 | The Abhorsen Chronicles: Sabriel/Lirael/Abhorsen by Garth Nix
Buy new: £7.78 / Used from: £7.24 One of my all time favourite comfort reads. I can't get enough of the Old Kingdom.
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 | Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £6.64 / Used from: £1.76 Frighteningly believable.
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 | The Dark is Rising (Puffin Books) by Susan Cooper
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £0.01 Supremely spooky.
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 | His Dark Materials Boxed set: "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £15.25 / Used from: £11.99 Recommended by my vicar as a perfect example of how God can't be.
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 | Harry Potter Adult Paperback Boxed Set: Contains: Philosopher's Stone / Chamber of Secrets / Prisoner of Azkaban / Goblet of Fire / Order of the ... / Deathly Hollows (Harry Potter Adult Cover) by J.K. Rowling
Buy new: £37.76 / Used from: £36.67 No list would be complete without this. The books get better and more gripping from Goblet of Fire onwards.
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 | The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Standard Edition by J. K. Rowling
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.01 Dumbledore's commentary on the stories is hilarious to anyone who's ever written an academic essay.
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 | Neverwhere: The Author's Preferred Text by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £2.12 London as you've never seen it before...
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 | The Wind on Fire Trilogy: "The Wind Singer", "Slaves of the Mastery", "Firesong" by William Nicholson
Buy used from: £15.00 Imaginative and unusual, with biblical allusions.
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 | Flowers For Algernon (S.F. Masterworks) by Daniel Keyes
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £1.90 Makes me cry every time.
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 | Shade's Children by Garth Nix
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Garth Nix does it again...
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 | Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £2.00 Much darker than the film. And if you want to be really disturbed, read "The Problem of Susan" in his anthology Fragile Things. But don't expect to think of Narnia in the same way again...
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