 | Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics) (Penguin Popular Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 A heavy and powerful introduction to right, wrong, love and humanity with deep psychological overtones
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 | The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.95 We all have choices, but what do these really mean? How does our fear of the uncertain control our actions and beliefs? This book will make you think!
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 | The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.93 Are we always true to who we are, or do we become who we aspire to be, and if the latter, at what cost?
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £2.95 / Used from: £0.67 What happens when one sence overides all others, for most of us it is love, not smell
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 | Les Miserables (Classics) by Victor Hugo
Buy new: £4.12 / Used from: £0.28 A long book, but a fascinating juxtaposition of righteousness over selfishness and dogma over forgiveness
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 | Germinal (Oxford World's Classics) by Émile Zola
Buy new: £18.12 / Used from: £3.54 When does work become slavery? What drives a mob? What is poverty? What was "sixteen tons" by the Red Skins all about?
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 | Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.68 Mortality, love and lost opportunities cannot be solved at the end of life
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 | Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck "Essentials") by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £3.42 / Used from: £1.49 Compare this to Germinal. The tragedy is the same, but the freedom is all too clear, freedom to suffer
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 | The Prince (Oxford World's Classics) by Niccolò Machiavelli
Buy used from: £3.10 How much have people changed over the centuries? The desired results may be different, but the methods are the same. This book is still essential reading for any aspiring leader
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 | A Woman in Berlin: Diary 20 April 1945 to 22 June 1945 by Anonymous
Buy new: £2.92 / Used from: £3.94 War, and perhaps more significantly, poverty, exposes the darker sides of humanity for both the strong and weak.
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