 | The Magus (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £3.46 John Fowles is a literary genius & this is his finest work. If you're daunted by the size, try The Collector first!
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 | The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £2.53 Ishiguro's booker prize winner & probably his best. Wonderful language, a nostalgic page turner.
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 | Laughter in the Dark (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £3.83 If you haven't read Nabokov. Do. Lolita has the acclaim. This is an immensely readable introduction.
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 | Burmese Days (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.57 / Used from: £3.94 Less famous than 1984 & Animal Farm, but of similar stature. If you have an interest in the British Empire you won't put it down.
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 | Rebecca (Virago modern classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £1.31 A modern classic that deserves the hype.
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 | The Brothers Karamazov (Dover Giant Thrift Editions) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy new: £4.64 / Used from: £2.45 Don't let the size and stature put you off. Dostoyevsky is really readable. Try this or Crime & Punishment.
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 | An American Tragedy (Signet Classics) by Theodore Dreiser
Buy new: £6.10 / Used from: £5.71 Another thick text, but by no means hard going.
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 | Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Nobel prize, Booker prize. I hardly need to add further praise.
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 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
Buy used from: £7.99 The classic spy novel by which all others are judged.
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 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wordsworth Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Simply brilliant. After reading, you'll be distraught he only wrote the one novel.
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 | Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck "Essentials") by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £1.20 A short classic. Few better ways to spend a couple of hours.
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 | Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £1.68 Always good. Hundred years of solitude & Love in the time of Cholera are superb. This is a great & short introduction if you haven't read Marquez.
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.42 / Used from: £2.00 You cannot fail to be amused by the ironies of this masterpiece.
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 | The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.44 / Used from: £0.40 It will take little more than an hour, then you can go find another Hemingway. For Whom the Bell Tolls should be next on your list.
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 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: £3.00 Huxley's futuristic masterpiece. This, 1984 & Handmaid's Tale are superb.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.30 / Used from: £2.00 It hasn't sold over 30 million copies without good reason.
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 | Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.11 One for the materialistic out there.
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 | American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £2.59 Disturbingly readable.
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 | The Fountainhead (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ayn Rand
Buy new: £6.95 / Used from: £4.58 Ayn Rand is well worth reading. This & Atlas Shrugged are the best.
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 | Heart Of Darkness : by Joseph Conrad
Buy used from: £0.01 Nostromo & Heart of Darkness are my favourite Conrad.
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 | A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
Buy used from: £3.98 An honest account from the heart of a Nobel laureate.
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