 | Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America - A Memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Buy new: £6.40 / Used from: £0.01 Into the mind of Elizabeth Wurtzel - this book will draw you in and make you feel a part.
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 | Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.99 As with Prozac Nation, Wasted was a book in which I felt I was there with the author. Slightly self-indulgent...but that in my opinion is something that cannot be avoided with this subject matter.
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £13.35 / Used from: £13.62 George Orwell's greatest work - an absolute classic and terrifying because it's all so real.
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 | The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary classics) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £1.54 Hits you hard in the same way as 1984 - but with an added edge I can't explain. As a female it's particularly haunting.
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 | Philosophy: The Basics by Nigel Warburton
Buy used from: £3.96 For someone who has no experience of philosophy, this stretched my mind in ways I didn't think possible.
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 | All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.90 So far I haven't read a piece of war literature that highlights the futility of war as much as this. Compulsory reading.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. Salinger
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £2.23 As a teenager myself, I could analyse this book forever - raises some big questions about the state of society through Holden's eyes.
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 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.20 Less melodramatic than modern work such as Prozac Nation, but still a harrowing tale and definitely makes you think.
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 | Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.64 A very simple observation of mankind and human nature by all means, but still an important and, tragically, very real one.
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 | Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £12.59 / Used from: £6.58 A brilliant, haunting collection - her insight will leave you overwhelmed at times.
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 | Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
Buy used from: £0.33 An obviously revolutionary book of its time, and thus paints a very telling picture of the position of women at the start of the century.
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 | Learning to Fly by Victoria Beckham
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Only thought-provoking in the sense that it is interesting to see what a well-crafted piece of sympathy searching publicity this is...a good achievement in that respect.
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