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...Baby One More Time ( Britney Spears
album
and song )
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 Saucerful of Secrets ( Pink Floyd
album
)
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
log
jam
A room without
books
is like a body without a soul ( Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation )
Abbey Road ( The Beatles
album
)
Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall ( Spike Milligan book )
Aga saga
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Aide
memoire
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
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 Must Pass ( George Harrison
album
)
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Always have your nose in a book
American Home has an edifice complex ( American Home
Magazine
advertising slogan )
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 )
Appetite For Destruction ( Guns N' Roses
album
)
Around The World In Eighty Days ( Jules Verne book )
Art Of War ( Sun Tzu book )
Artemis Fowl ( Eoin Colfer book )
As I Lay Dying ( William Faulkner book )
As easy as falling off a
log
As many chins as a Chinese phone book
Atom Heart Mother ( Pink Floyd
album
)
Back In Black ( AC/DC
album
)
Balancing the
books
Bell, book and candle
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Bible
basher
Billy Liar (
Novel
and play by Keith Waterhouse and Tom Courtenay / Julie Christie movie )
Biting the hand that feeds IT ( The
Register
advertising slogan )
Black Beauty ( Anna Sewell book )
Bleak House ( Charles Dickens book )
Blizzard Of Ozz ( Ozzie Osbourne
album
)
Blot your copybook
Book him
Book him Danno ( A catchphrase from Hawaii Five-O )
Book learning
Book worm
Booked up
Born In The U.S.A.( Bruce Springsteen
album
and song )
Brave New World ( Aldous Huxley book )
Breakfast At Tiffany's ( Truman Capote book )
Breakfast In America ( Supertramp
album
)
Breakfast Of Champions ( Kurt Vonnegut book )
Brideshead Revisited ( Evelyn Waugh book )
Bridge Over Troubled Water ( Simon and Garfunkel
album
and song )
Bridget Jones's
Diary
( Helen Fielding book and Renee Zellweger / Colin Firth movie )
Bright Lights, Big City ( Jay Mcinerney book )
Bring to book
Brothers In Arms ( Dire Straits
album
)
Brought to book
Build A Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies ( Dilbert )
By the book
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Can't Slow Down ( Lionel Richie
album
)
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 )
Captain's log... ( A catchphrase from Star Trek )
Catch 22 ( Joseph Heller book )
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Chapter
and verse
Chapter
of accidents
Character driven
fiction
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory ( Roald Dahl book )
Chequebook journalism
Chick lit
Citizen's
arrest
Close the
books
Closed book
Cloud Atlas ( David Mitchell book )
Cold Comfort Farm ( Stella Gibbons book )
Come Away with Me ( Norah Jones
album
)
Come On Over ( Shania Twain
album
)
Consult your
diary
Cook the
books
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Couldn't put it down
Cover to cover
Crack a book
CrazySexyCool ( TLC
album
)
Crime And Punishment ( Fyodor Dostoyevsky book )
Crooked House ( Agatha Christie book )
Data
dictionary
David Copperfield ( Charles Dickens book )
Dead Man Walking ( Helen Prejean book )
Death On The Nile ( Agatha Christie book )
Death On The Orient Express ( Agatha Christie book )
Dick and Jane is dead (
Encyclopaedia
Britannica advertising slogan )
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? ( Philip K. Dick book )
Don't just book it, Thomas Cook it ( Thomas Cook advertising slogan )
Double entry book-keeping
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
Fact not
fiction
Falling Into You ( Celine Dion
album
)
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 )
First Among Equals ( Jeffrey Archer book )
For the overwhelming minority ( Vogue
Magazine
advertising slogan )
Girls In Love
Go by the book
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Good read
Goodnight Mister Tom book by Michelle Magorian
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 )
Have you read any good
books
lately?
His Dark Materials ( Philip Pullman book )
His life's an open book
Hit the
books
Hold the front
page
Hotel California ( Eagles
album
)
How To Win Friends And Influence People ( Dale Carnegie book )
Hunky dory ( 1971
album
by David Bowie )
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Hybrid Theory ( Linkin Park
album
)
I Capture The Castle ( Dodie Smith book )
I
arrest
you in the name of the law
I can read you like a book
I have it on good
authority
If it wasn't in VOGUE It wasn't in vogue ( Vogue
Magazine
advertising slogan )
In someone's bad
books
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It's complicated (
Facebook
relationship status )
Jagged Little Pill ( Alanis Morissette
album
)
Jane Eyre ( Charlotte Bronte book )
Kane And Abel ( Jeffrey Archer book )
Kind Of Blue ( Miles Davis tune and
album
)
Leading
authority
Leaps off the
page
Les Liaisons Dangereuses ( Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos De Laclos book )
Let's Talk About Love ( Celine Dion
album
)
Like A Virgin ( Madonna
album
)
Like bumps on a
log
Literary circle
Little Women ( Louisa May Alcott book )
Little black book
Log
off
Log
on
Log
out
Lord Of The Flies ( William Golding book )
Lord Of The Rings ( J R R Tolkien book )
Love In The Time Of Cholera
Maasai Mara National
Reserve
( tourist attraction in Kenya )
Magnum
opus
Mansfield Park ( Jane Austen
novel
)
