 | The Bride Stripped Bare by Anonymous
Buy used from: £2.99 An eye opener... Sparked up my 'night' life for a while!
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 | Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Initially shyed away as this was on Richard & Judy's Book Club, but then there' nothing worse than a literary snob...Barbara is a wickedly good character!
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 | Dance, Dance, Dance by Murakami
Buy used from: £0.33 Picked it up, put it down... picked it up, put it down...picked it up for a third time and didn't put it down til I was finished.
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 | A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £3.00 / Used from: £3.00 Read this after it's sequel, Dance Dance Dance- oops! Amazing all the same. The sheep man...wow!
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 | The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
Buy used from: £1.99 Hmmm...only really kept with this one as it's set in Glasgow where I went to uni. A bit like the Nicholas Cage film 8mm, but not as good!
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 | Peyton Amberg by Tama Janowitz
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £0.01 My mum sent this to me. Loved it, although it did fizzle out somewhat towards the end.
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 | The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Buy used from: £5.49 I vaguely remember seeing the film years ago, so I wasn't so keen to read this. What a mistake! This is a masterpiece!
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 | The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Buy used from: £0.33 Loved this! It appealed to my romantic side!
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 | Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Buy used from: £5.00 Another amazing Margaret Atwood novel. An eerie appocalyptic vision.
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 | Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Buy used from: £5.66 This is a moving tale of growing up in Toronto. I read it as quite autobiographical...
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 | The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
Buy used from: £4.46 Zenia- don't know whether to love her or hate her!
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 | Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Buy used from: £0.33 Had me hooked until the last word!
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 | The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
Buy used from: £2.00 Margaret Atwood's first novel, and the first of her novels I read.
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 | The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.50 This is indeed a chronicle. It's verging on epic. And Mamiya's tale is chilling...
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 | South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £3.00 A haunting love story.
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 | The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Took me a while to get into this one, but then I was gripped!
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 | N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto
Buy new: £2.76 / Used from: £0.33 Not in the same league as Kitchen, but very good all the same. I fell in love with all of the characters!
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 | Howards End (Penguin Modern Classics) by E.M. Forster
Buy used from: £1.99 My first period novel for ages! Wonderful!
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 | The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
Buy new: £3.93 / Used from: £0.16 Didn't love this as much as I was supposed to...A nice little story though...
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 | Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £1.48 I usually steer clear of short stories, as I like to become absorbed in a book. Luckily I had a multiple absorbtion!
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Children's Edition by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.01 In Harry Potter kind of way, I didn't want to read this as it's a kid's book. However, my literary snobbery was once again proved to be wrong. Gorgeous protagonist!
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 | Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £2.64 A little wacky, but a great twist (or two!)!
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 | Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £3.00 / Used from: £3.00 Murakami, so I liked it, but...I kept comparing it (unfavourably) with Norwegian Wood
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