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My all time favourites so far...
The God of Small ThingsThe God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Buy new: £4.46 / Used from: £0.01
Roy has a way with words that I wish I had, hauntingly beautiful & courageous
Cat's EyeCat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01
My favourite Atwood book. It made me cry.
Jitterbug PerfumeJitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.50
Very clever. Each sentence, each word is put there for a reason. Great stuff.
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next)The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next) by Jasper Fforde
Buy new: £5.14 / Used from: £0.80
Any book by jasper fforde is worth a read. And a re-read.
Catch-22Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £1.44
Trust me on this one. Yossarian lives.
Girlfriend in a ComaGirlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01
His best book. In my humble opinion.
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics)One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £2.86
It's on everyone else's list for a reason...
Northanger Abbey (Penguin Popular Classics)Northanger Abbey (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01
Austen's funny satire of gothic literature
BirdsongBirdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.01
Erotic literature at it's best.. you know what I mean ladies.
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Puffin Modern Classics)Fantastic Mr. Fox (Puffin Modern Classics) by Roald Dahl
Buy new: £0.98 / Used from: £0.01
The saviour of children's literature. I quite fancy Fantastic Mr Fox. I hope thats not too weird.
Evelina: Or the History of A Young Lady's Entrance into the World: Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (Penguin Classics)Evelina: Or the History of A Young Lady's Entrance into the World: Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (Penguin Classics) by Fanny Burney
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £3.60
This amused me a lot. Very entertaining.
The Moonstone (Wordsworth Classics)The Moonstone (Wordsworth Classics) by Wilkie Collins
Buy new: £1.79 / Used from: £0.01
Detective fiction at it's first & greastest. I was kept guessing until the very end.
Duncton Wood (The Duncton Chronicles)Duncton Wood (The Duncton Chronicles) by William Horwood
Buy used from: £0.01
My Grandma gave me these for Christmas when I was a child, and I ate them. Seriously.
Chronicles: Volume OneChronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.42
The voice of a generation explains why he never wanted to be the voice of a generation. But he writes books as well as he writes music, and with the same rhythms.
The House of the SpiritsThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.87
I'm a big fan of anything she writes.
No LogoNo Logo by Naomi Klein
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.38
must-read
Little Women (Penguin Popular Classics)Little Women (Penguin Popular Classics) by Louisa M. Alcott
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01
an old favourite from when I was young, this book is a nostalgic comfort book.
On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics)On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £6.24 / Used from: £2.25
a bit of Kerouac never went amiss. Especially when it's this energetic, jumpy, vibrant book.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £2.50
darkly comic, this disturbing book is just brilliant, and thompson's voice is genius.
Eden CloseEden Close by Anita Shreve
Buy new: £2.90 / Used from: £0.01
the book that introduced me to Anita Shreve.