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Good Reading Guide Books on a Theme: Adolescence to Autobiographies

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Sourced from "Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide" (Nick Rennison, 8th edn, 2009). There is a slight overlap between the categories.
01-10: Adolescence
11-23: Africa
24-33: All the World's a Stage (books about theatre)
34-44: Altered States (Chemical Fiction)
45-58: Ancient Greece and Rome
59-67: The Animal Kingdom
68-78: Art For Art's Sake (Books about art, artists and the art world)
79-91: Australia
92-101: Author, Author! (Novels featuring famous writers)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,William Shakespeare, Herman Melville, William Blake, Catullus, Ambrose Bierce, William Wordsworth, O. Henry, Katherine Mansfield & Henry James in that order
102-109: Autobiographies & Memoirs (Ghosted!)
King David of Israel (104), Duke of Monmouth (107), Sir Walter Raleigh (108), Francia, dictator of Paraguay (109)
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Le Grand Meaulnes (Alain-Fournier)
Le Grand Meaulnes (Alain-Fournier)
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A Quiet Life (Beryl Bainbridge)
A Quiet Life (Beryl Bainbridge)
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The Ripening Seed (Colette)
The Ripening Seed (Colette)
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My Brilliant Career (Miles Franklin)
My Brilliant Career (Miles Franklin)
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Bilgewater (Jane Gardam)
Bilgewater (Jane Gardam)
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Digging to Australia (Lesley Glaister)
Digging to Australia (Lesley Glaister)
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That Was Then, This Is Now (S.E. Hinton)
That Was Then, This Is Now (S.E. Hinton)
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The Way I Found Her (Rose Tremain)
The Way I Found Her (Rose Tremain)
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Frost in May (Antonia White)
Frost in May (Antonia White)
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A Boy's Own Story (Edmund White)
A Boy's Own Story (Edmund White)
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Chinua Achebe)
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The Catastrophist (Ronan Bennett)
The Catastrophist (Ronan Bennett)
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The Sheltering Sky (Paul Bowles)
The Sheltering Sky (Paul Bowles)
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A Good Man in Africa
A Good Man in Africa
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Masai Dreaming (Justin Cartwright)
Masai Dreaming (Justin Cartwright)
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The Last King of Scotland (Giles Foden)
The Last King of Scotland (Giles Foden)
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None to Accompany Me (Nadine Gordimer)
None to Accompany Me (Nadine Gordimer)
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Paradise (Abdulrazak Gurnah)
Paradise (Abdulrazak Gurnah)
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The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
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In a Free State (V. S. Naipaul)
In a Free State (V. S. Naipaul)
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The Famished Road (Ben Okri)
The Famished Road (Ben Okri)
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The Season of Anomie (Wole Soyinka)
The Season of Anomie (Wole Soyinka)
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Scoop (Evelyn Waugh)
Scoop (Evelyn Waugh)
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An Awfully Big Adventure (Beryl Bainbridge)
An Awfully Big Adventure (Beryl Bainbridge)
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A Bullet in the Ballet (Caryl Brahms)
A Bullet in the Ballet (Caryl Brahms)
26
Wise Children (Angela Carter)
Wise Children (Angela Carter)
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Tempest-Tost (Robertson Davies)
Tempest-Tost (Robertson Davies)
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Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas Nickleby
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The Playmaker
The Playmaker
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Opening Night
Opening Night
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The Good Companions (J. B. Priestley)
The Good Companions (J. B. Priestley)
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The Mask of Apollo (Mary Renault)
The Mask of Apollo (Mary Renault)
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Morality Play (Barry Unsworth)
Morality Play (Barry Unsworth)
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Novel With Cocaine (M. Ageyev)
Novel With Cocaine (M. Ageyev)
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The Man With the Golden Arm (Nelson Algren)
The Man With the Golden Arm (Nelson Algren)
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Cocaine Nights
Cocaine Nights
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Junky (William S. Burroughs)
Junky (William S. Burroughs)
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Glamorama (Bret Easton Ellis)
Glamorama (Bret Easton Ellis)
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Dopefiend (Donald Goines)
Dopefiend (Donald Goines)
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The Story of My Life by Jay McInerney
The Story of My Life by Jay McInerney
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