Desert Island Discs

BBC Radio 4

Top mentioned books

Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Desert Island Discs podcast:
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#1 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Speak, Memory

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Vladimir Nabokov
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#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The Portrait Of A Lady

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Henry James
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#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes

In Search of Lost Time

Swann's Way
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Stephane Heuet
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Marcel Proust
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#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The Man Without Qualities

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Robert Musil
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#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The Saracen blade

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Frank Yerby
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#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas

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Dylan Thomas
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#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The Chimp Paradox

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Steven Peters
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#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Oliver Twist

The 1838 Theatrical Adaptation
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George Almar
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#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Me Talk Pretty One Day

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David Sedaris
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#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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Omar Khayyam
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#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Germinal

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Émile Zola
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#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Angela's Ashes

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Frank McCourt
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#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Life of Pi

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Yann Martel
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#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The Bible

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Various Authors
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#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The Complete Works of Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare
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#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The complete poems of W.H. Auden

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W.H. Auden
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#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Wisden cricketers' almanack

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John Woodcock
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#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The complete works of Jeeves and Worcester

The complete set of Jeeves & Wooster novels
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P. G. Wodehouse
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#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Flora Britannica

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Richard Mabey
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#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Rebecca

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Daphne du Maurier

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