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23. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
24. Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor by Matthew Stover
Note on 24: I know that so many other SW fans loved this book and I just didn't get why. Everyone seemed out of character and everything was way over the top. I would count it as one of the worst SW books I have ever read and frankly, it was only slightly better than the Paul & Hollace Davids young reader books (in fact, it even references them).

26. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
27. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris

29. Inferno by Troy Denning
30. Fury by Aaron Allston
31. Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris

33. Outcast by Aaron Allston
34. All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
35. Omen by Christie Golden

48. Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
49. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
50. The Dead Of Night by John Marsden
51. A Killing Frost by John Marsden
52. Darkness, Be My Friend by John Marsden

54. Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones
55. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
56. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
57. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
58. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

This book was okay, but a major, major pet peeve was the atrocious editing. If you are going to write a book in a major, established universe at least make sure you can spell the characters names! It's Durron, not Durran. Also, the continual confusion between the Chevs (slaves) and Chevins (slave owners) was exceptionally irritating, especially when it was mixed up in the same paragraph. These two problems could have easily been solved had both the author and editors not been so lazy.
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2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
3. Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos
4. Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
5. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
6. Demon Lord of Karanda by David Eddings
7. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
8. Sorceress of Darshiva by David Eddings
9. Atonement by Ian McEwan
10. The Seeress of Kell by David Eddings
11. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
12. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
14. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman