 | Persuasion (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £4.27 / Used from: £0.01 A classic and one of my favourite Austens- I read this one for Book Club
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 | The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories by Christopher Booker
Buy new: £9.56 / Used from: £8.85 Like a spiral, this book goes round and round the same ideas, but makes a slightly different point each time - long-winded, but fascinating.
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 | Eunoia by Christian Bok
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 I thought this would be gimmicky, but it's beautiful in places and I was immediately hooked
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 | Dracula (Oxford World's Classics) by Bram Stoker
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.74 The original popular vampire story - a classic must-read
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 | Great Apes by Will Self
Buy new: £6.84 / Used from: £0.01 Another book club choice - Planet of the Apes on acid.
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 | Hamlet (Penguin Popular Classics) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 There are some stories you have to be familiar with - this is one of them.
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 | Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Buy new: £4.92 / Used from: £0.01 Not one of her best novels, but an interesting portrait of the women in one family. Another book club choice.
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 | Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years 1) by Gregory Maguire
Buy new: £5.18 / Used from: £0.01 An interesting 'prequel' - definitely not for children!
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 | An Ocean of Air: A Natural History of the Atmosphere by Gabrielle Walker
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 A fascinating tour of the atmosphere, and the scientists responsible for enlightening us as to it's nature.
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 | The Small House at Allington (Classics) by Anthony Trollope
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £1.22 The first Trollope I've read, probably won't be the last.
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 | The Emerald Planet: How plants changed Earth's history by David Beerling
Buy new: £5.82 / Used from: £3.60 One of the best science books I've read this year - highly recommended
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 | The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £2.81 Three linked stories on the theme of the Earth, and our hubris in our treatment of it. Thought-provoking.
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 | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
Buy new: £6.59 / Used from: £5.18 Absolutely essential reading.
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 | Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £0.01 Very disturbing and very funny in places - one of the best fiction books I've read this year.
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 | We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (Collected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.40 It contains an abundance of ideas, from the extremely disturbing The Pre-Persons to the very funny Not By It's Cover
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 | The Various Flavours of Coffee by Anthony Capella
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.01 A book club choice - well, it was very easy to read!
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 | The Weather Makers: Our Changing Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.00 An essential subject, but not the best science book I've read - the zoology sections are excellent, but some of the others could be better. And the index/bibliography is inadequate.
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 | Anita and Me by Meera Syal
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 An amusing study of a serious subject, racism, and what it means to grow up 'different' in a small community
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 | When Will There be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 An entertaining addition to the Jackson Brodie series
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 | The Ghost by Robert Harris
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Good airport reading (which is where I read it )
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 | How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill
Buy used from: £0.75 From riches to rags with name-dropping.
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 | How to Be a Canadian by Will Ferguson
Buy used from: £11.30 A pressie from a Canadian friend, it's certainly amusing, but how accurate it is I couldn't say.
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 | Words from a Glass Bubble (Salt Modern Fiction) by Vanessa Gebbie
Buy new: £6.56 / Used from: £11.96 A book club choice - depressing - and never name your son Declan
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 | The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How We Can Still Save Humanity by James Lovelock
Buy new: £6.18 / Used from: £0.80 Thought-provoking and essential reading
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 | Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
Buy new: £4.45 / Used from: £1.50 Very eloquent autobiography
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