Singing the Real World

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The Waves (Penguin Modern Classics)
1.  The Waves (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
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  "Simply one of the most beautiful novels ever written.  Woolf is a master at singing of the real world with her words.  Read them all, but drown in The Waves first."
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Regeneration
2.  Regeneration by Pat Barker
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  "I've read Regeneration at least seven times, and each time it touches me in a different way. Its clean, painful and exquisite at once. Find the silence in the falling of bomb shells."
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Love in the Time of Cholera
3.  Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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  "My favourite Marquez novel - its his usual mixture of fantastical realism and imagination.  He knows exactly where to find the flaw at the centre of things."
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The Poisonwood Bible
4.  The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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  "Walk with the okapi.  A beautiful multi-narrative - like holding colonialism up like a prism to sunlight. Its delicious and enlightening."
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The Famished Road
5.  The Famished Road by Ben Okri
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  "A spirit child locked in the real world fighting for a chance to live.  The first three pages will hook you in forever."
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Possession: A Romance
6.  Possession: A Romance by A S Byatt
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  "Tthe most accomplished novel I've read in years, lucid with an understanding of love and possession and the difference between them."
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The Passion of New Eve (Virago Modern Classics)
7.  The Passion of New Eve (Virago Modern Classics) by Angela Carter
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  "A haunting book about identity and the concept of gender; Carter is discreet but hard hitting in her feminism."
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Justine (A Virago V)
8.  Justine (A Virago V) by Alice Thompson
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  "Justine will leave you trembling with uncertainty in such a world of mirrors, sexual abuse and lost identity."
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Washington Square (English Library)
9.  Washington Square (English Library) by Henry James
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  "Henry James may sing barotone, but he's still singing - this novel inspired me with confidence when I was younger. Don't dismiss it."
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Beloved
10.  Beloved by Toni Morrison
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  "Beloved is at once a sweet, shattering and painful experience with the power to elate you and destroy you. Nobody has an excuse for not reading it."
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno v. 1 (Classics)
11.  The Divine Comedy: Inferno v. 1 (Classics) by Dante
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  "The Divine Comedy is one of the greatest works of literature - grab a translation and taste every human emotion."
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Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics Series)
12.  Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics Series) by John Milton
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  "Undeniably one of the greatest poems in the English language; it can be heavy going but perservere.  The genius that saw in the dark."
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The English Patient
13.  The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
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  "Much better than the film. Its sometimes difficult to keep going, but don't stop."
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Vita Brevis: Floria Aemilia's Letter to Aurel Augustine
14.  Vita Brevis: Floria Aemilia's Letter to Aurel Augustine by Jostein Gaarder
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  "The supposed letter of a lover cast aside by St. Augustine, systematically critiquing his "Confessions".  Interesting and thought provoking."
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Nausea (Penguin Modern Classics)
15.  Nausea (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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  "Intense, dark existentialism; more a confused dirge than a song, but lilting anyway."
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Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965-1995: Selected Poetry, 1965-95
16.  Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965-1995: Selected Poetry, 1965-95 by Margaret Atwood
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  "Atwood's poems undoubtedly improve with age and experience, but brilliant nevertheless."
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Collected Poems
17.  Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
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  "Plath was a skilled poet, messily precise and deliciously dark."
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The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Bronte
18.  The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Bronte by Cw Hatfield
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  "To end with one of the most enigmatic women of all time, Bronte's poetry is highly undervalued but just as worthy, if not more worthy, than Wuthering Heights."
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