 | Atonement by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.01 The most beautiful, engrossing, wonderful novel I have come across in a long time
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 | The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £0.01 The best, most well written and most humourous Anglo/Asian cultural story I can think of. Very enjoyable.
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 | The Girl at the Lion D'Or by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £2.90 / Used from: £0.01 Entrancing. Faulks has a clear gift for creating believable characters who the reader really feels for. Wonderfully set in France.
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 | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £3.68 / Used from: £0.01 Fantastic and focused. Was so looking forward to The Little Friend.....oh well.
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 | The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy used from: £0.01 Classic yet different, thought provoking and incredibly well written throughout. Brilliant.
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 | The Kitchen God's Wife (Flamingo) by Amy Tan
Buy used from: £0.01 My favourite of Amy Tan's novels, all of which are excellent
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 | Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui
Buy used from: £0.01 Original, educational, dramatic and shocking, ultimately fantastic
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 | Sophie's World (Dolphin ed): A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
Buy new: £2.96 / Used from: £0.01 A fantastic overview of philosophy. A great and entertaining way of introducing yourself the subject. Inspired me to do some further reading into areas of philsophy that were new to me.
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 | Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 No wonder it was so popular, this book is so well written and involving. It may not be 100% accurate, but I still found the character wholly convincing.
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 | Daughter of the River: An Autobiography by Hong Ying
Buy used from: £0.01 Thought provoking, interesting and well written. A must.
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 | A Married Man by Catherine Alliott
Buy used from: £0.01 For a light yet intelligent read, this is top quality
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 | Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01 Another totally gripping and involving , yet somewhat dark read from Ian McEwan
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 | Through A Glass Darkly by Jostein Gaarder
Buy new: £2.90 / Used from: £0.01 A strange, eerie tale with an unusual and thought-provoking ending.
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 | The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £2.26 / Used from: £0.48 A kid's book that adults can actually enjoy and learn something from.
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 | Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Fantastic. A gripping and emotional tale. Entrancing. It's great to discover an author like this.
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 | Immortality by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £0.76 Excellent how such a deep and complex book can be so 'easy' to read. Fascinating ideas, very different to anything I have read before.
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 | Complicity by Iain Banks
Buy new: £3.57 / Used from: £0.01 My first Iain Banks novel. What have I been waiting for??! Excellently gripping, and literally breathtaking in places! Not for the faint hearted.
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 | White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Wow. This book is simply amazing. Read it.
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 | Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 One of the best books I have read in years. Totally captivating. What I hope for every time I start a novel.
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 | The Women's Room (Virago Modern Classics) by Marilyn French
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.49 Very different to anything I've read before - powerful, if somewhat dated, stuff
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 | The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.01 A perfect novel - transports you to another place and another time. I couldn't put it down. Absolutely excellent.
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 | The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Buy used from: £1.40 A surprise discovery - I totally lost myself in this book and can't wait to read my next by Ken Follett.
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 | Rebecca (Virago modern classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.93 I was mesmerised by this book. Gripping, beautifully written and absolutely enchanting.
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