 | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £6.89 / Used from: £0.01 Fascinating story, great writing
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 | Rebecca (Virago modern classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £1.67 Essential Du Maurier; chilling, atmospheric, timeless
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 | The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Buy used from: £4.55 Poignant but at the same time inspiring
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 | The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Buy used from: £1.79 Probably the best haunted house book ever written; Genuinely scary without being over the top. It goes to show that less is definitely more when trying to write a chiller.
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 | The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Just brilliant.
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 | Misery by Stephen King
Buy used from: £0.01 The best of King.
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 | Good Morning, Midnight (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean Rhys
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £2.00 |
 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £4.75 / Used from: £0.29 Very revealing of the author's troubled young life and her efforts to cope with her personal demons.
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 | Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 Not everyone's favourite Atwood; an absorbing read.
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 | Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Buy new: £4.20 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Buy new: £5.57 / Used from: £0.01 Heartwarmingly good and hilarious in parts
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 | McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
Buy used from: £0.38 Really great quirky stories to satisfy twisted minds!!
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 | White Teeth
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 | The Glass Menagerie (Penguin Plays & Screenplays) by Tennessee Williams
Buy used from: £0.01 |
 | Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 definitive biography, compulsive reading, essential history
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 | The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.37 / Used from: £0.01 I just cannot choose my favourite Atwood novel; they're just all too good!!
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 | Dark Angel by Sally Beauman
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A bit on the long side, but well worth the time.
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 | The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
Buy used from: £0.02 |
 | Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi
Buy used from: £1.51 Fantastic! The best book about life in the mafia. Read it all in one afternoon.
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