 | The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room" by Paul Auster
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.01 Took my reading in a whole new direction
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 | An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
Buy new: £5.83 / Used from: £0.01 Superb and every word counts
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 | The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.01 Redemption and happiness found via a personal journey in small town America - amazing.
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 | Our Man in Havana (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.42 Subtle and very funny
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 | The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £2.98 My favourite Waugh - very wickedly funny indeed
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 | The Poet : Every Rhyme Means Death by Michael Connelly
Buy used from: £0.01 The first Connelly I read - and one of the very best with twists around each corner.
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 | Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 The first in the saga of the residents of 28 Barbary Lane - great fun.
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 | The Old Devils (Vintage Classics) by Kingsley Amis
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £2.96 Old codgers mostly having the time of their lives.
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 | The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Buy new: £4.92 / Used from: £0.01 Disturbing and gripping debut novel
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 | Tender is the Night (Penguin Popular Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 Doomed romance with a very strong feel of place. Desperately beautiful.
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 | Rites of Passage (Faber Fiction Classics) by William Golding
Buy used from: £12.33 Atmosphere and claustrophobia in buckets. (The TV adapation was excellent too).
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 | The People's Act of Love by James Meek
Buy new: £5.32 / Used from: £0.01 The best thing I've read this year. Strange, thought-provoking and unputdownable.
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 | Our Mutual Friend: Upper (Macmillan Reader) (Macmillan Readers) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £4.85 / Used from: £1.98 My favourite Dickens - darker than most.
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 | High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 I so identify with Rob and his lists!
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 | No Minor Chords: My Days in Hollywood (A Bantam book) by Andre Previn
Buy used from: £9.98 A perfect slice of autobiography. Candid, witty and thoroughly entertaining.
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