 | Catch-22 (Vintage Classics) by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.00 A truly life-changing satire that has the ability to move and amuse
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 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £1.59 Oscar Wilde at his ironic best
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 | Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.25 Scenes that make me nostalgic for an age I never knew
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 | The End of the Affair (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £4.84 / Used from: £2.70 Graham Greene's writing is like music
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 | The Great Gatsby (Oxford World's Classics) by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £0.90 / Used from: £0.01 I cannot praise the beauty of Fitzgerald's prose highly enough
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 | The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Atwood showcases her wit and shrewd writer's eye admirably here
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.10 This saga, spanning several generations, is magical and breathtaking
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 | Rebecca (Virago modern classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.99 Du Maurier merges the beauty of the Cornish landscape with the evil secrets of her characters
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 | These Happy Golden Years (Little House (HarperTrophy)) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Buy used from: £1.92 This feel-good, wholesome classic never fails to cheer me up
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 | Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.95 I prefer the languid, tragic tone of this Coelho to 'The Alchemist'
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 | A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Buy new: £6.06 / Used from: £3.74 A well-wrought tale of stoicism and fortitude in Malaya and Australia
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 | Regeneration by Pat Barker
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £2.57 The waste and horror of war is finely evoked through the eyes of fictional and historical characters
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 | Lolita (Penguin Classics)
Buy new: £3.03 / Used from: £4.33 Nabokov's prose is too perfect to adequately praise
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 | Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Despite the nautical jargon, O'Brien brings the reader as close as possible to the salty waves and cannonfire
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 | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Buy new: £6.94 / Used from: £0.25 A strange and haunting tale of fate and friendship centred around the unforgettable Owen
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 | A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 The final chapter of this book never fails to make me weep for the tragedy and bravery of human existence
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 | Night Watch (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.54 Terry Pratchett's take on revolution surpasses comedy and becomes something altogether darker and more moving
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 | All Creatures Great and Small: "If Only They Could Talk" and "It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet" by James Herriot
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 These classic tales intersperse warm humour with the hardships of living in the 1930s
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 | Crustaceans by Andrew Cowan
Buy used from: £0.01 Cowan deals with grief and loss with restraint and sensitivity
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 | Secrets Can Kill (Nancy Drew Files) by Carolyn Keene
Buy used from: £0.33 Nancy Drew: the perfect antidote to all problems, throughout my childhood and adolescence
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