Memoirs Of A Geisha ( Arthur Golden book )
Misery
memoire
Mr. Midshipman Easy ( Frederick Marryat book )
Music Box ( Mariah Carey
album
)
Never judge a book by its cover
Night Watch ( Terry Pratchett book )
Nineteen Eighty-Four ( George Orwell book )
No Jacket Required ( Phil Collins
album
)
Northanger Abbey ( Jane Austen
novel
)
Notes From The Underground ( Fyodor Dostoevsky book )
Noughts And Crosses ( book series by Malorie Blackman )
Of Mice And Men ( John Steinbeck book )
Off The Wall ( Michael Jackson
album
)
On The Origin Of Species ( Charles Darwin book )
On The Road ( Jack Kerouac book )
On the
books
On the same
page
One Hundred Years Of Solitude ( Gabriel Garcia Marquez book )
One for the book
Only connect
Open book
Opus
Dei
Out of print
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read ( Groucho Marx line )
Page
3 girl
Page
turner
Paperback
Writer ( Beatles song )
Play it by the book
Pride and Prejudice ( Jane Austen
novel
)
Private Dancer ( Tina Turner
album
)
Pulp
Fiction
( Quentin Tarantino movie )
Pump up the
volume
Purple Rain ( Prince song and
album
)
Ray Of Light ( Madonna
album
)
Reap the rewards of Money ( Money
Magazine
advertising slogan )
Resisting
arrest
Round Ireland With A Fridge ( Tony Hawks book )
Rubber Soul ( Beatles
album
)
Saturday Night Fever ( Bee Gees
album
)
Sense and Sensibility ( Jane Austen
novel
)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ( Beatles
album
and song )
She's So Unusual ( Cyndi Lauper
album
)
Sleep like a
log
Slim
volume
Slippery When Wet ( Bon Jovi
album
)
Smell the Glove ( fictional
album
by the spoof heavy-metal band Spinal Tap )
So many books, so little time ( Frank Zappa quotation )
Splashed across the front
page
Stranger than
fiction
Swallow the
dictionary
Swallows And Amazons ( children's adventure story by Arthur Ransome )
Talking Book ( Stevie Wonder
album
)
Tender Is The Night ( F Scott Fitzgerald
novel
)
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles ( Thomas Hardy book )
Textbook
example
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
Bible
Belt
The Bronze Goddess of Fire ( Nickname of LaWanda
Page
)
The Buddha Of Suburbia ( Hanif Kureishi book )
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Catcher in the Rye ( J D Salinger book )
The Colour Of My Love ( Celine Dion
album
)
The Count of Monte Cristo ( Alexandre Dumas book )
The Dark Side of the Moon ( Pink Floyd
album
)
The Day Of The Jackal ( Frederick Forsyth book )
The Devil Wears Prada ( Lauren Weisberger book )
The Devil's
Dictionary
( Ambrose Bierce book )
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 Godfather ( Mario Puzo book )
The Good Book
The Grapes Of Wrath ( John Steinbeck
novel
and Henry Fonda movie )
The Great Gatsby ( F Scott Fitzgerald book )
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 Immaculate Collection ( Madonna
album
)
The Importance Of Being Earnest ( Oscar Wilde book )
The Joshua Tree ( U2
album
)
The Joy of Sex ( Title of 1970s sex
manual
)
The Jungle Book ( Disney cartoon movie )
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Lord of the Rings ( J R R Tolkien story and Peter Jackson 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 Piper at the Gates of Dawn ( Pink Floyd
album
)
The Princess Diaries ( Meg Cabot book )
The Purloined Letter ( Edgar Allan Poe book )
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
The Rape Of The Lock ( Alexander Pope book )
The Remains Of The Day ( Kazuo Ishiguro
novel
and Anthony Hopkins movie )
The Riddle Of The Sands ( Erskine Childers book )
The Secret Garden ( Frances Hodgson Burnett book )
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (
Autobiography
of T E Lawrence ( of Arabia ) )
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold ( John Le Carre
novel
)
The Story Of Tracy Beaker ( children's story by Jacqueline Wilson )
The Tenderness Of Wolves ( Stef Penney book )
The Thorn Birds ( Colleen McCollough book )
The Three Musketeers ( Alexandre Dumas book )
The
Thriller
In Manila ( Ali versus Frazier boxing match )
The Wind in the Willows ( children's book by Kenneth Grahame )
The Woman In Me ( Shania Twain
album
)
The Woman In White ( Wilkie Collins book )
The daily
diary
of the American dream ( Wall Street Journal advertising slogan )
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid ( Jane Austen quotation )
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ( quotation from the
Bible
- Ecclesiastes
This is your life
Through The Looking Glass, And What Alice Found There ( Lewis Carroll book )
Throw Another
Log
On The Fire ( Outlaws song )
Throw the book at someone
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ( John Le Carre book )
To Kill A Mockingbird ( Gregory Peck movie )
Top shelf
magazine
Treasure Island ( Robert Louis Stevenson book )
True Blue ( Madonna
album
)
Truth is stranger than
fiction
Turn up for the
books
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Vanity Fair ( William Makepeace Thackeray book )
Vanity publishing
Vicky Angel ( children's book by Jacqueline Wilson )
Walking
encyclopaedia
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's The Story Morning Glory? ( Oasis
album
)
Where the wild things are
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? ( Elizabeth Taylor movie )
Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? ( play by Edward Albee )
Wikipedia, the Free
Encyclopaedia
( Wikipedia advertising slogan )
Winnie the Pooh ( children's book by A A Milne )
World
authority
Wuthering Heights ( Emily Bronte book )
Wuthering Heights ( Merle Oberon / Laurence Olivier movie )
You can't tell a book by looking at its cover