 | The Collector (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £1.63 Beautiful Prose with a chilling storyline. Much to discuss on the nature of evil
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 | Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 A South American siege, a case of Stockholm Syndrome and thrilling climax
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 | The Good Terrorist (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Doris May Lessing
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.95 Thoughtful story of a girl who plays at being an anarchist and becomes inexorably drawn into something more sinister
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 | Blindness by Jose Saramago
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.54 The world goes slowly blind, anarchy ensues. A humanist fable by a Nobel Prize winner
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 | The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £4.35 Dysfunctional family sits down for Thanksgiving dinner. Exploration of the family dynamic; hilarious and sad
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 | The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Our book group's favourite novel.
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 | Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £2.10 Sparse prose details a broken family life. A novel about love and loss
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 | A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £4.23 Powerful novel about the 4 very different Indian lives. Excellent characterisation, it will make you laugh and it will certainly make you cry
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 | The Dispossessed (Gollancz S.F.) by Ursula Le Guin
Buy used from: £3.50 You may have overlooked this because of it's Science Fiction tag but like 1984 and Brave New World this novel transcends the genre
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 | Cloudstreet (Picador Books) by Tim Winton
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 The story of two families in a dilapidated house. Australia's favourite book
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 | The Uninvited by Geling Yan
Buy used from: £0.01 A Chinese worker sneaks in to buffet where he's mistaken for a journalist. He enters a world the like of which he has only dreamed. He doesn't belong but can he escape?
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 | The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe
Buy used from: £0.01 Hilarious, nostalgic tale of a seventies grammar school
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 | Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Buy new: £4.72 / Used from: £0.01 More nostalgia, this time the 80's. Semi Autobiographical, accurate and moving
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 | The Constant Gardener by John le Carré
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.88 Gripping tale of the weak against the powerful
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 | Battle Royale (Gollancz S.F.) by Koushun Takami
Buy new: £6.56 / Used from: £2.27 This one is bit leftfield. Teenagers forced to kill one another. On the surface a horror novel, underneath a polished look at the dark side of human nature and the power of the state.
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 | The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 A wonderful novel about memory and idendity. Moving and extremely well written
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 | Peripheral Vision by Patricia Ferguson
Buy new: £8.66 / Used from: £0.01 Fantastic character portrayal and relationship observations.
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 | Whatever Makes You Happy by William Sutcliffe
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.85 A tale about Mums and their boys. An entertaining, insightful read, that can be enjoyed by either. (Wives may find it of use too!)
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