 | Love in the Time of Cholera (Read Red) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.32 a beautiful story about the development and longevity of love, wonderfully expressed
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 | On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £0.01 a perfect description of family values and class interaction
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 | Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.01 france never felt more appealing - if only every town had such a well-stocked a choclaterie
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.30 a wonderfully confusing narrative that sucks you in and makes you believe every word, just about the most perfect magic realist novel ever
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 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £4.00 not an easy read, not a quick read, but well worth the time and effort: thought-provoking
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 | Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.39 scary stuff; warrants a couple of hours reading time
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 | Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.50 remarkably believable - i know that people can't fly, but I like to think they can
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 | That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx
Buy new: £2.90 / Used from: £0.38 i just love the cover (plus the story's pretty decent)
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £4.39 / Used from: £0.01 exactly how i would have wanted to write this novel, beautifully expressed and utterly loveable
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 | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £2.74 a great representation of an american family's struggle to survive
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 | Women in Love (Essential.penguin) by D.H. Lawrence
Buy used from: £0.01 an enjoyable romance from an author who understands the internal processes of love
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 | Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck "Essentials") by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £3.65 / Used from: £0.60 another story of the difficulties facing americans during the depression and the hope still held for the future - very moving
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 | The Trial (Vintage Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £3.01 / Used from: £3.23 disturbing - nothing more, nothing less
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 | Uncle Tom's Cabin (Oxford World's Classics) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Buy new: £3.00 / Used from: £1.95 the most upsetting book i have ever read, utterly readable and highly emotive
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 | How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.01 i love nick hornby - enough said
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 | If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
Buy new: £4.52 / Used from: £0.01 perfect - i can't fault this novel and i can't wait to read more from jon mcgregor
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 | The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Buy new: £2.87 / Used from: £0.01 a lovely story of personal growth and development
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 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Oxford World's Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: £0.96 / Used from: £0.54 i am the huck finn appreciation society - i just want to take him home and look after him
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 | Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.64 fantastic, fantastic, fantastic, one of those books you want to keep reading forever
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 | Evelina: Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (Oxford World's Classics) by Frances Burney
Buy new: £3.60 / Used from: £2.99 actually really good - in epistolary form which is light and entertaining, but tackles some big social issues
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 | Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Buy new: £0.50 / Used from: £0.01 didn't realise how much i'd enjoyed this book til i started rereading it recently - fantastic!
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