 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.01 how can someone write something so amazing? Ignore the film!
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 | Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.50 the atmosphere of this book stayed with me for a long long time
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 | The Innocent by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £1.95 I love Mcewan's writing anyway, but this book is fantastic - post-war berlin.#
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 | Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A really unusual book, and again, its the atmosphere which really gets to you.
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 | Northanger Abbey (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Any austen book will do, but I certainly laughed out loud at the humour in this, Austen has fun taking the mick out of all the 'vogues' of the day.
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 | Postmortem (Dr Kay Scarpetta) by Patricia Cornwell
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Not great literature, but engrossing crime fiction
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 | A Widow for One Year by John Irving
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Can't quite put my finger on it, but this book has stayed in my head. I don't think it is brilliantly written, but it gets inside of you. Great read!
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 | Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £1.99 this book needs no introduction - mind-blowing
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 | Celestial Navigation by Anne Tyler
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 I really like Anne tyler, but think her novels can vary in quality. However, i am very surprised that this one receives such bad reviews. i thought this book was amazing and touched me deeply
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 | The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 a painful and beautiful read. Genius in its perception and observation of human emotional complexity
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 | The Magus by John Fowles
Buy used from: £2.30 what the ****? amazing
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.25 / Used from: £2.50 included in so many lists, and so it should be
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 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) Paperback by J.K. Rowling
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 Thought I'd hate the Harry Potter books after all the hype, but I loved them. This one is especially good.
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 | Candide (Penguin popular classics) by Voltaire
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 who could believe an 18th century short story could be so fantastically hilarious
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 | Only Children by Rafael Yglesias
Buy used from: £0.01 Great writer. great book - saga on 1980's New Yorkers and having children
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 | The Stand (The Complete and Uncut Edition) by Stephen King
Buy used from: £1.90 Apparently you either love or hate this book. I loved it. it really made me think about stuff i'd taken for granted
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 | The Grass Is Singing by Doris May Lessing
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £2.99 This book is startling in its simplicity. The atmosphere electric, Film is good too
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 | Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 a short novella but every word packed with thought-provoking metaphor and challenges.
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 | The Bonfire of the Vanities (Picador Books) by Tom Wolfe
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Great gutsy plunge into late twentieth century new York
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