 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £3.94 / Used from: £1.68 Wonderful movie, but the book is beyond brilliant
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 | Dispatches (Picador) by Michael Herr
Buy new: £2.20 / Used from: £0.01 Had no idea how to appreciate writing, until I read this. My growing up book
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 | Waterland by Graham Swift
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.46 Had a special poignancy when my school cancelled A-level history
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 | War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
Buy new: £7.73 / Used from: £3.67 Absolutely devoured this in Junior High
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 | Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £3.22 / Used from: £5.32 Little known, little celebrated - but what a unique style
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 | The Summer of My German Soldier (Puffin Teenage Fiction) by Bette Greene
Buy new: £1.20 / Used from: £0.01 Because you have to include the stuff you liked early on as well. Still counts
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 | Samarkand by Amin Maalouf
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £1.23 Fascinating Historical fiction
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 | The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: £6.94 / Used from: £0.92 That are some books that just define an age and place. This rather unassuming novel is it
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 | Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel by Helen Fielding
Buy new: £0.02 / Used from: £0.01 Included for sheer reading pleasure, and to show the breadth & diversity of my interests too
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 | Destiny by Sally Beauman
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Why pretend I only read serious contemporary literature? The summer of 88 would not have been without this
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 | Sins by Judith Gould
Buy used from: £0.01 The miniseries book ...ah, now we are really scraping the barrel
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 | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.92 Good thumping read. Trying to include everything I borrowed from Ma Hudson's library
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 | War and Peace: 3-Volume Boxed Set (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy used from: £16.30 The ultimate. I took this out each summer vacation I was in high school, reading a book at a time, until I read the whole thing cover to cover in my final yr. All girls fall in love with Prince Andre
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 | The Levant Trilogy: "Danger Tree", "Battle Lost and Won" and "Sum of Things" (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Olivia Manning
Buy used from: £2.48 Pleasure of a book - set mostly in Egypt during the Second World War
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 | The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Buy used from: £0.31 An absolute gem of a book
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 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.01 Great summer holiday reading - if a rather unexpected ending
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 | You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down by Alice Walker
Buy used from: £0.01 Beacause the list would not have been complete without something by Alice Walker
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 | In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.00 The Great Egyptian Novel
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 | Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
Buy used from: £3.76 Something unusual that I happened to stumble across one summer holiday
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 | The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) by Naguib Mahfouz
Buy new: £13.01 / Used from: £15.09 Good luck finding any book satisfying after you read this. Genius
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 | Ali and Nino (Thorndike Basic) by Kurban Said
Buy used from: £18.80 Such an amazing find. The kind that makes you happy to be alive
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 | The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Buy new: £2.79 / Used from: £0.25 The most incredible poetry. One of a kind.
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 | The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anne Frank
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £1.13 Mrs Rennie read out the 'Don't Condemn Me' passage in Std 7, and Mr Briggs recommended it in Form 1or 2, and I was hooked
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 | The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Buy new: £2.96 / Used from: £0.01 I thought this was the best South Asian book I had ever read, until I came across Khaled Hosseini's 'Kite Runner'
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 | The Ramona Collection, Volume 1: Ramona and Her Father/Ramona the Brave/Ramona the Pest/Beezus and Ramona: 1 (Ramona Collections) by Beverly Cleary
Buy new: £6.76 / Used from: £6.40 My childhood hero - enough said. The 1st time I visited NYC I bought all the books that were missing from my collection
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