 | Delta Wedding (Virago modern classics) by Eudora Welty
Buy used from: £1.28 Delta Wedding. Eudora Welty. Welty's beautiful sensual prose lingers in memory long after the last page.
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 | The Good Mother by Sue Miller
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.02 The Good Mother, Sue Miller. Heart-breaking and memorable. Beautiful story, beautiful prose.
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 | Wandering Between Two Worlds: Essays on Faith and Art by Anita Mathias
Buy used from: £26.53 Wandering between Two Worlds. Lyrical, pitch-perfect writing chronicles the writer's journey from atheism, to Mother Teresa, to domesticity and art
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 | The Book of Ruth (Oprah's Book Club) by Jane Hamilton
Buy used from: £0.01 The Book of Ruth, Jane Hamilton. Another tear-jerker, well-written and beautifully realized.
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 | Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £1.78 Gilead. Marilynne Robinson. The perfect cometh. Writing so beautiful and perfect it breaks the heart.
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 | Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £1.68 Housekeeping. Marilynne Robinson Beautiful and perfect writing. Vivid, sensual, lovely and sad.
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 | The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Buy used from: £0.01 The Stone Diaries. Carol Shields The real world captured in beautiful, vivid, sensuous, memorable detail. Lovely texture.
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 | The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.01 The Shipping News, Annie Proulx. Another of my favourites. Poignant and finely observed.
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 | Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Buy used from: £0.01 Cold Mountain. Charles Frazier. A vivid memorable novel, which sticks in your mind. Great twist at the end
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 | Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Buy used from: £0.01 Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey. One of those novels I really really enjoyed reading, a increasingly rare pleasure.
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 | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics) by Annie Dillard
Buy used from: £4.66 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Annie Dillard. Retains its magic and freshness. A stylistic original
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 | The Name of the Rose (Vintage Classics) by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.93 The Name of the Rose. One of the most fascinating and gripping books I've ever read. A favourite!
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 | Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot
Buy used from: £0.01 Middlemarch. The Victorian novel at its best. Unsurpassed insight into character.
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 | The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Popular Classics) by George Eliot
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 The Mill of the Floss. It made me cry as a teen, and still does. Great excursion into the varieties of religious experience.
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 | Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Buy new: £4.65 / Used from: £2.28 Madame Bovary. Age has not dimmed the sheer and utter perfection of M. Bovary. A book to definitely read before you die.
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 | War and Peace (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £5.76 / Used from: £5.00 War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy. A century Tolstoy's insight into the human heart is unrivalled.
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 | The Home and the World (Penguin Classics) by Rabindranath Tagore
Buy used from: £5.24 Home and the World. Tagore. A wonderful story made into an equally wonderful movie.
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