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The 39 best books of the year so far
By Rebecca Laurence and Lindsay Baker
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A Soviet novel 'too dangerous to read'
By Nicholas Barrett
Banned books
Banned books
The books too powerful to read
By John Self
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The most comforting children's books
By Kamala Thiagarajan
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The radical books rewriting sex
By Clare Thorp
Frodo from Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings
The meaning of Tolkien's iconic symbol
By Hephzibah Anderson
Marcel Proust
Literature
The greatest novel of the 20th Century?
By Cath Pound
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
Film
The fairy-tale myth that endures
By Rosalind Jana
The Lost Daughter bracingly showed the struggle of its heroine Leda as a young mother trying to retain her sense of self (Credit: Alamy)
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What no-one says about being a mother
By Laura Martin
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A gay paradise of sex and liberation
By Jack Parlett
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The troubling legacy of Lolita
By Steph Green
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People who 'danced themselves to death'
By Rosalind Jana
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The Collection
Eight nature books to change your life
By Lindsay Baker
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Books
How to survive the 'post-book blues'
By Howard Timberlake
Shevcheko and Ukrainka collage (Credit: Alamy/Javier Hirschfeld)
Literature
The stories that shaped Ukraine
By John Self

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