 | The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £3.06 Carter's prose is flawless, and her imagery sensational.
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 | We Need To Talk About Kevin (Five Star Paperback) by Lionel Shriver
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.01 It begs the question, do you really want children? Startlingly honest. Read it, I insist.
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 | American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy used from: £0.01 Slick, satirical, and a darn good read.
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 | The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Buy new: £4.70 / Used from: £0.01 One of the best books regarding WW2 I've ever read. It leaves you questioning the very basis of human morality.
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 | The Collector by John Fowles
Buy used from: £0.01 Fantastically beastly.
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 | Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £1.68 This is good, and I mean really good.
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Manages to evoke a time, a place, and a smell like no other. One to relish.
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 | Human, All Too Human (Penguin Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £3.87 The fallibility of man in all its naked glory.
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 | The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Buy new: £4.92 / Used from: £0.01 Without doubt, one of the strangest novels you will ever have the pleasure of reading.
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 | Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
Buy new: £8.37 / Used from: £5.25 Biographies are not my thing, but this is a fantastic look at an incredible writer.
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 | The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £4.53 I simply adore this series.
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.71 Gonzo at its finest. From the man who said "I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes." Funny stuff indeed.
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 | The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £0.01 Beautiful musings on life.
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 | The Golden Notebook (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Doris May Lessing
Buy new: £5.12 / Used from: £0.33 I'd liken it to being on a roller coaster. Take from that what you will.
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 | In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way v.1: Swann's Way Vol 1 (Vintage Classics) by Marcel Proust
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £3.62 Check any preconceptions at the door. The Moncrieff translation is far superior.
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 | The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.38 / Used from: £2.83 I see this on so many lists. Read it and you'll see why. Go ahead and dip your toe in the pool of existentialism.
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 | Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics) by Ovid
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £3.26 Startlingly compelling poetry.
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 | The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 At times perhaps a little self-conscious but [and I hate to use the word] a 'charming' read.
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 | Everyman (Drama Classics) by Royal Shakespeare Company
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 A fantastic play. As readable as it is watchable.
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 | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Definitions) by John Boyne
Buy new: £4.54 / Used from: £1.48 I was asked to read this years ago under the illusion it was a children's book. Truly disturbing, and truly fantastic.
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 | Watchmen by Alan Moore
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £5.11 Granted not a novel, per se, but if it's good enough for Time Magazine it's good enough for me. The plot is incredibly rich. Surpassed all expectations.
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 | Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
Buy new: £6.18 / Used from: £6.15 Just a great book about that universal subject, love.
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 | Collages by Anais Nin
Buy used from: £3.37 I always feel astounded that more people haven't read this.
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 | Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Whilst Birdsong is great, this is a Faulks book you should read. It aims to unravel the idea of "being human" in an extraordinarily simple way. This will make you think.
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 | The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Oxford Paperbacks) by William Blake
Buy new: £5.72 / Used from: £1.10 Seeing as I borrowed a phrase, I thought it only fair to include this. You'll have fun trying to unravel it.
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