 | English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 brilliant! Educational but fun.
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 | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Buy new: £6.94 / Used from: £1.75 my favourite John Irving. friendship love and faith. A story to stay with you.
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 | Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Unusual subject, brilliantly executed. Great story-telling. recommend for summer holidays
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 | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 I don't normally read crime novels but this one is different.
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 | The Empress of Weehawken by Irene Dische
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £5.59 Ironic style of writing, good story, good fun, serious subject.
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 | Brother of Sleep by Robert D. Schneider
Buy used from: £6.00 very poetic story, choosing death over life for love.
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 | Small World by Martin Suter
Buy new: £2.36 / Used from: £1.15 read this in one day. Sharing the mind of an Alzheimer sufferer. All other Martin Suter's books are great but not all are translated in English, yet!
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £4.39 / Used from: £0.01 incredible insights into the life of an autistic child. Unforgettable.
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 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy used from: £5.75 a bit of girly romance never hurt anyone...
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 | She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.28 dark, deep, intense. Feels real.
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 | Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £3.44 my favourite Tracy Chevalier. Set in the Soufragette's movement in England at the start of the 20th century
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 | Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Unhealthy obsessions left right and centre. Full of suspense.
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £1.00 Dark fairytale.
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 | The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01 Dark again (spotting a pattern here?) very unusual, not for the faint-hearted...
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £1.79 doesn't need any comments really. Feels incredibly real.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £3.94 / Used from: £1.87 Touched me more than I had ever expected. Wish I had read it earlier...
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 | The World According to Garp (Black Swan) by John Irving
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 2nd favourite John Irving ;-) great story ...
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 | The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Buy new: £4.59 / Used from: £2.25 the best for some good history-reading, epic.
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 | The Observations by Jane Harris
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 really fun to read and some good suspense. Loved the main character!
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 | Digging to America by Anne Tyler
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.01 quirky look at what it's like being an immigrant.
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 | Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
Buy new: £3.86 / Used from: £0.01 More mental health issues... I really liked the main characters, the construction of the story is original and makes you want to keep reading
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 | The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.95 This is not girly chick-lit! Fantastic colourful historic detail.
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 | Asta's Book by Barbara Vine
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Ruth Rendell's ater ego Barbara Vine: great and unusual style of crime novels, fantastic read!
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 | The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (Penguin Celebrations) by Barbara Vine
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.59 see above
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 | Atonement by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 The only one of McEwan's novels I liked, the others are just too preachy and arrogant. This one has a fantastic story and likeable characters.
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