 | Goodnight, Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £3.95 One of the first books I remember
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 | Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie the Pooh) by A.A. Milne
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £6.76 What can I say? Winnie was from Winnepeg
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 | Watership Down (Puffin Books) by Richard Adams
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £0.01 Mine had really scary dark pictures
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 | Disney "Bambi" (Disney Book of the Film)
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £0.01 I had Bambi paintings on my nursery walls that my mom did - wonderful
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 | The Perfect Girl (Sweet Valley High) by Kate William
Buy used from: £0.01 I used to collect all the SVH's - my mom used to say "oh well, at least you're reading!" Not exactly literary praise, but...
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 | James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: £0.01 My brother was supposedly the Roald Dahl fan but I think I read as many or more of these than him
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 | Le Petit Prince (French) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Buy used from: £3.72 I actually read this when I was a kid - thank you French Immersion!
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 | Nancy Drew Boxed Set 1-6 (Nancy Drew) by Carolyn Keene
Buy used from: £39.44 I had a whole collection of these too - think I got rid of them at a garage sale! Such a shame...
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 | Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger Family 1) by Virginia Andrews
Buy new: £2.36 / Used from: £0.01 My first steamy novel
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 | Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.08 The first school novel I read that I really enjoyed
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 | The Stone Angel (New Canadian Library) by Margaret Laurence
Buy used from: £0.01 My first bit of Canadiana - devoured the entire series
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 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Buy used from: £1.45 I wish I had written this
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 | White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £1.72 Heartwrenchingly beautiful
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 | The Book Against God by James R. Wood
Buy used from: £1.00 Awesome - perfect depiction of the struggling grad student/philosopher
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 | Life After God by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £2.96 / Used from: £1.20 The title caught me first, then I became a Coupland collector
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 | A Is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
Buy new: £2.26 / Used from: £0.01 Started my addiction to detective novels early - my mom and I have read every one of these "religiously" as they came out
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 | Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £2.88 / Used from: £0.01 Another school book which fired a lifelong love of Canadian literature
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 | Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Incredible - not sure I understood it all, but wow!
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 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.98 A wonderful surprise in so many ways
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 | Cider House Rules - The Novel by John Irving
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 John Irving - another literary phase
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 | The Poisonwood Bible (Oprah's Book Club) by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy used from: £0.01 Made me want to live in Africa
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 | Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Hussein by Jean Sasson
Buy new: £4.43 / Used from: £2.24 Very interesting - but the arab world is so much more than Sadam Hussein, of course
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 | The Bell Jar (Modern Classics) by Sylvia Plath
Buy used from: £0.33 I read this way late in life but still felt such a connection with Plath (even though it's not supposed to be autobiographical!)
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 | House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Buy used from: £0.01 Picked it up having no idea what it was about and absolutely fell in love - the movie, in this case, was almost as good...
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 | The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Read it before all the fanfare, but loved how it put organized religion in its place and as a setting for a crime novel
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