 | Under the Skin by Michel Faber
Buy used from: £4.95 Fantastically bizarre, you have to read it
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 | Beloved by Toni Morrison
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £0.04 Disturbing and haunting work of art
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 You can actually smell what he's describing brilliantly written
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 | The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Thought provoking read
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 | The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Buy used from: £0.56 One of the few books that have made me sob out loud
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 | The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 Simply superb
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 | The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
Buy new: £4.44 / Used from: £0.01 family trauma saga lifted out of the ordinary by the intelligence of the writing
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 | The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Buy new: £4.74 / Used from: £0.01 exotic atmoshpheric account of Indian childhood
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 | Trumpet by Jackie Kay
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £1.16 utterly fascinating and unusual subject matter
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 | The Amethysts by Frank Delaney
Buy used from: £0.01 Simply unputdownable, thriller with a historical bent
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 | Have the Men Had Enough? by Margaret Forster
Buy used from: £0.01 Deeply moving account of a family and their struggle with dementia
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 | Regeneration by Pat Barker
Buy used from: £0.01 The First World War - blending fact and fiction to magnificent effect
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 | Remind Me Who I Am, Again by Linda Grant
Buy new: £5.21 / Used from: £0.01 moving biography of a mother and daughter relationship and Alzheimers warm funny and intensely moving
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 | The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Buy used from: £0.01 Page turning, amusing and sensitively written
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 | The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn
Buy used from: £0.01 Dark, atmopspheric and chillingly believable
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 | Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Truth and fiction combined in an account of an alleged murderess, fascinating
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 | Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
Buy new: £5.09 / Used from: £0.01 Delightful writing and interesting characters
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 | Island Madness by Tim Binding
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 War again but combined with a whodunnit on the channel isles
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 | After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
Buy new: £4.39 / Used from: £0.01 absorbing, compelling account of love and loss
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 | The Soldier's Return by Melvyn Bragg
Buy used from: £0.01 Bragg evokes a true sense of place and deals sensitvely with the relationship between husband wife and son
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 | Things Can Only Get Better: Eighteen Miserable Years in the Life of a Labour Supporter, 1979-1997 by John O'Farrell
Buy new: £5.93 / Used from: £0.01 Very funny, cleverly written and refreshing study about a man and his affair with the Labour Party
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 | Memoirs of an Unfit Mother by Anne Robinson
Buy used from: £0.01 Truly memorable account of alcoholism and fighting back
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 | Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.01 Ostensibly concerned with an outbreak of the plague but more concerned with religion and doubt
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 | Final Demand by Deborah Moggach
Buy new: £5.18 / Used from: £0.01 gritty, bleak study of human frailty and greed but boy did i want her to get away with it!
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 | Atonement by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 evocative between the wars family saga of guilt, full of suspense
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