 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.10 (MC) A brilliant book by one of our best living authors.
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 | Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Penguin Modern Classics) by Simone De Beauvoir
Buy new: £8.39 / Used from: £7.68 (MOADD) Simone de Beauvoir describing our lives in a way that we couldn't ever do ourselves.
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 | The French Lieutenant's Woman (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.99 (TFLW) One of the most moving books ever written.
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 | The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary classics) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £1.54 (THT) A social commentary that seems like anything but.
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 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £4.40 (TSWCIFTC) Possibly the best spy story ever written.
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 | The Magus (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.25 (TM) Bizarre yet fantastic.
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 | I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Buy used from: £0.01 (IC) Even as a Classics student I loved this book. It highlights all the most interesting aspects and makes a story out of history.
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 | The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 (TU) So wonderfully written that you almost forgive him the ending...
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 | His Dark Materials Trilogy Box Set (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £14.30 / Used from: £7.50 (HSM) Although this is ostensibly for children, this is a brilliant trilogy which should be read by everybody.
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 | The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £0.01 (TH) The first fantasy book I ever read and still the best.
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 | Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 (OANTOF) A book of self-discovery that should never be forgotten.
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 | The Painted Veil by W.Somerset Maugham
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £2.27 (TPV) All you can think is 'no'............
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 | Lolita (Penguin Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £2.24 (L) Another disturbing yet gripping book.
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 (TGG) A book that is gentle yet compelling.
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 | The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever: "Lord Foul's Bane", "Illearth War" and "Power That Preserves" (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant) by Stephen Donaldson
Buy new: £11.89 / Used from: £3.02 (TCC) Both wonderful and irritating at the same time. Can't wait for his next book...
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 | The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £7.04 (TBW) One of the most interesting 'popular scientific' books of our generation.
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 | American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £3.91 (AP) Possibly the most upsetting book you'll ever read.
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 | Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 (MF) A surprisingly fun and interesting book describing a life that you never knew was worth knowing about!
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £3.50 (1984) A disturbingly true vision of the 'future'
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 | Fury by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 (F) Another Salman Rushdie classic.
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 | Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) by Henry Fielding
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 (TJ) A bawdy, luscious piece of writing.
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 | A Scanner Darkly (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £2.25 (ASD) One of the best science fiction novels ever written.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.25 / Used from: £2.50 A book that should never be ignored.
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 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 This book should be read by all, child and adult alike.
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 | Therese Raquin (Penguin Classics) by Emile Zola
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.50 A book that explores the deepest, darkest side of relationships. Not to be missed.
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