 | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.01 The most haunting book I have ever read. Excellent!
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 | The Lord of The Rings (Based on the 50th Anniversary Single volume edition 2004) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £0.01 The power of the writing really brings middle earth to life.
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 | Kiss the Girls by James Patterson
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite thriller writer and this one is the best!
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 | Fatal Voyage by Kathy Reichs
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 The best of the forensic pathologist writers. This is her best one but start with Deja Dead if you are new to Reichs.
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 | Atonement by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 A rich, evocative read which I loved.
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 | The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 An incredible multi-layered book from a very talented author.
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 | Miranda's Big Mistake by Jill Mansell
Buy used from: £0.01 When I'm looking for a light, entertaining read I always turn to Jill Mansell and this is my favourite one.
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 | Magician (Riftwar Saga) by Raymond E. Feist
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £0.97 I'm an avid reader of fantasy - Feist is the master and Magician is just superb.
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 | His Dark Materials Gift Set: "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass": His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £9.99 My favourite children's writer, and who doesn't deserve to be compared to J. K Rowling as his writing is far superior.
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.01 An incredibly evocative yet shocking read.
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 | Guards! Guards! (Discworld Novel) by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.50 The funniest fantasy writer. This was the first Pratchett I read and still remains my favourite.
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 | The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Buy used from: £15.00 A gripping yet disturbing trilogy. A must read!
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 | The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.48 Quite simply, one of the best books I've ever read and one that opened my eyes to the horrors experienced in Leningrad during WWII.
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 | Tully by Paullina Simons
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 I have to put another Paullina Simons in as they are both so gripping. I could read this one over and over.
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 | Being Dead by Jim Crace
Buy new: £2.43 / Used from: £0.01 It's hard to believe that a book about two rotting corpses could prove to be so poetic and compelling!
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 | After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01 A compulsive, moving read.
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 | The Patient by Michael Palmer
Buy new: £2.36 / Used from: £0.01 The best of the medical thriller writers. I couldn't put this one down!
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 | Postmortem (Dr Kay Scarpetta) by Patricia Cornwell
Buy new: £0.93 / Used from: £0.01 The original forensic pathologist, this is her best one but the whole series deserves to be read.
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 | The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Buy new: £4.14 / Used from: £0.09 A celebration of what it is to be a woman, I loved this book. The author really brought the characters to life.
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 | Little Women (Penguin Popular Classics) by Louisa M. Alcott
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 A book that has stayed with me since childhood and which I never tire of reading.
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 | Goodnight Mister Tom (New Longman Literature 11-14) by Michelle Magorian
Buy new: £1.58 / Used from: £0.01 The first book to make me cry!!!!
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 | Jude the Obscure (Penguin Popular Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite classic! What I love about Jude is his determination, it's just tragic that his ambition is so cruelly thwarted.
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 | Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.01 A year of plague in the 17th century. Incredibly well-written and haunting.
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 | The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Buy used from: £0.01 Forget the film, this is an incredibly absorbing novel which is very well written.
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 | Sophie's Choice (Vintage Classics) by William Styron
Buy used from: £4.95 I'm reading this at the moment and it is incredibly moving. The more I read this the more I wonder how Potter made it into the Big Read top 21 when books of this calibre didn't!!!
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