 | Travels with My Aunt (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £1.68 Hilarious, surprising, intelligent.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £2.26 Dramatic and complex about moral dilemmas of racism and class, convincingly seen through the eyes of a little girl.
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 | Perelandra: A Novel (Hudson River Series) by C.S. Lewis
Buy used from: £24.47 For its poetic beauty - it has many other qualities, but the language is exquisite.
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 | The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Buy new: £7.80 / Used from: £3.95 Storytelling at its best, burlesque and imaginative.
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £1.74 This is not an easy read, but it's worth it. Magical realism doesn't get better than this.
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 | Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Puffin Books) by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £1.78 A very enjoyable read for adults and children alike, lots of elements from legends and fairytales but with a personal twist, descriptions and language so lively that you forget you're only reading.
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| Beginning the World by Karen Armstrong
Buy used from: £9.74 The autobiographical story of a young nun who returns to the world. Everything everybody else takes for granted is strange, and she manages to transmit that outsider's perspective to the reader.
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 | The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £3.21 Who would have thought that Russian books could be funny? This is very polemical as well as wildly imaginative, with all hell thrown in for good value.
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 | African Short Stories (African Writers Series)
Buy new: £7.70 / Used from: £3.63 This anthology gives rare glimpses into everyday lives and concerns of people all over Africa.
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 | The Pillow Book (Classics) by Sei Shonagon
Buy used from: £0.27 The candid and surprisingly readable diary of a Japanese lady-in -waiting. All the gossip and behind the screens information you could ever wish for from the court of a Heian Empress.
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 | Stone Raft (Harvest Book) by Jose Saramago
Buy used from: £4.11 Saramago is always good. I love the idea of the Iberian peninsula just taking off, a gigantic island afloat, and all the complications that follow.
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 | My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Buy new: £3.64 / Used from: £1.42 I found it hard to choose one of Chaim Potok's books. They all evoke the tension of chosing one's path in life, written with passion and erudition.
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 | Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £2.11 Unputdownable! Wonderful read! Tip top type book! Rushdie is a fantastic storyteller.
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