 | The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £0.70 so much better than the film (ive actually never seen a film being better than the book...)
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 | Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £1.35 this isnt nice. this is actually great. but it didnt quite make it into my 'favourite' list. its not only about the holocaust. very deep and clever story. at times even really funny.
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (International Writers) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £1.65 a bit magical (well it is magical realism...) and wonderfully confusing. hundreds of things going on on each page so you definitely won't get bored. but it might be a bit too much for some people.
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 | Blindness by Jose Saramago
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.54 about a whole town going blind through mysterious reasons and inevitably going crazy
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 | What a Carve Up! (Essential Penguin) by Jonathan Coe
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 a bit funny, a bit sad. gets more and more interesting towards the end.
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 | The World According to Garp (Black Swan) by John Irving
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 same comment as to 'the virgin suicides'..... a bit weird and good
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 | The Hotel New Hampshire (Black Swan) by John Irving
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £0.01 so funny..... also weird and sad. perhaps a bit too similar to 'garp' but still a nice read.
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 | Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.43 i dont know about the english translation but i liked it. it is easy to read .... and yet so complex
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 | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 im serious.. this is not a love story AT all (why dont they change this horrible cover?), nothing like the dull, slimey stuff i expected... this is about a woman trying to survive a war and much more
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 | The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 quick-paced and rich story.... could make a good holiday read. for very long holidays.......
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 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1) by J.K. Rowling
Buy new: £4.44 / Used from: £0.01 my mother bought this one for me 6 or 7 years ago and it was lying on my bookshelf for years before i finally gave it a try: surprise! this is actually a very entertaining little book/series!
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 | Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 i dont drink much alcohol... if i do at all.... but this book made me go and buy a bottle of red wine. would make a good holiday read, too.
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 | Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Buy new: £4.50 / Used from: £0.01 not very realistic in my eyes but a nice read nonetheless. i can especially recommend this book to anyone who loves romantic stories with a happy ending. nice to learn about japanese culture, too.
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