 | Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Centenary Edition by Oscar Wilde
Buy used from: £7.57 Worth every penny... No library should be without Wilde. His plays, in particular, are utterly brilliant. His wit was, and remains, incomparable.
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 | The Innocents Abroad (The Oxford Mark Twain) by Mark Twain
Buy used from: £34.42 You'll never look at Europe in the same way again, especially if you live in Europe.
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 | Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
Buy new: £4.77 / Used from: £0.01 One of the best insights into the male psyche. If you think your man is a bastard, read this book to find out why...
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 | The Code of the Woosters (Everyman Wodehouse) by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £5.06 Wodehouse needs no superlatives. If you're not yet hooked, this is as good a place to start as any, if only because the irrepressible Stiffy Byng makes her presence felt.
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 | The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj quartet) by Paul Scott
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 This is the first volume of the Raj Quartet. Scott is usually compared to Forster and undeservedly relegated to second place. Forster was admittedly excellent but Scott is just as good, if not better.
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.09 Exceedingly clever. Unputdownable. And this from someone who hates war stories.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.91 / Used from: £1.00 Salinger captures the essence of adolescence.
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 | Murder on the Orient Express (The Christie Collection) by Agatha Christie
Buy used from: £0.01 I'm still waiting to grow out of the Agatha Christie phase :-) but I just can't.
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 | Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981 to 1991 by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £8.42 / Used from: £3.99 Rushdie's books are exceedingly clever and entertaining ... and utterly fantastic. He no doubts reserves his indomitable common sense for his essays.
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 | The Complete Novels of Jane Austen: Seven Great English Classics by Jane Austen
Buy new: £9.72 / Used from: £2.45 Undervalued and overlooked.
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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: £12.32 / Used from: £0.01 The Master.
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 | The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: £5.31 / Used from: £2.58 Not an easy read but fascinating... it kind of grows on you after the initial sense of frustration.
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