Alice Walker ??/10

Roots (1976) (Hardback 1977) - Alex Haley ??/10

The Corrections (2001) (Hardback 2002 Signed by Author) - Jonathon Franzen 07/10

The Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments (1987); The Snapper (1990); The Van (1991) (Barrytown Trilogy Hardback 1992 Signed by Author) - Roddy Doyle ??/10

The World According to Garp (1978) - John Irving ??/10

The Cider House Rules (1985) - John Irving ??/10

A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) - John Irving ??/10

My Sister’s Keeper (2004) - Jodi Picoult 08/10

First Love; Last Rites (1975) - Ian McEwan  06/10

Homemade (1975) - Ian McEwan  05/10

Butterflies (1975) - Ian McEwan  05/10

In Between the Sheets (1978) - Ian McEwan  ??/10

Enduring Love (1997) - Ian McEwan  ??/10

Atonement (2001) - Ian McEwan  ??/10

The Playmaker (1987) - Thomas Keneally ??/10

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) - Milan Kundera ??/10

Midnight's Children (1981) - Salmon Rushie ??/10

Invisible Man (1952) - Ralph Ellison ??/10

Brideshead Revisited (1945) - Evelyn Waugh ??/10

The Fountainhead (1943) - Ayn Rand ??/10

The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) - Stendhal ??/10

A Farewell to Arms (1929) - Ernest Hemingway ??/10

The Old Man and the Sea (1940) - Ernest Hemingway ??/10

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1951) - Ernest Hemingway ??/10

I, Claudius (1934) - Robert Graves ??/10

The Sound and the Fury (1929) - William Faulkner ??/10

Mrs Dalloway (1925) - Virginia Woolf ??/10

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) - James Joyce ??/10

Ulysses (1922) - James Joyce ??/10

The Age of Innocence (1920) - Edith Wharton ??/10

A Room with a View (1908) - E M Forster ??/10

Howards End (1910) - E M Forster ??/10

A Passage to India (1924) - E M Forster ??/10

Anne of Green Gables (1908) - L M Montgomery ??/10

The Portrait of a Lady (1881) - Henry James ??/10

The Way We Live Now (1875) - Anthony Trollope ??/10

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) - Thomas Hardy ??/10

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) - Thomas Hardy ??/10

The Brothers Karamazov (1880) - Fyodor Dostoevsky ??/10

Crime and Punishment (1866) - Fyodor Dostoevsky ??/10

The Idiot (1869) (Paperback 1996- Fyodor Dostoevsky  ??/10

The Black Sheep (1842) - Honore De Balzac ??/10

Sybil (1845) - Benjamin Disraeli ??/10

Vanity Fayre (1847) - William Makepeace Thackeray ??/10

The Scarlet Letter (1850) - Nathaniel Hawthorne ??/10

The House of the Seven Gables (1851) (Hardback Purchased in Salem 2015) - Nathaniel Hawthorne ??/10

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) (Paperback 2006 Purchased at Notre Dame in Paris in 2015) - Viktor Hugo ??/10

Les Miserables (1862) - Victor Hugo ??/10

Madame Bovary (1856) - Gustave Flaubert ??/10

Little Women (1880); Little Men (1871); Jo's Boys (1886) - Louisa May Alcott ??/10

Nightmare Abbey (1818) - Thomas Love Peacock ???/10

The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1839) - Charles Dickens ??/10

Nicholas Nickleby (1839) - Charles Dickens ??/10

The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) - Charles Dickens ??/10

A Christmas Carol (1843) (Selected Illustrated Works of Charles Dickens Christmas Stories Hardback 2010) - Charles Dickens 09/10

Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) - Charles Dickens ??/10

David Copperfield (1850) - Charles Dickens ??/10

Bleak House (1853) - Charles Dickens ??/10

Hard Times (1854) - Charles Dickens ??/10

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) - Charles Dickens ??/10

Great Expectations (1861) - Charles Dickens ??/10

Middlemarch (1872) - George Eliot ??/10

Daniel Deronda (1876) - George Eliot ??/10

Mill on the Floss (1860) - George Eliot ??/10

Silas Marner (1861) - George Eliot 07/10

Canterbury Tales (14th Century) - Geoffrey Chaucer ??/10

Tristram Shandy (1767) - Laurence Sterne ??/10

Clarissa (1748) - Samuel Richardson ??/10

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (1722) (Folio Society Hardback 1967 Purchased at Hay Literary Festival in 2016) - Daniel Defoe  ??/10

Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782) (Folio Society Hardback 1962 Purchased at Hay Literary Festival in 2016) - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos 09/10

Justine (1791); Juliette (1801) - Marquis de Sade ??/10

120 Days of Sodom (1805) - Marquis de Sade ??/10

Venus in Furs (1870) - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch ??/10

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) (Paperback 2007- D H Lawrence  04/10

Sons and Lovers (1913) - D H Lawrence  ??/10

Laughter in the Dark (1932) (Paperback 2001) - Vladimir Nabokov  06/10

Lolita (1955) (Hardback 1955) - Vladimir Nabokov  10/10

Ada (1969) - Vladimir Nabokov ??/10

Pale Fire (1962) - Vladimir Nabokov ??/10

The Enchanter (1985) (Paperback 1987) - Vladimir Nabokov  06/10

The Story of O (1954) (Paperback 1972- Pauline Reage  05/10

Nine and a Half Weeks (1978) (Hardback 1978) - Elizabeth McNeill  10/10

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (1983) (Paperback 2008); Beauty's Punishment (1984) (Paperback 2008); Beauty's Release (1985) (Paperback 2008); Beauty's Kingdom (2015) - Anne Rice 07/10

Fifty Shades of Gray (2011); Fifty Shades Darker (2012); Fifty Shades Freed (2012), Grey (2015) - E. L. James 04/10

Vanilla (2000) (Mammoth Book of Lesbian Erotica Paperback 2000) - Maisie Langridge 04/10

Tropic of Cancer (1934) (Hardback 1984); Tropic of Capricorn (1938) (Hardback 1984) - Henry Miller ??/10

The Hungarian Adventurer (1978) (Delta of Venus Paperback 2000) - Anais Nin  06/10

Little Birds (1979) (Little Birds Paperback 2002) - Anais Nin 05/10

Bellocq's Women (2000) (Paperback 2001) - Peter Everett 05/10

Daddy's Girl (1994) (Hardback 1994); Father of Lies (1995) (Paperback 1995) - Janet Inglis 09/10

Flowers in the Attic (1979); Petals on the Wind (1980); If there be Thorns (1981); Seeds of Yesterday (1984); Garden of Shadows (1986) (Paperback Boxset 2016) - Virginia Andrews 10/10

My Sweet Audrina (1982) - Virginia Andrews 06/10

Heaven (1985); Dark Angel (1986; Fallen Hearts (1988); Gates of Paradise (1989); Web of Dreams (1990) - Virginia Andrews (final two books written by Andrew Neiderman) 07/10

Sweet Valley High Double Love (1983) (Paperback 1990); Sweet Valley High Secrets (1983) (Paperback 1983) - Francine Pascal ??/10

Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ??/10

Memoirs of a Geisha (1997) - Arthur Golden ??/10

Gone with the Wind (1936) - Margaret Mitchell ??/10

Wuthering Heights (1847) - Emily Bronte 07/10

The Great Gatsby (1925) - F Scott Fitzgerald 07/10

Tom Jones (1749) - Henry Fielding ??/10

Jane Eyre (1847) - Charlotte Bronte 08/10

Sense and Sensibility (1811) (Penguin Classic Hardback Boxset 2009, Limited Edition Hardback No 0912 of 3000 2007) - Jane Austen 08/10

Pride and Prejudice (1813) (Penguin Classic Hardback Boxset 2009, Limited Edition Hardback No 0912 of 3000 2007) - Jane Austen 07/10

Mansfield Park (1814) (Penguin Classic Hardback Boxset 2009, Limited Edition Hardback No 0912 of 3000 2007) - Jane Austen ??/10

Emma (1815) (Penguin Classic Hardback Boxset 2009, Limited Edition Hardback No 0912 of 3000 2007) - Jane Austen 07/10

Northanger Abbey (1818) (Penguin Classic Hardback Boxset 2009, Limited Edition Hardback No 0912 of 3000 2007) - Jane Austen 07/10

Persuasion (1818) (Penguin Classic Hardback Boxset 2009, Limited Edition Hardback No 0912 of 3000 2007) - Jane Austen 06/10

Lady Susan (1871) (Limited Edition Hardback No 0912 of 3000 2007) - Jane Austen 08/10

The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) (Hardback 1892) - Jerome K Jerome ??/10

Three Men in a Boat (1889) (Hardback 1889) - Jerome K Jerome 09/10

Shepherd Mead's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1952) (First Printing Hardback 1952) - Shepherd Mead 08/10

Tessie The Hound of Channel One (1951) (First Printing Hardback 1951) - Shepherd Mead ??/10

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1975); The Return of Reginald Perrin (1977); The Better World of Reginald Perrin (1978); The Legacy of Reginal Perrin (1995) - David Nobbs ??/10

Second from Last in the Sack Race (1983); Pratt of the Argus (1988); The Cucumber Man (1994); Pratt a Manger (2006) - David Nobbs ??/10

Adventures of Goodnight and Loving (1986) (Hardback 1986 Signed by Author) - Leslie Thomas ??/10

The Virgin Soldiers (1966) (Hardback 1966 Signed by Author) - Leslie Thomas ??/10

The Hundred Year Old Man who Climbed out of a Window and Disappeared (2009)- Jonas Jonasson 07/10

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2012) (Paperback 2013) - Rachel Joyce ??/10

Flight from Deathrow (2002) (Paperback 2002 Signed by Author) - Harry Hill 09/10

The Satsuma Complex (2022) (Hardback 2022 Signed by Author) - Bob Mortimer ??/10

The Hotel Avocado (2024) (Hardback 2024 Signed by Author) - Bob Mortimer ??/10

Getting Rid of Mister Kitchen (1996) (Hardback 1996 Signed by Author) - Charles Higson  06/10

I, Partridge (2011) (Hardback 2011) - Alan Partridge ??/10

The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman (1998) (Paperback 1998) - Bruce Robinson  ??/10

High Fidelity (1995) (Paperback 1996) - Nick Hornby  ??/10

About a Boy (1998) (Paperback 2000) - Nick Hornby  ??/10

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole; Aged 13¾ (1982); The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1985); The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole (1989); Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (1993); Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (1999); Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004); The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole 1999-2001 (2008); Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years (2009) - Sue Townsend ??/10

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (2003) (Paperback 2004 Purchased at Theatre Show 2017) - Mark Haddon 07/10

Marley and Me (2005) (Hardback 2006) - John Grogan ??/10

My Dog Tulip (1956) (Paperback 1999) - J. R. Ackerley ??/10

Jonathon Livingston Seagull (1970) (Hardback 2005) - Richard Bach ??/10

Pork (1981) (Hardback 1981 Signed by Author) - Cris Freddi  09/10

Watership Down (1972) - Richard Adams ??/10

Animal Farm (1945) (Paperback 1996) - George Orwell 08/10

Heart of a Dog (1925) (Paperback 2016 Purchased in Moscow in 2016) - Mikhail Bulgakov ??/10

The Count of Monte Cristo (1846) - Alexandre Dumas ??/10

The Three Musketeers (1844) - Alexandre Dumas ??/10

Don Quixote (1620) - Miguel de Cervantes ??/10

Pilgram's Progress (1678) - John Bunyan ??/10

Moby Dick (1851) - Herman Melville ??/10

A Dog's Tale (1903) - Mark Twain 05/10

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) (Hardback 2011) - Mark Twain ??/10

The Prince and the Pauper (1881) (Hardback 2011) - Mark Twain ??/10

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) (Hardback 2011) - Mark Twain ??/10

The Legends of King Arthur and his Knights (1485) - Sir Thomas Mallory ??/10

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883) - Howard Pyle ??/10

Mutiny on the Bounty (1932) - Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall ??/10

Gulliver's Travels (1726) - Jonathon Swift ??/10

Robinson Crusoe (1719) (Paperback 2003) - Daniel DeFoe  ??/10

Treasure Island (1883) (Paperback 1999) - Robert Louis Stevenson  ??/10

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) - Jules Verne 05/10

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (1870) - Jules Verne 03/10

Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) - Jules Verne 05/10

The Mysterious Island (1874) - Jules Verne ??/10

The Lost World (1912) - Arthur Conan Doyle 08/10

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979); The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980); Life; the Universe and Everything (1982); So Long; and Thanks for All the Fish (1984); Mostly Harmless (1992) (Paperback Boxset 2002) - Douglas Adams 10/10

And Another Thing... (2009) (Hardback 2009) - Douglas Adams and Eoin Colfer ??/10

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) (Hardback 2001); The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul (1988) (Hardback 2001); Salmon of Doubt (2002) (Paperback 2003)- Douglas Adams ??/10

The Colour of Magic (1983) (Hardback 2014); The Light Fantastic (1986) (Hardback 2014) - Terry Pratchet 09/10

Equal Rites (1987) (Hardback 2014); Mort (1987) (Hardback 2013) - Terry Pratchet ??/10

Good Omens (1990) (Illustrated Hardback 2019) - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 08/10

The Lovely Bones (2002) (Paperback 2009) - Alice Sebold ??/10

Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003) (Paperback 2004) - Mitch Albom ??/10

The Shack (2007) - William P Young 07/10

Sati (1990) (Hardback 1990) - Christopher Pike 10/10

His Dark Materials: Northern Lights (1995); The Subtle Knife (1997); The Amber Spyglass (2000) - Phillip Pullman 09/10

The Book of Lost Things (2006) (Hardback 2006) - John Connolly 08/10

The Time Traveler's Wife (2003) - Audrey Niffenegger  ??/10

Big Fish (1998) (Paperback 2004) - Daniel Wallace  07/10

Life of Pi (2001) (Hardback Signed by Author) - Yann Martel ??/10

Bullfinch's Mythology (1867) (Hardback 2014) - Thomas Bullfinch ??/10

The Dark Crystal (1982) (Hardback with Embedded Crystal) - A.C.H. Smith and David Odell based on the movie by Jim Henson with illustrations by Brian Froud ??/10

The Lord of the Rings (1954) (Boxed Illustrated Hardback 2013) - J R R Tolkien ??/10

The Hobbit (1937) (Hardback 2007) - J R R Tolkien 08/10

The Silmarillion (1977) (Hardback 2002) - J R R Tolkien ??/10

The Adventure of Tom Sawyer (1876) (Hardback 2011) - Mark Twain 05/10

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) (Hardback 2011) - Mark Twain 05/10

The Secret Garden (1911) (Hardback 1989 Childhood Gift from Ethel 1990) - Frances Hidgson Burnett 05/10

The Water-Babies (1863) (Hardback 1989 Childhood Gift from Ethel 1990) - Charles Kingsley ??/10

The Phantom Tollbooth (1961) (Paperback 1999) - Norton Juster  ??/10

Jumanji (Hardback 30th Anniversary Edition 1981) - Chris Van Allsburg  ??/10

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) (Paperback Childhood Award) - L. Frank Baum ??/10

Peter Pan (1911) (Paperback Childhood Award) (Hardback Minalima Edition Illustrated with Interactive Elements 2015 Purchased at Rylands Library Manchester 2021) - J. M. Barrie 08/10

The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) (Paperback Boxset 1997) - C S Lewis ??/10

Die unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story) (1979, English language translation first published 1983) - Michael Ende (Hardback Replica from Movie) 07/10

The Bloody Chamber (1979) (Paperback 2006 Purchased at Rylands Library Manchester 2015) - Angela Carter 06/10

Cross Purposes and the Shadows (1862) - George Macdonald (Hardback 1928) ??/10

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997); Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998); Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999); Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000); Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003); Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005); Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007) (Hardback Boxset in Replica Trunk) - J K Rowling 10/10

The Tales of Beedle the Bard (2008) (Collectors Edition in Case) - J K Rowling ??/10

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander (2001); Quidditch Through the Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp (2001); The Tales of Beedle the Bard (2008) (Hardback Hogwarts Library Boxset) - J K Rowling ??/10

