 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £4.12 / Used from: £0.01 Because the film was criminal and may have put you off the book. I say read it now. It is so many genres in one book. Masterpiece.
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 | Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Buy used from: £0.01 Yes, this is a book about Vermeer and painting. But I think it's more about growing into adulthood and the sexual awakening that comes with it, plus the pitfalls. Wonderful read.
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 | Daisy Miller (Penguin Popular Classics) by Henry James
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | Losing It by Lara Harte
Buy used from: £0.01 The world should be at the feet of beautiful and talented Corinne. When she attempts suicide, her sister Merle seeks a door into her past to find a motive. Accurate and painful at the same time.
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 | Emma (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Emma's obnoxious all right, but so entertaining! My favourite Jane Austen book, the characters are all brilliantly drawn.
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 | Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Oh come on! No, it's not literature, but it's bloody hilarious. Readers of Jane Austen's Persuasion and Colin Firth fans will appreciate more.
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 | About a Boy: Film tie-in by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £5.56 / Used from: £0.01 Definitely Nick Hornby's best. I laughed, I empathised, I knew the characters. High Fidelity was influenced by Hornby's life, this is pure fiction and I loved it.
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 | Rebecca (Virago modern classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £1.50 It's not so much a romance (which some have suggested) as a mystery thriller. The new Mrs de Winter is plagued by memories of Rebecca, Max's first wife. Who was she and does he still love her?
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 | The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Helen's brother Declan has news - he is dying of AIDS. She must confront her issues with her family, as they obey Declan's final wish. Wonderful depiction of Irish life and its remaining prejudices.
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 | Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Buy used from: £0.01 Three generations of Chinese women. Unbelievable suffering, discrimination - and survival. This read like a thriller, but is a true story. I learned a lot about China from this.
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 | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £6.89 / Used from: £0.01 Astounding. Even after reading this a while ago, the memory of it is still crystal clear in my mind. It's even better to read while studying Classics!!
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 | Atonement by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Very powerful book, that resonates even now, a year after last reading it! The relationships and the overall mood of the book have stayed with me long afterwards.
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 | Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Buy new: £5.41 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | Vanity Fair (Penguin Popular Classics) by William Thackeray
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £2.50 |
 | Mrs. Dalloway (Wordsworth Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Never has prose convinced me so fully of its beauty. Woolf at her very finest.
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 | The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Penguin Popular Classics) by Joseph Conrad
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.41 / Used from: £1.65 |
 | The Mandarins (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Simone de Beauvoir
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £4.50 |
 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £4.02 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £3.96 / Used from: £0.62 |
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