 | One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Poirot) by Agatha Christie
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £1.99 This was the first book I actually remember buying new and reading when I was about 12. Read many Christie books over the following few years.
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 | Leave it to Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £5.69 Never really liked Wodehouse much apart from when I was about 13-14. I remember thinking this book was superb!
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 | This Sweet Sickness (Open Market Edition) by P Highsmith
Buy used from: £0.33 First read it when I was 15 and a huge influence of my teenage years. Still reading Highsmith 20 years on!
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 | Foundation (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov
Buy used from: £20.26 I was around 16 when I first read the Foundation books and was bowled over by them. I'd not read a great deal of SF before but became an ardent fan and read hundreds of books over the next few years.
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 | 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Buy new: £2.36 / Used from: £0.65 Seriously impressed with this book at the age of 16, the film, and everything about it! I never really liked any of Clarke's other books, though, from what I recall.
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| The Pleasures of Deception by Norman Moss
Buy used from: £3.49 I know this book is slightly out of kilter with the rest of my teenage favourites, but I have to include it, as it inspired me to a whole load of deceitful things myself!
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 | Dune by Frank Herbert
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 I suspect I would still enjoy this book if I read it today. It's one of those few books that is so densely packed with material you could read it dozens of times and still get something out of it.
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 | Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy used from: £0.47 Heinlein was a real mystery to me: I either detested his books, or absolutely adored them, and this definitely fell in the latter camp. Loved every page of it!
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 | The Book Of Skulls (S.F. Masterworks) by Robert Silverberg
Buy new: £2.39 / Used from: £0.12 By my late teens I'd turned my back on the Asimov's of this world and was a committed Silverberg and Dick man. The Book of Skulls I just had to finish, had to read every page, then read it again!
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| Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg
Buy used from: £0.17 Silverberg's second classic book after Skulls. Equally brilliant, and lapped up in one beautiful day of my life!
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