Listmania!
The most appropriate books at the most appropriate times
Loom of YouthLoom of Youth by Alec Waugh
Buy used from: £11.00
Read it when you leave school
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles RyderBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £1.25
Read it when you leave Uni
Virginia Woolf: Authors in Context (Oxford World's Classics)Virginia Woolf: Authors in Context (Oxford World's Classics) by Michael H. Whitworth
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.50
Read it when you're reading Woolf
Man and WifeMan and Wife by Tony Parsons
Buy new: £0.02 / Used from: £0.01
Read it when you've been married a couple of years
Man and BoyMan and Boy by Parsons
Buy used from: £0.01
Read it before you get married and/or when you're Dad is dying
On the BeachOn the Beach by Nevil Shute
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.00
Read it when you think the world has gone crazy
The Remains of the DayThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.00
Read it when you've become a Dad
The Diary of a Young GirlThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Buy new: £3.26 / Used from: £0.05
Read it when you're 11 years old and when your daughter is 11 years old
The Lord of the Rings (3 Book Box set)The Lord of the Rings (3 Book Box set) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £13.20 / Used from: £7.25
Read it when you're young and when you want to feel young
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics)One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics) by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.79
Read it when you want to be a pseudo-intellectual (when you're at school)
Waiting for GodotWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £1.00
Read it when you know you're a pseudo-intellectual (when you're at Uni)
Jealousy (Jupiter Books)Jealousy (Jupiter Books) by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Buy used from: £1.49
Read it so that others will think you're a pseudo-intellectual, but you know that you're not. (You've been at Uni for a few years)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 25th Anniversary EditionZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 25th Anniversary Edition by Robert M. Pirsig
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.04
Read it before you get too busy to really dig it (in other words before I managed to get round to it - married with one two year old daughter)