 | A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £2.87 what a guy, I actually know someone, well several people actually, who shine with the eccentric light of Ignatious. Don't know if I'm meant to love him but I really do!
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 | The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Buy used from: £4.38 read this book in one day- impossible to put down, narrated by death, it felt like a long gorgeous poem to me, I really cried, some were sad tears some were joyous
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 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy used from: £27.95 how can a book keep you on the edge of your seat? this one does beautifully, a strange but gloroius love story
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 | Possible Side Effects: True Stories by Augusten Burroughs
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.41 anything by Burroughs I have come to love- this book was the first in my life to make me laugh until I ached!
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 | Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Buy new: £5.06 / Used from: £0.31 This or any other book by David Sedaris is so hilarious in my kind of way, if you don't laugh then you may well have a problem! I'd so love to know this guy!
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 | The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole by Stephanie Doyon
Buy used from: £0.01 This really felt like a story, A really good story, enjoyed it so much
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 | Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan
Buy new: £4.37 / Used from: £0.01 broke my heart, sob-fest, but gorgeous - just like having a dog! so much make you smile and think 'been there!'
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 | Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
Buy new: £6.67 / Used from: £0.01 un-put downable, thrilling, twisting, exciting- all that from a book? you bet!
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 | Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.14 a beautiful fairy tale, feels four hundred years old, classic and whimsical but not silly
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 | Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 fabulous book, you see people at their best and worst and it centres around a dog - whats not to love
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 | Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Buy used from: £1.18 impossible to recommend this too highly, could feel the dirt in my mouth!
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £0.01 don't expect to know where you are with this one! excellent
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 | Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £6.63 / Used from: £1.78 mesmerising- so potentially the truth for our future- makes you think
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 | The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.40 swashbuckingly fabulous!
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 | Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Buy new: £4.83 / Used from: £0.01 you realise your age!!! but it's worth it - tender and cool
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 | The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.24 it would appear I love fairystories! who knew - this one is a corker!
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 | A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Buy new: £4.39 / Used from: £0.01 insightful, funny- you feel for the people! loved it!
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 | Timbuktu by Paul Auster
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 dog the main character again- brilliant!
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 | The American Boy by Andrew Taylor
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 this started a long line of books in this genre for me- however this one remains the best excellent turn of the century murder mystery!
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 | Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £5.09 / Used from: £0.01 to be honest- hard work at times, but so worth it, fabuolous book
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 | The Complete Stories (Penguin Classics) by Truman Capote
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £4.27 I have come to love all that I have read by this man- adoring his luxurious economy of words
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 | The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
Buy new: £5.90 / Used from: £0.99 A god amonst us- adddictive writing
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 | In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.08 you read it and become so absorbed reality pinches
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 | In the Eyes of Mr Fury (Penguin Originals) by Philip Ridley
Buy used from: £0.01 my sis' favourite book- I see why!
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 | Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £1.99 wow- corset rippingly good- added titles of hers compulsively to my collection
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