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The Time Traveler's WifeThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: £3.82 / Used from: £1.45
Completely different and utterly fascinating alternative love story
My Sister's KeeperMy Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
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The first Jodi Picoult I read and probably the best - real, heart-wrenching story.
44 Scotland Street44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.01
Just into this, and it's very light - was serialized in The Scotsman.
Dragonflight (Corgi Science-Fiction)Dragonflight (Corgi Science-Fiction) by Anne McCaffrey
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The first in a long series of Sci-Fi / Fantasy books about the Dragon Riders of Pern
ContactContact by Carl Sagan
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The inspiration for the Jodie Foster Film - far, far better
ContestContest by Matthew Reilly
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Books at film speed are waht Mattew Reilly is all about - not his best story, but a self-contained introduction.
InvasionInvasion by Eric Harry
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Out-clancy-ing Clancy - intelligent, gripping thrillers - also see Society of the Mind
An Isolated IncidentAn Isolated Incident by Susan R. Sloan
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Crime thriller almost in a Jodi Picoult style - very readable.
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the Richest, Most Powerful Criminal in HistoryKilling Pablo: The Hunt for the Richest, Most Powerful Criminal in History by Mark Bowden
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From the author of Black Hawk Down - thriller depicting the hunt for a Columbian drug lord.
Still Life with WoodpeckerStill Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Buy new: £5.87 / Used from: £3.48
Funny, though-provoking book - Tom Robbins is a genre of one really.
QuarantineQuarantine by Jim Crace
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Hmm - a re-telling of the Bible's story of Christ's 40 days in the desert. Whitbread Prize Winner
AtlantisAtlantis by David Gibbins
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Move over Dan Brown
CryptonomiconCryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.22
An epic book, linking Station X and the quest to build a modern data haven in Asia.
The Lovely BonesThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Buy new: £3.86 / Used from: £0.01
Very moving book. Read it.
Lost for Words: The Mangling and Manipulating of the English LanguageLost for Words: The Mangling and Manipulating of the English Language by John Humphrys
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Shoot the damn panda.
Cold GraniteCold Granite by Stuart MacBride
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Ian Rankin style crim thriller set in Aberdeen