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1066 And All That: A Memorable History Of England ( W. C. Sellar
book
)
A Bouquet Of Barbed Wire ( Andrea Newman
book
)
A Brief History Of Time ( Stephen Hawking
book
)
A Christmas Carol ( Charles Dickens
book
)
A Clockwork Orange ( Anthony Burgess
book
and Stanley Kubrick movie )
A Fatal Inversion ( Barbara Vine
book
)
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Future: Twists And Turns, And Lessons Learned ( Michael J. Fox
book
)
A Journey To The Center Of The Earth ( Jules Verne
book
)
A Kestrel For A Knave ( Barry Hines
book
)
A Murder Is Announced ( Agatha Christie
book
)
A Passage To India ( E. M. Forster
book
and David Lean movie )
A Perfect Spy ( John Le Carre
book
)
A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man ( James Joyce
book
)
A Prayer For Owen Meany ( John Irving
book
)
A Room With A View ( E M Forster
book
)
A Short History Of Nearly Everything ( Bill Bryson
book
)
A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian ( Marina Lewycka
book
)
A Streetcar Named Desire ( Tennessee Williams play )
A Suitable Boy ( Vikram Seth
book
)
A Tale Of Two Cities ( Charles Dickens
book
)
A Thousand Splendid Suns ( Khaled Hosseine
book
)
A Town Like Alice ( Nevil Shute
book
)
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
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A man after my own heart
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Adam's ale
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Adam's apple
Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall ( Spike Milligan
book
)
All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye ( Christopher Brookmyer
book
)
All Quiet On The Western Front ( Erich Maria Remarque
book
and WWII movie )
All things to all men
Alpha and omega ( the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, used as a name for God or
Jesus
)
Always have your nose in a
book
Am I my brother's keeper?
Amazing grace
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
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And God said Let there be light And the was light
And The Band Played On ( Randy Shilts
book
)
And Then There Were None ( Agatha Christie
book
)
Angela's Ashes ( Frank McCourt
book
)
Animal Farm ( George Orwell
book
)
Anna Karenina ( Leo Tolstoy
book
)
Anne Of Green Gables ( Lucy Maud Montgomery
book
)
Around The World In Eighty Days ( Jules Verne
book
)
Art Of War ( Sun Tzu
book
)
As I Lay Dying ( William Faulkner
book
)
As many chins as a Chinese phone
book
As old as Methuselah
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As old as the hills
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As patient as Job
As you sow so shall you reap
Ashes to ashes dust to dust
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Ask and you shall receive
Asleep with
Jesus
Beat swords into ploughshares
(
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Bell,
book
and candle
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)
Bible basher
Big Donkey ( Nickname of baseball players Billy Butler and
Adam
Dunn )
Black Beauty ( Anna Sewell
book
)
Black
Jesus
( Nickname of basketball player Amare Stoudemire )
Bleak House ( Charles Dickens
book
)
Blessed are the cheese makers ( line from Monty Python's Life of Brian )
Blessed are the peacemakers
Book
him
Book
him Danno ( A catchphrase from Hawaii Five-O )
Book
learning
Book
worm
Born again
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Brave New World ( Aldous Huxley
book
)
Bread of life
Breakfast At Tiffany's ( Truman Capote
book
)
Breakfast Of Champions ( Kurt Vonnegut
book
)
Brideshead Revisited ( Evelyn Waugh
book
)
Bright Lights, Big City ( Jay Mcinerney
book
)
Bring to
book
Brought to
book
Build A Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies ( Dilbert )
By the
book
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By the skin of your teeth
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin ( Louis de Bernieres
book
)
Captain Underpants And The Invasion Of The Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space ( Dav Pilkey
book
)
Captain Underpants And The Perilous Plot Of Professor Poopypants ( Dav Pilkey
book
)
Captain Underpants And The Wrath Of The Wicked Wedgie Woman ( Dav Pilkey
book
)
Cast the first stone
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Catch 22 ( Joseph Heller
book
)
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Change your spots
