 | Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Buy used from: £0.01 Brilliant book, and the archetype of most modern YA fantasy for girls.
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 | Terrier (Beka Cooper) by Tamora Pierce
Buy new: £10.41 / Used from: £4.98 Start of a new series by TP - great stuff, full of interesting characters and action. Can't wait for the next one.
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 | When Lightning Strikes (Missing) by Meg Cabot
Buy new: £3.81 / Used from: £0.01 Probably my favourite of Cabot's series - love the male hero and his motorbike!
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 | The Changeover (Collins Modern Classics) by Margaret Mahy
Buy new: £3.85 / Used from: £0.80 Classic. Probably in my top ten favourites - just a wonderfully written, lyrical, story
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 | Old Kingdom Trilogy Box Set by Garth Nix
Buy used from: £23.99 This box-set is SUCH a bargain. I love these books - they are groundbreaking, seminal works of YA fantasy
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 | Crown Duel (Smith, Sherwood. Crown and Court Duet, Bk. 1-2.) by Sherwood Smith
Buy new: £4.50 / Used from: £2.49 Romantic, swash-buckling fantasy duo - and another drool-worthy hero
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 | The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
Buy new: £4.27 / Used from: £0.01 Another Classic - wonderful characters, incredibly well researched, unputdownable
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 | Sorcery and Cecelia: Or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot (Magic Carpet Books) by Patricia C. Wrede
Buy new: £3.65 / Used from: £0.17 Kind of a Georgette Heyerish fantasy thing - it sounds mad but it's really funny and sweet
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 | Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £9.74 / Used from: £0.01 Great stuff this - Pratchett is fantastic and Tiffany Aching is a work of genius
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 | Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Buy used from: £0.27 Hilarious, fantastically well written, delightful romantic story
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 | Door in the Hedge by Robin McKinley
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £1.52 Another McKinley - short stories that bring new life too traditional (and not so traditional) folklore.
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 | The Game (Firebird) by Diana Wynne Jones
Buy new: £5.09 / Used from: £3.28 Haven't read this one yet - can't since it's not out - but I am so excited about it I could pee!
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 | The Changeling Sea by Patricia A. McKillip
Buy new: £3.21 / Used from: £0.75 Classic number three - a book that, for me, is perfect. A fairytale that never was...
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 | The China Garden by Liz Berry
Buy new: £10.76 / Used from: £3.00 Shame this one is so hard to get hold of . It's one of the ones that made me want to write YA fantasy. Romance, excitement, beautiful.
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 | Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Buy used from: £2.89 Exactly what it says on the tin - darkly sensual, unconventional, stunning
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 | Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £0.01 Funny, interesting novel about the consequences of fairy 'blessings' - very good.
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 | Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Buy used from: £0.01 I like Shannon Hale's stuff, but her books don't always work for me. This one does.
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 | War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
Buy used from: £4.66 Not sure if this is YA or not, but it's fantastic anyway. Read!
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 | The Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom Trilogy) by Clare B. Dunkle
Buy new: £3.52 / Used from: £1.27 Thoughtful, interesting novel that doesn't offer the reader any easy outs.
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 | Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.82 Sooo funny, this book - also charming, well written and good natured.
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 | Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £1.05 Another fairytale that never was - sweet, lyrical, lovely.
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 | Alanna, the First Adventure (Song of the Lioness) by Tamora Pierce
Buy new: £3.31 / Used from: £1.13 Well, what can I say? Classic, this series, and the prototype for generations of feminist fantasists to come
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 | Beauty by Robin McKinley
Buy new: £4.27 / Used from: £0.03 Lyrical fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Everyone should read this.
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 | The Other Wind: An Earthsea Novel by Ursula Le Guin
Buy new: £4.72 / Used from: £1.39 Brings tears to my eyes everytime - Ursula Le Guin is a genius
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 | The Swan Kingdom by Zoë Marriott
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £0.01 My own book. Sorry - but I do think it's damned good. A retelling of 'The Wild Swans' - it's supposed to be romantic, lush, lyrical etc. - but you tell me...
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