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The Reading Experience

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I want to be... (just click on a link)

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Escape to distant or mythical lands, anywhere but here!

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Get that adrenaline pumping!

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We all need a laugh now and again

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See the world through rose tinted glasses for a while, even if it's not a happy ending!

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Allow yourself to be drawn into someone elses world

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You can learn something new everyday

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Edge of your seat, not sure what's coming next stuff

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We can all use some inspiration

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The familiar reassuring or just plain entertaining read

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Be shaken out of your usual reading comfort zone

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In that in between world!

Transported
Coloured Lights by Leila Aboulela
The Secrets of Jin-Shei by Alma Alexander
Exodus by Julie Bertanga
The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick
Years of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by P. K. Dick
All This is Mine by Ray French
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Monk by Mattew Gregory Lewis
The Girl who Married a Lion by Alexander McCall Smith
The People's Act of Love by James Meek
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
Red Dust by Gillian Slovo
Ice Road by Gillian Slovo
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Miss Garnets Angel by Sally Vickers

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Scared
Racists by Kunal Basu
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Jump by Martina Cole
Layer Cake by J.J. Connolly
Prey by Michael Crichton
Schools Out by Christophe Du Fosse
The Monkey House by John Harwood
Journeys in the Dead Season by Spencer Jordan
Cracks by Sheila Kohler
When the Ashes Burn by Phil Lavesey
The Nightwalker by Roy Lewis
Beyound Black by Hilary Mantel
Ninteen Sevnety Four by David Peace
Bleak Water by Danuta Reah
Bare Bones by Kathy Reichs
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Miss by L.E. Usher
The Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine
Fox Evil by Minette Walters
Refuge by Gillian White
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

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Amused
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
A Young Mans Passage by Julian Clary
Is That the New Moon by Wendy Cope
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Essential Poems for Britain by Daisy Goodwin
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka
Changing Places by David Lodge
Three to See the King by Magnus Mills
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
A Very English Agent by Julian Rathbone
The Hike by Don Shaw
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen by Dyan Shelden
Flying Under Bridges by Sandi Toksvig
Eats, Shoots and Leaves and Lynn Truss
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse

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Romanced
Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende
The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ladys Maid by Margaret Forster
Now You See Me by Lesley Glaister
Be my Knife by David Grossman
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Dancing Nude in the Moonlight by Joanne C. Hillhouse
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
A Special Relationship by Douglas Kennedy
My Best Friend's Girl by Dorothy Koomson
Blessed at the Cheesmakers by Sarah-Kate Lynch
Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach
The Times Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffeneger
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
The Light of Day by Graham Swift
White by Rosie Thomas
The Wife by Meg Wolitzer

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Intrigued
Murder on the Leviathan by Boris Akunin
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
Wish you Well by David Baldacci
Shroud by John Banville
The Promise of Happiness by Justine Cartwright
A House of Light by Candida Clark
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Iqbal by Francesco D'Adamo
The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble
Your Blue Eyed Boy by Helen Dunmore
Silas Marner by George Elliot
The Water-Breather by Ben Faccini
The Last Family in England by Matthew Haig
The Island by Victoria Hislop
The Abortionists Daughter by Elisabeth Hyde
The Good Neighbour by William Kowalski
The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
Wide Sargasso Sea by jean Rhys
Lost by Michael Robotham
Home is a Place Called Nowhere by Leon Rosselson
Mr. Golightly's Holiday by Salley Vickers

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Enlightened
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Five People you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Thuras Diary by Thura all-Windai
Mud City by Deborah Ellis
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton
The Mulberry Empire by Phillip Hensher
Eva's Cousin by Sibylle Knauss
City of Oranges by Adam Lebor
Classic Poems by Christopher Martin
Stories We Could Tell by Tomy Parsons
Margroves of the Marshes by John Peel
Rani and Sukh by Bali Rai
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Otto by Lisa St Aubin de Teran
Sanuel Pepys by Clair Tomalin
White Slave by Marco Pierre White
Clash by Ellen Wilkinson

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Thrilled
The Forest of Souls by Carla Banks
A Cry from the Dark by Robert Barnard
The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Spies by Michael Frayn
Killing Me Softly by Nicci French
Secret Smile by Nicci French
The Monkey House by John Fullerton
As Far and You Can Go by Lesley Glaister
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan

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Inspired
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Altered Land by Jules Hardy
Please Daddy, No by Stuart Howarth
A Fine balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Leap of Faith by Queen Noor
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet

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Comforted
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
The Clothes the Stood Up In by Alan Bennett
Jayne Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read by Susan Hill
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
Gardens of Delight by Erica James
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy-Fowler
The Namesake by Jhumpra Lahiri
Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
The Book of 1000 Poems for Children by Murray J. McBain
Toast by Nigel Slater
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood

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Challenged
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
The History Boys by Alan Bennett
Mirage by Bandula Chandraratna
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiren Desai
26a by Diane Evans
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Foers
Womens Room by Marilyn French
The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseni
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey
The Nick of Time by Francis King
Life of Pi by Yan Martel
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Give us this Day by Jonathan Tulloch
Strangers by Taichi Yamada
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

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Teenagers
Clay by David Almond
Skellig by David Almond
Fish feet by Veronica Bennett
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Tag by Michael Coleman
Artemis Fowl by Eion Colfer
Bindi Babes by Narinda Dhami
The Tears of the Salamander by Peter Dickinson
The Lion Tamer's Daughter by Peter Dickinson
Amadans by Malachy Doyle
Holly Starcross by Berlie Doherty
The Tulip Touch by Anne Fine
Charm School by Anne Fine
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Hoot by Carl Hiassen
Silverfin by Charlie Higson
I am David by David Holm
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpugo
Alone on a Wide Wide Sea by Michael Morpugo
Lirael by Gareth Nix
The Windsinger by William Nicholson
Tamar by Mal Peet
Rani and Sukh by Bali Rai
What's your Problem by Bali Rai
Silver Sword by Ian Serrailier
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen by Dyan Shelden
Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson
Strangers by Taichi Yamada
The Book Thief by Marcus 

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