 | The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Buy new: £4.80 / Used from: £0.29 A wonderful story of life, passion, redemption & forgiveness
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 | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £0.01 A sweeping saga set against the background of the American Civil War. Much better than the film. & don't be put off by the book cover - this definitely isn't a bodice-ripping romance!
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.26 / Used from: £1.94 Written from a child's perspective, wonderful story , a great and easy read.
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 | The Go-Between (Penguin Modern Classics) by L. P. Hartley
Buy new: £6.23 / Used from: £4.20 A superb rite-of-passage story set in England in 1900. Very evocative of the period.
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 | Affinity (Virago V) by Sarah Waters
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.09 I finished this book then started it again straight away!
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 | Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £0.01 Wonderfully written, interwoven mystery storyline - a page turner.
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 | We Need To Talk About Kevin (Five Star Paperback) by Lionel Shriver
Buy new: £4.77 / Used from: £0.01 After finishing this book you will want to share it with others so you can debate and discuss it - haunts your thoughts long afterwards.
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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 Funny, sad, clever and illuminating.
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 | The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicle) by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 Set in middle class England just before advent of WW2, great chracterisations, first in a series of 4 - all recommended.
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 | Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.01 Brilliantly evocative interwoven stories of three generations of women.
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 | The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert
Buy new: £10.89 / Used from: £2.24 A graphic and horrifying historical account of the Holocaust. To quote one reviewer, you will "Read this book with bleeding eyes".
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 | The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £3.31 Pure comedy - worth reading just for the character of Uncle Matthew!
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 | Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Buy new: £5.80 / Used from: £0.01 Absorbing account of three generations of women in 20th Century China.
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 | The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.01 Superb - reflects the changing role of women over past 70 years or so, plus you get three storylines in this huge, wonderful book.
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 | Northanger Abbey (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £1.98 / Used from: £0.01 My all-time favourite by Jane Austen
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 | The Lord of The Rings (Based on the 50th Anniversary Single volume edition 2004) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £12.48 / Used from: £0.01 Simply the best book of all time.
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 | Beneath the Skin by Nicci French
Buy new: £6.67 / Used from: £0.01 I love the different characterisations of the 3 women in this murder mystery.
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 | Roses from the Earth: The Biography of Anne Frank by Carol Ann Lee
Buy used from: £8.70 A cracking biography of Ann Frank's life and death.
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 | King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite of all Ruth Rendell's works.
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 | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £0.01 Stunning story of life experienced by two women in the 1920's and 1980's.
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 | Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Buy new: £4.72 / Used from: £0.01 This book made me cry with laughter and with sadness. I defy you to read it WITHOUT having an Irish accent in your head all the time!
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 | Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 Excellent biography about a homeless man - inspiring, funny, sad, topical - will make you reflect on the unfairness of the system.
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 | Rebecca (Virago modern classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £5.57 / Used from: £0.43 Psychological mystery set against the sweeping backdrop of the Cornish coastline.
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 | Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Buy new: £5.42 / Used from: £0.01 Wonderful, rite of passage/coming-out story.
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 | Penmarric by Susan Howatch
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £0.01 Cleverly uses historical characters (the family and feuds of King Henry II) as the baseline plot for this family saga set in turn of the century Cornwall. A nice, fat, wallowing read!
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