 | The Shadow of the Wind: A Novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $8.98 A fantastic book, set in Barcelona in the post Civil War years. It follows Daniel Sempere's hunt for information about an author called Julian Carax.
|
 | The Crow Road by Iain Banks
Buy used from: $0.01 The book's central character is Prentice McHoan, who is studying history at university in Glasgow. The action mostly takes place in his home village of Gallanach. Very enjoyable !
|
 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Told by Scout Finch and set in 1930s Alabama, this is one of the few 'classic' books I've read that lives up to its billing.
|
 | The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $2.29 Jess Harrison is eight years old and the only child of an English father and a Nigerian mother. Jess makes her first friend on holiday in Nigeria, a girl called Titiola - who causes no end of trouble.
|
 | Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.39 The story is told by Kathy who is looking back over her life - with a focus on her friendships with two old schoolfriends, Tommy and Ruth. Although very sad, it's easily one of the best books I've read. Sometimes, when a book has left its mark on me, I find myself wondering what has happened to a character after the final page : Kathy is a character I found myself wondering about.
|
 | The Clicking of Cuthbert by P. G. Wodehouse
Buy new: $14.21 / Used from: $5.80 Wodehouse is probably best known for his Jeeves and Wooster books, this is a collection of short stories about golf !
|
 | Greenwich Killing Time by Kinky Friedman
Buy used from: $0.01 Kinky Friedman's first book. Casting himself as a private eye, this is a very funny, fast moving story.
|
 | 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.89 Gerorge Orwell's vision of the future : Winston Smith's life under Big Brother.
|
 | The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.17 Set in the 1960s, the story takes place in a world where the Allies lost the Second World War : Japan is in control of Asia, while Germany is in control of Europe and Africa. America has been divided into three states, with much of the action taking place in the Japanese-controlled Pacific Seaboard America region.
|
 | The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $0.01 A Pulitzer-winning novel, telling the story of a man called Quoyle and his 'return' to his ancestral homeland in Newfoundland. An easily read book that has plenty of humour in it.
|
Listmania!
