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15 books I'd recommend to anyone
If This Is a Man / The TruceIf This Is a Man / The Truce by Primo Levi
Buy new: £6.59 / Used from: £1.55
Moving and hopeful. Essential
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin)One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.94
Just go with it and you will be blown away. Unique
The Name of the RoseThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01
Erudite complex and instructive. Not easy but well worth the effort
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-timeThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
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Intelligent, funny and sympathetic without being sentimental or patronising
The Woman Who Walked into DoorsThe Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.01
Brilliantly constructed story of hope and survival. Paula rocks!
Time of Our SingingTime of Our Singing by Richard Powers
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.87
Inventive and richly allegorical story of race and science and music in 20th century America
Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West (Picador Books)Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West (Picador Books) by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £2.86 / Used from: £3.20
Raw and bloody. Forget the movies this is the wild west as Old Testament desert
London FieldsLondon Fields by Martin Amis
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Extremely funny and full of memorable characters and ideas
DeadkidsongsDeadkidsongs by Toby Litt
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Disturbing and claustrophobic novel that will strike a chord with anyone who was 11 years old once
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Arena Books)Kiss of the Spider Woman (Arena Books) by Manuel Puig
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £1.99
A simple tale dazzlingly told
A Sunday At The Pool In KigaliA Sunday At The Pool In Kigali by Gil Courtemanche
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £0.01
Read it and weep
Catch-22Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £1.45
Jet black humour. You gotta laugh.........
The House of the SpiritsThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
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Her masterpiece and a modern classic
Christ Stopped at Eboli (Penguin Modern Classics)Christ Stopped at Eboli (Penguin Modern Classics) by Carlo Levi
Buy new: £3.65 / Used from: £3.47
Thought-provoking and atmospheric tale of exile
London: The BiographyLondon: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £6.86
Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner?