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...SOME WELL-LOVED AUTHORS IN OUR COLLECTION: Dan Brown (Da Vinci Code) J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter) John van de Ruit (Spud) Lindsey Davis (the Falco novels) Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist, Veronika decides to die) Sello K Duiker (Thirteen cents)
FICTION FAVOURITES
LIBRARY STAFF’S TOP FIVE ENGLISH FICTION TITLES: To kill a mockingbird [Harper Lee, 1960] (1961 Pulitzer Prize) The Shack [William P. Young] (bestseller) The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency [Alexander McCall Smith] The Poisonwood bible [Barbara Kingsolver] (2000 Boeke Prize) A Bekkersdal marathon [Herman Charles Bosman] (short story)
OTHER POPULAR ENGLISH FICTION TITLES IN OUR COLLECTION: (scroll down) 44 Scotland Street [Alexander McCall Smith] A Bend in the River [V.S. Naipaul] A House for Mr Biswas [V.S. Naipaul] A Suitable Boy [Vikram Seth] Animal Farm [George Orwell] Anne of Green Gables [L. M. Montgomery] The Brothers Karamazov [F. M. Dostoyevsky] Cannery Row [John Steinbeck] Captain Corelli's mandolin [Louis De Bernires] Confessions of a gambler [Rayda Jacobs] Doctor Zhivago [Boris Pasternak] For Whom the Bell Tolls [Ernest Hemingway] I heard the owl call my name [Margaret Craven] Iron Love [Marguerite Poland] July’s People [Nadine Gordimer] Love in the Time of Cholera [Gabriel Garcia Marquez] Midnight’s Children [Salman Rushdie] Miss Smilla's feeling for snow [Peter Hoeg] Petals of Blood [Ngugi Wa Thiong’o] Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen] Q [Luther Blissett] -vertaal Shades [Marguerite Poland] Slumdog Millionaire [Vikas Swarup] Song of Solomon [Toni Morrison] Sophie's world [Jostein Gaarder] The Bonfire of the Vanities [Tom Wolfe] The Curious incident of the dog in the night-time [Mark Haddon] The God of Small Things [Arundhati Roy] The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy [Douglas Adams] The Hobbit [J R R Tolkien] The Life and Times of Michael K [J.M. Coetzee] The Lord of the Rings [J R R Tolkien] The Odessa file [Frederich Forsyth] The Power of one/ Bryce Courtenay The Satanic Verses [Salman Rushdie] The Unbearable lightness of being [Milan Kundera] The World According to Garp [John Irving] Train to Doringbult [Marguerite Poland] War and peace [Leo Tolstoy]
Babette's Feast [Isak Dinesen] Gone with the Wind [Margaret Mitchell] Remains of the Day [Kazuo Ishiguro] The Godfather [Mario Puzo] The Name of the Rose [Umberto Eco]
SOME MORE PRIZE-WINNING FAVOURITES: Fugitive pieces [Anne Michaels] (Orange Prize for Fiction & the Guardian Fiction Prize) The God of Small Things [Arundhati Roy] (Booker Prize 1997) The Life & Times of Michael K [J. M. Coetzee] (Booker Prize 1983) Life of Pi [Yann Martel] (Man Booker Prize 2002, Boeke Prize 2003) The Moor’s Last Sigh [Salman Rushdie] (Whitbread Prize 1995, shortlisted Man Booker Prize 1995) Waiting for the Barbarians [J. M. Coetzee] (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction)
Some Popular ENGLISH FICTION Books made into MOVIES, and which are IN OUR COLLECTION:
fiction favourites
A Mighty Heart [Mariane Pearl] Color of water: a black man's tribute to his white mother [James McBride] Mother to Mother [Sindiwe Magona] To my children's children [Sindiwe Magona] Reading 'Lolita' in Tehran: a memoir in books [Azar Nafisi] Our Generation [Zubeida Jaffer]
WELL-LOVED BIOGRAPHIES IN OUR COLLECTION include:
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