 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.99 Another masterpiece from Rushdie
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 | Life Of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Slow to begin with, but really interesting and fun once your into it.
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 | Three Men in a Boat: to Say Nothing of the Dog (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jerome K. Jerome
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 English humour at its best.
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 | The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition by Anne Frank
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.99 I had the benefit of reading this in the original language (Dutch). Its power lies in the fact that it is not a war book. Really brings the futility of war home.
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Superbly written! This book will stay with you for a long time.
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 | The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.62 The tale of Allende and the house she grew up in before Pinochet came to power. Interesting
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 | The Prince (Oxford World's Classics) by Niccolò Machiavelli
Buy used from: £1.88 Still very relevant to modern day politics and machinations. Excellent stuff.
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 | The World of Psmith: "Psmith in the City", "Psmith Journalist", "Leave It to Psmith" by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy used from: £66.28 Wodehouse is a linguist extraordinaire! His ability to make a simple story funy is amazing.
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 | For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.52 The best Hemingway in my opinion - about the spanish civil war
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 | The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Buy used from: £0.01 An excellent tale of the experiences and ideas of the different members of a family.
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 | The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.24 The new Kafka? I was constantly searching for the answer in this mesmerising book.
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 | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.21 Excellent fun.
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 | Shopgirl (Film Tie-In) by Steve Martin
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Superbly written and a touching story set in 'soulless' L.A.
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 | The Pleasure of my Company by Steve Martin
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Funnier than Shopgirl, this is another excellent book by Martin.
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 | Liar's Poker: Playing the Money Markets by Michael Lewis
Buy used from: £1.99 The London City required reading....80's largesse, money making and self interest.
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 | The Joke by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.98 Kundera has the ability to transport you into the Czech world, that you really are part of it.
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 | The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.99 I greatly enjoyed reading this book. Murakami leaves literature students with a wealth of interpretation options.
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 | The Beach by Alex Garland
Buy used from: £0.01 Apart from the ending, this book is excellent for its direct style and perception from one character.
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 | I, Claudius (Penguin Classics) by Robert Graves
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.75 If you want to understand Rome, its power and rivalry - then read this seminal work
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 | The Rum Diary (Bloomsbury Classic Reads) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: £5.14 / Used from: £6.53 Thompsons bizarre adventures working for a newspaper in Puerto Rico are sublime.
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 | Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.75 A surreal tale of a Japan most people never see.
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 | Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
Buy new: £9.92 / Used from: £9.59 True story of a U.S. helicopter pilot in Vietnam. A lifetime of adrenaline in a few days has long term ramifications. Well written.
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 | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Penguin Modern Classics) by Carson McCullers
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £3.97 Captures a time period in the South of the US and the characters motivations, very well (I thought).
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 | The Wind in the Willows (Penguin Popular Classics) by Kenneth Grahame
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Excellent childrens tale of animals with distinct attitudes and ideas!
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