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CPW Book Club 2007
Lolita (Penguin Classics)Lolita (Penguin Classics)
Buy new: £6.24 / Used from: £2.50
Disturbing, provocative, beautifully written, a great novel
The Master and Margarita (Penguin Classics)The Master and Margarita (Penguin Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £6.67
Excellent satire
The Plague (Essential Penguin)The Plague (Essential Penguin) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £4.03 / Used from: £0.99
Thought provoking, highly readable and very French
Don QuixoteDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.00
A challenge rather than a pleasure
The Book of Disquiet (Five Star Paperback)The Book of Disquiet (Five Star Paperback) by Fernando Pessoa
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £5.92
Pretty passages but plotless and almost unreadable
The Periodic Table (Penguin Modern Classics)The Periodic Table (Penguin Modern Classics) by Primo Levi
Buy new: £3.64 / Used from: £3.28
Brilliant matching of form to content, a truly great novel
The World I Live In (NYRB Classic)The World I Live In (NYRB Classic) by Helen Keller
Buy new: £3.61 / Used from: £4.68
A unique point of view
God's Bits of Wood (African Writers Series)God's Bits of Wood (African Writers Series) by Sembene Ousmane
Buy new: £8.55 / Used from: £6.20
Moving and colourful
Live and LearnLive and Learn by Joan Didion
Buy new: £5.85
Incisive, interesting and an insight into the US
The Sot-weed FactorThe Sot-weed Factor by John Barth
Buy new: £8.40 / Used from: £2.85
Very funny but much too long
Heaven Has No FavouritesHeaven Has No Favourites by Erich Maria Remarque
Buy used from: £7.99
Beautiful and life-affirming - oh for it to be back in print.