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Book club must-reads
Child 44Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Buy new: £6.93 / Used from: £4.22
This book is brilliant and not about the 2nd World War like so many other books out at the moment! It's a gripping read and historically very interesing.
Oryx and CrakeOryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
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A book club definite - distopioan vision of the future - chillingly believable and brilliantly written.
The Missing Person's Guide to LoveThe Missing Person's Guide to Love by Susanna Jones
Buy new: £11.89 / Used from: £6.62
My book club loved this - compellingly written, but keeps you enthralled to the end.
Reading "Lolita" in Tehran: A Memoir in BooksReading "Lolita" in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
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Amazing non-fiction, a book that seems to explode with colour - brilliant.
On Green Dolphin StreetOn Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks
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Set in New York, this is Faulks at his best, before he went a bit rubbish with Human Traces.
The Amateur MarriageThe Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
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Love this book - about a couple who married in haste before the war - poignant and really well written.
The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics)The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics) by F.Scott Fitzgerald
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Every book club should do the odd classic as well as the modern - about obsession and silent, unfulfilled longing, it's a must read.
FatherlandFatherland by Robert Harris
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Set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War, this is only a few steps short of a masterpiece.
The Poisonwood BibleThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.23
Set in the Congo, about a unwilling family of missionaries led by their fanatical father, this book is amazing.
A Thousand Splendid SunsA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
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As good as if not better than the Kite Runner, this is about the lives of Afghan women over the past three decades. It's a really great book.
Year of WondersYear of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
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For something completely different... a fictional account of the Plague in the 17thc and the real-life stand taken by the village of Eyam.