 | The Magic Toyshop (Virago modern classics) by Angela Carter
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Angela Carter is the master of fantasy. This offering is about the sexual awakening in a patriarchal nightmare.
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 | Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.69 Easily one of the best books on why you should be Christian.
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 | Several Perceptions (Virago modern classics) by Angela Carter
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.98 Another masterpiece from Carter. This is about acceptance of self.
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 | Can You Forgive Her? (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.01 Anthony Trollope's language and satire is compelling.
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 | Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 This gem is a fantasy tale with lots of allusions to Shakespeare, CS Lewis and Lewis Carroll. Atkinson uses language similar to Carter.
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 | The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd Ed. by Geoffrey Chaucer
Buy used from: £6.20 The only edition of Chaucer you'll ever need. It is a great read and full of innuendo.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy used from: £0.01 A powerful novel of tragic love that won't letyou put it down. You will feel the pain and passion of Cathy and Heathcliffe. Not merely a woman's novel.
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 | Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell
Buy used from: £0.01 Completely diferent from the TV series we all know and love. Nothing like a good dose of cynicism to make you feel better about yourself.
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 | Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.01 Never thought i'd catch myself reading a Michael Crichton book. Based loosely on Beowulf. The film of this is excellent as well (the 13th warrior)
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 | The Yellow Wallpaper (Virago modern classics) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Buy new: £4.27 / Used from: £0.01 This is about post-natal depresion and forced confinement. Gilman captures the feeling so perfectly that you cannot help empathising with the protagonist.
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 | The Box of Delights (Classic Mammoth) by John Masefield
Buy used from: £0.01 i loved this as a child and i still do. A true fantasy, pity about the ending though.
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 | The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £8.40 what can i say? rivetting, complex and imaginitive. Steerpike exudes evil. don't be put off by the density of the prose.
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 | The Witches by Roald Dahl
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £0.01 read it as if it were true. a funny and macabre book.
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 | The Big Sleep: An Philip Marlowe Mystery (Penguin Fiction) by Raymond Chandler
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.89 this is one of the books i wish i'd written. event after event all connecting, the archetypal private eye, a classic noir.
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 | Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 a bittersweet novel about loss and finding God.
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 | Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 this is about a lost weekend and 'coming-of-age'. Who is coming of age though; Tripp or Leer?
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 | Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America - A Memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Buy new: £5.22 / Used from: £0.01 Harrowing. i relate to this in so many ways but not to the extremities.
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