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With the Mumsnet Book Club already thriving, we thought it about time we started reviewing grown up books and for this category we want to know what you think is the best book ever written (plenty of scope there then). At some point when we've reached a critical mass we'll be handing out a dazzling literary award to the winning book (watch out Mr Booker) so please add as many reviews as you like and feel free to comment on other folks' choices. As ever, if you have any suggestions for new categories you'd like to see, please send them over to contactus@mumsnet.com.



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Mumsnet Best 2011
Mumsnet Best tag Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 9.5 29
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Mumsnet Best tag A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 9.8 11
Mumsnet Best tag Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 9.5 29
Mumsnet Best tag The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 9.5 25
Mumsnet Best tag To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 9.5 16
Mumsnet Best tag A Child Called It - David Pelzer 8.8 11
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Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson 10.0 4
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier 10.0 4
Mutant Message Down Under - Marlo Morgan 10.0 3
The Road - Cormac McCarthy 10.0 3
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 10.0 2
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith 10.0 2
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller 10.0 2
Ghostwritten - David Mitchell 10.0 2
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou 10.0 2
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse 10.0 2
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut 10.0 2
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom 10.0 2
The Help - Kathryn Stockett 10.0 2
The House of the Spirits - Isabelle Allende 10.0 2
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde 10.0 2
The Pursuit of Happiness - Douglas Kennedy 10.0 2
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides 10.0 2
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 10.0 2
A Passage To India - E M Forster 10.0 1
All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye - Christopher Brookmyre 10.0 1
Angles in my hair - Lornia Byrne 10.0 1
Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson 10.0 1
Bet Me - Jennifer Crusie 10.0 1
Bridges Of Madison County - Robert James Waller 10.0 1
Chinese Cinderella - Adeline Yen Mah 10.0 1
Dog Dirt Doris - H O Ward 10.0 1
Entwined - Lynda La Plante 10.0 1
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway 10.0 1
Friday's Child - Ben Palmer 10.0 1
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot 10.0 1
Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian 10.0 1
Grey Area and Other Stories - Will Self 10.0 1
Gypsy Boy - Mikey Walsh 10.0 1
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 10.0 1
Hubble Bubble - Christina Jones 10.0 1
I Told You Butter Wouldn't Suit the Works - Frances Culshaw 10.0 1
If this is Man - Primo Levi 10.0 1
Jamaica Inn - Daphne Du Maurier 10.0 1
London - The Novel - Edward Rutherford 10.0 1
Love Life - Ray Kluun 10.0 1
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 10.0 1
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson 10.0 1
Missing - Susan Lewis 10.0 1
Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively 10.0 1
No 1 Sunny Lane 10.0 1
No Time for Goodbye - Linwood Barclay 10.0 1
Northern Lights - Philip Pullman 10.0 1
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami 10.0 1
Not Dead Enough - Peter James 10.0 1
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey 10.0 1
Orlando - Virginia Woolf 10.0 1
Papillon - Henri Charriere 10.0 1
Playing with the Moon - Eliza Graham 10.0 1
Skallagrigg - William Horwood 10.0 1
Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic Gibbon 10.0 1
The Beach - Alex Garland 10.0 1
The Blind Assassin - Margeret Atwood 10.0 1
The Citadel - A J Cronin 10.0 1
The Crimson Petal and the White - Michael Faber 10.0 1
The Deptford Triology - Robertson Davies 10.0 1
The Doctor's Lady - Jody Hedlund 10.0 1
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 10.0 1
The Grass Is Singing - Doris Lessing 10.0 1
The Group - Mary McCarthy 10.0 1
The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene 10.0 1
The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan 10.0 1
The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton 10.0 1
The Memory Box - Margaret Forster 10.0 1
The Other Boleyn Girl-Phillipa Gregory 10.0 1
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver 10.0 1
The Sixth Lamentation - William Broderick 10.0 1
The Sleepyhead's Bedside Companion - Sean Coughlan 10.0 1
The Toucan Feather - Nicholas Stafford-Deitsch 10.0 1
The Way Home - George Pelecanos 10.0 1
The Wedding Day - Catherine Allilot 10.0 1
This Thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson 10.0 1
Trust Me - Lesley Pearce 10.0 1
Vanity Fair - William Thackeray 10.0 1
When Everything Changes, Change Everything - Neale Donald Walsch 10.0 1
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China - Jung Chang 10.0 1
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 9.9 4
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak 9.7 9
More Than Just a Coincidence - Julie Wassmer 9.7 3
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown 9.7 2
Pies and Prejudice - Stuart Maconie 9.7 2
1984 - George Orwell 9.6 5
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman 9.6 3
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 9.5 9
Confessions of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella 9.5 3
Sky Burial - Xinran 9.5 2
Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin 9.5 2
The Shipping News - Annie E Proulx 9.5 2
The Stand - Stephen King 9.5 2
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome 9.5 2
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 9.5 9
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts 9.4 4
Malory Towers - Enid Blyton 9.4 3
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9.4 3
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy 9.4 2
One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9.3 4
Small Island - Andrea Levy 9.3 4
The Magus - John Fowles 9.3 4
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 9.3 3
The Lord of the Rings - J R R Tolkein 9.3 3
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 9.3 2
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 9.3 2
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 9.3 8
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 9.2 2
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini 9.1 7
A Piece of Cake - Cupcake Brown 9.0 3
Forever Amber - Kathleen Winsor 9.0 3
Possession - A S Byatt 9.0 2
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera 9.0 2
A Time of Gifts - Patrick Leigh Fermor 9.0 1
Daniel Isn't Talking - Marti Leimbach 9.0 1
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 9.0 1
Filth - Irvine Welsh 9.0 1
Staying On - Paul Scott 9.0 1
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss 9.0 1
The Meq - Steve Cash 9.0 1
The Passion - Jeanette Winterson 9.0 1
The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney 9.0 1
Waterlog - Roger Deakin 9.0 1
Twilight - Stephenie Meyer 8.9 8
Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll 8.8 5
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett 8.7 5
The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck 8.7 2
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho 8.6 6
Perfume - Patrick Suskind 8.6 8
The Island - Victoria Hislop 8.5 7
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J K Rowling 8.5 3
Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult 8.5 2
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 8.4 4
Brother Of The More Famous Jack - Barbara Trapido 8.3 6
The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank 8.3 3
My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult 8.0 9
On The Beach - Nevil Shute 8.0 2
Espresso With The Headhunters - John Wassner 8.0 1
Faithless Wife - Jo Eames 8.0 1
Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks 8.0 1
P.S I Love You - Cecelia Ahern 7.8 16
London Fields - Martin Amis 7.8 4
Call The Midwife - Jennifer Worth 7.8 2
Frenchman's Creek - Daphne Du Maurier 7.7 3
Flowers in the Attic - Virginia Andrews 7.4 3
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 7.3 4
IT - Stephen King 6.5 2
His Dark Materials Trilogy - Philip Pullman 6.2 10
The Bible 6.1 5
The Little Friend - Donna Tartt 5.2 6
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernières 4.7 5

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