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If you've tried to guess all the 20 book titles hidden in our illustrated scenes, but some of them are far too fiendish for you, we have the answers!

2023

1. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
2. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
3. How To Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
4. Bunny vs Monkey by Jamie Smart
5. Love in Colour by Bolu Babalola
6. Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes
7. Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
8. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
9. The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells or Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
10. The Women of Troy by Pat Barker
11. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
12. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
13. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
14. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
15. Misery by Stephen King
16. Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
17. The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
18. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
19. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
20. The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot

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2022

1. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
2. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
3. The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman (we know he's taller...)
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
5. Heartstopper (or Heartstopper series) by Alice Oseman
6. The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
7. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
8. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (not Gone with the Wind... but that's an excellent guess!)
9. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
10. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
11. The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
12. The Appeal by Janice Hallett
13. Rivers of London (or Rivers of London series) by Ben Aaronovitch
14. Persuasion by Jane Austen
15. Another Country by James Baldwin
16. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
17. Dune by Frank Herbert
18. Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
19. The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
20. The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

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2021

1. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
2. Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
3. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
4. Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
5. Fingersmith by Sarah Walters
6. The Time Machine by H.G Wells
7. Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
8. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
9. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
10. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
11. The Missing Sister by Lucinda Riley
12. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
13. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
14. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
15. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
16. The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
17. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
18. Still Life by Sarah Winman or Still Life by Val McDermid
19. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
20. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon

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2020

1. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 
3. Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
4. Meat Market by Juno Dawson
5. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
6. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
7. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
8. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
9. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
10. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd, illustrated by Jim Kay
11. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
12. The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel 
13. The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
14. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien 
15. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
16. Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
17. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
18. Grand Union by Zadie Smith
19. Beloved by Toni Morrison
20. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo

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2019

1. The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr
2. The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn
3. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
4. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
5. The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
6. The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
7. Milkman by Anna Burns
8. Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
9. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Das Parfum) by Patrick Süskind
10. The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
11. Becoming by Michelle Obama
12. The Shadow of the Wind (or The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13. Normal People by Sally Rooney
14. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
15. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
16. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
18. Middle England by Jonathan Coe
19. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
20. Swing Time by Zadie Smith

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2018

1. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
3. This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
4. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
5. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
6. A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
7. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
8. Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
9. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
10. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
11. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
12. Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
13. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
14. La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust) by Philip Pullman
15. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
16. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
17. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
18. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
19. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
20. Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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2017

1. The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
2. Pet Sematary by Stephen King
3. This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell
4. Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty
5.The Crow Road by Iain Banks
6. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
7. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
8. The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
9. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
10. Matilda by Roald Dahl
11. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
12. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
13. Orangeboy by Patrice Lawrence
14. Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
15. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
16. Girl Online by Zoe (Zoella) Sugg
17. The Power by Naomi Alderman
18. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
19. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
20. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

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2016

1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
2. East of Eden by John Steinbeck 
3. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
4. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
5. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
6. Animal Farm by George Orwell
7. The BFG by Roald Dahl
8. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
9. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
10. Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
11. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
12. The Green Road by Anne Enright
13. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
14. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
15. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
16. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
17. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
18. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
19. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
20. The Help by Kathryn Stockett

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2015

1. Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
2. A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
3. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace
4. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
5. The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
6. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
7. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
8. Paper Towns by John Green
9. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
10. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
11. Ulysses by James Joyce
12. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
13. The Green Mile by Stephen King
14. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling (and any other Harry Potter book title)
15. The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
16. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
17. Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
18. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
19. Crash by J.G. Ballard
20. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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2014

1. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
2. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
3. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
4. War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
5. Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
6. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
7. Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
8. Small Island by Andrea Levy
9. Scoop: A Novel About Journalists by Evelyn Waugh
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
11. George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
12. White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
13. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
14. The Fault in our Stars by John Green
15. We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury
16. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
17. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
18. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
19. Paradise Lost by John Milton
20. Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

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2013 #1

1. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
2. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
3. Watership Down by Richard Adams
4. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
5. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
6. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
7. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
8. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
9. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brönte
10. Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
11. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
12. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
13. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
14. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
15. The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
16. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
17. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
18. One Day by David Nicholls
19. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
20. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

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2013 #2

1. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
2. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
3. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
4. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
5. Beowulf
6. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
7. NW by Zadie Smith
8. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
9. An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd
10. Middlemarch by George Eliot
11. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
12. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
13. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
14. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
15. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
16. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
17. Victory by Joseph Conrad
18. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
19. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
20. Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield

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