 | Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
Buy new: £5.38 / Used from: £2.97 This book drew me in so entirely, that I actually felt ill from their come downs, It may take me a while before I can face reading it again but it was so worth it. Sara's story hits the hardest.
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 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £3.96 / Used from: £0.62 Dorian Gray was taught to me at GCSE and I have never stopped loving it. It is absolutely enthralling and has the most delicious descriptions. Lord Henry brings Wilde back to life with every word.
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 | His Dark Materials Boxed set: "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £15.24 / Used from: £13.52 Matching even Lord of the Rings, this is possibly the best trilogy ever written
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. Salinger
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.83 I completely fell in love with the character of Holden and the way this book is written, A classic.
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 | Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
Buy used from: £3.31 Last Exit to Brooklin is a collection of shocking storys and is full of fantastic emotions and extremes. The queen is dead was my favourite.
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 | Watchmen by Alan Moore
Buy new: £8.73 / Used from: £6.50 The only graphic novel I have ever read and it completely took my breath away. I could not put this down it is truly amazing, and the drawings are to die for.
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 | The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Possibly my favourite collection of all time. Excrutiatingly witty, every new chapter throws you into a universe of possibilities. This book even teaches you how to fly. Literally.
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 | Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.94 This book is so funny and the characters are terrible people but you love them so much
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.08 / Used from: £2.10 Owell at his best this book is fantastic
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 | Hocus Pocus or, What's the Hurry, Son? by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.99 Its the catcher in the rye for over 18s, so witty and so true
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 | Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £0.01 You have to read this book in an accent, which jolts you at first but I cannot imagine it any other way.
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £9.00 / Used from: £3.74 Beautiful and thought-provoking
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 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy used from: £65.00 Time travel is made so easy to read and yet so difficult to live with. Your heart is broken and fixed a thousand times.
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 | The Eclipse of the Century by Jan Mark
Buy used from: £0.01 Picked this book up by mistake and have read it again and again. A little hard to get in to but once you have read it you will want to read it again and again.
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 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: AND Through the Looking Glass (Penguin Classics) by Lewis Carroll
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £2.28 A classic book that I will love forever, Amazing poetry amongst one of the most inventive and intricate worlds ever.
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 | The Beach by Alex Garland
Buy used from: £0.01 Lord of the Flies in thailand, Excellent.
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 | Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
This is a beautiful book which will keep you thinking for months and months to come.
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 | Heart of Darkness and Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics) by Joseph Conrad
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 I picked this up after watching Apolcolypse Now. Not only the heart of darkness, the other two books in this collection are also a mastery of description.
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