 | Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 Utterly compelling, sad and funny, a devestating account of a family's, and in particular the central character Cal's, dark secret
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £4.45 / Used from: £0.01 Mesmerizing prose and attention to detail in this story of a murderer without concience but with a perfect sense of smell - unforgetable.
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 | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 The perfect novel? An intelligent and dark twist on morality within peer groups on a US college campus
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 | The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White
Buy used from: £0.01 White's masterpiece following the life story of a man who loses all his close friends to AIDS
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 | Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 An eye-opening and sharply written exploration of two brother's conflicts between humanity and science
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 | A Home at the End of the World (Essential Penguin) by Michael Cunningham
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £0.38 Poignant journey following three friends struggling to cope with their complex relationships with each other.
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.99 A perennial classic, Fitzgerald's prose absorbs the reader.
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 | A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Buy new: £4.24 / Used from: £0.01 Bleak but utterly absorbing, reading about James's battle with addiction moved me more than anything else I've ever read
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £4.71 / Used from: £0.01 Simply told but enthralling story of an autistic boy's journey to discover the truth about a dead dog, uncovering well-intentioned but troubling secret along the way
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 | At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
Buy new: £6.18 / Used from: £0.01 This masterpiece details two boys growing up in early 20th centruy Ireland and the slow discovery of their love for each other. Will make you cry...
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 | If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
Buy new: £4.80 / Used from: £0.01 A poetic and moving account of a tragic day in the lives of a small community interwieved with flashbacks from their complicated lives. Beautiful.
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 | Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Buy new: £5.56 / Used from: £0.57 Touching and often hilarious autobiographical account of Sedaris' childhood.
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 | Rebecca (Virago modern classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £5.57 / Used from: £0.79 Lush and dense; bleak and sinister - du Maurier's Manderley envelops the reader in this tale of love and hate.
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 | Deadkidsongs by Toby Litt
Buy used from: £0.01 Litt infiltrates the minds of 4 kids playing very adult war-games in this excellent study of childhood and growing up.
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £0.01 Martel's take on religion and survival against the strangest odds remains in your mind long after you've finished - superbly executed.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £1.99 One of the first books that made me passionate about literature and empathetic about its characters - who didn't relate to Holden? Is as relevant today as when it was first published.
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 | The Dreamers by Gilbert Adair
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.36 Adair explores teenage frustrations and insecurities perfectly as US student becomes passionately embroilled with his twin friends.
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 | Popular Music by Mikael Niemi
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Another account of childhood - this one set against the relative isolation of north Sweden as Matti dreams of becoming a rock star
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 | Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 In the aftermath of a school massacre, 4 interconnected characters go about their troubled lives (or deaths) in Coupland's latest compelling novel.
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