![]() | Revolutionary Road (Modern American Fiction) by Richard Yates
Buy used from: £1.26 More people should read this great novel. A Poignant account of American middle class suburbia.
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![]() | Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 The first Atwood novel I read... it got me hooked!
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![]() | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 A simple novel but such a geat read, Gatsby is captivating. This book really brings to life the decadence of the New York jazz age.
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![]() | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £4.75 / Used from: £0.01 What more can be said about this great book. Beautifully crafted and poetic, Esther is an unforgetable character.
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![]() | The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £0.19 Enthralling from the very first page. I can't recommend it highly enough. The Lisbon sisters are mesmorizing.
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![]() | Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: £5.45 / Used from: £0.01 Eugenides does not disappoint with his second novel. This is an epic story!
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![]() | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £6.89 / Used from: £0.01 Truly deserving of its 'modern classic' label! The setting of a prestigious New England college is everything you could imagine and more.
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![]() | The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
Buy used from: £0.01 Different from 'The Secret history' but just as good. The ending left me a little disappointed but still I can't wait for Tartt to write more.
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![]() | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: £3.82 / Used from: £0.65 This book is a real page turner, beautifully written and very moving.
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![]() | Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 The strange world of Vernon Gregory Little... hilarious!
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![]() | Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Buy new: £4.10 / Used from: £0.01 Beautifully written, a real page turner.
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![]() | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.30 / Used from: £1.22 I would highly recommend this book. One I will definitely be reading again.
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![]() | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.49 You can't help but become immersed in Holden's strange world. Another modern classic.
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![]() | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.09 / Used from: £2.35 Frightening and intriguing. Orwell is remarkably perceptive, one of the best written dystopian novels.
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![]() | We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Buy used from: £0.01 A gripping story, lots of twists and turns. One of the best and most surprising endings to a book i've read in a while.
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![]() | Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
Buy used from: £0.01 I read this on holiday in one day, a brilliant little read!
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![]() | Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 Not the kind of novel I would normally go for, but was really suprised by how much I enjoyed it. It has a fantastic plot twist and great characters.
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![]() | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.01 This is a remarkable epic tale, an unforgettable story and one destined to stay in my heart and mind for many years to come.
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![]() | Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Buy used from: £0.01 Absolutely brilliant, I loved this book from the very first page and could not put it down.
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![]() | Collected Stories (Vintage Classics) by John Cheever
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £6.49 A great collection of short stories dealing with suburban life in post war America. I particularly enjoyed 'Oh Youth and Beauty!'
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![]() | The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £0.31 One of many great McEwan novels. Equally disturbing and intriguing.
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![]() | A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates by Blake Bailey
Buy new: £23.75 / Used from: £13.05 The only definitive biography of Yates that I am aware of. Extremely well written and deeply moving. Yates was a great writer but deeply unappreciated and led a troubled life.
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![]() | The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Buy used from: £3.70 A short, easy to read book. Set out as a series of letters, it explores the awkwardness of adolescence, loss, love and friendship.
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![]() | Le Grand Meaulnes (Penguin Modern Classics) by Henri Alain-Fournier
Buy used from: £6.49 A beautifully romantic tale, about friendship and love, and holding on to adolescent dreams. Very sad but love this book.
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![]() | Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £2.24 This book has attitude! Raw and edgy, describes the author's alter- ego Hank Chinaski growing up and learning to hate the world while slowly descending into alcoholism. A tragic tale but enjoyable.
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