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CPW Book Club 2007
Lolita (Penguin Classics)Lolita (Penguin Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £5.43 / Used from: £1.67
Disturbing, provocative, beautifully written, a great novel
The Master and Margarita (Penguin Classics)The Master and Margarita (Penguin Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £3.38
Excellent satire
The Plague (Essential Penguin)The Plague (Essential Penguin) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.99
Thought provoking, highly readable and very French
Don QuixoteDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £2.39
A challenge rather than a pleasure
The Book of Disquiet (Five Star Paperback)The Book of Disquiet (Five Star Paperback) by Fernando Pessoa
Buy new: £5.02 / Used from: £2.47
Pretty passages but plotless and almost unreadable
The Periodic Table (Penguin Modern Classics)The Periodic Table (Penguin Modern Classics) by Primo Levi
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.00
Brilliant matching of form to content, a truly great novel
The World I Live In (NYRB Classic)The World I Live In (NYRB Classic) by Helen Keller
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £4.67
A unique point of view
God's Bits of Wood (African Writers Series)God's Bits of Wood (African Writers Series) by Sembene Ousmane
Buy new: £8.00 / Used from: £4.05
Moving and colourful
Live and LearnLive and Learn by Joan Didion
Buy new: £6.93 / Used from: £3.29
Incisive, interesting and an insight into the US
The Sot-weed FactorThe Sot-weed Factor by John Barth
Buy new: £8.36 / Used from: £7.01
Very funny but much too long
Heaven Has No FavouritesHeaven Has No Favourites by Erich Maria Remarque
Buy used from: £16.95
Beautiful and life-affirming - oh for it to be back in print.
Mrs. Dalloway (Wordsworth Classics)Mrs. Dalloway (Wordsworth Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01
A bit overconscious of its artistry but classic