![]() | What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist: the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England by Daniel Pool
Buy used from: £8.48 A useful quick reference.
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![]() | Green Eggs and Ham (Dr Seuss Green Back Books) by Dr. Seuss
Buy new: £3.57 / Used from: £0.98 Fun for adults as well as children.
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![]() | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £4.75 / Used from: £0.01 A very truthful account of the slide to mental breakdown.
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![]() | A Doll's House (Dover Thrift) by Henrik Ibsen
Buy used from: £0.01 Still relevant. The portrait of a marriage as it quietly, subtly falls apart.
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![]() | The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £0.18 Excellent depiction of how sufferers of mental illness appear to those on the outside.
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![]() | Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie
Buy used from: £0.01 I hate to criticize but this was shallow, insipid and not particularly entertaining.
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![]() | The Yellow Wallpaper (Virago modern classics) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Buy new: £4.27 / Used from: £0.01 Riveting stuff about a 19th century woman suffering from 'hysteria' and the dubious treatment advocated by the male authority figures in her life.
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![]() | Invisible Darkness: the Strange Case of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka by Stephen Williams
Buy used from: £2.73 A detailed account of the famous muder case. It's good, but makes for very grim reading.
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![]() | Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
Buy new: £13.49 / Used from: £0.01 This was shallow and insipid too but it was also entertaining and so I didn't mind as much.
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![]() | Deadly Innocence (New Comprehensive Biochemistry) by Scott Burnside
Buy used from: £0.93 I read this because I wanted to see if it corroborated the other account (above) of the same crime. It was (mercifully) less detailed about the murders themselves.
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![]() | The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Penguin Popular Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Very good as a psychological study, although I wasn't as chilled as I'd expected to be.
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![]() | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 Fantastic romance, but a bit put off by the rampant racism. I don't mind it from the characters; it adds to the authenticity somewhat. But Mitchell herself comes across as a real bigot.
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![]() | The Rose Of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 What a nice suprise. A really satisfying story with characters that felt real, and I got to learn something about the Crimean War.
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![]() | The French Lieutenant's Woman (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £1.45 This book is beloved of literary critics, but I found it a bit, well, turgid, frankly.
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![]() | Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.15 Didn't enjoy this either, if I'm honest. You can get away with anything once you've won the Nobel Prize.
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![]() | The Oxford Book of Sonnets
Buy used from: £3.84 A really great selection to dip into or read cover to cover.
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![]() | The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £6.50 / Used from: £2.57 My first Hemingway. Not what I expected at all. I didn't think his prose would be so lively and I kept waiting for more misogyny. Instead, it was a page-turner.
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![]() | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £3.50 Just amazing. Was in pieces by the end though.
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![]() | The Red and the Green (Vintage classics) by Iris Murdoch
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £2.50 Set mostly on the eve of the Easter Rebellion in Dublin. Iris Murdoch is becoming one of my favourite authors.
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![]() | The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £1.49 Chosen by my Reading Group. The relationship between father and son, as they struggle to survive in post-apocalyptic America, is very moving.
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![]() | The Return of the Soldier (Virago modern classics) by Rebecca West
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Wonderful novel about three women who must cope when the soldier they all love returns from the war suffering from (unrealistically depicted) shell-shock.
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![]() | The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Nice easy read. Very life-affirming.
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![]() | A Lost Lady (Virago Modern Classics) by Willa Cather
Buy used from: £0.01 One of those well to-do but adulterous lady stories, a bit Madame Bovary except more from the male perspective.
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![]() | On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.82 / Used from: £0.01 I loved this. I can't think of anything negative to say. Such a realistic depiction of sexual repression. And, contrary to so many of the reviews, it is still relevant.
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![]() | The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 A good opportunity to find out more about the history of the conflict in Afghanistan. Author not so great at character development though.
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