 | Emma (Wordsworth Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Probably the best book ever written in the English language. There is no other book that gives me such pleasure when I think about rereading it.
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 | East of Eden (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £3.84 My favourite American novel and the first book to make me cry. Antoher book that can be read time after time with increasing rewards
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 | The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Buy new: £2.39 / Used from: £0.01 I wish I could say that this was a discovery, but it was a gift from someone who knew better than me what I would enjoy - my sister. Do not be fooled by the title, this is very much about life.
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 | Even in the Best of Families by Rex Stout
Buy used from: £18.49 Every Nero Wolfe novel is good, but this is my favourite.
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 | Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £1.77 I have to confess that I have only read this in the original French, but it is one of the few great novels where I disagree with the ending.
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 Whilst not the best book that Jane Austen wrote, it's still better than just about anything else
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 | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: Collector's Edition (Chronicles of Narnia) by C.S. Lewis
Buy used from: £0.01 Not just this, but all the Chronicles of Narnia are worth a read. Even in my 40s I still feel too young to understand them fully.
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 | Strait Is the Gate (Penguin Modern Classics) by Andre Gide
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £2.11 Again, I have only ever read this in French, but it is truly a great book.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £3.94 / Used from: £2.60 One of the best American novels ever written and certainly one of the greatest 20th Century novels. I wish I could believe that something like this could no longer happen, but we do not seem to learn.
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