 | From Here to Eternity by James Jones
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 | Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
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 | Roots by Alex Haley
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 | A Confederacy of Dunces: A Novel by John Kennedy Toole
Buy used from: £12.98 Read this book for a 'Night of Joy'.
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 | The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £0.01 Great imagery, funny words (e.g. 'ghibli' and 'vascular sizood') and an unlikely bunch of protagonists make for a classic tale.
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 | Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Buy new: £7.89 / Used from: £12.56 Before there was Butch and Sundance there was Call and McCrae.
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 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ken Kesey
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 | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
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 | Catch-22 (Vintage Classics) by Joseph Heller
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 | Birdy (Vintage Classics) by William Wharton
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 | The World According to Garp (Black Swan) by John Irving
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 You must read this book 55 times.
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 | Slaughterhouse-Five. by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £7.09 / Used from: £8.95 Navigate from 1944 Dresden to Tramalfadore and back, and then do it again.
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 | Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Buy used from: £9.36 Yes I know it's a cliche to love this book, but Mark David Chapman should never be confused with a true iconoclast.
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 | The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
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 | Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
Buy used from: £0.01 Definitely not a 'feel good' book, but a great perspective on WWII.
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 | Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake
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 | The Naked and the Dead (Flamingo Modern Classics) by Norman Mailer
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 | American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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 | The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
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 | The Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics) by Ernest Hemingway
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
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 | On the Road (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy used from: £33.45 |
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