 | The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Buy used from: £0.01 I didn't like it but everyone else did!
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 | Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Buy used from: £5.95 a real success
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 | Atonement by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £5.57 / Used from: £0.01 Not as good as other McEwans; most other ppl agreed
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 | Pashazade: The First Arabesk by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 No one enjoyed our foray into sci-fi
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 | Breaktime (Red Fox young adult books) by Aidan Chambers
Buy used from: £0.01 Interesting to read a children's book, in a different format
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 | Dr.Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex by Olivia Judson
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £2.80 Good in parts but too much to get through for a monthly book club
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 | Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Buy new: £8.97 / Used from: £0.01 For once, I totally totally loved it, but not all the group did
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 | The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £6.27 / Used from: £2.86 Total agreement - totally fantastic. The best read by far and we didn't notice 600 pages
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.88 Moved on to classics: Enjoyable, hasn't dated in 70 years.
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 | An Artist of the Floating World (Faber Fiction Classics) by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.76 I really enjoyed it, a good compliment to Murakami, but others found it hard to engage
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 | Property by Valerie Martin
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 A disappointment. No one enjoyed it, no sympathy with the characters
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 | Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Buy used from: £3.25 People enjoyed it
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 | Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £6.00 I wasn't so sure but everyone else was very taken with the pictures and the sad story
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 | Watchmen by Alan Moore
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £3.97 I was anti at first but it's a cracking story that wins you over
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 | The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Buy used from: £0.01 Totally self indulgent - the back reads well, the book not so much. Good story, too much Dylan not enough Mingus
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 | Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.44 The next choice - recommended by someone else's book club - great first sentence apparently
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