 | Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £5.17 / Used from: £0.01 Typically creepy yet insightful stuff from the master of 'Ooh there's something unpleasant about to happen but you might not ever see it.'
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 | The Law and the Lady (Penguin Classics) by Wilkie Collins
Buy new: £6.95 / Used from: £2.28 Fantastic novel about a woman's quest t prove her husband innocent. Try to ignore the Scottish law bashing and it's great.
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 | Bleak House (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £6.23 / Used from: £0.36 Just brilliant!
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 | Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 If it came down to it, this might well be my favourite (adult) book. A tour de force.
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 | The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Really evocative of the magic and misery of Franco's Spain.
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 | The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.01 It's nice to see something written about Afghanistan which shows the people as they really are, and not lumping them together under some fundamentalist umbrella.
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 | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.01 It'll make you cry
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 | North and South (Penguin Classics) by Elizabeth Gaskell
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 Awwwww.......John Thonton is fab.
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 | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Penguin Popular Classics) by Anne Bronte
Buy new: £2.50 / Used from: £0.01 A really beautiful tale of a woman flouting the 'rules' of society to protect her son from the malignant influence of his father.
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 | The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (Wordsworth Special Editions) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.89 She just rocks!
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 | Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £5.08 / Used from: £1.48 This was the first Murakami I read and wasn't convinced I would enjoy it but I loved it and am now a Murakami-aholic.
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 | All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Buy used from: £2.50 A beautiful book, written from the German trenches in WW1, it shows you how little difference there was between the men who were being killed. A great anti war novel without being obviously so.
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £0.01 Again I thought I'd not like this, but I devoured it. And I love a twist at the end....
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 | House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A really good insight into the lives of very specific people, their loves, lives, drives and obssesions.
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 | Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley
Buy new: £4.03 / Used from: £0.30 I read this and Dracula at about the same time and thought they were both great. The message about playing God is one that remains today and is something we should always keep in mind
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 | Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A really interesting 'What if'novel about how the government finally deal with society's degredation. A mix of modern dictatorial governing and ancient personality types.
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 | Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £6.19 / Used from: £1.50 Ignore the dodgy 80s cover, this is a great book on the nature of fame and identity which is appropriate in the modern age of Big-X-Pop-Jungle-Strictly-Desperate-for-fame programing
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 | The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Vintage East) by Yukio Mishima
Buy used from: £1.34 A really lovely story, with a not so lovely storyline. It has quite a philosophical feel to it.
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 | The Secret History (Read Red) by Donna Tartt
Buy used from: £0.01 Really brilliant writing about some very odd but extremely likeable people.
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 | The Return of the Soldier (Virago modern classics) by Rebecca West
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 A great moderenist novel. Almost stream of conciousness without feeling slightly aloof to the subject.
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