 | The Rainbow (Penguin popular classics) by D.H. Lawrence
Buy used from: £0.01 Emotional, poetic, almost stream-of-consciousness style of writing. Not for the cynic.
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 | The Golden Notebook (Paladin Books) by Doris May Lessing
Buy used from: £0.01 Very clever; examines the way we compartmentalise different parts of our lives. Tip: Ignore the red notebook first time you read it.
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 | Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Buy new: £5.02 / Used from: £2.80 Surprisingly calm / wistful and ever so beautifully structured writing.
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 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Modern Classics) by Joyce James
Buy new: £4.63 / Used from: £2.76 Easier than Ulysses but still an excellent introduction to Joyce. Tip: Skip the sermon if it puts you off, then come back to it later.
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 | The Death of the Heart (Vintage classics) by Elizabeth Bowen
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £2.45 Atmospheric, beautifully written, and the kind of book that makes you want to write essays!
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 | Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.43 Better, in my opinion, than "Oranges...", this book's ambiguity is part of its charm. Reads occasionally like one long love poem.
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 | The Waves (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £4.72 / Used from: £0.01 Amazing; like an epic poem. Woolf writes as if she herself is the pen (you'll see what I mean). Tip: take it really slowly. It's more like a dense piece of magnificent poetry.
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 | Good Morning, Midnight (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean Rhys
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £3.27 Intimate; moving; atmospheric.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Brontë
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 What list would be complete without it? Start your teenage daughter on this and she'll never read Mills and Boon!
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 | If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Vintage classics) by Italo Calvino
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.56 Amazing book. Tip: don't try and understand too much first time round, just enjoy. Then read again!
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