 | The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.40 Just my favourite ever. It's got it all - love, adventure,fencing and death-zoos
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 | The Golden Gate (FF Classics) by Vikram Seth
Buy used from: £0.01 A novel in verse. Not a gimmick, an absolute corker
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 | His Dark Materials Gift Set: "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £7.99 Kids didn't have books like this when I was a boy. Would beat Harry Potter in a fight
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 | Spares by Michael Marshall Smith
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.46 Read everything this man writes
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 | The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room" by Paul Auster
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.01 And this man
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy used from: £0.01 As much fun as catching snow on your tongue
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 | Goodbye to All That (Penguin Modern Classics) by Robert Graves
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £2.99 Grace under fire. Literally.
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 | Where the Wild Things are by Maurice Sendak
Buy new: £4.02 / Used from: £1.85 Made a big impression when I was a kid. Consequently has a lot to answer for
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 | Money: A Suicide Note (Penguin Modern Classics) by Martin Amis
Buy used from: £2.99 Probably better than London Fields, but only probably
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 | Earthly Powers (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy used from: £12.25 Big, meaty, chewy and crunchy. Plus the best opening sentence ever
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 | Essays in Love by Alain de Botton
Buy used from: £1.18 Food for the heart and the head. Awww
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 | Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Start here, then read all the others, then grin like a fool.
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 | Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Probably best read curled on a sofa with hot chocolate in a rainstorm but no idea why
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 | Eat the Rich by P.J. O'Rourke
Buy used from: £0.01 The funniest book about economics I know.Unlikely to be much competition in this category I realise
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| Preacher: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis
Buy new: £6.56 / Used from: £3.82 Start of one of the best graphic series going. More sheer enjoyment over the set than almost anything I've ever read
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 | Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
Buy new: £6.67 / Used from: £0.01 Dead good, a superior page-turner
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 | Where I'm Calling from: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £4.86 As good as short stories get
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 | Asterix and Cleopatra (Classic Asterix paperbacks) by Goscinny
Buy used from: £0.01 Could have been any of them, but this has the great Alexandrine joke.
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 | Savage Season by Joe R Lansdale
Buy used from: £6.47 The first in my favourite crime series
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 | Last Chance to See.... by Douglas Adams
Buy used from: £0.97 But mercifully not last chance to read
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 | The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Buy used from: £0.01 Puts your own problems in perspective like nothing I've ever read
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 | Dangerous Parking by Stuart Browne
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Sex, Drugs, Rock'n'Roll and, er Cancer. Miles better than that makes it sound
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 | The Collected Martin Millar by Martin Millar
Buy used from: £10.15 If there was any justice, Martin Millar would sell more books than anyone else ever
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 | The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses / the Crossing / Cities of the Plain (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) by Cormac McCarthy
Buy used from: £19.81 Sparse, beautiful and manly Goddammit. Translation of the spanish parts available on the web and highly recommended
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 | Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jorge Borges
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £4.27 Worth the admission fee alone for The House of Asterion. Mind-boggling.
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