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory ( Roald Dahl
book
)
Closed
book
Cloud Atlas ( David Mitchell
book
)
Coat of many colours
Cold Comfort Farm ( Stella Gibbons
book
)
Come to
Jesus
Crack a
book
Creeping
Jesus
Crime And Punishment ( Fyodor Dostoyevsky
book
)
Crooked House ( Agatha Christie
book
)
David Copperfield ( Charles Dickens
book
)
Day of Judgment
Day of reckoning
Dead Man Walking ( Helen Prejean
book
)
Death On The Nile ( Agatha Christie
book
)
Death On The Orient Express ( Agatha Christie
book
)
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? ( Philip K. Dick
book
)
Don't just
book
it, Thomas Cook it ( Thomas Cook advertising slogan )
Doubting Thomas ( Nickname of Saint Thomas )
Drop in the bucket
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Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die
Eats, Shoots And Leaves ( Lynne Truss
book
)
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues ( Tom Robbins
book
)
Every trick in the
book
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask ( David Reuben
book
)
Evil Under The Sun ( Agatha Christie
book
)
Exert one's
authority
Faith will move mountains
Fall from grace
Far From The Madding Crowd ( Thomas Hardy
book
)
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas ( Hunter S. Thompson
book
)
Fifty Shades of Grey ( E L James
book
)
Fight the good fight
First Among Equals ( Jeffrey Archer
book
)
For Christ's sake
For everything there is a season
Forbidden fruit
Forgive them for they know not what they do
From strength to strength
Fruits of your loins
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild
Get
religion
Get thee behind me Satan
Give up the ghost
Go by the
book
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Good Samaritan
Goodnight Mister Tom
book
by Michelle Magorian
Gospel
truth
Great Expectations ( Charles Dickens
book
)
Guards! Guards! ( Terry Pratchett
book
)
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets ( J. K. Rowling
book
)
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban ( J. K. Rowling
book
)
Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone ( J. K. Rowling
book
)
His Dark Materials ( Philip Pullman
book
)
His life's an open
book
How To Win Friends And Influence People ( Dale Carnegie
book
)
How are the mighty fallen
How long, O Lord, how long?
I Capture The Castle ( Dodie Smith
book
)
I can read you like a
book
I don't know him from
Adam
I have it on good
authority
Imagine no religion, it's easy if you try
In the beginning was the word
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
It's better to give than to receive
Jane Eyre ( Charlotte Bronte
book
)
Jesus
H
Christ
Jesus
Shuttlesworth ( Nickname of Ray Allen )
Jesus
saves
Jesus
saves green shield stamps
Jesus
wept
Kane And Abel ( Jeffrey Archer
book
)
Lamb to the slaughter
Last will and
testament
Leading
authority
Les Liaisons Dangereuses ( Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos De Laclos
book
)
Let not the sun go down on your wrath
Let there be light
Little Women ( Louisa May Alcott
book
)
Little black
book
Living off the fat of the land
Lord Of The Flies ( William Golding
book
)
Lord Of The Rings ( J R R Tolkien
book
)
Love thy neighbour as thyself
Man does not live by bread alone
Many are called but few are chosen
Memoirs Of A Geisha ( Arthur Golden
book
)
Mr. Midshipman Easy ( Frederick Marryat
book
)
Multitude of sins
My cup runneth over
Never judge a
book
by its cover
New wine in old bottles
Nigerian Nightmare ( Nickname of
Christian
Okoye )
Night Watch ( Terry Pratchett
book
)
Nineteen Eighty-Four ( George Orwell
book
)
No rest for the wicked
Notes From The Underground ( Fyodor Dostoevsky
book
)
Noughts And Crosses (
book
series by Malorie Blackman )
O ye, of little faith
Of Mice And Men ( John Steinbeck
book
)
On The Origin Of Species ( Charles Darwin
book
)
On The Road ( Jack Kerouac
book
)
On oath
One Hundred Years Of Solitude ( Gabriel Garcia Marquez
book
)
One for the
book
Onward
Christian
soldiers
Open
book
Organised
religion
Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
Outside of a dog, a
book
is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read ( Groucho Marx line )
Peace be with you
Physician heal thyself
Play it by the
book
Purple
Jesus
( Nickname of Adrian Peterson )
Raise Cain
Religion
is the opiate of the masses ( Karl Marx quotation )
Root of the matter
Round Ireland With A Fridge ( Tony Hawks
book
)
Salt of the earth
