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Best 12 books I've read in the last 12 months
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Penguin Popular Classics)The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Penguin Popular Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01
The greatest psychological thriller ever written
The Short Day DyingThe Short Day Dying by Peter Hobbs
Buy used from: £0.01
Heartbreaking little masterpiece of life and death, faith and futility, love and lovelessness
The Time Traveler's WifeThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: £3.82 / Used from: £1.00
A brilliant idea - time travel and love - dazzlingly executed
Lanark: Life in Four Books: A Life in 4 Books (Canongate Classics)Lanark: Life in Four Books: A Life in 4 Books (Canongate Classics) by Alasdair Gray
Buy used from: £2.47
Time travelling in this one too. Half memoir half fantasy
Omnibus (Penguin Crime Fiction)Omnibus (Penguin Crime Fiction) by John Franklin Bardin
Buy used from: £12.95
Wonderfully surreal detective stories, written in the 40s
Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth CenturyOpening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century by Lauren Slater
Buy used from: £4.06
Everything you wanted to know about psychology, but were too afraid to ask
Fear and TremblingFear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.42
Perfect little black comedy of manners set in a Japanese corporation
The Republic of TreesThe Republic of Trees by Sam Taylor
Buy new: £9.39 / Used from: £0.01
Starts off Enid Blyton with sex, ends up Marquis de Sade in a forest. Strange and compelling
White Noise (Picador Books)White Noise (Picador Books) by Don DeLillo
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £1.97
An X-ray of the American soul, circa 1984. Very dark and very funny
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory: AND Shakespeare's Memory (Penguin Modern Classics)The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory: AND Shakespeare's Memory (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jorge Borges
Buy new: £7.80 / Used from: £5.00
Borges's last, saddest and simplest collection. Worth getting for the glorious 'Shakespeare's Memory' alone
A Place of Greater SafetyA Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
Buy used from: £2.30
Brilliantly compelling fictional account of Danton, Robespierre, 1789 and all that
The Vintage Book of Amnesia (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)The Vintage Book of Amnesia (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Buy new: £7.64 / Used from: £4.09
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