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FICTION FAVOURITES

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)

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FICTION FAVOURITES

WELL-LOVED BIOGRAPHIES IN OUR COLLECTION include:

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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)

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 Popular ENGLISH FICTION Books made into MOVIES, and which are IN OUR COLLECTION:

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]