 | The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: £3.15 / Used from: £1.41 Breath taking and important. My 15 year old daughter loved it too.
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 | The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £1.99 This book is a real joy. Buy it and lose yourself in it for a day or two.
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 | Life Of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £0.01 Didn't buy this one for ages as I thought it sounded too bizarre, but it is engrossing, thought provoking and wonderful. I'm waiting a year or two and going to read it again.
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 | The Swimming Pool Season by Rose Tremain
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.99 This reminds me of driving through France. It is a real jewel and quite unlike her other novels.
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 | Cider House Rules - The Novel by John Irving
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Couldn't decide whether to include this or Garp..... Garp would have won when I was twenty, but now I'm 40 I'll choose this. If you've not read him, then start with this and read them all!
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 | A Painted House by John Grisham
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 I love the new direction John Grisham is moving in. Quite different from the legal thrillers. He is a very fine writer.
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 | I Capture the Castle (Vintage Classics) by Dodie Smith
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.87 Evocative coming of age novel, makes me want to be 18 again
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 | The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
Buy used from: £3.40 Also a coming of age book, but I loved Rumer Godden as a child. Everything she writes is calm, serene and with such atmosphere
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 | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.01 Emotionally exhausting, huge achievement WW1 novel, but read with lump in throat...
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 | The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £0.01 Absorbing reading
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 | The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Buy new: £2.56 / Used from: £0.01 First time I tried I couldn't get into it.... Then I tried again and loved it. Unusual and wonderful.
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 | We Need to Talk About Kevin (Five Star Paperback) by Lionel Shriver
Buy new: £4.33 / Used from: £0.01 Creepy but essential reading for any parent
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 | A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £0.01 Surprisingly enjoyable. Read with ukrainian accent!
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 | Saturday by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £0.01 Am often in two minds about McEwan, but this is perfect.
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 | Rebecca (Virago modern classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.33 Rebecca will never date. So eloquent, it's wonderful to read out loud.
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 | The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Buy new: £3.94 / Used from: £0.01 Super sad spiritual book
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 | The Life and Loves of a She-devil by Fay Weldon
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.01 Now we're going down memory lane - I used to love Fay Weldon, don't know if shes dated! But she has a great way of writing.
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 | The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £1.32 CULT Classic - has everyone read it? If not just read it.
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 | The Fountainhead (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ayn Rand
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.59 If you're into Architecture - read this thriller. If you ARE an architect you'll know it already.
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 | Star of the Morning by Pamela Jooste
Buy new: £7.25 / Used from: £2.53 I loved Ruby, wonderful book set in Capetown against a background of apartheid.
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 | The Moro Cookbook by Samantha Clark
Buy new: £9.75 / Used from: £7.25 My favourite Food-Porn!
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