 | The Return of the Native (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £2.50 / Used from: £1.50 A wonderful evocation of rural life in Wessex in 19th century.
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 | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £4.37 A phenomenal book - very positively received
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 | Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 We all thought it began well. Some mixed responses.
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 | Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £1.38 Was Emma a victim or villain? Much heated discussion about this amazing book.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. Salinger
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £3.00 We agreed it was a classic - even though some of us found Holden very irritating!
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 | The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe
Buy used from: £0.01 A great choice. Brilliantly constructed with some really dark and creepy moments.
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 | Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £0.63 Mixed responses. We were obviously not the target audience!
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 | Rebecca (Virago modern classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £1.49 Atmospheric and thought provoking - but some members uncomfortable about the fact that Max got away with murder!
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 | Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.75 A big thumbs up for an amazing if disturbing read. We all loved the character of Petrovich.
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 | Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £0.01 We loved it, loved it, loved it.
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 | Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.74 A great choice. Everyone loved it - even though it made harrowing reading in parts
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 | A Christmas Carol (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 A real classic - a very appropriate choice as our last book for 2007
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