 | The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The postmodern bible and Eco's best novel. Several readings required.
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 | Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £1.25 One Hundred Years of Solitude might be up there but I prefer this one. The book that makes you want to fall in love.
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 | The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.00 A deep and brilliant book written with breath-taking ease.
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 | The Sheltering Sky (Penguin Modern Classics) by Paul Bowles
Buy new: £3.50 / Used from: £1.60 A book where every word matters and every page cuts deeper. Not much to smile about here but perfection for those who can appreciate it.
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 | Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Buy new: £3.06 / Used from: £3.69 This is THE Latin American magic and it reads like nothing else ever written.
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 | Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 I love Smilla. Ignore people who say this is a thriller. It's everything but and it's great.
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 | In the Skin of a Lion (Picador Books) by Michael Ondaatje
Buy new: £3.75 / Used from: £3.90 I think this book beats even the excellent English Patient. It couldn't possibly be overrated and yet so many people have not heard of it.
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 | Atonement by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.01 McEwan should be on this list and he got it right with Atonement.
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 | Sophie's Choice (Vintage Classics) by William Styron
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.49 No explanation necessary.
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 | All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.98 I greatly respect this book never mind Remarque's later works.
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 | The Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy used from: £5.38 If you haven't discovered the land of huge black tomcats then do so now.
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