 | The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: And Other Stories by Carson McCullers
Buy used from: £2.79 Title story is wonderful
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 | The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.01 Good story, Not one of my favourite books though.
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 | Fin De Partie by Samuel Beckett
Read this for my French course...in English it is 'Endgame'
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 | An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £3.06 Story of struggle against manic depression. Interesting insight.
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 | Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £2.97 If I remember correctly my favourite story was 'The Circular Ruins'
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £2.96 / Used from: £0.87 Disappointing, and in parts ridiculous. I wouldn't recommend it.
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 | The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.55 A beautiful, beautiful book.
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| The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £0.01 Another beautifully crafted book.
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 | Les Belles Images (Flamingo) by Simone de Beauvoir
Buy used from: £1.80 I love S de B but this is not one of my favourites.
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 | The Waves (Wordsworth Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Another beautiful book!
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 | All Men Are Mortal by Simone de Beauvoir
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.25 Still love S de B, but really didn't like this one!
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 | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £3.68 / Used from: £0.01 Brilliant brilliant gripping storytelling.
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 | Anna Karenina (Wordsworth Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Lovely, if rather long!
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 | Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life by Julia Briggs
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £4.84 Fascinating. Focusses very much on her works as well as her.
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 | Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £3.94 Wonderful.
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 | Une Vie: Maupassant: Une Vie by Guy de Maupassant
Easy to read as practice for someone who is not fluent in French.
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 | Women in Love (Penguin Popular Classics) by D.H. Lawrence
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 Didn't enjoy this one hugely.
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 | Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £3.14 Good, but I wasn't bowled over.
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 | The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Buy new: £2.38 / Used from: £0.01 Fantastic writing. Crawls through your skin.
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £3.17 Typical fabulous Marquez.
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 | Story of O by Pauline Reage
Buy new: £2.94 / Used from: £2.72 Wouldn't really recommend it. Film version is dreadful by the way.
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 | Down and Out in Paris and London (Essential Penguin) by George Orwell
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £1.71 Good stuff.
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 | Delta of Venus (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anais Nin
Buy new: £3.62 / Used from: £0.50 Quite good; not riveting
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 | Saturday by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £0.01 Love McEwan but I hate Saturday
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 | Atonement by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.62 / Used from: £0.01 Lovely book, lovely film
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