Adventures of the Wishing Chair (1937) (Hardback 1971); The Wishing Chair Again (1950) (Hardback 1986) - Enid Blyton 07/10

The Enchanted Wood (1939) (Hardback 1989); The Magic Faraway Tree (1943) (Hardback 1985); The Folk of the Faraway Tree (1946) (Hardback 1985) - Enid Blyton 08/10

Just William (1922); More William (1922); William Again (1923); William the Fourth (1924); Still William (1925); William the Conqueror (1926); William the Outlaw (1927); William in Trouble (1927); William the Good (1928); William (1929) (Paperback Boxset) - Richmal Crompton ??/10

Just William (1922) (1923 Hardback); More William (1922) (1927 Hardback); William the Fourth (1924) (1924 Hardback); William in Trouble (1927) (1927 Hardback); William the Rebel (1933 Hardback); William and the Moon Rocket (1954) (1955 Hardback) - Richmal Crompton ??/10

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964); Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972) (Phizz Whizzing Collection Paperback Boxset 2014) - Roald Dahl 08/10

The Gremlins (1943) - Roald Dahl ??/10

The Twits (1980) (Phizz Whizzing Collection Paperback Boxset 2014) - Roald Dahl 06/10

James and the Giant Peach (1961) (Phizz Whizzing Collection Paperback Boxset 2014) - Roald Dahl ??/10

George's Marvellous Medicine (1981) (Phizz Whizzing Collection Paperback Boxset 2014 - Roald Dahl 06/10

The BFG (1982) (Phizz Whizzing Collection Paperback Boxset 2014) - Roald Dahl 05/10

Matilda (1988) (Phizz Whizzing Collection Paperback Boxset 2014) - Roald Dahl 07/10

The Witches (1983) (Phizz Whizzing Collection Paperback Boxset 2014) - Roald Dahl 07/10

The Enormous Crocodile (1978) - Roald Dahl ??/10

The Vicar of Nibbleswicke (1990) - Roald Dahl ??/10

The Minpins (1991) - Roald Dahl ??/10

Danny the Champion of the World (1975) (Phizz Whizzing Collection Paperback Boxset 2014) - Roald Dahl 07/10

Charlotte's Web (1952) - E B White 06/10

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) (Collector's Library Edition Illustrated Hardback of the Complete Works of Lewis Carroll, 2005), Alice through the Looking Glass (1871) (Collector's Library Edition Illustrated Hardback of the Complete Works of Lewis Carroll, 2005) - Lewis Carroll  09/10

One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (1706) (Hardback 2011) - Unknown, Translated by Sir Richard Burton ??/10

The Jungle Book (1894) (Hardback 1955) - Rudyard Kipling ??/10

Just So Stories (1902) - Rudyard Kipling ??/10

Aesop's Fables (620BC) - Aesop 06/10

The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) (Paperback 2018 Purchased in Florence 2022) - Carlo Collodi 06/10

The House Mouse and the Country Mouse (1879) (Norwegian Fairy Tales by Cappelen Damm Hardback 2010 Purchased in Norway 2025) - Asbjørnsen and Moe ??/10

Norse Mythology (2017) (Hardback 2018 Purchased in Norway 2025) - Neil Gaimon ??/10

Beauty and the Beast (1740) - Gabrielle-Suzanne Burbot de Villeneuve 04/10

Beauty and the Beast (1756) (in Perrault's First Folio Hardback) - Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont  06/10

The Princess and the Pea (1835) - Hans Christian Anderson 04/10

The Little Mermaid (1836) - Hans Christian Anderson 07/10

The Emperor’s New Clothes (1837) - Hans Christian Anderson 05/10

The Steadfast Tin Soldier (1838) - Hans Christian Anderson 05/10

Ole Lukøje (The Sandman) (1841) - Hans Christian Anderson 07/10

The Snow Queen (1844) - Hans Christian Anderson 06/10

Thumbelina (1844) - Hans Christian Anderson 05/10

The Ugly Duckling (1844) - Hans Christian Anderson 07/10

The Red Shoes (1845) - Hans Christian Anderson 06/10

The Little Match Girl (1848) - Hans Christian Anderson 05/10

Cenerentola (The Cat Cinderella) (1634) - Giambattista Basile (Sir Richard Burton's translation of The Pentamerone Hardback 1960) ??/10

