 | The Secret History (Read Red) by Donna Tartt
Buy used from: £0.01 Compelling all the way through.
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 | Lanark: Life in Four Books: A Life in 4 Books (Canongate Classics) by Alasdair Gray
Buy used from: £2.47 Set in a future world. Extraordinarily imagined and realized.
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 | Dracula (Penguin Classics) by Bram Stoker
Buy new: £4.12 / Used from: £0.73 Forget the films, this is classic horror, beautifully imagined and intelligently written.
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 | To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
Buy used from: £2.57 An unforgettable book that deals with big issues yet captivates from the first page.
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 | The Vivisector by Patrick White
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £5.87 Set in Australia, the life of an artist from birth to death. You may not like him, but you'll never forget him. A huge book in every way.
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 | The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Perfectly plotted, beautifully written story centred on the delusions of an ageing thespian.
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 | The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
Buy new: £8.97 / Used from: £8.17 A tour de force. Four books each complete in itself combining to make one story. The smells and tastes of Alexandria rise from the pages.
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 | Titus Groan (Gormenghast trilogy) by Mervyn Peake
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £0.09 My personal favourite of the Gormanghast Trilogy. One can only marvel at Peake's imaginative invention.
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 | The Return of the Goddess: A Divine Comedy by Elizabeth Cunningham
Buy used from: £4.62 A totally modern take on one woman's discovery of the Goddess within. Funny, sexy, enlightening and empowering. What more could you want?
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 | The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark
Buy used from: £2.04 One of my favourite books. The challenge and risks of a woman's love and faith in Jerusalem.
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 | The Go-Between (Penguin Modern Classics) by L. P. Hartley
Buy new: £6.23 / Used from: £4.37 The poignant story of a boy's coming of age and the delusions of love told by the man he became. One I read again and again.
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 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.84 The history of India since Independence told by way of magical realism and a boy called Saleem, A work of staggering intellect and imagination.
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 | Memories of Rain by Sunetra Gupta
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £0.01 A beautifully written novel about an Indian girl who gives up college and leaves her family to marry an English man and come to live in England. Her memories of rain haunt the pages.
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 | Lovesong by Nikki Gemmell
Buy new: £4.68 / Used from: £0.01 The story of an unusual young girl who breaks away from an Amish-type community in a remote part of Australia. The writing is not only lyrical but magically amazing from the first page to the last.
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 | On Becoming a Fairy Godmother by Sara Maitland
Buy new: £5.43 / Used from: £6.37 Helen of Troy, Guinevere, Maid Marion and Eve herself all revealed as we could never have imagined them, and modern women discovering that magic hides in the least likely places.
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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 The story of the coming of age of two country girls, the wilful Kate Brady and the gentle Baba Brennan, and their escape from the countryside to the city lights of Dublin, full of youth and hope.
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 | The Name of the Rose (Vintage Classics) by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £2.20 Extraordinary scholarship has gone into the writing of Umberto Ecco's medieval mystery.
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 | Horse's Mouth (New York Review Books Classics) by Joyce Cary
Buy used from: £14.70 Amazing writing: the voice of Gulley Jimson, an ageing and eccentric artist never wavers. An unlikely but unforgettable hero, a great read.
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 | The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £0.06 A beautiful evocation of France and childhood, of learning that things and people are not always what they seem, of growing up.
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Buy used from: £0.01 Utterly brilliant, competely compelling, ultimately terrifying,
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