 | Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Total therapy. The hysterical adventures of Tripp, Crabtree and Leer require a re-read every so often.
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 | Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Read it for Atkinson's way with language and the engaging synthesis of the history of a woman, a family and a landscape.
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 | The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe
Buy used from: £0.01 What starts as a very good 'campus novel' with some great characters, ends up becoming something much more dark and compelling. Awesome.
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 | Cat's Cradle (Essential Penguin) by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £2.50 Funny and much better than 'Slaughterhouse Five': you will quote from it for weeks.
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 | A Home at the End of the World (Essential Penguin) by Michael Cunningham
Buy new: £5.79 / Used from: £0.09 The love and loneliness shared between Bobby, Clare and Jonathan shows just what music and the passing of hours can do.
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 | The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Buy used from: £0.01 A lot has been written about the dysfunctional Lambert family. Read it and see why.
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 | Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.98 Twisted obsessions; subversive humour satirises almost everything about modern society.
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 | Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: £5.43 / Used from: £0.01 Great narration rounds out a perfect novel about identity.
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 | Triomf by Marlene van Niekerk
Buy new: £8.23 / Used from: £2.44 One of the best South African novels ever. A warning to the uninitiated: this is an intense whale of a book. Needs time to digest.
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 | The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 A US author with a great understanding of how Africa (and motherhood) really works.
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.01 The best in the 'magic realism' style. More happens on a single page than in the entirety of most other novels.
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 | Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Buy new: £4.74 / Used from: £0.01 Fast-paced action all the way and reveals the dark nature of biology most convincingly.
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 | Witches Abroad: A Discworld Novel (Discworld Novels) by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.89 A brilliant Discworld adventure disguised as Deep South travel writing: river boats, voodoo, swamps... and fairy godmothers.
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 | The Sea Garden by Sam Llewellyn
Buy used from: £0.01 Although I'm not really a fan of the mystery novel genre, this one gripped me from start to finish.
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 | The Hitchhiker Trilogy Boxset by Douglas Adams
Buy used from: £11.97 You have to read all of it; it's that good.
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 | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £6.89 / Used from: £0.01 Dark and gripping, like a fine red wine on a stormy night.
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