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	Poor Things by Alasdair Gray A Glaswegian "Frankenstein". That's a good thing, in case you were wondering

	Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life (Penguin Popular Classics) by Gustave Flaubert The best, most accurate drawing of a female character by a male writer... ever!

	Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Popular Classics) by Thomas Hardy Oh the tragic fatality of it all...

	Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco The book the Da Vinci Code desperately longs to be. Only, of course, Dan Brown lacks the intellect, the wit, the invective, and the towering genius of the mighty Umberto Eco.

	Fingersmith by Sarah Waters More fiction set in the Victorian era, with added lesbianism and audacious plot twists

	The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber Exquisitely written tale of a prostitute in Victorian London and her rise through society

	Calvin and Hobbes: Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat (Calvin & Hobbes) by Bill Watterson And, indeed, every other Calvin and Hobbes book

	The Collected Dorothy Parker (Penguin Modern Classics) by Dorothy Parker For those who don't know, in addition to being the wittiest woman who ever lived, Dorothy Parker was also a world class writer of short stories.

	The Thurber Carnival by Thurber James I do have this, and it is a delight

	Benchley Lost and Found (Dover Humor Collections) by Robert Benchley I don't actually have this (I've got some old out-of-print stuff from second-hand shops), but it's bound to be a delight

	The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton Ah, the innocence of youth

	Auschwitz : The Nazis & The 'Final Solution' by Laurence Rees The evil that men do

	The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by Eric J. Hobsbawm A fitting conclusion to the "Age of" quatrology

	Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw The best biography of everyone's favourite Charlie Chaplin impersonator

	Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910 by Richard J. Evans A study of disease and its impact on a societal structures

	The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg A pioneering work of social and cultural history (and a damn good read to boot)

	The Great Cat Massacre and Other Essays by Robert Darnton A study of 18th century France

	Pictorial History of the Silent Screen by Daniel Blum The title says it all really

	The Parade's Gone by by Kevin Brownlow The classic study of the silent cinema industry

	The Films in My Life by Francois Truffaut Essays on cinema from a master of the art

	Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild by David Stenn The original "It" girl

	Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks Essays on silent film and its stars from the insightful mind of Brooksie

	Louise Brooks: A Biography by Barry Paris The ultimate biography of an elusive screen icon

	The House of Barrymore by Margot Peters A portrait of a self-destructive family

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