 | Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £6.39 / Used from: £1.74 I prefered this to the name of the rose, and that is a great book
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 | In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way Vol 1 (Vintage Classics) by Marcel Proust
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £4.88 I can't deny it's hard work to complete all six volumes, but it is worth the effort
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 | Assault, The by Harry Mulisch
Buy new: £3.13 / Used from: £1.97 Recommended by colleagues when I worked in NL, for which I'm grateful
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 | The Tin Drum (Vintage Classics) by Gunter Grass
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.38 Probably says more about Germany between the wars than any number of history books
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 | The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Deep and difficult, but rewarding. Read it twice to understand properly
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.89 Brilliant book
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.32 Original, even strange!
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 | War and Peace (Penguin Red Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £5.40 Possibly the greatest novel ever written
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 | The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (Perennial Classic.) by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
Buy used from: £5.15 Required reading if we are not to repeat the same crimes
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 | Don Quixote (Wordsworth Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Buy new: £1.89 / Used from: £0.01 We quote this book so often, we owe it to the author to read it
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 | Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics) by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy new: £1.89 / Used from: £0.14 To be read when you're young enough to be Raskolnikov, and again when you can understand
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