 | The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 A great insight. Poignent and, at times, shocking.
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 | The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £0.01 Magical.
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.82 Wonderfully original. Bizarre; entertaining; worth the initial confusion.
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 | The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: £3.15 / Used from: £2.45 Very moving. It's a privilige to share in the main character's journey.
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 | The Old Curiosity Shop: a Tale: A Tale (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.80 Great characters. Very entertaining and vivid.
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 | Little Dorrit (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.42 Worth the effort. A real sense of achievement. You become so accusstomed with the characters that it's really sad to have finished it.
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 | Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Popular Classics) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £1.70 / Used from: £0.01 The best love story ever.
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 | One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey
Buy used from: £3.50 Essential reading: thought-provoking and non-conformist.
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 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £1.76 / Used from: £1.99 A gripping strem of consciousness.
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 | Mother Tongue: The English Language by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £3.64 / Used from: £0.89 So interesting.
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 | Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Buy new: £7.27 / Used from: £0.01 Hilarious and useful.
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 | Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 A hilarious look at Britishness.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Red Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £1.90 Haunting; moving; beautiful.
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 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy used from: £8.49 A great summer read. (I was nearly crying at the end).
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 | To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
Buy used from: £16.95 There's a reason that so many English teachers choose to teach this novel; it's truly wonderful.
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 | About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Another great summer read. Very funny with loveable characters.
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 | The Big Sleep (Penguin Fiction) by Raymond Chandler
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £2.50 I really didn't think that this would be my type of story, but it most definitely was. A ballsy crime novel.
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 You sometimes just want to slap Pip on his journey from rags to riches!
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 | Emergency Kit: Poems for Strange Times
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.80 Brilliant. (Yet I still haven't worked out how they decided upon the order of the poems).
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 | The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £1.68 Illuminating.
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