 | Underworld by Don DeLillo
Buy used from: £3.50 Gorgeous writing, read it slowly and love it to bits
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 | As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Buy new: £5.20 / Used from: £1.44 The most accessible of Faulkner's novels
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 | Blindness by Jose Saramago
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.12 Fable? Morality tale? Modern epic? Sci-fi? All of Saramago is here in this book
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 | Independent People (Panther) by Halldor Laxness
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 | Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
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 | Beloved by Toni Morrison
Buy new: £5.04 / Used from: £0.01 Morrison's best writing on early black experience in America
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 | A Passage to India by E M Forster
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 If you want to know what 'modernism' means, read this book, it's got a fabulous first chapter
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 | Nostromo (Twentieth Century Classics) by Joseph Conrad
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 | To the Lighthouse (Wordsworth Classics) by Virginia Woolf
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 | The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.01 The film was awful but the book has some luxurious writing and a pleasingly balanced structure
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 | Tracks by Louise Erdrich
Buy used from: £1.67 A prose style like rough bits of 2x4 and a unique teller of tales, a book about the Chippewa Indians, past and present
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