 | Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters Trilogy) by Juliet Marillier
Buy used from: £0.01 The first in EXCELLENT trilogy. Quite violent and deals with issues of rape so not good for younger readers
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 | Son of the Shadows (Sevenwaters Trilogy) by Juliet Marillier
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.17 Part 2. The best one in my opinion, as Liadan BEST HEROINE EVER
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 | Child of the Prophecy (Sevenwaters Trilogy) by Juliet Marillier
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.43 The last part. I guessed the ending before I read it but it was worth reading anyway. Less sympathetic heroine though
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 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £1.49 The most amazing book. It really draws you in and is not just for girls, which some people say as my brother really enjoyed it too
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.30 / Used from: £1.24 My most favourite book. The copy I have is out of print now and falling apart its been reread so many times
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 | Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Buy used from: £0.01 Really insightful allagory. Even if you read it at school or whatever, REREAD IT. It gets better.
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 | The Lord of the Rings (3 Book Box set) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £11.96 / Used from: £11.99 Does it need an explanation?
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 | Tales from the Perilous Realm: Farmer Giles of Ham / The Adventures of Tom Bombadil / Leaf by Niggle / Smith of Wootton Major by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £1.69 Sadly much overlooked. More like a faery story and just as good as LOTR
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 | Sabriel by Garth Nix
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 First in the series. Much darker than they are ever given credit for. Truly amazing.
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 | My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Buy used from: £0.01 One of the few books that makes me cry. Twist which I did guess but only because I have a very twisted mind.
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 | Red Shift (Collins Voyager) by Alan Garner
Buy new: £3.75 / Used from: £0.45 The lind of book that survives generations. My mum's favourite book and one of mine
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 | A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £4.85 / Used from: £2.42 Shocking but a must read nonetheless. DO NOT SEE THE FILM FIRST. It will spoil the book.
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 | I Capture the Castle (Vintage Classics) by Dodie Smith
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Another book that will be good forever. If you didn't like it the first time read it again because it grows on you.
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 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Buy used from: £0.01 SO SO SO GOOD. Surprising blend of things that for instance make you laugh so hard you fall out of your plane seat and some that make you sob.
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 | Lord Peter - a Collection of All the Lord Peter Wimsey Stories by Dorothy L. Sayers
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £2.57 Not sur which ones are in this collection but they are all worth reading. Peter Wimsey is the best detective ever.
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 | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Penguin Popular Classics) by Anne Brontë
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Much better than Jane Eyre. Anne Bronte writes in a much more passionate way than Charlotte, resulting in a book that is much easier to read.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Brontë
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 The same goes for Emily Bronte, although I think this is my favourite of the books as her poetic style really comes through.
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 | A Room with a View (Dover Thrift) by E.M. Forster
Buy used from: £0.01 The kind of book that gives you family jokes. Only funny if you 'get' it though
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 | Tender is the Night (Penguin Popular Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 Amazing but you have to really concentrate or you get very, very confused.
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 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: £2.83 Along the same lines of 1984 but easier to read and more extreme.
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 | Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy used from: £0.19 Can't really be referred back to anything. It stands alone.
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £0.01 Fantastical in the extreme but the better for it. It seats the horror of war in satire without diminishing it.
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 | No Bed for Bacon by Caryl Brahms
Buy used from: £9.99 Please don't be put off what is a wonderful story that makes the greatest writer of all time seem like a personal friend just because of the MONSTROSITY that is Shakespeare in love. Hilarious.
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 | Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (Confessions of Georgia Nicolsn) by Louise Rennison
Buy used from: £0.01 First in the series. Another fall - off- your - plane - seat - funny one. DEFFINATALY NOT ANOTHER TEEN BOOK.
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| Jane Austen 6-book Boxed Set: "Emma", "Pride and Prejudice", "Sense and Sensibility", "Persuasion", "Mansfield Park" and "Northanger Abbey" (Collector's Library) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £23.47 / Used from: £19.99 Enough said.
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