 | A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 I promise that you will love this book, so passionate and dramatic and it's by far the best thing Dickens ever wrote. Sydney Carton is for me the ultimate fictional hero!
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 | His Dark Materials Trilogy: "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Be warned this book is so not just for children. When I read this book it changed my life, it's a must for all skeptics out there.
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 | War and Peace (Penguin Hardback Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
Buy used from: £49.28 Don't be put off by the size of it. This book has everything love triangles, drama and scandles, battles, high society parties, history! Fascinating book about the meaning of life
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 | V for Vendetta by Steve Moore
Buy new: £1.13 / Used from: £0.80 Based on the film and the graphic novel, it's truly moving and disturbing story, the roots of which we can see around us today. Read this book and join the revolution!
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 | Jane Eyre (Oxford World's Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
Buy used from: £0.01 One of the best love stories ever. A deep look into a human pysche as it battles with inner demons in its search for happiness. Plus that Mr Rochester is hot!
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 | And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Buy used from: £0.01 If you only read one Agatha Christie book (and you shouldn't) then it must be this. Chilling and brilliant you won't see it coming!
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 | The Moonstone (Dover Thrift) by Wilkie Collins
Buy new: £1.09 / Used from: £0.50 The first detective novel and it's incredible, the multiple narratives alone make this one of the best books ever written. Exciting and very funny in places.
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 | Persuasion by Jane Austen
Buy new: £1.79 / Used from: £0.01 One of the lesser known Austen novels but by far my favourite. The agony and suffering build up to a wonderful climax when the unfortunate lovers are finally re-united.
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 | Wives and Daughters (Wordsworth Classics) by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 A little hidden gem for all those who like the quiet picturesque world of Jane Austen and the politics of love and marriage, only better and vamped up.
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 | Lucky Man: A Memoir by Michael J. Fox
Buy new: £2.91 / Used from: £0.01 The most moving portrayal of an extraordinary life. Told with such sparkling wit and intense emotion, he doesn't hold back and I love this book.
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 | Twelfth Night (Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £2.87 / Used from: £1.50 The funniest of Shakespeare's plays and once you get your head around the cross dressing and establish who's who its the most delightful thing ever.
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 | Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
Buy new: £4.39 / Used from: £1.11 Rather risque but a wonderful take on love, fate and choices. Its about romance, sex and discovering who you are and it does it in a more relatable way than the Alchemist
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 | North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £2.36 Pride and Prejudice with energy, drive and action. A masterpiece which needs no other recommendation
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 | Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Intriguing and suspenseful - they should definately film this one next.
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