Giveaway Winner....and book list

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I really want to say thank you to everyone who entered my giveaway and for listing your favourite books and recommendations. I have a pretty hefty list of books now, which I will post. But first the winner!

This is Belen! :)

I really do want to say thank you to everyone. It has been fun.

Here is the list of books that were recommended. Some were listed a few times so I will just mention them once. It's listed in order of comments. I've also tried to look for authors so hopefully I have the right ones. Let me know if it's the wrong author (if it's a book you recommended).

* Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

* Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho

* The Bell Jar - Sylvia Path

* Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

* Polly - Freya North

* Kartography - Kamila Shamsie

* Beer in the Snooker Club - Waguih Ghali

* A map of Love - Ahdaf Souief

* On the Road - Jack Kerouac

* The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

* The Perks of being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

* Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

* Little Children - Tom Perotta

* Nerd in Shining Armor - Vicki Lewis Thompson

* Pages for you - Sylvia Brownrigg

* The Orion Series - Ben Bova

* Conversations with the Fat Girl - Liza Palmer

* Mr Maybe - Jane Green

* Percy Jackson Series - Rick Riordan

* The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides

* Perfume - Patrick Suskind

* Company - Max Barry

* Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson

* Jennifer Government - Max Barry

* Adopted Jane - Helen Fern Daringer

* April Fool's Day - Bryce Courtnay

* Hunting and Gathering - Anna Gavalda

* Hannah's Dream - Diane Coplin Hammond

* The Doomsday Conspiracy - Sidney Sheldon (and other Sidney Sheldon books)

* John Grisham novels

* The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

* Eat, Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert

* Why Women should Rule the World - Dee Dee Myers

* Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer

* The Kind Diet - Alicia Silverstone

* Skinny Bitch - Rory Freedman

* Bitter is the New Black - Jen Lancaster

* To Sir with Love - E.R. Braithwaite

* The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

* Can you hear the Nightbird Call - Anita Rau Badami

* Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin

* The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

* Memoirs of a Geisha - Authur Golden

* The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks

* Twilight Saga - Stephenie Meyer

* Southern Vampire Mysteries - Charlaine Harris (I've read the first few in the series)

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* The Giver - Lois Lowry

* Mandy - Julie Andrews Edward and Joanna Westerman

* Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli

* The Curious incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon

* She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb

* Ender's Games - Orson Scott Card

*Emma - Jane Austen

* Paul Arden books

* Seth Godin books

* Love Walked in - Marisa De Los Santos

* A Year in the World - Frances Mayes

* Dead Sleep - Greg Iles

* The Enchanted Forest Chronicles

* PS...I love You - Cecelia Ahern

* Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins

* Last Olympian - Rick Riordan

* Lost Colony - Eion Colfer

* Until You - Judith McNaught

* Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson

* Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky

* Griffin and Sabine Trilogy - Nick Bantock

* The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (currently reading)

* Five Quarters of the Orange - Joanne Harris

* Karen Kingsbury books

* The Knife of Never Letting go - Patrick Ness

* Maze Runner - James Dashner

* Homeland - RA Salvatore

* Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery

* A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith

* And God created the Au Pair - Benedicte Newland and Pascale Smets

* A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

* The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

* Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt

* A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett

* The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis

* Charlotte's Web - E.B. White

* Because of Winn Dixie - Kate DiCamillo

* Jane Austen Books

* Before you know Kindness - Chris Bohjalian

* Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult

* A Womans Place - Lynn Austin

* Handle with Care - Jodi Picoult

* The Double Bind - Chris Bohjalian

* The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu

* Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

* The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

* Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

I've highlighted ones I've read (which isn't many). Maybe next time I will list all my favourite books and other recommended ones. I will let you know how I go. And please comment or email me (gracienne.nancy@gmail.com) if there is a book on this list that you try and really enjoy.