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Caitlin Moran

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Moran, the author of the best-selling books, How to Be A Woman and How To Raise A Girl, was named one of Britain’s most influential women by the BBC.

Below are Caitlin Moran’s favorite books, available to purchase as a set or individually.
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Narnia Chronicles

C.S. Lewis

We were too poor for holidays, so I holidayed in Narnia in my head, instead. Aslan was the sexy pivotal lion in my life, plus it's made all wardrobes unexpectedly and lingeringly exciting.

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Twopence To Cross The Mersey

Helen Forrester

Forrester was the oldest of 8 children, in Depression-Era Liverpool. No school, no medicine, no hope - her life was exactly as mine would have been, had I not had the incredibly good fortune to be born after the introduction of the NHS and the Welfare State. I read it as a direct letter from her to me. It politicised me instantly.

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Portrait of the artist as a young Man

James Joyce

Amazingly, Joyce basically tells you how to be a writer here, in one of the most dazzling, lucid, visceral memoirs. The passage where he describes standing in the mouth of a shallow, pebbly river, at sunset, having a revelation about the rest of his life, is scientifically provable to get you as high as a quarter of an MDMA tablet. But the modern reader can't help but note that, as a story of a working class adolescent who thinks he's intellectually superior to everyone around him, is desperate to be a writer, and wanks a lot, Portrait of a Young Artist is also incredibly similar to.
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Doug Rushkoff
$168.95
Cosmic Trigger

Robert Anton Wilson
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John Irving
$158.93
Fifth Business

Robertson Davies
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Alan Hollinghurst
$171.79
The Blue Flower

by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Edmund White
$168.90
The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Richard Flanagan
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Sarah Waters
$160.64
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
$192.82
To the End of the Land

David Grossman