 | The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Buy new: £3.94 / Used from: £0.01 A wonderful, sad yet uplifting book - a hit with everyone I know who has read it.
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 | The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Buy new: £3.01 / Used from: £0.01 Continuing along the afterlife theme, a warm and compassionate story that left me with tears rolling down my face.
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 | Atonement by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.01 A slow starter that has you gripped before you know it, Immensely poignant.
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 | My Sister's Keeper: A Novel (Picoult, Jodi) by Jodi Picoult
Buy used from: £2.89 This one really made me think - a deceptively light read that nonetheless poses some tricky moral questions
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 | The Women's Room (Virago modern classics) by Marilyn French
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 25 years after I first read this book the characters stay with me - a little dated now it's true, but still powerful and inspirational
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 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.50 A recent discovery. totally original story that grips you from the outset, one to read time and again
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 | Lovesong by Nikki Gemmell
Buy new: £2.26 / Used from: £0.48 A highly descriptive book, written in an unusual style - don't let that put you off, once you reach the end and all becomes clear you will want to start it all over again
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 | The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
Buy new: £3.12 / Used from: £0.01 I have read all of Tracey Chevaliers books in close sucession, all are good light reads, but this one is outstanding.
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 | Union Street (Virago Modern Classics) (Paperback) by Pat Barker
Buy new: £2.92 / Used from: £0.01 A collection of individual lives, each touching the other in a gloriously interwoven pattern.
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 | The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Buy used from: £21.15 More Pat Barker, but very different in both style and content.
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 | The Wrong Boy by Willy Russell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Not at all funny, as billed on the cover, in fact I found it quite desolate in places, but an excellent story nevertheless
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 | White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £1.73 A brilliant vibrant book that I found impossible to put down.
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 | Spies by Michael Frayn
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 A book that evokes childhood, despite being set during WW2 - an excellent and compelling story.
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 | Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 With the exception of the Acorna series I am completely addicted to Anne McCaffreys books - but I want to live on Pern! I guarantee that if you read this book, and it's many sequels, then so will you
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 | Flying Under Bridges by Sandi Toksvig
Buy new: £2.92 / Used from: £0.01 Laugh out loud funny - don't read this one if your Other Half doesn't like bits constantly being read out to them ;)
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