 | If This Is a Man / The Truce by Primo Levi
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £4.00 Moving and hopeful. Essential
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.01 Just go with it and you will be blown away. Unique
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 | The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £0.01 Erudite complex and instructive. Not easy but well worth the effort
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy used from: £0.01 Intelligent, funny and sympathetic without being sentimental or patronising
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 | The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £0.01 Brilliantly constructed story of hope and survival. Paula rocks!
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 | Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Inventive and richly allegorical story of race and science and music in 20th century America
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 | Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West (Picador Books) by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £50.46 Raw and bloody. Forget the movies this is the wild west as Old Testament desert
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 | London Fields by Martin Amis
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £0.99 Extremely funny and full of memorable characters and ideas
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 | Deadkidsongs by Toby Litt
Buy used from: £1.04 Disturbing and claustrophobic novel that will strike a chord with anyone who was 11 years old once
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 | Kiss of the Spider Woman (Arena Books) by Manuel Puig
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.50 A simple tale dazzlingly told
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 | A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche
Buy used from: £0.39 Read it and weep
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.42 / Used from: £2.00 Jet black humour. You gotta laugh.........
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 | The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Buy new: £6.19 / Used from: £0.01 Her masterpiece and a modern classic
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 | Christ Stopped at Eboli (Penguin Modern Classics) by Carlo Levi
Buy new: £6.42 / Used from: £0.22 Thought-provoking and atmospheric tale of exile
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 | London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
Buy new: £9.56 / Used from: £7.00 Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner?
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