The best books ever written - Penguin Classics since 1946
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Patricia Cornwell You should try
My Friend Maigret
by Georges Simenon
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Martina Cole You should try
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
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Vikram Seth You should try
Heart Of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
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Stephen Fry You should try
The Diary Of A Nobody
by George and Weedon
Grossmith
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Dave Gorman You should try
Cold Comfort Farm
by Stella Gibbons
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Kingsley Amis You should try
Three Men In A Boat
by Jerome K. Jerome
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Martin Amis You should try
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
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Annie Proulx You should try
The Grapes Of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
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Jackie Collins You should try
A Spy In The House Of Love
by Anaïs Nin
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Cecelia Ahern You should try
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
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Helen Fielding You should try
Breakfast At Tiffany's
by Truman Capote
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Stephen King You should try
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
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Martina Cole You should try
The Thirty-Nine Steps
by John Buchan
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John Grisham You should try
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
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Dan Brown You should try
Crime And Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Jilly Cooper You should try
Sense And Sensibility
by Jane Austen
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Douglas Adams You should try
The Day Of The Triffids
by John Wyndham
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Iain Banks You should try
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
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DBC Pierre You should try
Junky
by William S. Burroughs
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Will Self You should try
Confessions Of An English
Opium Eater
by Thomas De Quincey
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Andy McNab You should try
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson