 | The Outsiders (Puffin Modern Classics) by S E Hinton
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £1.50 Touching, tragic, heartbreaking and hopeful.
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 | Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 Poignant, elegant and classy. The prose is outstandingly beautiful. Its about a way of life gone forever and about finding God when you have lost everything else.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.30 / Used from: £2.00 Funny and compelling. I love the honesty and strength of the relationship between Atticus and his children.
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 | A Little Princess: The Story of Sara Crewe (Penguin Popular Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 My favorite childhood book, Re reading as an adult its a little cheesy but still has enough power to make my cry.
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 | The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy used from: £0.01 A challenging book that is a study in class, manners and quiet dignity. A butler wonders what might have been.
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 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £4.05 / Used from: £0.01 I know its a cliche, but this one will break your heart. A story about the power of love ( wherever you find it) and the utter futility of war.
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 | American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £1.75 An insightful and riviting novel with a dark heart, Roth's story shatters the american dream (good riddance)
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 | My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.01 Read this book, read it now. It transports you to an enchanted time and place. The stories are hysterical, the characters and language are enchanting. Sequals are lovely too. Read it NOW.
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 | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 A fantastic yarn, heady and intoxicating. Charecters you will adore, if not really like. One of the few books that enhances, not detracts from the film.
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 | Stupid White Men: ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation by Michael Moore
Buy used from: £0.01 A call to arms. Moore is irreverant, original and always enertaining.
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 The ultimate classic of english literature, Read it and wallow in Austin's sparkling prose and vivid charecters. Every girl in possession of good sense will fall for Darcy and want Lizzie as a friend.
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 | A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Buy used from: £0.92 A lovely story, pefect for a rainy weekend
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 | The English Patient (Picador thirty) by Michael Ondaatje
Buy used from: £0.01 A group of shattered charecters try to recover from their wartime experience. Beautifully written with a big heart.
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