some good ones there Shell, and others I'll take as recommendations beginning with the Unsworth. When I think that Grapes of Wrath wasn't in mine, it makes me realise how difficult and in many ways how pointless an exercise this is. Owen Meany is really well read on TB by Garick Hagan. I find Irving either totally spell-binding or virtually unreadable. I also loved Ciderhouse Rules which again is brilliantly read on TB by Peter Marinka. thanks for those. On 28 Jun 2013, at 11:33, Shell wrote: > Well, I've narrowed it down to 6 books, I just couldn't bare to knock one of > these off. I had to discard Charlie and the chocolate factory and Wind in > the Willows, which was quite traumatic, but here are the final 6. > > Millroy The Magician by Paul Theroux. > A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving. > The grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. > The Ragged Trousered Philanthopist by Robert Tressell. > Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth. > A Man In Full by Tom Wolfe. > Shell.