 | The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: £3.15 / Used from: £0.47 A perfect novel, extremely powerful.
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 | A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: £3.86 / Used from: £2.94 My faveourite Khaled Hosseini novel, very gripping and moving. I found myself very attached to the main characters and didn't want it to end.
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 | The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.99 Could not put this down, inspirational. The character gains strength in an impossible situation and we feel triumphant at the end.
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 | The Hidden Diary of Marie Antionette by Carolly Erickson
Buy used from: £0.33 Wonderful historical diary. Felt compelled to read once I started.
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 | The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
Buy new: £5.79 / Used from: £1.80 Some very enjoyable poems. Also casts a new light on the wives of male figures throughout history
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.25 A bizare but interesting read, one of the only books I've read where I've absolutely hated the protagnoist!
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 | A Woman of No Importance (New Mermaids) (New Mermaids) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 As always with Wilde, very witty, at times funny. Throughly enjoyed this.
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 | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Enjoyed parts of this book but found myself skimming over some sections. Got quite involved with some characters and then the story line would divert and the characters would change.
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 | We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Buy used from: £0.01 Brillant insight into the parent of a mass murderer. A different spin on the the very worring american high school shooting incidents.
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 | The Go-Between (Penguin Modern Classics) by L. P. Hartley
Buy new: £6.69 / Used from: £2.50 Found this hard to get into, but loved the plot.
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 | The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 I have always found the tales around Henry VIII fascinating. Found this to be a good novel but for me didn't fully live up to the hype.
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 | Dirty Weekend (Flamingo) by Helen Zahavi
Buy used from: £0.01 Very entertaining and also rather disturbing. The title implies somewhat of a romance/sleeze, when actually the novel follows Bella as she goes on a weekend killing spree.
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 | Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson
Buy used from: £4.06 Slow pace but detail and narrative style keeps you hanging on. Gets gradually more creepy as the book goes on!
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. Salinger
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £1.91 Disappointed by this novel, maybe because I had high hopes. It vaguely held my attention until the end but I was frustrated as I expected a little more of a climax to finish.
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 | Spies by Michael Frayn
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Extremely well crafted novel. Had to read it for my english literature AS level. This novel is abit like marmite, lots of people love it, many don't. I found myself inbetween.
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 | The Tempest (Penguin Popular Classics) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Read this play for AS coursework, found the play itself fairly uninspiring but the characters grew on me.
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