 | We Need to Talk About Kevin (Five Star Paperback) by Lionel Shriver
Buy new: £4.58 / Used from: £0.25 Our first choice - well written but ultimately quite gruelling
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 | A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £0.01 Fantastic fun - one of our favourites (and I chose it)
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 | Saturday by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £0.01 Some of us loved it, some of us (ie me) hated it with a vengence
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 | The Abortionist's Daughter by Elisabeth Hyde
Buy new: £1.31 / Used from: £0.01 Very disappointing, we all found this boring - try Anne Tyler instead
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 | The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
Buy new: £4.23 / Used from: £0.01 Predictably, some of us thought this was great , I was bitterly disappointed. Don't believe the hype
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 | Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.52 We all thought this was wonderful - highly recommended. NB Don't read the notes at the end first.
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 | The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A bit "nothingy" really but a clever idea, some found the lesbian grooming overtones a bit distasteful
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 | Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £1.25 Could have been better if it was less of a personal account (or more of a personal account by an actual East German!)
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 | Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Buy new: £4.34 / Used from: £0.80 One of our best discussions ever - we were all pretty unanimous about the brilliance of this book
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 | Diary of an Ordinary Woman by Margaret Forster
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A clever book but I wish it was a real diary
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 | The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.01 We all loved this book too - deceptively easy to read but with big themes
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 | The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
Buy new: £1.20 / Used from: £0.01 Again, the group were disappointed with this one; starts off well and then sort of peters out
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 | Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Buy new: £4.39 / Used from: £2.25 An almost unanimous thumbs up from the group
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 | Address Unknown by Kressmann Taylor
Buy new: £2.47 / Used from: £2.52 Great book! A group summer read - we all read it together in a lovely garden - it caused much controversy as one person had a completely different idea of the premise of the book than everyone else.
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 | My Cousin Rachel (Virago Modern Classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £2.96 / Used from: £0.88 Delightfully creepy period piece by the author of Rebecca
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 | The Crimson Petal And The White by Michel Faber
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 We were led to believe this would be rude but the group found it pretty boring and overlong in actual fact.
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