 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.29 Absolute classic. Follow Esther Greenwood's struggle with depression, a writer who ends up in a mental institution.
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 | Interview with the Vampire (Vampire Chronicles) by Anne Rice
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 The first in Anne Rice's vampire chronicles. Stars Louis, who tells his story of how he came to be a vampire.
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 | The Vampire Lestat (Second Volume of the Vampire Chronicles) by Anne Rice
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 If you liked Interview With The Vampire, the second installment is about 10 times better. Hot, hot hot man on man vampire eroticism. woo hoo!
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 | Disconnected (Collins Flamingo) by Sherry Ashworth
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.00 One of those 'read in one sitting' books. About a well-to-do, middle class 17 year old girl called Catherine who goes off the rails during her final year at a private school.
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 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Buy new: £4.54 / Used from: £4.00 Another 24 hour read!Charlie is a wallflower-shy and introspective, and intelligent beyond his years. Heartwrenching fictional diary that made me laugh and cry.
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 | Stoned, Naked and Looking in My Neighbour's Window
Buy used from: £8.86 'I don't use tampons or pads, I use bread' Oh god, this book made me laugh so much. The best confessions submitted at the website grouphug.us
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 | Presumed Curable: An Illustrated Casebook of Victorian Psychiatric Patients in Bethlem Hospital by Colin Gale
The asylum that invented the word 'Bedlam'... a book filled with the profiles of Bethlem Asylum's patients from over 100yrs ago. Pictures of each patient, their diagnosis, and other doctors notes.
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 | Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Buy new: £6.69 / Used from: £6.22 Ever wondered what REALLY happens when a corpse gets donated to science...?
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 | Ghost Stories (Wordsworth Classics) by M.R. James
Buy used from: £0.01 I know it doesn't look very impressive, but if you like ghost stories, you'll love this. Excellently written, very subtle which gives the stories a terrifying edge. Totally old-school.
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 | The True and the Questions Journal by Sabrina Ward Harrison
Buy new: £9.10 / Used from: £8.55 I ADORE this book. It's an arty journal where you can add your own feelings and thoughts, based on the illustrators prompts. Original idea. HAVE A LOOK AT IT! Seriously, do.
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 | Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.09 I read a bit too much psycho-lit don't I? Anyway, you have to read it. Kaysen recounts her story of being sent to a mental istitution after being diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder.
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 | The Stand (The Complete and Uncut Edition) by Stephen King
Buy used from: £1.25 I know I should have grown out of SK... but.... it's like a proper George A Romero zombie film! The world becomes consumed by a deadly virus that wipes out 90% of the human race. Grotesque, woo!
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 | American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy used from: £0.50 Patrick is a young, handsome sucessful businessman living in New York. He also likes to mutilate and murder people in the most horrific ways. Thought-provoking twists, a cult classic.
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