Planet of the Apes **
by Pierre Boulle

"Apes alone can have a soul."

★★★★★

Identical *
by Ellen Hopkins

"Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape."

★★★★☆

Good Omens
by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

"Don't think of it as dying, said Death. Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush."

★★★★☆

The Book of Lost Things
by John Connolly

"Each man dreams his own heaven. And in the darkness David closed his eyes, as all that was lost was found again."

★★★★★

The Solitude of Prime Numbers
by Paolo Giordano
"Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains."

★★★★★

The Lover's Dictionary*
by David Levithan

"No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough."

★★★★☆

The Curious Incident...
by Mark Haddon

"And there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt."

★★★★★

Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami

"The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory."

★☆☆☆☆

What the Dog Saw... **
by Malcolm Gladwell
"Good writing succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else’s head."

★★☆☆☆

The Bell Jar*
by Sylvia Plath

"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream."

★★★☆☆

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by Tom McCarthy

"...the sound of people treading cold, black water, their hands beating small disturbances into waves that had come to bury them."

★★★★★

Pet Sematary
by Stephen King

"Sometimes dead is better."

★★☆☆☆

The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."

★★★★★

The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak

"I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right."

★★★★★

The Girl with the Dragon... **
by Stieg Larsson

"What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst."

★★★☆☆

The Girl who Played... **
by Stieg Larsson

"There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility."

★★☆☆☆

The Lemon Table
by Julian Barnes

"I watched until my eyes blurred, I listened until my ears could hear nothing more, and silence resumed."

★★★★☆

The Girl who Kicked the... **
by Stieg Larsson

"I don't want to fall in love with you. It'll hurt far too much when it's over."

★★★☆☆

Survivor
by Chuck Palahniuk

"A girl calls and asks, 'Does it hurt very much to die?'
'Well, sweetheart,' I tell her, 'yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.'"

★★★★★

Wasted *
by Marya Hornbacher
"There is an empty space in many of us that gnaws at our ribs and cannot be filled by any amount of food. There is a hunger for something, and we never know quite what it is, only that it is a hunger, so we eat."

★★☆☆☆

Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card

"I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice."

★★★★☆

The Weird Sisters
by Eleanor Brown

"Tell the story of yourself. Stop defining yourself in terms of them. You don’t just have to exist in the empty spaces they leave."

★☆☆☆☆

Chronicle of a...
by Gabriel García Márquez
"They looked like two children, and that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.”

★★★☆☆

Snuff
by Chuck Palahniuk

"It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life."

★☆☆☆☆

England, England
by Julian Barnes

"Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be."

★★★★☆

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