Petrosinella (Rapunzel) (1634) - Giambattista Basile (Sir Richard Burton's translation of The Pentamerone Hardback 1960) ??/10

La Schiavottella (The Young Slave) (1634) - Giambattista Basile (Sir Richard Burton's translation of The Pentamerone Hardback 1960) ??/10

Sole, Luna e Talia (Sun, Moon and Talia) (1634) - Giambattista Basile (Sir Richard Burton's translation of The Pentamerone Hardback 1960) ??/10

The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (1697) (Boxed Folio Society Hardback 2002) - Charles Perrault 06/10

Cendrillon (Cinderella or The Glass Slipper) (1697) (Boxed Folio Society Hardback 2002) - Charles Perrault 07/10

The Master Cat or Puss in Boots (1697) (Boxed Folio Society Hardback 2002) - Charles Perrault 05/10

Little Red Riding Hood (1697) (Boxed Folio Society Hardback 2002) - Charles Perrault 06/10

Der Froschkonig Oder Der Eiserne Heinrich (The Frog King or Ironheart) (1812) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm 02/10

Der Wolf und die Sieben Jungen Geiblein (The Wolf and the Seven Kids) (1812) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm 05/10

Rapunzel (1812) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm 05/10

Hansel and Gretel (1812) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm 06/10

Herr Fix und Fertif (Herr Fix-it-up) (1812) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm 07/10

Von den Fischer und siine Fru (The Fisherman and His Wife) (1812) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm 04/10

Von einem tapfern Schneider (A Story about a Brave Tailor) (1812) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm 05/10

Aschenputtel (Cinderella) (1812) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm 06/10

Wie Kinder Schlachtens mit Einander Gespielt Haben (How Some Children Played at Slaughtering)(1812) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm 03/10

Rothkappchen (Little Red Cap) (1812) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm 05/10

Der Gescheidte Hans (Clever Hans) (1812) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm 06/10

Der Gestiefelte Kater (Puss in Boots) (1812) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm 05/10

Von den Wichtelmannern (The Elves) (1812) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm 04/10

Der Rauberbrautigam (The Robber Bridegroom) (1812) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm 04/10

Fitchers Vogel (Fitcher's Bird) (1812) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm ??/10

Van den Machandel-Boom (The Juniper Tree) (1812) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm ??/10

Dornroschen (Briar Rose) (1812) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm ??/10

Schneewittchen (Little Snow White) (1812) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm ??/10

Rumpelstilzchen (Rumpelstiltskin) (1812) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm ??/10

Blaubart (Bluebeard) (1812) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm ??/10

Die Gansemagd (The Goose Girl) (1815) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm ??/10

Der Froschkönig (The Frog Prince) (1815) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm ??/10

Die Kinder in Hungersnoth (The Children of Famine) (1815) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm ??/10

Der Goldene Schlussel (The Golden Key) (1815) (Original Translation Hardback 2016) - Brothers Grimm ??/10

The Wind in the Willows (1908) (Hardback Illustrated by Inga Moore with Plates) - Kenneth Grahame 06/10

Winnie the Pooh (1926) (Illustrated Hardback 2006) - A A Milne 07/10

The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) (Boxed Illustrated Hardback of The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter 2006 Purchased at Hilltop in 2011) - Beatrix Potter 05/10

The Tale of Two Bad Mice (1902) (Boxed Illustrated Hardback of The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter 2006  Purchased at Hilltop in 2011) - Beatrix Potter 05/10

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1975) (Hardback Boxset 2003) - Dr. Seuss 07/10

Green Eggs and Ham (1975) (Hardback Boxset 2003) - Dr. Seuss 07/10

Fox in Socks (1975) (Hardback Boxset 2003) - Dr. Seuss 06/10

The Cat in the Hat (1975) (Hardback Boxset 2003) - Dr. Seuss 05/10

Biographies, Diaries, and Other True(ish) Stories 

Bit of a Blur (2007) (Paperback 2007) - Alex James ??/10

Definitive Biography of Freddie Mercury Bohemian Rhapsody (2011) (Paperback 2018) - Lesley-Ann Jones ??/10

