I've read Regeneration at least seven times, and each time it touches me in a different way. Its clean, painful and exquisite at once. Find the silence in the falling of bomb shells.

Walk with the okapi. A beautiful multi-narrative - like holding colonialism up like a prism to sunlight. Its delicious and enlightening.

Tthe most accomplished novel I've read in years, lucid with an understanding of love and possession and the difference between them.

Justine will leave you trembling with uncertainty in such a world of mirrors, sexual abuse and lost identity.

Beloved is at once a sweet, shattering and painful experience with the power to elate you and destroy you. Nobody has an excuse for not reading it.

Undeniably one of the greatest poems in the English language; it can be heavy going but perservere. The genius that saw in the dark.

The supposed letter of a lover cast aside by St. Augustine, systematically critiquing his "Confessions". Interesting and thought provoking.

Atwood's poems undoubtedly improve with age and experience, but brilliant nevertheless.

To end with one of the most enigmatic women of all time, Bronte's poetry is highly undervalued but just as worthy, if not more worthy, than Wuthering Heights.