Eton's list - the books every bright 16 year-old should read

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Printed, with an interview with the headmaster, in the Times Magazine - June 2015
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Gulliver's Travels: Lilliput and Brobdingnag
por Jonathan Swift
1,456 membros
13 críticas
½ 3.6
Global Rank 6
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David Copperfield
por Charles Dickens
20,658 membros
274 críticas
4.1
Global Rank 3
3 Members
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Heart of Darkness
por Joseph Conrad
23,555 membros
387 críticas
½ 3.6
Global Rank 1
4 Members
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The Age of Innocence
por Edith Wharton
13,904 membros
300 críticas
4
Global Rank 26
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Atonement
por Ian McEwan
26,457 membros
626 críticas
3.9
Global Rank 8
2 Members
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Never Let Me Go
por Kazuo Ishiguro
22,792 membros
938 críticas
3.8
Global Rank 2
4 Members
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
por Tom Wolfe
8,934 membros
132 críticas
3.8
Global Rank 28
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
por Muriel Barbery
11,847 membros
654 críticas
3.8
Global Rank 27
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The Shadow of the Wind
por Carlos Ruiz Zafón
27,855 membros
1,038 críticas
4.1
Global Rank 7
2 Members
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Why We Took the Car
por Wolfgang Herrndorf
937 membros
31 críticas
3.9
Global Rank 16
2 Members
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The Path to the Spiders' Nests
por Italo Calvino
1,682 membros
24 críticas
½ 3.6
Global Rank 15
2 Members
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O Crime do Padre Amaro
por José Maria Eça de Queirós
763 membros
21 críticas
4
Global Rank 18
2 Members
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
por Haruki Murakami
9,636 membros
196 críticas
4.1
Global Rank 10
2 Members
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Wolf Totem
por Jiang Rong
779 membros
27 críticas
3.8
Global Rank 17
2 Members
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Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World
por Samuel Shimon
93 membros
23 críticas
3.2
Global Rank 38
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Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
por Ben Goldacre
3,208 membros
104 críticas
4.2
Global Rank 13
2 Members
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
por Matt Ridley
3,649 membros
48 críticas
4.1
Global Rank 29
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
por Richard Feynman
3,857 membros
38 críticas
4.1
Global Rank 12
2 Members
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Sophie's World
por Jostein Gaarder
18,702 membros
284 críticas
3.8
Global Rank 9
2 Members
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Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics
por Peter Singer
224 membros
3.8
Global Rank 34
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The Case for Religion
por Keith Ward
41 membros
3
Global Rank 40
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The Sea of Faith
por Don Cupitt
134 membros
2 críticas
3.8
Global Rank 37
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
por Ross King
2,577 membros
31 críticas
3.9
Global Rank 14
2 Members
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The Story of Art
por E. H. Gombrich
4,722 membros
36 críticas
½ 4.3
Global Rank 11
2 Members
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Blimey!: From Bohemia to Britpop : The London Artworld from Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst
por Matthew Collings
68 membros
3.2
Global Rank 39
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The Horse's Mouth
por Joyce Cary
1,210 membros
19 críticas
3.9
Global Rank 31
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The First Crusade: The Call From The East
por Peter Frankopan
182 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.7
Global Rank 36
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The Realities Behind Diplomacy: Background Influences on British External Policy 1865-1980
por Paul Kennedy
47 membros
3.8
Global Rank 24
2 Members
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Almost Everyone's Guide to Economics
por John Kenneth Galbraith
193 membros
1 crítica
3.1
Global Rank 21
2 Members
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The Affluent Society
por John Kenneth Galbraith
1,720 membros
13 críticas
3.8
Global Rank 30
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In Defence of Politics
por Bernard Crick
217 membros
4
Global Rank 35
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The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape
por Harm J. De Blij
136 membros
5 críticas
3.9
Global Rank 23
2 Members
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On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way it Does
por Simon Garfield
1,478 membros
63 críticas
½ 3.6
Global Rank 5
3 Members
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The Iliad
por Homer
39,894 membros
386 críticas
4
Global Rank 25
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Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
por Mary Beard
664 membros
20 críticas
½ 3.7
Global Rank 19
2 Members
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To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite
por Eli Maor
357 membros
3 críticas
3.8
Global Rank 20
2 Members
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Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing
por David Harel
232 membros
2 críticas
3.9
Global Rank 33
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Music: A Very Short Introduction
por Nicholas Cook
406 membros
7 críticas
½ 3.7
Global Rank 32
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The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects
por Deyan Sudjic
180 membros
6 críticas
½ 3.6
Global Rank 22
2 Members
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The Master and Margarita
por Mikhail Bulgakov
20,415 membros
465 críticas
4.2
Global Rank 4
3 Members
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