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Gary Dexter is the writer of a long-running column for the Sunday Telegraph.

Includes the following Titles for example:; 1. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess; 2. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller; 3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl; 4. Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper by Charles Perrault; 5. Fanny Hill by John Cleland; 6. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; 7. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov; 8. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville; 9. My Man Jeeves by PG Wodehouse; 10. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell; 11. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald; 12. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis; 13. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain; 14. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss; 15. Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry; 16. Ulysses by James Joyce; 17. Utopia by Thomas More; 18. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett; 19. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee; 20. Winnie-the-Pooh by AA Milne; 21. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Heminway.