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My 5 star reads!
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By
Alex
I laughed, I cried, I threw it across the room. Five-star books that remind me how wonderful it is to read.
Hilarious, snobbish, feral-posh children in the pursuit of - you guessed it - love.
The Pursuit of Love : Mitford, Nancy, Heller, Zoë
Everyone bow down to Catherine Lacey and her genius.
Biography of X: Catherine Lacey
‘The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.’
The Go-Between - L. P. Hartley
Love and memory, the past and the future.
The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
Just trust me on this one. Magical realism at its best.
Nights At The Circus - Angela Carter
Academic romance? Don't mind if I do.
Possession: A Romance : A S Byatt
To absolutely no one's surprise…
The Secret History: Donna Tartt
For the romantics.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin: Louis de Bernières
Jane Eyre's older, wiser, more interesting sister.
Villette - Charlotte Brontë
A missionary family in the Belgian Congo - what could go wrong?
The Poisonwood Bible: Barbara Kingsolver
The GOAT of Historical Fiction.
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
Lily Bart! Defining New York It Girl long before Serena van der Woodsen was on the scene.
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
Another magical realist novel.
Midnight's Children: Salman Rushdie
Truly inimitable - von Reinhold is a name to watch.
LOTE - Shola von Reinhold
Wharton at her best.
The House Of Mirth - Edith Wharton
Calling all witches.
Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner
