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The Kite RunnerIf you liked.....

The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini,

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Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khandra

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Persepolis by Marjan Satrapi

Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie

Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber

 

 

Da Vinci CodeIf you liked...

The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown,

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Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

My Name is Red by Orhan Parmuk

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

The Eighth Day: a Novel by John Case

Prey: a Novel by Michael Crichton

The Confessor by Daniel Silva

Sacred Ground by Barbara Wood

Mary Called Magdalene by Margaret George

The Last Confession by Maurice West

Time Traveller's WifeIf you liked...

The Time Traveller's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger,

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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Possession by A.S. Byatt

The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve

Mathematicians in Love by Rudy Rucker

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Baroque CycleIf you liked...

The Baroque Cycle
by Neal Stephenson,

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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Niccolo Rising by Dorothy Dunnett

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon

Pastwatch: the Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card

The Wind Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

 

TwilightIf you liked...

Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer,

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Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber

Old Magic by Marianne Curley

Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce

The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding

A House of Night series by P.C. Cast

Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare

Masquerade: a Blue Bloods Novel by Melissa de la Cruz

Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith

 

 

Lovely BonesIf you liked...

The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold,

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And Sometimes Why by Rebecca Johnson

The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard

Atonement by Ian McEwan

We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Lucky by Alice Sebold

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

These Dreams by Barbara Chepaitis

The Kind of Love That Saves You by Amy Yurk

Girl with a Pearl EarringIf you liked...

Girl with a Pearl Earring
by Tracy Chevalier,

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The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart

Girl in Hyacinth blue by Susan Vreeland

I Am Madame X by Gioia Diliberto

Golden Tulip by Rosalind Laker

The Serpent Garden by Judith Merkle Riley

Girl with a Dragon TattooIf you liked...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Steig Larsson,

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Before the Frost by Henning Mankell

Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor

Captive of my Desires by Johanna Lindsay

Family Secrets by Judith Henry Wall

 

 

 

 

Book ThiefIf you liked...

The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

Tamar by Mal Peet

Notebooks by Joanne Horniman

Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris

Flight by Sherman Alexie

City of Thieves by David Benioff

The Sands of Sakkara by Glen Meade

Death with Interuptions by Jose Saramago

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

 

 

 

 

 

 

White TigerIf you liked...

The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga,

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Caspian Rain by Gina Bakhordar Nahai

The Elephant Suite by Paul Theroux

Mirage by Soheir Khashoggi

Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai

Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan

The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In the Walled Garden by Anahita Firouz

Master and CommanderIf you liked...

Master and Commander
by Patrick O'Brian,

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Sharpe Series Trafalgar by Bernard Cornwell

Sloop of War by Alexander Kent

The Nautical Chart by Arturo Perez-Reverte

Kydd by Julian Stockwin

Hornblower series by C.S. Forester

The First Nathaniel Drinkwater Omnibus by Richard Woodman

 

 

Bridget Jones's Diary

If you liked...

Bridget Jones's Diary
by Helen Fielding,

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Until the Real Thing Comes Along by Elizabeth Berg

Must Love Dogs by Claire Cook

Mr Maybe by Jane Green

Simply Divine by Wendy Holden

"Shopaholic" books by Sophie Kinsella

Watermelon by Marian Keyes

Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell

Behaving Like Adults by Anna Maxted

About a Boy by Nick Hornby