 | The Glass Bead Game (Vintage Classics) by Hermann Hesse
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £3.85 A classic complex philosophical journey from Herman Hesse
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 | Catch-22 (Everyman's Library classics) by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £8.39 / Used from: £4.82 Futility and banality of war
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 | To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
Buy used from: £2.40 Fascinating look at the racial tensions of southern america and one mans search for truth and justice.
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 | The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever: "Lord Foul's Bane", "Illearth War" and "Power That Preserves" by Stephen Donaldson
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £4.95 Comparible and in my opinion surpassing Tolkien in transporting one to an alternative "land"
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 | The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: "Wounded Land", "One Tree" and "White Gold Wielder" by Stephen Donaldson
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £3.73 The follow on Trilogy that rivals Tolkien
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 | A Tale of Two Cities (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 If you don't read any other Dicken's then read this one. The story of Sydney Carlton is a wonderful description of the virtues of the human soul.
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 | The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £1.97 A harrowing tale of sociopathic behaviour, alientation and catastrophe.
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 | Stephen King Omnibus: Carrie; Salem's Lot & the Shining by Stephen King
Buy used from: £4.55 Although this is a trilogy it is worth it just for Salem's Lot. Stephen King is a master storyteller at his prime in this tale, truly frightening and fascinating.
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 | Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Buy used from: £1.27 This book in the tetrology "Rabbit" series is John Updike at his best. The character Harry Angstrom " Rabbit" plays out his life in mid-america during the 50s up until recent times. Unmissable.
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 | The Poor Mouth (Paladin Books) by Flann O'Brien
Buy new: £5.08 / Used from: £2.95 Flann O'Brien; Brian O'Nolan: the alter-egos of one of the most wonderful comic Irish writers. A must read.
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 | The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £2.98 An excellent poke of fun at the American wish to sanctify and deify all - set in the funereal services.
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 | Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.97 Stick with it and you will be amply rewarded, an interesting trip around Dublin, worth reading Frank Delaneys "Joyce's Dublin" as a companion to this seminal work.
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 | Hamlet (The New Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £0.01 In my opinion the best tragedy by Shakespeare, you must see this in action.
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 | The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue: "The Country Girls", " The Lonely Girl", "Girls in Their Married Bliss" by Edna O'Brien
Buy used from: £0.01 stories of coming of age, maturity, sexuality and of the mores of the Irish.
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 | Heart Of Darkness : by Joseph Conrad
Buy used from: £0.01 Just read it -brilliant- what Apocolype Now was based upon.
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 | Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £1.80 A wonderful "who dunnit" with intelect, numerology and mathematical puzzles.
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 | In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.71 / Used from: £0.85 The book of short stories that brought Ian McEwan to the public notice. Enthralling and uncompromising.
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 | Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
Buy used from: £0.01 I only read this at my wife's request and was delighted with the storytelling of Maeve Binchy.
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 | The Third Inspector Morse Omnibus: "Last Bus to Woodstock", "Wench is Dead", "Jewel That Was Ours" by Colin Dexter
Buy used from: £0.01 A third omnibus of the intriguing Inspector Morse mysteries. Comforstable and readable.
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 | Wheels Of Terror : by Sven Hassel
Buy used from: £0.01 Hassel is accused of sympathising with the nazi's, howver his novels are a challenging fiction of the story from the german soldier perspective. Wheels of Terror follows the Panzer Squadron.
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 | The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Buy new: £5.04 / Used from: £2.18 You must read this prosaic tale of young black children growing in poverty, abuse and despair. Yet it is an aspirational tale.
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 | A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.47 Hemmingway at his best, full of pathos and angst, a wonderful read.
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 | The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £2.87 Stripping Identity, the totalitarian state rules over all, without reason, without question. A nightmare journey.
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 | Greek Myths by Robert Graves
Buy new: £9.70 / Used from: £5.99 If you ever wondered how the ancients believed and adapted their gods, then this is the reference text. Surprisingly facinating.
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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 "Ah my Dear Watson", find yourself transported to Victorian London and in the midst of mytery and master criminals. Excellent narration with the master sleuth.
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