 | Anna Karenina (Wordsworth Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Beautiful portraits of people in love, out of love, and in need of love. This novel will break your heart and you will let it....
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 | The Collector (Contemporary classics) by John Fowles
Buy used from: £1.53 This novel pulls you into the minds of its two protagonists and makes you feel what they feel and think. Repelling and compulsive reading. A haunting work.
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 As you turn the pages, the authors conjures up the smells of the world. Wonderfully stimulating and disturbing.
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 | Embers by Sandor Marai
Buy new: £6.42 / Used from: £0.01 Life's embers burn bright in this lovely little novel which unfolds its tale perfectly and simply.
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 | Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Modern Classics) by Stella Gibbons
Buy used from: £0.52 Jaunty and witty. The sort of book to be read on a train with an interesting destination. Flora is unbearable, but her persistent personality is addictive.
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 | The English Patient (Picador thirty) by Michael Ondaatje
Buy used from: £0.01 Poetic fiction. A novel for those who love beautifully weaved tales with seamless language. Tender.
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 | The Story of an African Farm (Oxford World's Classics) by Olive Schreiner
Buy used from: £3.14 Superb read. Pithy, brilliant, and dramatic. Modernised the Victorian novel.
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.40 / Used from: £0.86 Elegantly written and full of powerful messages concerning the dangers of being too rich and too beautiful.
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 | Dracula (Penguin Popular Classics) by Bram Stoker
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 Surprisingly absorbing and surprisingly graphic in its ghastly details of Count Dracula.
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 | Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy used from: £0.01 Almost impossible to choose a favourite Dicken's novel, but this has all the glorious hallmarks of his genius, plus Pip is so endearing!
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 | The Ring of Bright Water Trilogy: Ring of Bright Water;the Rocks Remain;Raven Seek Thy Brother by Gavin Maxwell
Buy new: £8.57 / Used from: £4.41 The first of the trilogy 'Ring of Bright Water' is perfect read alone, read the other two books for biographical interest. Ring of Bright Water is a beautifully reflective piece of writing.
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 | Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.68 A must for every poetry lover. Also recommended are the audio cassettes of Plath reading her poems and her Collected Poetry (for the poems Ted Hughes omitted from her original selection for Ariel).
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 | The Collected Poems of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
Buy new: £25.00 / Used from: £7.38 Hughes is a worthy read - his poems are feats of imagination, but not the feats of genus that burned so bright (and short) in Plath. Minus his stereotypical wolf, the animal poems are superb.
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 | A Room with a View (Penguin Modern Classics) by E.M. Forster
Buy used from: £0.01 Life is full of 'muddles'. This is a fabulous read for a bright sunny day - deeper than it first appears.
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 | Jude the Obscure (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy used from: £0.13 Beware, one of Hardy's greatest tragic heros lies within, but he is also one of Hardy's most brilliant and hard to forget.
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 | Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift) by Henry David Thoreau
Buy new: £2.25 / Used from: £0.01 What a life philosophy and still so relevant after all these years. Makes you want to live in the woods!
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 | Precious Bane (Virago modern classics) by Mary Webb
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £0.01 Warm, rustic, and compassionate - just like Prue, bless her heart! I loved it.
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 | The Silver Darlings (FF Classics) by Neil M. Gunn
Buy used from: £0.08 This book has it all and it is firmly rooted in historical fact. Silver darlings are herrings, by the way!
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