 | Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.01 this book has so much raw emotion and has such personal resonance, it made me ache inside
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 | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £5.64 / Used from: £2.94 It is about human suffering
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 | The Collected Dorothy Parker (Penguin Modern Classics) by Dorothy Parker
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £4.55 we can all draw parallels in our lives from at least one of her stories - wit is her weapon!!
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 | Eva Luna (Essential Penguin) by Isabel Allende
Buy used from: £0.01 just wonderful
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 | Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 this book requires all of your senses - it is full of passion, truth and realism
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 | Delta of Venus (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anais Nin
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £4.19 shocking that this was written by a woman so long ago - the original catherine M - this book frightens, excites and touches raw nerves.
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 | Good Tempered Food: Recipes to love, leave, and linger over: Recipes to Love, Leave and Linger Over by Tamasin Day-Lewis
Buy used from: £6.25 I love to create things then watch people demolish it with astonishing speed - all of these work wonderfully!
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 | The Cider House Rules: Now a major film starring Michael Caine by John Irving
Buy used from: £0.01 Irving at his best - he makes you think all the way through.....
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 | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £6.89 / Used from: £0.01 a modern day lord of the flies - but scarier and far more gripping!
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 | Sexus (Flamingo Modern Classics) by Henry Miller
Buy used from: £1.15 you can't have Nin without Miller - there is integrity in his ability to be honest here
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 | The Go-between (Penguin Modern Classics) by L.P. Hartley
Buy used from: £2.07 I just love this book!!!!!
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 | Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 I felt that I was there re-living the experience with elaine risley
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 | Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Saul Bellow
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £1.51 you know when you are sure there is something more to life...well there is!!
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 | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.97 he really does know what goes on in other people's heads!!
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 | Fire: From 'a Journal of Love' the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1934-1937 by Anais Nin
Buy new: £8.19 / Used from: £5.19 we owe a lot to Nin in terms of female emancipation and the ability for us to be as free as we can be both sexually and intellectually in today's society
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 | Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Buy used from: £0.01 I have re-read this book so many times
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 | Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Buy used from: £0.01 totally historical, truely frightening but just a fantastic read
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 | Blindness by Jose Saramago
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.36 this book just totally blew me away - scary and fascinating
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 | Tamara de Lempicka: A Life of Deco and Decadence by Laura Claridge
Buy used from: £12.99 a wonderful artist and a fascinating life - not bound by other peoples protocols or moral codes but absolutely her own woman
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 | The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream (Thorsons audio) by Paulo Coelho
Buy used from: £1.45 the story of following your dreams - we are only here once so why do we get stuck in such wrong places?
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 | The Bridge Across Forever by Richard Bach
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 I truely believe in soulmates and time and place and different lives and karma and the fact that sometimes you just meet people who change your path irrevocably...
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 | Silk by Alessandro Baricco
Buy used from: £0.01 sensual, poignant,deeply moving,astonishing
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| Lady Chatterleys Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Buy used from: £3.78 not usually a lawrence fan but this is just a fantastic read and still holds up now
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.40 / Used from: £0.54 just brilliant - you have to read it,
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 | How to Eat: Pleasures and Principles of Good Food (Cookery) by Nigella Lawson
Buy new: £11.36 / Used from: £4.92 food and sex are indelibly linked and nobody demonstrates that better than Nigella - her vocab is just compelling
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