 | In Search of Lost Time: 6 Volumes by Marcel Proust
Buy used from: £15.54 The best thing that ever has been or ever will be. Mankind's greatest achievement.
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.49 The founding father of magical realism, and one of the greatest novels of all time.
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 | Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy used from: £0.54 Wonderfully bleak tale of power, corruption, and the dangers of an all-mighty state.
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 | Spider by Patrick McGrath
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 | The Magus by John Fowles
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 | Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £1.54 Magnificent, romantic, haunting fantasy.
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 | A Russian Gentleman (World's Classics) by Sergei Aksakov
Buy used from: £1.19 An elegant and nostalgic portrayal of family life in Russia.
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 | Watership Down by Richard Adams
Buy new: £5.38 / Used from: £0.01 Who ever thought fluffy bunnies could be so sinister?
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 | The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £2.00 Paranoia abounds in this intricate and supremely intelligent novel.
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 | A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anthony Burgess
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
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 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £4.17 / Used from: £0.01 A great historical novel, lyrical and full of passion.
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 | The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room" by Paul Auster
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 | The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
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 | Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Buy new: £6.02 / Used from: £1.98 Haunting portrayal of communist China.
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 | The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Buy used from: £0.09 Humour and tragedy combine beautifully in a wonderfully written Spanish tale.
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 | Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman
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 | Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £2.88 Sensual and nostalgic, this beautiful novel explores the themes of youth and suicide with subtlety and panache.
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 | The Collector (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £1.52 A butterfly collector broadens his hobby by capturing a young girl. A tragic, poignant and powerful novel.
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 A man with an almost supernatural sense of smell begins killing young girls to capture their scent. As dark and sinister as it sounds.
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