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The God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy |
The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down … |
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Schindler's ark
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Thomas Keneally |
"Keneally wrote the Booker Prize-winning novel in 1982, inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. In 1980 Pfefferberg met Keneally in his shop, and learning that he was a n… |
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The ghost road
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Pat Barker |
**From Amazon.com:**
**The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize.**
*The Ghost Road* is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fi… |
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Bring Up the Bodies
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Hilary Mantel |
Bring Up the Bodies is a historical novel by Hilary Mantel; sequel to the award-winning [Wolf Hall;](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL464512W) and part of a trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thoma… |
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Hotel du Lac
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Anita Brookner |
Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. S… |
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Amsterdam
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Ian McEwan |
Winner of the 1998 Booker PrizeOn a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had be… |
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The Line of Beauty
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Alan Hollinghurst |
It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and t… |
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Rites of passages
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Annie Proulx,William Golding,Fernando Santos Fontenla |
During the early 18th century, passengers on a ship to Australia include a parson whom the crew choses as a scapegoat. |
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The Bone People
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Keri Hulme |
At once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where Maori and European New Zealand meet, Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People is a powerful and unsettling tale satur… |
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Disgrace
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J. M. Coetzee |
At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. An affair with one of his students leaves him jobless, shunned by his friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wif… |
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Vernon God Little
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D. B. C. Pierre |
Teenager Vernon Gregory Little's life has been changed by the Columbine-style slaughter of a group of students at his high school. Soon his home town is blanketed under a media siege, and Vernon find… |
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