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General AAS	Sacher-Masoch, Leopold	Saint-Exupery, Antoine de
Saiz, Prospero	Salinger, J.D.	Sallis, Susan
Salter, James	Sampson, Kevin	Sams, Ferrol
Sanchez, Carol Lee	Sand, George	Sandford, John
Sansom, C.J.	Sapphire	Saramago, Jose
Saro-Wiwa, Ken	Saroyan, William	Sarton, May
Sartre, Jean-Paul	Sayle, Alexei	Saylor, Steven
Scanlan, Patricia	Schlink, Bernhard	Schnitzler, Arthur
Schulberg, Budd	Schulman, Sarah	Schulze, Ingo
Schwartz, Delmore	Schwarz, Christina	Scott, Paul
Scott, Sir Walter	Sebald, W. G.	Sebold, Alice
Sedley, Kate	Seinfeld, Jerry	Selby, Hubert Jr
Self, Will	Seth, Vikram	Seymour, Gerald
Seymour, Miranda	Shaara, Jeff	Shaara, Michael
Shakespeare, Nicholas	Sharp, Kerri	Sharpe, Tom
Shaw, Irwin	Shaw, Rebecca	Sheldon, Sidney
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft	Shem, Samuel	Shields, Carol
Shikibu, Murasaki	Shonagon, Sei	Shreve, Anita
Shriver, Lionel	Siddons, Anne Rivers	Silko, Leslie Marmon
Sillitoe, Alan	Simmonds, Posy	Simons, Paullina
Simpson, Helen	Sinclair, Iain	Sinclair, Upton
Singer, Isaac Bashevis	Sisman, Robyn	Slim, Iceberg
Slovo, Gillian	Smethurst, William	Smiley, Jane
Smith, Lee	Smith, Michael Marshall	Smith, Wilbur
Smith, Zadie	Sontag, Susan	Sorrentino, Gilbert
Soueif, Ahdaf	Southern, Terry	Spark, Muriel
Sparks, Nicholas	Stadler, Matthew	Stafford, Jean
Staples, Mary Jane	Steel, Danielle	Stegner, Wallace
Stein, Gertrude	Steinbeck, John	Stendhal
Stevens, Wallace	Stevenson, Helen	Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stewart, Mary	Stock, Francine	Stoker, Bram
Stone, Irving	Stone, Robert	Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Styron, William	Suri, Manil	Suskind, Patrick
Sutcliffe, William	Swift, Graham	Swift, Jonathan
Syal, Meera

1.Revelation (Matthew Shardlake 4) by: C.J. Sansom April 04, 2008
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Have read all four of the Shardlake series, all brilliant. I am now having withdrawal. Sansom has you totally engrossed, you can picture the scene, a detailed version of the violent times of Henry V111. I cannot find a single fault. Will there be anymore, please. If you like historical whodunnits, these are for you, difficult to put down, extremely well written, who needs television.

2.The Catcher in the Rye by: J.D. Salinger August 04, 1994
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I'm so sorry to see all the people on here who were disappointed by The Catcher In The Rye. When I first read it aged 13 I was unaware of its cult status and so just had average expectations. Indeed at the time I only really liked the character of Holden, less so the book itself. Having re-read it twice since however (I am now 18) I can honestly say it's one of the best books I have ever read. While I originally sided with the main character, now I'm able to see all his flaws and inconsistencies and love him all the more. As far as I'm concerned this is not so much a book for teenagers as one for anyone who's suffered from depression and disillusionment with the world around them. Anyway I won't take up any more of your time - I only hope you ... Read More:

3.Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake 1) by: C.J. Sansom May 18, 2007
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This book is not as dry as it sounds in the product description! You'd have to be a pretty bad writer to make anything to do with Henry VIII boring but this book adds a new twist. Our "hero", Matthew Shardlake, is a hunchback lawyer that works for Cromwell around the time that Henry's third wife, Jane Seymour, died in childbirth. But Henry's problems are merely a background, the novel is concerned with the murder of one of Cromwell's officers in a monastery which Shardlake is sent to investigate. The description of life in the monastery and the life of the lay people that live in the nearby village is fascinating and just as interesting as the mystery itself. The characters are developed with the story and there's even a little romance. Read More:

4.Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake 2) by: C.J. Sansom May 18, 2007
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I have just finished this book and, after Dissolution, I am well and truly addicted to this series. I really like the lead character of Matthew Shardlake and the other characters in this and the previous book. Will be starting on Sovereign asap and can't wait to read Revelation from what I've read on Amazon about that story. There seems to be a plethora of murder-thriller type books set in the 15th-16th century around at the moment but this is without doubt the best of them all.

