 | The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £4.99 Epic masterpiece, especially All the Pretty Horses
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 | Invisible Man (Essential Penguin) by Ralph Ellison
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.61 Stunningly imaginative and thought-provoking novel
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 | The Dean's December (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow
Buy new: £4.09 / Used from: £6.23 Another fine work from a master stylist
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 | A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £2.99 The Indian Dickins? Another character-driven comic tragedy
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 | The Age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India by William Dalrymple
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.85 Contemporaneous but very readable and informative
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 | A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £0.01 Somewhat dated but important novel
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 | The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.14 Flawed but enjoyable Booker winner
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 | Rebecca (Virago modern classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.27 A classic which hasn't lost its power to unsettle
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 | On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £6.14 / Used from: £0.76 Poignant novella from ever readable author at top of his game
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 | The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Buy new: £2.43 / Used from: £0.01 Sublime novel about the boundaries of complicity
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 | The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £2.25 Classic ghost story
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 | The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain by Paul Theroux
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Theroux sets his sights on Britain
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 | Falling Man by Don DeLillo
Buy new: £9.88 / Used from: £5.48 Delillo tackles the big story of the 21st century
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 | Nice Work by David Lodge
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Clever and funny class comedy
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 | Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £3.27 Another from criminally underrated author
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 | The Executioner's Song (Arena Books) by Norman Mailer
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £5.99 Rest in peace
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 | Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses by David Lodge
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01 Another insightful and funny novel by Lodge
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 | Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.73 Probably the best summation of Murakami's talents
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 | Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.95 The stuff of nightmares
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 | Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility) by Yukio Mishima
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.50 Formalistic and aesthetic masterpiece
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 | Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £1.20 Dark, witty, and a break free from the historical novel for Faulks
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 | South of the River by Blake Morrison
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.01 Intimate yet expansive stories about interlocking London lives in the Blair era
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 | Rabbit, Run (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Updike
Buy new: £3.70 / Used from: £3.59 Updike at his most cutting and insightful
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 | The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia by Paul Theroux
Buy used from: £3.44 Archetypal Theroux travelogue
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