 | The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: $13.00 / Used from: $2.98 Quite simply,where modern fantasy begins. There are still few books to touch it.
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 | Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Sigrid Undset
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $12.00 A book I'd take to a desert island.
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 | The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $3.40 Not a lot of action. Just drown in the mood.
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 | A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.78 Along with 'The Tombs of Atuan' and 'The Farthest Shore' this is the celebrated Earthsea Trilogy.
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 | The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $16.42 First-rate historical fiction of WWII. Based more on character than on action.
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 | The Winter King (The Arthur Books #1) by Bernard Cornwell
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $1.58 Along with 'The Enemy of God' and 'Excalibur', this is the best retelling of the Arthurian legends.
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 | The Raj Quartet: The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion (Everyman's Library) by Paul Scott
Buy new: $21.45 / Used from: $18.73 The last five years of British rule in India. It's also ths history of the 20th century in microcosm. Why Scott never got the Nobel is beyond me.
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 | The Raj Quartet: The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils (Everyman's Library) by Paul Scott
Buy new: $21.45 / Used from: $5.97 See above.
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 | The Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set (Alexandria Quartet) by Lawrence Durrell
Buy used from: $48.50 The lives of Greeks, Jews, Arabs and expats in the great city.
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 | Martha Quest: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Doris Lessing
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $0.91 The first volume of Lessing's 'The Children of Violence', from the waning British rule in Africa to the unrest of post-war London.
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 | Proper Marriage (Children of Violence) by Doris Lessing
Buy used from: $2.40 Volume II of 'The Children of Violence'.
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 | A Ripple From the Storm (The Children of Violence, Book 3) by Doris Lessing
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $1.22 Volume III
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 | Landlocked (The Children of Violence, Book 4) by Doris Lessing
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $0.47 Volume IV
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 | The Four-Gated City (The Children of Violence, Book 5) by Doris Lessing
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $1.95 Volume V
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 | Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis
Buy used from: $46.00 If all you know of C.S. Lewis is Narnia, read these books. They're like nothing you've ever read (all are available individually).
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 | The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $0.03 This series has it all. Small town-Canada. Magic realism. One whopper of a magic show. War, sex, childhood pranks, revenge, forgiveness. Great books.
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