5.Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake 3) by: C.J. Sansom March 16, 2007
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Having read the previous Matthew Shardlake novels I was eager to read this one. I wasn't disappointed - it is easily the best one yet. What I liked most was the brilliant evocation of the cruelty of Tudor England. The religious fanaticism has been done before, as has the treachery and power politics along with the corruption, but the way these were all melded together and the thorny subject of judicial torture thrown in it made the story basically become a lot darker. The idea of the events taking place within the enclosed world of the Royal Progress was a nice way of taking a murder mystery staple plot device and making it relevant to the period, a kind of Tudor "Murder on the Orient Express" if you like. CL Sansom is a very good writer, ... Read More:

6.Of Mice and Men (Penguin Red Classics) by: John Steinbeck January 26, 2006
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I've just finished reading Of Mice and Men as part of a novel-reading challenge and despite its short length, I've got to say it's a monumental piece of literature, with a story as powerful as anything I have, or am probably ever likely to read. The story centres around George Milton and Lennie Small, two migrant workers who are scouring the Californian countryside in search of work. Again, as was other Steinbeck novels, I have been mesmerised by Mr. Steinbeck's profound ability to create characters that are wholly `stick in the head' memorable. Lennie, despite being a bit of a `man mountain' and a `hell of a good worker' suffers from a high level of mental disability. His only motivation seem to be that one day he's going to own a farm with George, solely so he can care for ... Read More:

7.Winter in Madrid by: C.J. Sansom October 06, 2006
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Having an interest in the Spanish civil war and liking crime novels, i thought this would be just right, but found it all wrong.Yet another book that relies, in the plot, on improbable coincidences that feel like a deception, an easy way out. Life in postwar Madrid does not seem real, although it may be well-researched. The writing is overblown - too many adjectives, too many unnecessary awkward details: (his eyes went flickering over the desk...)and the characters talk in a kind of brief-encounter-speak, which soon palls. Worst of all, there is no real pace in the book, or drive to find out what is going to happen next to the uninteresting characters. The reviews quoted on the cover are baffling, and just show that you shouldn't believe everything you read in the newspapers...

8.The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Penguin Popular Classics) by: Robert Louis Stevenson March 31, 1994
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doesn't matter if you know the main 'twist'- everyone does and this doesn't really matter. this is extremely well written and a fantastic book.

9.The Lovely Bones by: Alice Sebold June 06, 2003
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IT is times when I see people reactions to such work, that my beliefs in supernatural powers and mysterious unexplained things in life strengthen, and no, I am not talking about Susie Salmon, but rather the lovely bones. I gave it two stars for the original idea, and nice layout of events. But neither the plot nor the artistic wording had any strong impact in that. Its a shame actually as it is a nice idea and would've been much more meaningful if was explored correctly. Over all, not impressed.

10.We Need to Talk About Kevin (Five Star Paperback) by: Lionel Shriver May 09, 2006
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A church I used to visit in London had a curious crib each Christmas. Alongside the usual representations of shepherds, livestock and the Holy family the priest would solemnly place a knife. When asked about this, he would reply, "There is a dark side to Christmas too. Herod killed because Jesus came. That knife reminds us of the pain of all those parents who lost their young ones because of Christmas." We Need To Talk About Kevin tells the story of a modern-day Slaughter of the Innocents. This novel, which won the 2005 Orange prize for fiction, contains the letters of Eva to her estranged husband Franklin. Their only son, Kevin, has become famous in gruesome fashion, by hunting down seven of his classmates (along with a teacher and canteen worker for good measure) with a crossbow after ... Read More:

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