Good books for book groups that you might not have tried

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The Collector (Vintage Classics)
1.  The Collector (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles
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  "Beautiful Prose with a chilling storyline.  Much to discuss on the nature of evil"
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Bel Canto
2.  Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
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  "A South American siege, a case of Stockholm Syndrome and thrilling climax"
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Harper Perennial Modern Classics - The Good Terrorist
3.  Harper Perennial Modern Classics - The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing
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  "Thoughtful story of a girl who plays at being an anarchist and becomes inexorably drawn into something more sinister"
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Blindness
4.  Blindness by Jose Saramago
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  "The world goes slowly blind, anarchy ensues.  A humanist fable by a Nobel Prize winner"
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The Corrections
5.  The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
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  "Dysfunctional family sits down for Thanksgiving dinner.  Exploration of the family dynamic; hilarious and sad"
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The Piano Tuner
6.  The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
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  "Our book group's favourite novel."
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Housekeeping
7.  Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
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  "Sparse prose details a broken family life.  A novel about love and loss"
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A Fine Balance: 1
8.  A Fine Balance: 1 by Rohinton Mistry
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  "Powerful novel about the 4 very different Indian lives.  Excellent characterisation, it will make you laugh and it will certainly make you cry"
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The Dispossessed (Gollancz S.F.)
9.  The Dispossessed (Gollancz S.F.) by Ursula Le Guin
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  "You may have overlooked this because of it's Science Fiction tag but like 1984 and Brave New World this novel transcends the genre"
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Cloudstreet
10.  Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
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  "The story of two families in a dilapidated house.  Australia's favourite book"
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The Uninvited
11.  The Uninvited by Geling Yan
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  "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?"
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The Rotters' Club
12.  The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe
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  "Hilarious, nostalgic tale of a seventies grammar school"
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Black Swan Green
13.  Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
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  "More nostalgia, this time the 80's.  Semi Autobiographical, accurate and moving"
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The Constant Gardener
14.  The Constant Gardener by John le Carré
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  "Gripping tale of the weak against the powerful"
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Battle Royale (GOLLANCZ S.F.)
15.  Battle Royale (GOLLANCZ S.F.) by Koushun Takami
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  "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."
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The Story of Forgetting
16.  The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Block
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  "A wonderful novel about memory and idendity.  Moving and extremely well written"
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Peripheral Vision
17.  Peripheral Vision by Patricia Ferguson
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  "Fantastic character portrayal and relationship observations."
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Whatever Makes You Happy
18.  Whatever Makes You Happy by William Sutcliffe
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  "A tale about  Mums and their boys.  An entertaining, insightful read, that can be enjoyed by either. (Wives may find it of use too!)"
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The Island at the End of the World
19.  The Island at the End of the World by Sam Taylor
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  "A family survives the end of the civilisation, but all is not as it seems.  A dark meditation on the ties that bind."
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The Unwritten (Vol. 1) : Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity
20.  The Unwritten (Vol. 1) : Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity by Mike Carey
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  "A graphic novel about the power of stories."
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