![]() | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £4.40 / Used from: £0.01 A heady tale of obsession
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![]() | Atonement by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £5.57 / Used from: £0.01 Probably a masterpiece, definitely one of the best I have read
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![]() | 1984 by George Orwell
Buy used from: £14.73 Terrifying nightmare about power and submission
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![]() | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Popular Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £2.17 / Used from: £0.01 A rich parable of morality and art
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![]() | Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics) by Joyce James
Buy new: £4.77 / Used from: £0.01 Beautifully written, The Dead is magnificent.
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![]() | Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Buy new: £4.37 / Used from: £0.01 Studied it to death in English Lit, hasn't put me off.
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![]() | Tender is the Night: A Romance (Penguin Modern Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £0.01 Probably overshadowed by The Great Gatsby, but this is brilliantly crafted, and more personal.
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![]() | Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: £4.57 / Used from: £0.01 An cutting insight into a troubled country. Some of the scenes are unforgettable.
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![]() | The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room" by Paul Auster
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Brilliantly written and very enjoyable, but it left me slightly empty after finishing.
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![]() | When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy used from: £0.01 I didn't like Ishiguro's prose style, and didn't find myself interested in the answers to the questions the book raises.
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![]() | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J.K. Rowling
Buy new: £5.52 / Used from: £0.01 The darkest of the Harry Potter books, and very fun to read.
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![]() | Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 A very interesting book, about the present as much as the future, but the chatty, American prose style is quite annoying.
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![]() | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.88 A fantastic novel
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![]() | Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £0.98 Great political fable
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![]() | The Iron Man: A Story in Five Nights (Faber Children's Classics) by Ted Hughes
Buy new: £3.47 / Used from: £0.36 Excellent story by a fine poet
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![]() | Frankenstein: or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Buy used from: £0.17 Definitely a scary, important novel, but some passages are clumsy, and the constant narrative can get a bit much, whether by Walton, Frankenstein or the monster.
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![]() | Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £0.01 Packed with observations that will never go out of fashion
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![]() | Translations (Faber Paperbacks) by Brian Friel
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £0.01 Fantastic play, which tells more truth than centuries of politics ever have in my country
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![]() | The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Dover Thrift) by Oscar Wilde
Buy used from: £0.01 Don't watch the Shawshank Redemption, read this instead. The nursery rhyme style makes the truth even harsher. But look carefully and you will find hope.
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![]() | Collected Poems 1909-62 by T.S. Eliot
Buy new: £7.77 / Used from: £0.99 Full of questions and conclusions, and beautiful poetry.
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![]() | Slow Dance on the Fault Line by Donald Rawley
Buy used from: £0.01 Such a fresh and vital voice, unfortunately Rawley died before I had heard of him.
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![]() | Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Faster than Atonement, McEwan's books are what you look for in a novel, but rarely find.
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