 | The Idiot (Everyman's Library Classics) by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £12.57 A graceful, powerful story full of vibrant people and the harshness of life against the individual. Written by literature's Van Gogh.
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 | A Midsummer Night's Dream (Penguin Popular Classics) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Shakespeare's most inventive play, with some of his most delicious and accessible poetry.
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 | The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next) by Jasper Fforde
Buy new: £5.14 / Used from: £1.66 The first volume in a bouncing, engrossing, hilarious and pertinent series by zeitgeist capturing genius Jasper Fforde.
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 | The Oresteia: A Translation of Aeschylus' Trilogy of Plays (Faber Poetry) by Aeschylus
Buy new: £10.00 / Used from: £2.25 The most important canon of plays of all time, by the most important poet of ours.
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 | The Revenge of Gaia (Penguin Celebrations) by James Lovelock
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.21 Proof that the written word can change the world, and even, hopefully, save it.
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 | Aesop's Fables (Penguin Popular Classics) by Aesop
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Civilization's most enduring and famous stories, proving that art and literature can transcend time, culture and faith.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.25 / Used from: £2.50 An evocative, empathetic, endearing, resonant, utterly moving, playful, soul nourishing cannonball of a story.
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 | The Crucible (Heinemann Plays) by Arthur Miller
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £1.45 A brilliant play that redefined what theatre, and art, can do - what they should be used for - in our society.
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 | The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 (Along with the other Adams') it is a masterpiece of the absurd, with existential over-tones. In showing you the universe, it shows you your own world, yourself.
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £3.50 Like no other novel it disects the relationships between the inner-being, the entire human, and greater power. Ingenious.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 One of, if not the, most affecting love story, that wrestles with the mad, devouring crocodile of human feeling.
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 | Oliver Twist (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £3.59 / Used from: £0.01 Dickens best novel, full of colour and grime, with a cast of the most eccentric, rich, and identifiable characters in fiction.
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 | Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Classics S.) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.85 An erruption of a book. A glorious, emboldening life-force coats your nerves and fills you with the dancing, fearful power of human being.
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 | In the Absence of Men by Philippe Besson
Buy used from: £1.15 A soul consuming, burning novella that explodes and exposes the powers of love, lust, luxury, the self, and the others you affect.
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 | The Seagull (Methuen Student Editions) (Student Editions) by Anton Chekhov
Buy new: £8.54 / Used from: £1.99 A play that proves what we will do, the lengths we will go to, to be happy, and miserable, famous, rich and dead. The perfect human drama. The individual illuminated.
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 | On the Road: The Original Scroll (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £5.86 The book that not only captured and preserved it's own generation, but every generation the of world-hungry, adventure-lusting, soul-enrichening youth.
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 | Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
Buy used from: £2.40 The most beautiful novel ever written in the English language. It speaks, absolutely, for itself.
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