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Top 50 Best-Loved Scottish Books
"Time
became a stilled heart-beat. Stealthy, climbing sounds. Finn's
body drew taught, heaved up onto supporting palms. Whisperings,
the movement of the top of a small birch-tree here and there whose
trunk was invisible hands gripped. The hunters in their primordial
humour were closing in. Life had come for him."
Neil Gunn - The Silver Darlings
Top
Ten
Selected
Poetry of Robert Burns
A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Confessions
of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
Lanark
by Alasdair Gray
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The
Silver Darlings by Neil Gunn
A
History of the Scottish People by T.C. Smout
Treasure
Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Waverley
by Sir Walter Scott
And
the Rest - By Subject
Novels
Highland
River by Neil Gunn
Not Not While the Giro by James Kelman
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The White Bird Passes by Jessie Kesson
The Devil and The Giro ed. Carl MacDougall
Beside The Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown
Black and Blue by Ian Rankin
Looking For The Possible Dance by AL Kennedy
Consider the Lilies by Iain Crichton Smith
Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
The Gowk Storm by Nancy Brysson Morrison
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
Gillespie by John Macdougall Hay
House
With the Green Shutters by George Mackay Brown
Non-Fiction
Annals of the Parish by John Galt
Companion to Gaelic Scotland by Derek Thompson
The Scottish Kitchen by Marion McNeil
Collins Encyclopedia of Scotland by Keay & Keay
The Life and Death of St. Kilda by Tom Steele
The Bruce by John Barbour
Scottish Epitaphs by Betty Wilisher
Growing Up in the Gorbals by Ralph Glasser
Scotland: A New History by Michael Lynch
The Concise Scots Dictionary by Polygon
A
Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
Scottish Journey by Edwin Muir
The Munros by the Scottish Mountaineering Club
Memoirs of a Highland Lady by Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus
The Steel Bonnets by George MacDonald Fraser
Poetry
and Drama
The
Poetry of Scotland ed. Roderick Watson
Selected Poems - Hugh MacDiarmid
Elegies - Douglas Dunn
Collected Poems - Norman MacCaig
The Slab Boys - John Byrne
Collected Poems - Edwin Muir
From Wood to Ridge: Collected Poems - Sorley Maclean
Border Ballads - James Reed
The Poems - William Dunbar
Some
of My Favorites
Highland Clearances by John Prebble
Great Houses of Scotland
by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Scottish Wonder Tales from Myth and Legend
by J Duncan (Illustrator), Donald A. MacKenzie
Castles & Ancient Monuments of Scotland
by Damien Noonan
Scotland - Land & People: An Inhabited Solitude
by James McCarthy
Highlanders: A History of the Scottish Clans
by Fitzroy MacLean
Death of a Village by M. C. Beaton
Fishing for Wild Trout in Scottish Lochs
by Lesley Crawford
Resurrection Men: An Inspector Rebus Novel
by Ian Rankin
Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland
by Neal Ascherson
The Scrapbook of Old Tom Morris
by Old Tom Morris
Scotland: The Story of a Nation
by Magnus Magnusson
In Freedom's Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce
by G. A. Henty
From the Alleghenies to the Hebrides
by Margaret Fay Shaw
Flora Macdonald: The Most Loyal Rebel
by Hugh Douglas
Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides
by Adam Nicolson
Scotland and Its Whiskies: The Great Whiskies
and Their Landscapes by Michael Jackson
Highlanders: A History of the Gaels
by John MacLeod
Living in the Highlands by Lesley Astaire
Rob Roy Macgregor: His Life & Times
by W. H. Murray
Scotland: The Wild Places
by Colin Prior
Golf at the Water's Edge: Scotland's Seaside Links
by Brenda McGuire
Live & Work in Scotland
by Nicola Taylor
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