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Alan Hollinghurst

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Hollinghurst came to acclaim with his groundbreaking debut novel, The Swimming Pool Library, in 1988, and went on to win the 2004 Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty, a novel that nailed the crosscurrents of greed, envy, privilege, and sexual desire in 1980s Britain. He was long-listed for the same award in 2011 for his multi-generational novel, The Stranger’s Child. Below are Alan Hollinghurst’s favorite books, available to purchase as a set or individually. See the full list...

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War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

The greatest of all novels. Read it again, to test and savour the infallible truth of Tolstoy's understanding of every stage and aspect of human life.

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Selected Poems

of Tennyson

The first poet I loved and learned by heart, and whose music still haunts me and inspires me 45 years later.

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The Major Works (Gerard Manley Hopkins)

of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Another teenage passion I have not outgrown but grown into, even if I have lost the faith that sustained him through good and ill. One of the great hearers, feelers, and observers, with a passionate language world all his own.
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Edmund White
$168.90
The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Richard Flanagan
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Sarah Waters
$139.82
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm

Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
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Frank Rich
$156.47
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow

John Cheever
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Erica Jong
$174.73
To the End of the Land

David Grossman