 | Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Buy new: £4.71 / Used from: £0.72 One of my all time favorites and immensely powerful.
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 | Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck "Essentials") by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £3.65 / Used from: £2.47 A short, yet sublime hit of Steinbeck, a great place to start if you're new to his writing.
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 | A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £2.51 / Used from: £1.50 A brilliant place to start with Hemingway.
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 | The Tale of Genji (Tuttle Classics) by Murasaki Shikibu
Buy used from: £10.19 An excellent translation.
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 | Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £4.69 A short, dark, but perfectly formed novel.
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 | All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Buy new: £3.14 / Used from: £2.00 As powerful as everyone says.
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 | The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.18 Impossible to put down.
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £3.94 / Used from: £2.20 A dark, but compelling masterpiece.
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 | The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.99 Some interesting ideas.
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 | The Search for the Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.00 Slightly more coherent than the first and possible to read on it's own.
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 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Popular Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 Great for kids and adults alike.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £1.19 Worth a read, if even to see what all the fuss is about.
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 | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £2.90 The evocative read of the Joad family in depression era America. Perhaps one of the most poignant endings to any book.
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 | Tender Is the Night: A Romance (Penguin Modern Classics) by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £3.51 / Used from: £2.25 Sad and beautiful at the same time.
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 | The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.27 An excellent story, beautifully crafted.
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 | The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Never has a book deserved so much praise. Outstanding.
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 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ken Kesey
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £4.34 Great twentieth century fiction.
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 | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.01 One to move and stay with you.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £3.94 / Used from: £2.60 Great story, classic reading. One to read at least once before you die.
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.42 A quirky classic.
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 | Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.95 This one works on so many levels.
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