 | The Lord of the Rings (3 Book Box set) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £11.96 / Used from: £11.99 An absolute classic (in 3 parts) The Hobbit is also a must read
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 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhikers Guide to/Galaxy) by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £4.37 / Used from: £0.01 A masterpiece, I've so far read up to part 4 of 3, if you like it you should carry on, they're masterful works of mockery
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 | Dracula (Wordsworth Classics) by Bram Stoker
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 The origin of all the Vampire books, films. Even if you don't like the current vamp stuff you have to respect the original
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 | The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Buy new: £4.82 / Used from: £0.60 One of those books you hear a lot about, but hearsay really doesn't do it justice
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Unbearably fabulous book
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 | Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: The novel which became 'Blade Runner' (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £2.05 Even if you're not a fan of sci fi you can appreciate this book-and it might make you change your mind about sci fi :)
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £4.25 / Used from: £0.84 A classic. What more is there to say?
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 | Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £2.44 Utterly utterly magnificent. Read it.
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 | Gone With The Wind - Musical Tie-In by Margaret Mitchell
Buy new: £6.80 / Used from: £0.01 One of my all time favourites, never seen the film but the book is a must for everyone
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Wordsworth Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Perhaps the most loved love story
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 | Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 All three in this trilogy are great reads, they should be set texts in theology courses in my opinion
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 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wordsworth Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Oscar Wilde was a genius, as well as being one of the most quoteable books it's whole premise is still very much relevant
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.32 / Used from: £1.47 Like the colour purple the hearsay doesn't do it justice
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 | Hogfather: A Discworld novel (Discworld Novels) by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 I love Pratchett, I couldn't not put one of his books on this list. The Hogfather is one of my favourites, you won't be dissapointed, and you'll hopefully be hooked
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 | American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £1.99 One of my favourite books, You've probably seen some films that Gaiman was involved in (Stardust, Beowulf, Coraline) but like with so many adaptations, there is something can only be found on the page
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 | Atonement by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 They recently did a film adaptation which I enjoyed, but there is something that can only found in the book
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 | The Shining by Stephen King
Buy new: £4.93 / Used from: £2.41 King is a master of suspense, you won't be able to put it down
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 | A Confederacy of Dunces (Pocket Penguin Classics) by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £3.68 Great book, read it
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 | The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £2.44 I don't usually read this type of book, but this is truly exceptional
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £4.81 / Used from: £0.01 Fantastic book
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 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £2.22 This is an utterly fantastic book, reminds me a little of The Catcher in the Rye, but i didn't like that book, this I love
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 | Lady Chatterley's Lover (Essential Penguin) by D H Lawrence
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 Lawrence isn't read enough
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 | The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary classics) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Brilliant book, one of Atwood's best in my opinion
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 | I Am Legend (S.F. Masterworks) by Richard Matheson
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.78 Completely redoes the 'vampire novel' -also completely different to the film with Will Smith
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 | The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Buy new: £3.86 / Used from: £0.01 I don't usually read this type of book, but I'm glad I did
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