Sour grapes
Spare the rod and spoil the child
Suffer the little children
Sunday
Christian
Swallows And Amazons ( children's adventure story by Arthur Ransome )
Swear on a stack of
bibles
Talking
Book
( Stevie Wonder album )
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles ( Thomas Hardy
book
)
Thank you
Jesus
The Age Of Reason ( Jean Paul Sartre
book
)
The Art Of The Deal ( Donald Trump slogan and
book
title )
The BFG - Big Friendly Giant ( Roald Dahl
book
)
The Basketball
Jesus
( Nickname of Larry Bird )
The Bible Belt
The Buddha Of Suburbia ( Hanif Kureishi
book
)
The Catcher in the Rye ( J D Salinger
book
)
The Count of Monte Cristo ( Alexandre Dumas
book
)
The Day Of The Jackal ( Frederick Forsyth
book
)
The Devil Wears Prada ( Lauren Weisberger
book
)
The Devil's Dictionary ( Ambrose Bierce
book
)
The Donkey ( Nickname of
Adam
Dunn )
The Famous Five ( characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's
book
)
The French Have A Word For It ( Josh Lanyon
book
)
The Garden Of Eden ( Ernest Hemingway
book
)
The Ghost In The Machine ( Arthur Koestler
book
)
The Go-Between ( L. P. Hartley
book
)
The God Of Small Things ( Arundhati Roy
book
)
The God Squad ( enthusiastic
Christian
believers )
The Godfather ( Mario Puzo
book
)
The Good
Book
The Good Shepherd
The Great Gatsby ( F Scott Fitzgerald
book
)
The Greatest Story Ever Told ( Charlton Heston movie )
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( Douglas Adams
book
)
The Hobbit ( J R R Tokien
book
)
The Hound Of The Baskervilles ( Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
book
)
The Hunger Games ( Suzanne Collins
book
)
The Hypochondriac's Guide To Life And Death ( Gene Weingarten
book
)
The Importance Of Being Earnest ( Oscar Wilde
book
)
The Jungle
Book
( Disney cartoon movie )
The Last Judgment
The Magic
Christian
( Peter Sellers / Ringo Starr movie )
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales ( Oliver Sacks
book
)
The Mirror Cracked From Side To Side ( Agatha Christie
book
title )
The Name Of The Rose ( Umberto Eco
book
)
The Odyssey ( Homer
book
)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray ( Oscar Wilde
book
)
The Pilgrim's Progress ( John Bunyan
book
)
The Princess Diaries ( Meg Cabot
book
)
The Purloined Letter ( Edgar Allan Poe
book
)
The Rape Of The Lock ( Alexander Pope
book
)
The Riddle Of The Sands ( Erskine Childers
book
)
The Secret Garden ( Frances Hodgson Burnett
book
)
The Stache ( Nickname of
Adam
Morrison )
The Statue of
Christ
the Redeemer ( tourist attraction in Rio de Janeiro Brazil )
The Story Of Tracy Beaker ( children's story by Jacqueline Wilson )
The Ten Commandments ( Charlton Heston movie )
The Tenderness Of Wolves ( Stef Penney
book
)
The Thorn Birds ( Colleen McCollough
book
)
The Three Musketeers ( Alexandre Dumas
book
)
The Whore of Babylon ( a
Christian
figure of evil and corruption )
The Wind in the Willows ( children's
book
by Kenneth Grahame )
The Woman In White ( Wilkie Collins
book
)
The animals went in two by two
The apple of his eye
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The blind leading the blind
The favoured of the Lord
The love of money is the root of all evil
The patience of Job
The powers that be
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ( quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
The scales have fallen from my eyes
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
The truth shall set you free
The wages of sin is death
The writing is on the wall
Thorn in my side
Thorn in the flesh
Thou shalt not kill
Through The Looking Glass, And What Alice Found There ( Lewis Carroll
book
)
Throw the
book
at someone
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ( John Le Carre
book
)
To cast the first stone
Treasure Island ( Robert Louis Stevenson
book
)
Vanity Fair ( William Makepeace Thackeray
book
)
Vicky Angel ( children's
book
by Jacqueline Wilson )
War and Peace ( Leo Tolstoy
book
)
Watership Down ( Richard Adams
book
)
We Need To Talk About Kevin ( Lionel Shriver
book
)
We answer to a higher
authority
( Hebrew National hot dogs advertising slogan )
What God has joined together let no man put asunder
What would
Jesus
do?
Winnie the Pooh ( children's
book
by A A Milne )
Woe is me
World
authority
Would you
Adam
and Eve it? ( Cockney rhyming slang for would you believe it? )
Wuthering Heights ( Emily Bronte
book
)
You can't tell a
book
by looking at its cover
You cannot serve God and
Mammon