![]() | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £3.20 First Line: "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." - I was Hooked.
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![]() | Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex by Owen Chase
Buy new: £7.20 / Used from: £0.01 They rowed thousands of miles across the ocean to escape canibals on a nearby island, only to end up eating one another - tragic. Moby Dick was based upon it.
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![]() | The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 His books are parables for modern life, this book is about following your dreams, but being happy with what you have.
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![]() | Hidden Empire (Saga of Seven Suns 1) by Kevin J. Anderson
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 An excellent series - I was hooked from the start, despite thinking this would not be my type of thing.
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![]() | A Wizard of Earthsea (Puffin Modern Classics) by Ursula Le Guin
Buy used from: £0.01 A book where magic centres around words - works at an adult level. Superbly written.
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![]() | The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.10 Le Guin never disappoints. This is a true masterpiece.
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![]() | The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.01 The best of Tolkein. This is the book he spent his life writing. It was his vision to create a mythology for Britain as he felt we were lacking one.
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![]() | Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Buy used from: £3.28 A book often missed out by those who talk of 'Big Brother'. Stands up there with 1984 and Brave New World.
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![]() | Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 Not the book the film was set on. The entire series is fantastic - this is where it begins.
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![]() | Revelation Space (Gollancz S.F.) by Alastair Reynolds
Buy used from: £0.01 His books offer a well realised, disturbing, yet believable vision of the future. Eccelent 'Hard' Sci Fi.
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![]() | Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Buy new: £4.83 / Used from: £0.91 Enter another world where a horror stalks the night. Truly unlike anything I have ever read. Astonishing
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![]() | On (Gollancz S.F.) by Adam Roberts
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £0.01 This book is set on a world which appears to be a perpetual cliff. Messes with your head. Marvellously Written.
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![]() | Last And First Men (S.F. Masterworks) by Olaf Stapledon
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.19 Written by the last man in the far future as he recounts the history of his race. A truly vast book. Covers mans strive for knowledge, greed, stupidity in one great history.
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![]() | Star Maker (S.F. Masterworks) by Olaf Stapledon
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £3.97 Olafs works are truly Expansive. This is a beautiful novel. Amazingly Origional.
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![]() | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £2.00 A pleasurable easy read.
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![]() | Filth by Irvine Welsh
Buy new: £5.95 / Used from: £0.01 Forget trainspottiing this is Irvine Welsh at his best. The title says it all. One of the best books I have ever read. Gets you truly upset, you can't quite believe the ending.
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![]() | The Ruby Knight (The Elenium) by David Eddings
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A reliable, true fantasy writer.
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![]() | Life in the Undergrowth by Sir David Attenborough
Buy new: £13.48 / Used from: £2.00 I have a fascination with social insects, which is what attracted me to this book. An interesting read. The spiders are amazing.
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![]() | Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared M. Diamond
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £5.00 Wonder why the world turned our how it did? Read this book.
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![]() | The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Buy used from: £15.00 I am a biologist. Although much of it is wrong, the principle is good (although sexual selection is being challenged). Worth a read.
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![]() | The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend by David Gemmell
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £3.50 Gemmel, another stalwart of fantasy never fails to thrill. Easy, but enjoyable reads.
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![]() | "Othello" (Arden Shakespeare.Third Series) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £7.08 / Used from: £2.86 'Honest Iago' Is one of the most enthralling charecters I've ever read of. No one is more evil. A great tragedy.
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![]() | "Julius Caesar" (Arden Shakespeare.Third Series) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £7.18 / Used from: £3.83 . 'And let slip the dogs of war.....' Another great tragedy
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![]() | Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Popular Classics) by Mary Shelley
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Yet another tragic work. One can't help feel that Frankenstein is the real monster, rather than Frankenstein's Monster. At best Frankenstein is ultimately a fool.
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![]() | In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 Stunning, Origional, Leaves you wondering. Reccomended to me by my sister. Three people in my family read it - all coming to different conclusions. Intriguing.
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