 | The Lord of the Rings trilogy - one volume paperback (movie cover) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £0.01 The first intelligent fantasy fiction book and still the best. Couldn't live without it.
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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 Stunning books, work of genius, books to lose yourself in and never want to come out again.
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 | The Dark is Rising Sequence: "Over Sea, Under Stone"; The "Dark is Rising"; "Greenwitch"; The "Grey King"; "Silver O" (Puffin Books) by Susan Cooper
Buy new: £9.71 / Used from: £1.35 An excellent read, set in the mythology of England and Wales, compelling and satisfying reading.
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Collector's Library) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.97 Not just this one, but all Jane Austen's books - beautiful, subtle and very rewarding to revisit regularly.
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 | The Earthsea Quartet: "A Wizard Of Earthsea"; "The Tombs of Atuan"; "The Farthest Shore"; "Tehanu" (Puffin Books) by Ursula Le Guin
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £1.00 A whole world for you to explore - again and again - and want to live there too. And it contains dragons!
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 | The Game of Kings: The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett
Buy used from: £4.65 Intelligent historical fiction - read this series and you'll be convinced the author lived at that time. Stunningly written.
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 | Lord Peter - a Collection of All the Lord Peter Wimsey Stories by Dorothy L. Sayers
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £2.62 Intelligent detective fiction - unguessable plots, suitably eccentric detective, written for readers with brains.
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 | Rebecca (Virago modern classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £1.70 From the opening sentence to the surprise ending you won't be able to put it down. What a story!
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 | My Cousin Rachel (Virago Modern Classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 One of the best opening sentences in English Literature and one hell of a story - it'll keep you guessing well after the end.
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 | Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus: The Mating Season; the Code of the Woosters; Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy used from: £51.84 Comic genius! Every page a sheer joy to read. It makes me laugh in every possible way.
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 | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Wordsworth Special Editions) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.89 All human life is here.
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 | Hidden Words: Collected Poems by Spike Milligan
Buy used from: £12.13 Beautiful, funny, moving, well written - everyone should read these poems.
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 | The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Collins Voyager) by Alan Garner
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £0.01 With its sister book 'The Moon of Gomrath' - breathtakingly good stories.
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 | Cold Comfort Farm (Essential Penguin) by Stella Gibbons
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £0.68 A sublime and satisfying book to read over and over again.
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 | The War at Troy by Lindsay Clarke
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Quite simply the best re-telling of Homer's Iliad - sublime
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 | The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
Buy used from: £24.94 Brilliantly written detective fiction with no detective!
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 | North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 This book contains Mr John Thornton - it is therefore perfect.....
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 | The Chronicles of Narnia: All seven Chronicles bound together by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £11.01 / Used from: £7.99 Ignore attempts to tell you this is a Christian allegory - these stories are simply superb on any level
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 | Wives and Daughters (Wordsworth Classics) by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 A masterpiece, fascinating, gripping, what a pity she never finished it.
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 | Lords and Ladies: A Discworld Novel by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.01 All the Disk World Series - deceptively simple, very funny, very clever
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 | Neverwhere: The Author's Preferred Text by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.88 A stunningly creative mind behind this story - you'll never view London's Underground in the same light again
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 | Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Pratchett and Gaiman mesh perfectly and this story is funny, scary and a re-readable page turner
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 | The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Buy used from: £0.01 Fascinating glimpse into a possible post apocalyptic world where anyone different is rejected by society
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