 | The House on the Strand (Virago Modern Classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £4.92 / Used from: £1.49 I just like the protagonist was transported and the story has stayed with me over the last 20 plus years
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 | Watership Down by Richard Adams
Buy new: £5.38 / Used from: £0.01 a very grown up childrens book encompassing so many themes. Make time for it, it is a classic.
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 The ultimate romance, but with so much social bite! Ah and Mr Darcy...
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 | Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 unexpected and brilliant, this started my love of Margaret Atwoods novels.
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 | The Secret History (Read Red) by Donna Tartt
Buy used from: £1.64 clever, shocking, unforgettable. Read it.
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 | The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Buy used from: £0.01 harrowing but worth it.
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 | Thinks ... by David Lodge
Buy used from: £0.01 funny and thought provoking, cannot think why not easily available
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 | Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £6.63 / Used from: £1.82 another side of Atwood, and wonderful.
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 | The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 fabulous entry into the extremes of others
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 | Of Human Bondage (Vintage classics) by William Somerset Maugham
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £5.02 a classic and a great read
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 | Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 great fun, loved the mix of make believe and history
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 | Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 moving, funny, tragic and insightful.
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 | That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 i had no idea Annie Proulx could be so funny, but done with great and infectious affection.
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 | Enduring Love: Now a major motion picture by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.43 possibly the best and most gripping opening chapter of any novel I have ever read
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 | Unless by Carol Shields
Buy new: £5.95 / Used from: £0.01 very moving, intimate final novel from the sorely missed Carol Shields
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 | Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Any Anne Tyler is good, this is just an example and one of the best known.
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 | English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
Buy new: £4.56 / Used from: £0.01 a brilliant romp but also a testiment to colonial horrors. Funny and oh so sad
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 | The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Buy new: £4.70 / Used from: £0.01 the least words, the most thought provoking and harrowing
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 | Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 everything you could want from a novel rolled into one
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 | The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Buy used from: £0.01 should make you feel better about your own family... brutal, smart and funny.
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 | Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 one of those books that makes you squirm. The Booker Prize got it right this year.
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 | Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 took me a while to get into this but when I did I was transported. Funny and strange.
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 | Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £0.01 absolutely facinating account of a man and the amazing times he lived in
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 | Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Buy used from: £3.07 history made facinating through a fish! Your fish and chips will never be the same.
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 | Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 still true, recognisable and terrifying today
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