 | Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £1.99 Even if you're not into this type of thing, the style is beautiful. Great great book.
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 | The Juniper Game (Hippo Fiction) by Sherryl Jordan
Buy used from: £0.01 My favourite book between ages 10-16. Doesn't pander to teens at all.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.80 Because there's a Holden Caulfield in all of us at some stage in our lives.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.30 / Used from: £1.99 The book that made me grow up. Such injustice. Boo Radley is an amazing character,
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 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ("The Chronicles of Narnia") by C. S. Lewis
Buy used from: £0.01 The book that first awakened my imagination, and I'll always be grateful.
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 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oxford World's Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy used from: £0.01 Why isn't Wilde given enough recognition? This is one of the best books I've ever read.
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 | Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy used from: £0.57 Forget Stephen King, this is horror at its most real. And it's happening right now.
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 | Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Introduced me to philosophy, and made me love it in a way 3 years of college never could!
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 | Less Than Zero (Picador Books) by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy used from: £0.01 Sometimes a book doesn't need to do anything fancy to strike a chord.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Collector's Library) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 I dare you not to let the romance overcome you.
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 | Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Popular Classics) by Mary Shelley
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 My first taste of Mary Shelley, the most underrated author ever. Read her other books. She's amazing.
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 | The Sandman: Game of You by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £5.00 The first "Sandman I read. The art and words compliment each other beautifully.
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 | On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Kerouac
Buy used from: £9.32 Warning: you will get wanderlust. It's impossible not to.
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 | The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £15.73 / Used from: £14.27 Love "Lord of the RIngs" too, but this is origins-of-the-world myth at its best. Such beautiful ideas.
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 | Dracula (Penguin Popular Classics) by Bram Stoker
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Probably its own worst enemy, but the fact remains this is a riveting read.
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £2.33 Sheer anarchy/comedy/pathos. What more do you want?
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