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Who'd have thought a footballer would choose The Iliad?
"Libraries gave us power", proclaimed the Manic Street Preachers, and it's true that the written word continues to inspire and instruct. In fact, we're sure that a future Prime Minister will cite the ShortList Instant Improver section as the catalyst for their rise to power one day.
To that end, we decided to delve into the world of celebrities to find out what their favourite work was; some opted for a childhood favourite, others a weighty and classic tome. Others went for the unexpected (naming no names Gordon Brown and Noel Edmonds). And one confirmed his suspected god-complex...
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Barack Obama
Favourite book: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison More details
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Stephen King
Favourite book: Lord of the Flies by William Golding More details
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Kate Winslet
Favourite book: Therese Raquin by Emile Zola More details
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Tom Clancy
Favourite book: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne More details
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Dermot O'Leary
Favourite book: The Bottoms by Joe R Lansdale More details
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James Nesbitt
Favourite book: The Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger More details
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George Clooney
Favourite book: War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy More details
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Sir Michael Caine
Favourite book: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand More details
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Martin Sheen
Favourite book: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor… More details
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Steve Coogan
Favourite book: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by… More details
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Rob Brydon
Favourite book: Collected works by Dylan Thomas More details
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Emma Thompson
Favourite book: Odyssey by Homer More details
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Gary Lineker
Favourite book: The Famous Five by Enid Blyton More details
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Gordon Brown
Favourite book: The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson More details
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Alec Baldwin
Favourite book: To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee More details
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Will Smith
Favourite book: The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo More details
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Chevy Chase
Favourite book: Moby Dick by Herman Melville More details
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Steven Spielberg
Favourite book: The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore… More details
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Drew Barrymore
Favourite book: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl More details
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Morrissey
Favourite book: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and… More details
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Anne Hathaway
Favourite book: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett More details
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Noel Edmonds
Favourite book: Born to be Riled by Jeremy Clarkson More details
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Jim Carrey
Favourite book: Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky More details
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Pierce Brosnan
Favourite book: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck More details
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Mel Gibson
Favourite book: 1984 by George Orwell More details
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Matt Damon
Favourite book: A People's History of the United States by… More details
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Sir Alex Ferguson
Favourite book: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson More details
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Megan Fox
Favourite book: Kiss the Girls by James Patterson More details
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Tom Hanks
Favourite book: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote More details
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Kate Moss
Favourite book: The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott… More details
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Jose Mourinho
Favourite book: The Bible More details
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Daniel Radcliffe
Favourite book: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov More details
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Owen Wilson
Favourite book: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark… More details
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Danny Wallace
Favourite book: The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon… More details
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Donald Trump
Favourite book: The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman… More details
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Natalie Portman
Favourite book: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank More details
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John Travolta
Favourite book: Airport by Arthur Hailey More details
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Robert Green
Favourite book: The Iliad by Homer More details
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Simon Cowell
Favourite book: DisneyWar by James B. Stewart More details
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Wayne Rooney
Favourite book: Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by… More details
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