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Good books for book groups that you might not have tried

	The Collector (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £3.07 Beautiful Prose with a chilling storyline. Much to discuss on the nature of evil
	Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 A South American siege, a case of Stockholm Syndrome and thrilling climax
	The Good Terrorist (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Doris May Lessing Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.10 Thoughtful story of a girl who plays at being an anarchist and becomes inexorably drawn into something more sinister
	Blindness by Jose Saramago Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.95 The world goes slowly blind, anarchy ensues. A humanist fable by a Nobel Prize winner
	The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.61 Dysfunctional family sits down for Thanksgiving dinner. Exploration of the family dynamic; hilarious and sad
	The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Our book group's favourite novel.
	Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £2.98 Sparse prose details a broken family life. A novel about love and loss
	A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £1.20 Powerful novel about the 4 very different Indian lives. Excellent characterisation, it will make you laugh and it will certainly make you cry
	The Dispossessed (Gollancz S.F.) by Ursula Le Guin Buy used from: £1.67 You may have overlooked this because of it's Science Fiction tag but like 1984 and Brave New World this novel transcends the genre
	Cloudstreet (Picador Books) by Tim Winton Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.24 The story of two families in a dilapidated house. Australia's favourite book
	The Uninvited by Geling Yan Buy used from: £0.01 A Chinese worker sneaks in to buffet where he's mistaken for a journalist. He enters a world the like of which he has only dreamed. He doesn't belong but can he escape?
	The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe Buy used from: £0.01 Hilarious, nostalgic tale of a seventies grammar school
	Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Buy new: £4.83 / Used from: £0.01 More nostalgia, this time the 80's. Semi Autobiographical, accurate and moving
	The Constant Gardener by John le Carré Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.99 Gripping tale of the weak against the powerful
	Battle Royale (Gollancz S.F.) by Koushun Takami Buy new: £6.61 / Used from: £2.97 This one is bit leftfield. Teenagers forced to kill one another. On the surface a horror novel, underneath a polished look at the dark side of human nature and the power of the state.
	The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block Buy new: £5.58 / Used from: £0.01 A wonderful novel about memory and idendity. Moving and extremely well written
	Peripheral Vision by Patricia Ferguson Buy new: £8.26 / Used from: £0.01 Fantastic character portrayal and relationship observations.
	Whatever Makes You Happy by William Sutcliffe Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £2.12 A tale about Mums and their boys. An entertaining, insightful read, that can be enjoyed by either. (Wives may find it of use too!)