 | The Vampire Lestat (Second Volume of the Vampire Chronicles) by Anne Rice
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 I wrote my MA thesis on this one - believe me it is more than you might think after first reading, too bad she lost her wibe in the following years...
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 | The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers v.2: Two Towers Vol 2 by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 the best of the trilogy, dark and gloomy, impeccable
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 | Harry Potter Pbk Boxed Set by J.K. Rowling
Buy used from: £24.99 who says it si only for children? My fav is The Chamber of Secrets, maybe bc Lockhart is just so damn hilarious
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 | Rebecca (Virago modern classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £5.57 / Used from: £0.46 the only book I have read frojm her, but I can't get bored of it - this is the one I always take with me on holiday
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 | The Beach by Alex Garland
Buy used from: £0.01 so good, escapism - only in the end you are blasted out of your daydreaming
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 | My Family and Other Animals (Essential Penguin) by Gerald Durrell
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.01 I adore the Durrells - ditzy folks, but I so want brothers like Leslie and Larry. Oh, and the TV series is a must!
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 | The Venus Throw by Steven Saylor
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 The whole series is great, but I particularly love this one, it is so deliciously decadent...
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 | Howards End (Penguin Modern Classics) by E.M. Forster
Buy used from: £0.98 my favourite book point blank
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.89 i just love it
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 | At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
Buy new: £6.18 / Used from: £0.01 this book has a special place in my heart, a warm, fuzzy feeling, so beautiful and so sad at the same time...
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 | The King Must Die by Mary Renault
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £2.79 i love all her books, but I particularly enjoyed this one
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 | Music for Chameleons: New Writing (Penguin Modern Classics) by Truman Capote
Buy new: £7.12 / Used from: £3.14 he wanted to write perfect English sentences - he did. This collection os short stories is awsome. And the piece about Marylin...
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 | Orlando: A Biography (Penguin Modern Classics) by Joseph Conrad
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 it is such an adventure though time, space and gender!
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 | The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy) by Douglas Adams
Buy used from: £0.01 the first one is great, but this second book in the series is out of this world - well, out of this galaxy...
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 | Teach Yourself Japanese with CDROM (Teach Yourself (McGraw-Hill)) by Helen Ballhatchet
Buy used from: £8.11 if you ever wanted to learn this unbelievable language, this is the book
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 | On Literature by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £3.20 he is great when he is not trying to act like he is a novelist - apart from The Name of the Rose, bc that is superb
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 | The Coming Storm (Stonewall Inn Editions) by Paul Russell
Buy used from: £5.00 one of the greatest prose i have ever read - like music
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 | Evil under the Sun (Poirot) by Agatha Christie
Buy new: £4.23 / Used from: £0.01 this is only for secure a place for Ms Christie, since I couldn't pick one book as my favourite, though I prefer Miss Marple to Poirot
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