 | Animal Farm (play) by George Orwell
Buy new: £3.25 / Used from: £3.20 Read this book firstly as a fairy tale, but later (immediately after The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx), as an allegory of how power corrupts
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 | Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £3.25 / Used from: £1.61 The utimate cautionary tale for our time
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £4.34 / Used from: £0.27 Because mental health problems are just health problems
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 | All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Buy used from: £3.49 Probably the best war book ever written
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 | Cloudstreet (Picador Books) by Tim Winton
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £3.53 An Australian masterpiece, amazingly written book about two poor families in Western Australia - wonderful use of Australian rural language
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy used from: £1.20 Mmmm, Mr. Darcy... everybody needs a little romance
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £2.50 A powerful story about growing up in an imperfect world
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 | The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £2.40 Helps you get perspective - re-read this every few years to keep its messages fresh
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