 | A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R.R. Martin
Buy new: £5.29 / Used from: £2.16 The flagship of this little collection, my life in Westeros is far more interesting, if way more dangerous.
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 | A Wizard of Earthsea (Puffin Books) by Ursula Le Guin
Buy new: £4.46 / Used from: £0.01 The other ones go downhill after this, but this is a childhood fav. A master of the genre though, Ursula that is.
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 | Where the Wild Things are by Maurice Sendak
Buy new: £2.48 / Used from: £1.97 This boggles my brain as it did 20 years ago. Boggles.
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 | The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Buy new: £4.16 / Used from: £0.01 See above. So many questions.
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 | The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gollancz S.F.) by Scott Lynch
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 My mouth was open the whole time I read this. Pure adventure, and the next one has pirates in it- Cashback.
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 | The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: £5.02 / Used from: £0.01 Quite sentimental but hard-hitting nonetheless! One of the best endings ever too
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 | Sword in the Storm (The Rigante series) by David Gemmell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Conn, one of the best characters, any realm, anywhere. i.e. he'd smash jack bauer's face off, easily.
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 | Legend by David Gemmell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Same with Druss. lots of bloody heads rolling. beautiful.
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 | Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Buy used from: £3.99 Read by quite mountain stream, hand on chin for full effect. Top 3.
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 | Running with the Demon by Terry Brooks
Buy used from: £0.01 Pure imagery. You can actually see what's goin on, super original too.
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 | Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth) by Terry Goodkind
Buy used from: £2.59 If a Game of Thrones is the Godfather, than this is Miama Vice. I didn't make it much further in the saga but this was good with some popcorn.
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 | Flowers For Algernon (S.F. Masterworks) by Daniel Keyes
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.50 Makes you want to jump off a bridge full of despair, i.e. quite emotive.
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 | The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
Buy used from: £0.01 Read it in an afternoon when feeling a little bummed out.
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 | Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £1.33 If your a fan of the wilderness, this is a must, like a bow or water bottle. You'll feel the trees in a small park calling you.
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 | Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas
Buy used from: £2.91 If only this were science fiction...
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 | The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.14 One of the cleverest, most sublte creations i've ever read. blow you boots off indeed. Like the movie, but times it by 55 million
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 | Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £0.01 Believe the hype, basically. You go girl.
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 | Naked Pueblo by Mark Poirier
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £0.73 Dreary, pedestrian and incredibly intricate.
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 | The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £1.95 Familiar with the absurd? you will be. Beware, this book may lead to loss of friends and laughing.
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 | The King of Elfland's Daughter (Del Rey Impact) by Lord Dunsany
Buy new: £6.14 / Used from: £3.25 Weird. Told like a dream, crazy detail in some spots, then glides over 2 years. The 200 odd pages tell like at least a 30 year saga. Spread it out.
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