 | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Superbly written story and characters. Although harrowing at times, 'Birdsong' is a novel that will I will continue to reread for many years.
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 | Jane Eyre (Oxford World's Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
Buy used from: £0.01 In my opinion, 'Jane Eyre' is the most fantastic love story ever written. A refreshing change from the sugar-coated world of Mr Darcy and the like in Austen's novels.
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 | Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Golden's prose is some of the most beautiful I have read and this is a novel that can be enjoyed even after enjoying the film.
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 | Light in August (Vintage Classics) by William Faulkner
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.49 Faulkner's atmospheric descriptions of the American South draw the reader into his world and make you feel like you are sitting within the story. Not an easy read but so worthwhile.
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 | Out by Natsuo Kirino
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Not my usual choice of book but very well written and full of tension. An excellent modern novel that is easy to read (if you don't mind gore).
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 | Wuthering Heights (Wordsworth Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 More difficult to read than 'Jane Eyre' but just as fantastic. Bronte's novel deals with social class, passion and the supernatural to name but a few themes.
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £4.50 / Used from: £2.44 Dickens wrote characters like no other author ever will and the relationship between Pip and Estella is so complex and fascinating I will certainly be rereading this classic.
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 | Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 A book that can be enjoyed by children and adults alike, 'Lord of the Flies' focuses on the conflict between rules and instinct; civillisation and savagery.
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 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 A disturbing semi-autobiographical account of a young American woman's breakdown.
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