 | The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £3.29 Probably the only book with theological overtones that can make me cry
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 | War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
Buy used from: £0.01 The story absolutely grips you (once you're through the first 50 pages of exposition...)
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 | Moby Dick: Or, the Whale (Penguin Popular Classics) by Herman Melville
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 What nobody seems to mention is that this is a really warm, sweet, humorous book.
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 | Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.99 I love all his work, but perhaps this is my favourite. Very dark, very strange.
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 | A Dance to the Music of Time: Spring Vol 1 (Dance to the Music of Time) by Anthony Powell
Buy new: £8.51 / Used from: £8.51 This is volume one of four. Every character is utterly real and convincing, even after only a line or two of dialogue. He captures the rhythm of life like no-one else. Always something new there.
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 | In Search of Lost Time: 6 Volumes by Marcel Proust
I include this as a 'great ' book I really don't like. One of several fat classics (see also Don Quixote) whose most famous passages occur in the first hundred pages. Maybe no-one reads any further?
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