 | The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary classics) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.18 Excellent read - chilling vision of the future as it could be
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 | To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
Buy used from: £2.57 I've never met anyone who didn't think that this is a really beautiful book - it's definitely way up there.
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 | The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
Buy new: £4.75 / Used from: £0.01 A really moving book - don't read it if you're a manic depressive.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £0.47 One of the best books ever written. Surely everyone can see Holden in themselves sometimes.
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 | Atonement by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £5.56 / Used from: £0.01 Just about everyone must have read this. I was tempted to give up half way through because I thought the ending would be predictable, but it wasn't at all - an excellent book.
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 | Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Along with Lady Oracle and the Edible Woman, a really important book about the female identity
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 | On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £5.56 / Used from: £0.01 Just a really good read - I couldn't put it down.
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 | The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Vintage classics) by Heinrich Boll
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 A really important, chilling novel
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 | Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Buy new: £4.36 / Used from: £0.01 This is scary in that it's so close to the truth
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 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £0.01 Not even A Level English could ruin this for me - beautifully written.
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 | Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
Buy new: £5.06 / Used from: £0.01 Joanne Harris is a genius. I loved Chocolat and Blackberry Wine, but this is a much cleverer book, and also more interesting. I found Coastliners a bit disappointing though.
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 | The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 I've read all of Anita Shreve's books and loved them all. I think this is my favourite - today - but i'm not positive. Read them all!
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 | The Complete Novels of Jane Austen: Seven Great English Classics by Jane Austen
Buy new: £9.71 / Used from: £2.01 Jane Austen is the original feminist. I know the stories are schmaltzy, but they're also really witty and well written - honest!
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 | A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy used from: £0.01 This is a must read. Although I'm not generally a big Dickens fan after being forced to study him for GCSE, A Level and in the first year of my degree, this book really is brilliant.
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.42 / Used from: £0.73 Tragic and wonderful
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 | Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Buy new: £4.86 / Used from: £0.01 An amazing insight into the life of a geisha. A truly incredible read.
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 | A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Buy used from: £0.93 Not the most cheerful novel you'll ever read, but beautifully written and definitely worth reading more than once
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 | City of Darkness, City of Light by Marge Piercy
Buy used from: £0.01 Following people from different walks of life through the French Revolution, this is a fascinating read
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 | Metamorphosis and Other Stories: Works Published In Kafka's Lifetime (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy used from: £1.42 A must read
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 | The Count of Monte Cristo (Wordsworth Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Swashbuckling and vengeful, it has betrayal, love, treasure, rags to riches, intrugue...what more could you want? The Three Musketeers and The Man in the Iron Mask are also worth reading.
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 | The Moonstone (Penguin Popular Classics) by Wilkie Collins
Buy new: £2.18 / Used from: £0.01 Really good, well written mystery in several voices - The Woman in White is also well worth reading
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 | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 I know it's mushy, but it's a classic!
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 | East of Eden (Steinbeck "Essentials") by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £4.49 A fantastic book, even if Steinbeck's views on good and evil are a little simplistic.
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 | The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes: Contains 56 Stories and 4 Novels including The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Buy new: £12.31 / Used from: £0.01 Yes, maybe Sherlock Holmes is a little arrogant and Doyle wasn't exactly a stylistic genius but I still love it!
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 | For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.44 I didn't like this immediately, but it really is a great book.
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