 | The Counterfeiters (Twentieth Century Classics) by Andre Gide
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £2.51 Probably the prettiest novel ever. Both cynical and naïve, and brilliant. A gem.
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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 If one should ever lose one's faith in humanity, one ought to think of Charles and Sebastian.
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 | Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Atwood at her best.
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 | The Magus (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £3.40 Rather absorbing, which is good since it's nearly 700 pages long. Not mind-altering as some would have it, but still a decent weekend read.
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 | The Liar by Stephen Fry
Buy used from: £0.01 Pure wit.
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 | The Secret History (Read Red) by Donna Tartt
Buy used from: £1.63 Has it all. Essential read. I envy those who have yet to discover it.
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 | The Unicorn (Vintage classics) by Iris Murdoch
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £1.03 Mythological thiller-like novel with theological undertones.
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 | Lolita (Penguin Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £5.41 / Used from: £1.67 Loved it, hated it, love it. Nabokov's prose is the height of sophistication.
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 | Black Swan Green : by David Mitchell
Buy used from: £0.01 Such a sweet, agreeable and clever narrator. A charming coming of age-novel.
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 | Double Vision by Pat Barker
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £0.01 Make tea, sit back and let that essay wait. A rather dark novel, but not uncomfortably so.
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 | Atonement by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 McEwan at his best and worst. Alluring, gripping and near-epic, but also self-indulgent in its cleverness.
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 | Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Buy used from: £0.25 A startling, strong read. At times not so interesting, but certain awe-inspiring passages make well up for this.
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 | The Stranger by Albert Camus
Buy used from: £6.40 A short classic which is enjoyable - should be worth the effort.
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 | The Nine Tailors: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries) by Dorothy L Sayers
Buy new: £5.95 / Used from: £0.01 A novel to cherish. Has to be read indulgently slow (though you won't be able to).
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £4.20 / Used from: £0.95 A long (thank God) classic which is thoroughly enjoyable and worth every sleepless night.
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 | The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes: Contains 56 Stories and 4 Novels including The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Buy new: £12.31 / Used from: £0.01 The only thing (except Thomas Tallis) which relieves post-lecture depression.
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 | Jacob's Room (Twentieth Century Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy used from: £0.46 Perhaps lightweight, but of great elegance.
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 | The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Buy used from: £0.04 A rarity: a convincing historical detective story.
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 | Northern Lights: Adult Edition (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Not only for teenagers (though you might want to wrap the cover in dark green paper).
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