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Wives of Windsor
17. Henry IV Part 2
18. Much Ado About Nothing
19. Henry V
20. Julius Caesar
21. As You Like It
22. Hamlet
23. Twelfth Night
24. Troilus and Cressida
25. Measure for Measure
26. Othello
27. King Lear
28. Timon of Athens
29. Macbeth
30. Antony and Cleopatra
31. All's Well That Ends Well
32. Pericles
33. Coriolanus
34. The Winter's Tale
35. Cymbeline
36. The Tempest
37. Henry VIII

WHAT THE DICKENS!
    "Memory is the best and purest link between this world and a better."
- Charles Dickens

Now that you've got all of Shakespeare's plays in your head, the next step is the novels of Charles Dickens. The good news is there are only 20 of them. Only...
    This time, we're doing things a bit differently.
    I've given you some ideas below for the weird things you can imagine to represent each book, but you will have to come up with the route on your own. It's time to exercise those spatial brain muscles of yours. You need a route with 20 stops along the way, and you need to know the journey well enough that you don't even need to think about it during recall. Maybe you could walk from your library to nearest bookshop, or from your local park to the nearest shop, or work through your kitchen cupboards then out to your garden. It's time to experiment!
    Once you have decided on a route, familiarize yourself with the list of books below. Simply read it out loud a few times. Then we move on to converting them to crazy images along your journey...

Novels by Charles Dickens in Chronological Order
    1. Pickwick Papers
2. Oliver Twist
3. Nicholas Nickleby
4. The Old Curiosity Shop
5. Barnaby Rudge
6. A Christmas Carol
7. Martin Chuzzlewit
8. The Chimes
9. The Cricket on the Hearth
10. The Battle of Life
11. Dombey and Son
12. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
13. David Copperfield
14. Bleak House
15. Hard Times
16. Little Dorrit
17. A Tale of Two Cities
18. Great Expectations
19. Our Mutual Friend
20. The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Plotting The Book Titles Along Your Route
    1. In the first place, we have a pile of newspapers burning like a candle. The candle wick is on fire, melting the papers like wax. This is the Pickwick Papers. Careful you don't burn yourself.
    2. Next, we have a little boy, at risk of getting dizzy and falling over from spinning around on the spot, holding a bowl of olives. This is Oliver Twist, our hungry little friend.
    3. We now have Nicholas Cage, looking as cool as ever, flipping a nickel up into the air and catching it. He's trying to get you to guess heads or tails. This is Nicholas Nickleby. Go ahead... take a guess... heads or tails...?
    4. Next we have an old man trying to sell you some really weird stuff. Candle sticks, picture frames, and some other junk. This is The Old Curiosity Shop. You are not really interested in buying anything today, but you take a look at what he's selling anyway.
    5. What a treat we have next. Barney the Dinosaur, our big purple friend, is eating a huge block of fudge. This is Barnaby Rudge, of course. Go ahead. Eat some of that tasty, tasty fudge.
    6. A little group of Carol Singers have gathered at our next stop. They are standing next to a perfectly-decorated Christmas tree, and singing their little hearts out. A Christmas Carol!
    7. Never before seen, we now have Martin Luther King sat on the floor doing a puzzle. Martin Chuzzlewit, obviously. Take a photo. You don't want to forget this odd scene.
    8. At our next location we have a small church bell, pealing out chime after chime. It's loud, and it's The Chimes.
    9. We've got a fireplace at our next spot, with a giant cricket blocking the fire and chirping loudly. This is The Cricket on the Hearth.
    10. Our next spot is dangerous indeed! It's a full-blown battle! We have children on one side, fighting adults on the other. It's The Battle of Life!
    11. Darn it! Your evening meal is ruined! Your Domino's pizza is covered in bees and is melting in the sun. That's your food ruined! This is the next book, Dombey and Son.