 | A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Epic saga that sucks you in. I know it is long, but you won't want it to end.
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 | Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £1.50 Exquisitely beautiful book about love. An elderly father writes to his child, believing he is dying. Extraordinary.
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 | The Turning by Tim Winton
Buy used from: £1.54 Atmospheric, carefully constructed. Fascinating insight into life on the wrong side of the tracks in Australia
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 | Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £0.01 Superb story set in the Ozarks of a hill billy girl struggling to care for her family. Smell the pine cones.
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 | Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Buy new: £5.50 / Used from: £0.01 Beautiful book by an important writer.
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 | The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Moving and elegant best seller
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 | We Need To Talk About Kevin (Five Star Paperback) by Lionel Shriver
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.01 If there is anyone who has not read it, they should.
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 | The Oulipo: Winter Journeys by Georges Perec
Brilliantly clever, gushes along.
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 | Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Buy new: £4.56 / Used from: £1.67 Excellent debut.
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 | Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £1.00 Enjoyable and well written.
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 | The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Buy used from: £2.00 Beautifully written book of real depth.
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £4.80 / Used from: £0.01 Twee ending, but generally a tour de force.
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 | The Siege by Helen Dunmore
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite from this exceptional writer
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 | Telling Liddy by Anne Fine
Buy used from: £0.01 A fantastic book about sisters.
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 | The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £0.45 Deftly observed book about teenage boys and the mystery of teenage girls.
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 | Precious Bane (Virago modern classics) by Mary Webb
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £0.01 Overlooked period novel about a woman with a cleft lip.
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 | The Wife by Meg Wolitzer
Buy new: £4.74 / Used from: £0.01 Enjoyable easy read, though not as frothy as cover suggests
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 | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.01 A weepy.
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 | The Cap, or the Price of a Life by Roman Frister
Buy used from: £0.01 A masterpiece - clear-eyed autobiography of young German Jewish boy in World War II.
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 | Call Yourself Alive?: Love Poems by Nina Cassian
Buy used from: £3.50 Sensuous, sometimes savagely painful poetry that is as accessible as it is wonderful.
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