 | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Buy used from: £2.47 You'll love this if, like me, you gave up on subjects like maths and science at school and, like Bill Bryson, realised you knew very little about them. Very readable and informative.
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 | Life Of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £0.01 This book feels like an epic- it completely absorbed me and I was really disappinted when it finished.
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £4.34 / Used from: £0.01 The world of a young boy who simply cannot communicate is very well depicted, as is the ignorance of those around him.
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 | Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01 Pierre is a gifted author with a knack for describing emotions which we never knew anyone else felt and portraying situations which we never thought we could understand, much less identify with.
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 | Maya by Jostein Gaarder
Buy new: £2.78 / Used from: £0.01 Explores some hugely important ideas relating to our existence and purpose through an imaginative cast of characters and an intriguing plot.
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 | Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Although the amount of Victorian poetry may be slightly off-putting, this book explores the theme of possession and the lives and surroundings of those involved in detail and will not disappoint.
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 | Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £2.79 / Used from: £0.48 In this book, none of the characters are what they first appear, and by the end, many of them have changed beyond all recognition.
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 | Nonfiction by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £6.44 / Used from: £1.18 These honest and moving encounters with an odd assortment of people is as engrossing and scarily persuasive as Palahniuk's fiction, but with the unnerving dimension of being true.
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 | The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £1.30 If you've ever read a book and wished the author had been more brave, this book will not leave you unsatisfied; Rhinehart follows the idea of living by the die further than anyone else would dare.
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 | Strangers by Taichi Yamada
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Yamada doesn't try to make ghosts appear more plausible than anyone else, he simply places them in everyday situations, giving you no choice but to go along with this bizarre and entertaining plot.
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