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	Poor Things Author: Alasdair Gray ISBN: 0747562288	A Glaswegian "Frankenstein". That's a good thing, in case you were wondering

	Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life (Penguin Popular Classics) Author: Gustave Flaubert ISBN: 0140621792	The best, most accurate drawing of a female character by a male writer... ever!

	Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Popular Classics) Author: Thomas Hardy ISBN: 0140620206	Oh the tragic fatality of it all...

	Foucault's Pendulum Author: Umberto Eco ISBN: 0099287153	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 Author: Sarah Waters ISBN: 1860498833	More fiction set in the Victorian era, with added lesbianism and audacious plot twists

	The Crimson Petal and the White Author: Michel Faber ISBN: 1841954314	Exquisitely written tale of a prostitute in Victorian London and her rise through society

	Calvin and Hobbes: Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat (Calvin & Hobbes) Author: Bill Watterson ISBN: 0751511277	And, indeed, every other Calvin and Hobbes book

	The Collected Dorothy Parker (Penguin Modern Classics) Author: Dorothy Parker ISBN: 014118258X	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 Author: Thurber James ISBN: 0606017593	I do have this, and it is a delight

	Benchley Lost and Found (Dover Humor Collections) Author: Robert Benchley ISBN: 0486224104	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 Author: Enid Blyton ISBN: 0603561993	Ah, the innocence of youth

	Auschwitz : The Nazis & The 'Final Solution' Author: Laurence Rees ISBN: 0563522968	The evil that men do

	The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 Author: Eric J. Hobsbawm ISBN: 0679730052	A fitting conclusion to the "Age of" quatrology

	Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris Author: Ian Kershaw ISBN: 0140133631	The best biography of everyone's favourite Charlie Chaplin impersonator

	Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910 Author: Richard J. Evans ISBN: 014303636X	A study of disease and its impact on a societal structures

	The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller Author: Carlo Ginzburg ISBN: 0801843871	A pioneering work of social and cultural history (and a damn good read to boot)

	The Great Cat Massacre and Other Essays Author: Robert Darnton ISBN: 0394729277	A study of 18th century France

	Pictorial History of the Silent Screen Author: Daniel Blum ISBN: 0600031047	The title says it all really

	The Parade's Gone by Author: Kevin Brownlow ISBN: 0520030680	The classic study of the silent cinema industry

	The Films in My Life Author: Francois Truffaut ISBN: 0306805995	Essays on cinema from a master of the art

	Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild Author: David Stenn ISBN: 0815410255	The original "It" girl

	Lulu in Hollywood Author: Louise Brooks ISBN: 0816637318	Essays on silent film and its stars from the insightful mind of Brooksie

	Louise Brooks: A Biography Author: Barry Paris ISBN: 0816637814	The ultimate biography of an elusive screen icon

	The House of Barrymore Author: Margot Peters ISBN: 0671747991	A portrait of a self-destructive family