 | A Clockwork Orange (Essential Penguin) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £1.00 My first A Level novel. Disturbing and violent yes, but an absolutely masterpiece.
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 | Death of a Salesman (Heinemann Plays) by Arthur Miller
Buy new: £6.89 / Used from: £2.86 Miller's finest play and one of my all-time favourites. Truly amazing.
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.95 Like other education texts, I would never have normally read this, but so happy I did. One of the best novels ever written!
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 | Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Buy new: £6.39 / Used from: £0.64 Had to compare this to 1984 and although not quite as good, it was still very original and thought-provoking.
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 | Measure for Measure (Arden Shakespeare: Second) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £7.10 / Used from: £4.00 Second only to Romeo and Juliet, this is a funny, absorbing classic play by Shakespeare.
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £0.01 My first uni novel. Words cannot describe just how fabulous this is, you HAVE to buy it and find out!
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 | The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts (Penguin Modern Classics) by Arthur Miller
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £2.98 Another outstanding play by Miller. If it doesn't tear your emtions apart then you aren't human!
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 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £0.01 Had to compare it to the film version. Had never read it but instantly saw why it is such a legendary novel.
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 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Red Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £1.98 The first on my 'Victorian Literature' module and a clear classic. Everyone should read this book!
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 | Hard Times (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £1.75 / Used from: £1.57 Second Victorian novel. Although not one of Dickens' best novels, this is still well woth a read.
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 | Silas Marner: the Weaver of Raveloe: The Weaver of Raveloe (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £0.70 Third Victorian novel. So obvious why it's George eliot's best work, it's so heart-warming and leaves you smiling.
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 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: AND Through the Looking Glass (Penguin Classics) by Lewis Carroll
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £2.50 Strangely not a patch on the disney movie but good if you want to see what the original story is.
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 | Dracula (Penguin Classics) by Bram Stoker
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £1.50 The only book I have ever been scared by and easily the world's greatest horror novel. Read it if you dare!
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £3.06 / Used from: £2.46 First 'American Literature' module novel. The 1920's never roared faster and never seemed more glamorous than in this book!
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 | Of Mice and Men (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £1.20 Second American novel, and possibly the great american work of all time. The first book to make me cry.
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 | Seize the Day (Penguin Red Classics) by Saul Bellow
Buy used from: £7.50 Third American novel. Short, snappy and spectacular. Bellow is simply fabulous.
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