 | Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics) by Chinua Achebe
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £2.19 An important book by a Nobel prizewinner that will open your eyes to the tribal life of West Africa
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 | Rites of Passage (Sea Trilogy) by William Golding
Buy new: £5.08 / Used from: £1.65 A masterpiece. One of the best books I have ever read
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 | Crime and Punishment (Classics) by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy used from: £0.01 A deep dig into the psychological world of a murderer. A great book
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 | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £1.50 Very funny, very moving and very well written. Irving at his best.
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 | Crossing to Safety (Modern Library) by Wallace Stegner
Buy used from: £1.54 Stegner is a writer relatively unknown in the UK. He writes in a gentle manner and manages to take the reader right into the heart of the books characters.
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 | The World According to Garp (Black Swan) by John Irving
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Wild, crazy, thought provoking and very very funny.
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 | Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Buy new: £6.66 / Used from: £0.01 Despite a dissapointing ending I loved this book. The sense of cold, ice and suspense is literally chilling.
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 | News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.01 Marquez is a great story teller but in this factual piece of reporting he has managed to excel. Sensitive and moving, this book will open your eyes to the harrowing tale of kidnapping in Colombia
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 | Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank Arthur Worsley
Buy new: £6.95 / Used from: £1.29 Worsleys amazing real life account of Shackleton and crews expedition to Antartica.
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 The first Kundara book I read, and the best.
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 | The Three Musketeers (Wordsworth Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Great swashbuckling stuff. I couldn't put it down and I didn't want it to finish.
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 | The Carpenter's Pencil (Panther) by Manuel Rivas
Buy used from: £3.39 Beutifully written, incredibly romantic and very sad. Rivas has poignantly captured the emotion and tragedy of the Spanish Civil War
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 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £4.64 / Used from: £0.01 Despite adapted to a mediocre film, this is a great book.
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 | Regeneration by Pat Barker
Buy used from: £0.01 A vivid and moving book on the psychological aftershocks of the first world war. Every war mongering idiot should be forced to read this.
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 | Dracula (Penguin Classics) by Bram Stoker
Buy used from: £0.01 The best gothic novel of all time. Be afraid, be very afraid !!
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 | And When Did You Last See Your Father? by Blake Morrison
Buy used from: £0.01 This personal, comforting book made me review the relationship I had with my own father.
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 | The Moonstone (Oxford World's Classics) by Wilkie Collins
Buy used from: £1.39 One of the greatest detective stories ever written
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 | Strange Places, Questionable People by John Simpson
Buy new: £5.95 / Used from: £0.01 A great reporter of the facts. Very funny, very interesting and full of adventure
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 | Emma (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy used from: £0.01 Timeless.
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 | The Flanders Panel (Panther) by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Buy used from: £0.01 Intriguing thriller set in Madrid, involving the art world and strategic chess movements in reverse
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