Why Do I Say These Things (2008) (Hardback 2008) - Jonathon Ross ??/10

If Chins Could Kill (2001) (Paperback 2002) - Bruce Campbell ??/10

Born Standing Up (2007) (Hardback 2007) - Steve Martin ??/10

The Unofficial Biography of Douglas Adams (2003) (Paperback 2004)  - Nick Webb

Rebel Without a Crew (1995) (Paperback 1996) - Robert Rodriguez ??/10

My Boring-Ass Life (2007) (Paperback 2007) - Kevin Smith ??/10

I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This! (2006) (Paperback 2006) - Bob Newhart ??/10

Moab is my Washpot (1997) (Paperback 1997) - Stephen Fry ??/10

The Fry Chronicles (2010) (Paperback 2010) - Steven Fry ??/10

Tragically I was an Only Twin (2002) (Paperback 2002) - Peter Cook ??/10

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (1963) (Paperback 2005) - William Cook ??/10

The Essential Spike Milligan (2002) (Paperback 2003) - Spike Milligan ??/10

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1971) (Hardback 1974), "Rommel?" "Gunner Who?": A Confrontation in the Desert (1974) (Hardback 1974 Signed by Author), Monty: His Part in My Victory (1976) (Hardback 1977), Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall (1978) (Hardback 1978) - Spike Milligan ??/10

I Didn't Get Where I Am Today (2003) (Hardback 2003 Signed by Author) - David Nobbs ??/10

Eric Morecomb Life's not Hollywood, it's Crinklewood (2003) (Paperback 2004) - Gary Morecombe ??/10

Yes Man (2005) (Paperback 2006) - Danny Wallace ??/10

Toast (2003) (Paperback 2010) - Nigel Slater ??/10

Life and Laughing (2010) (Paperback 2010) - Michael McIntyre ??/10

And Away (2021) (Hardback Signed by Author 2021) - Bob Mortimer ??/10

The Python Autobiographies (2003) (Hardback 2003) - The Pythons ??/10

Michael Palin Diaries 1969-1979 The Python Years (2006) (Hardback 2006) - Michael Palin ??/10

Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy (2001) (Paperback 2001) - Simon Louvish ??/10

Dickens and Staplehurst Book (2021) (Paperback 2021 Signed by Author, Purchased at Gerald Dickens' one-man-show A Christmas Carol at St George's Hall in Liverpool, 2022) - Gerald Dickens ??/10

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (Written 1816 to 1824 First published 1988) (Paperback 2010) - Edited by Helena Whitbread 04/10

Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know (1987) (Hardback 2005) - Ranulph Fiennes ??/10

Heart of the Antarctic (1909), South (1919) (Hardback 2002 Signed by fellow travellers to Antarctica in 2025) - Ernest Shackleton ??/10

The Ship Beneath the Ice (2022) (Hardback 2022 Signed by Author) - Mensun Bound ??/10

Before, During and After the Falklands War Part 1 (2017) (Paperback 2017 Signed by Author), Before, During and After the Falklands War Part 2 (2017) (Paperback 2017 Signed by Author) - Richard Stevens ??/10

Angela's Ashes (1996) (Hardback 1996 Signed by Author); 'Tis (1999) (Hardback 1999 Signed by Author) - Frank McCourt ??/10

Living with Evil (2010) (Paperback 2010) - Cynthia Owen ??/10

The Diary of Anne Frank (Written 1942 to 1944 First published 1947) (Paperback 2007 Purchased at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam in 2009) - Anne Frank ??/10

I was Doctor Mengele's Assistant (1946) (Paperback 2000 Purchased at Auschwitz in Krakow in 2013)  - Miklos Nyiszli ??/10

Papillon (1969) - Henri Charriere ??/10

The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren (1980) (Paperback 2013) - Gerald Brittle ??/10

A Book of Dreams (1973) (Hardback 1973) - Peter Reich ??/10

Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons (2005) (Hardback 2005) - George Pendle ??/10

Catch Me If You Can (1980) (Hardback Signed by Author) - Frank Abagnale and Stan Redding ??/10

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