 | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 I didn't want to like this, because everyone else seems to bleat about it so much. But it's one of the most accomplished, most absorbing books I've ever read.
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 | The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe
Buy used from: £0.01 How can a writer sustain a plot as complex as this and still be funny? Much better than The Rotters Club.
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 | The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Buy used from: £0.01 Best novel of the century so far. Loses its way for a while in the middle, but ends with a punch and leaves you wanting more.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.26 / Used from: £1.93 Sweet, brutal, powerful: the 20th century's most relevant classic.
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 | The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Buy used from: £0.01 RIP Carol Shields. This is her best book: vivid and resonant.
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 | The Country Life by Rachel Cusk
Buy new: £4.16 / Used from: £0.01 A nicely-pitched antidote to A Place In The Sun.
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 | The Go-Between (Essential Penguin) by L.P. Hartley
Buy used from: £2.58 A book everyone must read before they die.
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £0.01 Read it in a weekend and remember it for ever.
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