 | Strandloper (Harvill Panther) by Alan Garner
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.68 Strandloper is Garner's masterpiece. It took more than a decade to write. Should have won the Booker.
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 | Thursbitch by Alan Garner
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.53 Intense, unnerving, haunting and typical of Garner's later style: pared-to-the-bone narrative and dialogue. A psycho-geological pagan parable.
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 | Red Shift (Collins Voyager) by Alan Garner
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.95 Describing this as a book for young adults is like describing a dragon as a large lizard. Incredibly demanding and rewarding.
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 | The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Collins Voyager) by Alan Garner
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.49 Garner's debut. I have read this about 50 times over the last 30 years. It still works.
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 | Elidor (Collins Modern Classics) by Alan Garner
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 This book changed my life. Read it aged 8 back in the seventies. A Unicorn runs through a Manchester slum. Classic example of the abrupt and thought provoking "Garner Ending".
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 | The Stone Book Quartet (Flamingo Modern Classics) by Alan Garner
Buy used from: £19.06 Is it a novel? Yes! The themes, characters, symbolism and settings echo and recur throughout the four stories.
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 | The Owl Service by Alan Garner
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.00 A crossroads novel. A lot of people would place this very much higher. It is brilliant, but, as an adult reader, I find the mythological background a bit too obvious.
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 | The Moon of Gomrath (Collins Voyager) by Alan Garner
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.80 You have to read this if you have already read "Weirdstone", but I think it's Garner's weakest novel (which means better than most writers at their strongest). Lots of great scenes, mind you.
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