 | The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Buy new: £4.16 / Used from: £0.01 an excellent book for both adults and children to slowly read and ponder
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 | Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Buy used from: £0.07 beautiful, poetic and poignant, read also 'asleep' by same author
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 | Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
Buy used from: £2.66 a must-read
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Brontë
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 beautiful and tragic, most SHOULD have read it
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 | