 | Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: £5.44 / Used from: £0.01 A poetic and beautiful book with more originality than half the books released the same year.
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 | Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Buy used from: £0.01 Contains some of the best descriptive passages ever written. Both beautiful and grotesque.
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 | American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £4.50 / Used from: £2.72 The magnum opus of the best fantasy writer of today. A wonderful story of old gods and new.
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 | Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years 1) by Gregory Maguire
Buy new: £5.15 / Used from: £2.49 By taking a previous 2-dimensional character from a children's classic, Maguire has created a fantastical story of what really happened in Oz.
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 | The Phantom of the Opera (Penguin Popular Classics) by Gaston Leroux
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 While i love the musical, the book is a classic and a perfect mystery novel.
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 | Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.09 Palahniuk is completely original in his nilihistic style and this is him at his bleakest, smartest and funniest.
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 | The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.06 The best fairy tale ever written and not just for the kids. I will never get sick of this book, it's too funny!
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 | Dead Beat (Dresden Case Files) by Jim Butcher
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £3.49 The 7th in the Dresden Files series but my favourite. Harry is an appealing character with buckets of charm and originality.
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 | Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.48 Pullman never fails to astound me, His Dark Materials moved me more than anything i've ever read. Lyra is one of the best female characters in literature.
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 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J.K. Rowling
Buy new: £11.57 / Used from: £0.01 If you don't like Harry Potter, you may not be human. Simply the best kids series of books ever. Goblet of Fire is Rowling at her best.
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 | The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 A dark tale of teenage angst and lust told with a vampiric twist. My favourite example of adolescent solitude.
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