 | Embrace by Mark Behr
Buy new: £7.58 / Used from: £4.42 Haven't finished it yet, but one of the most rivetting and disturbing books I've read for some time.
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 | The Pearl (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £5.27 / Used from: £0.01 Always have loved Steinbeck, this in particular.
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 | Burning Bright: A Play In Story Form (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £2.09 Another wonderful Steinbeck with the most heartwarming ending from any book.
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 | Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics) by Joyce James
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Read it for The Dead...another wonderful end paragraph.
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 | The Swimming-pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £1.99 A contemptable character...all the better for a devious ending!
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 | Smiling in Slow Motion: Diaries, 1991-94 by Derek Jarman
Buy new: £12.74 / Used from: £3.80 The ending of a wonderful life.
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 | I, Will McBride by Will McBride
Buy used from: £66.10 A huge volume...make up your mind if you agree with his ethics...
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 | The Decameron (Penguin Classics) by Giovanni Boccaccio
Buy used from: £1.80 A monster book of mediaeval bawdiness.
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 | House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Buy new: £16.49 / Used from: £6.99 Difficult but rivetting. Creates an eerie sense of paranoia.
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 | My Parents (Masks) by Herve Guibert
Buy used from: £1.65 A shocking book about the hypocrisy of the family.
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 | The Mysteries of Harris Burdick Portfolio Edition by Chris Van Allsburg
Buy new: £13.79 / Used from: £13.28 Create your own stories round a book which was never written.
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 | Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jorge Borges
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £4.12 Literary Escher!
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 | A Son of the Circus by John Irving
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Or any other Irving...
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 | Class Trip by Emmanuel Carrere
Buy new: £9.00 / Used from: £0.44 Read the book, then see the film. Then discuss what it's really about.
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 | Now it's Time to Say Goodbye by Dale Peck
Buy used from: £0.01 A gothic novel set in the deep south.
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 | The Unicorn (Vintage classics) by Iris Murdoch
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £1.08 Another gothic novel of irresistable hysteria. Hilarious!
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 | Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.01 Read this one- ignore the others.
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 | Shadowland (Voyager Classics) by Peter Straub
Buy used from: £0.01 Dark and mysterious.
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 | Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 A great summer read.
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 | Gemini by Michel Tournier
Buy new: £12.15 / Used from: £8.05 A book to wear out!
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 | The Foucault Reader: An Introduction to Foucault's Thought (Penguin Social Sciences) by Michel Foucault
Buy new: £8.08 / Used from: £4.53 A readable 'philosopher'
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 | Our Lady of the Flowers by Genet
Buy used from: £1.48 Pure poetry.
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 | Crustaceans by Andrew Cowan
Buy used from: £0.01 Quick, easy read but very moving (if predictable!)
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 | The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
Buy new: £5.37 / Used from: £0.01 The best Maupin book ever.
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 | Genet by Edmund White
Buy used from: £2.27 I find White hard going usually but this biography of one of my favourite authors is a gem.
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