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Under the Skin
1.  Under the Skin by Michel Faber
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  "Fantastically bizarre, you have to read it"
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Beloved
2.  Beloved by Toni Morrison
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  "Disturbing and haunting work of art"
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers)
3.  Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
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  "You can actually smell what he's describing brilliantly written"
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The Dark Room
4.  The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
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  "Thought provoking read"
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The Color Purple
5.  The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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  "One of the few books that have made me sob out loud"
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The Poisonwood Bible
6.  The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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  "Simply superb"
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The Hiding Place
7.  The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
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  "family trauma saga  lifted out of the ordinary by the intelligence of the writing"
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The God of Small Things
8.  The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
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  "exotic atmoshpheric account of Indian childhood"
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Trumpet
9.  Trumpet by Jackie Kay
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  "utterly fascinating and unusual subject matter"
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The Amethysts
10.  The Amethysts by Frank Delaney
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  "Simply unputdownable, thriller with a historical bent"
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Have the Men Had Enough?
11.  Have the Men Had Enough? by Margaret Forster
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  "Deeply moving account of a family and their struggle with dementia"
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Regeneration
12.  Regeneration by Pat Barker
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  "The First World War - blending fact and fiction to magnificent effect"
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Remind Me Who I Am, Again
13.  Remind Me Who I Am, Again by Linda Grant
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  "moving biography of a mother and daughter relationship and Alzheimers warm funny and intensely moving"
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The Shipping News
14.  The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
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  "Page turning, amusing and sensitively written"
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The Dark Fields
15.  The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn
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  "Dark, atmopspheric and chillingly believable"
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Alias Grace
16.  Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
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  "Truth and fiction combined in an account of an alleged murderess, fascinating"
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Fasting, Feasting
17.  Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
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  "Delightful writing and interesting characters"
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Island Madness
18.  Island Madness by Tim Binding
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  "War again but combined with a whodunnit on the channel isles"
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After You'd Gone
19.  After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
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  "absorbing, compelling account of love and loss"
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The Soldier's Return
20.  The Soldier's Return by Melvyn Bragg
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  "Bragg evokes a true sense of place and deals sensitvely with the relationship between husband wife and son"
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Things Can Only Get Better: Eighteen Miserable Years in the Life of a Labour Supporter, 1979-1997
21.  Things Can Only Get Better: Eighteen Miserable Years in the Life of a Labour Supporter, 1979-1997 by John O'Farrell
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  "Very funny, cleverly written and refreshing study about a man and his affair with the Labour Party"
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Memoirs Of An Unfit Mother
22.  Memoirs Of An Unfit Mother by Anne Robinson
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  "Truly memorable account of alcoholism and fighting back"
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Year of Wonders
23.  Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
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  "Ostensibly concerned with an outbreak of the plague but more concerned with religion and doubt"
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Final Demand
24.  Final Demand by Deborah Moggach
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  "gritty, bleak study of human frailty and greed but boy did i want her to get away with it!"
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Atonement
25.  Atonement by Ian McEwan
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  "evocative between the wars family saga of guilt, full of suspense"
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