 | The Far Pavilions by Mary Margaret Kaye
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £0.01 A wonderful, epic story which evokes British India beautifully.
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 | Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Buy new: £2.87 / Used from: £0.88 This story seems a bit strange at first but the amazing romance is so worth it!
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 | Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £3.96 This will make you laugh and cry, and is full of funny, bittersweet moments that will stick in your mind long after you finish it.
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 | A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
Buy new: £1.92 / Used from: £1.90 The warmth, subtlety and elegance with which this is written make it an absolute must.
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 | A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £2.75 Lots of people recommend "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer, but I found this much more enjoyable.
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 | The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick
Buy new: £1.35 / Used from: £0.01 I love the darkness of this novel, and its evocations of the First World War are haunting.
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 | The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.46 This recounts the most famous divorce in history from a fresh and thrilling perspective. Brilliantly characterised.
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 | The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Wry and knowing, this is a superb historical novel set in the vibrant world of Renaissance Italy.
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 | Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Buy used from: £0.54 A breathtaking novel that will knock you for six. Have the tissues ready.
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 | Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £1.03 This is simultaneously heartbreaking and uplifting, and totally inspired.
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 | Tommy Sullivan is a Freak by Meg Cabot
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.70 Meg Cabot is so witty that you have to bite your lip to stop yourself smirking. It's fluffy, but that's all the more excuse to curl up and wish the world away for an hour or so!
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 | Pirates! by Celia Rees
Buy new: £1.88 / Used from: £0.01 This is a gorgeous story that you can read again and again.
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 | The Remarkable Life and Times of Eliza Rose by Mary Hooper
Buy new: £1.05 / Used from: £0.33 Lively and atmospheric, there are too many great things about this book to list, but the characters are probably the best thing about it.
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 | Scoop: A Novel About Journalists (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £3.59 / Used from: £3.27 This is a real classic, achingly funny, and with Waugh's trademark social observations that are as relevant now as when Scoop was first written
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 | Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson) by Louise Rennison
Buy new: £3.29 / Used from: £0.01 No list for teenage girls would be complete without it! Laugh out loud funny and brilliantly observed.
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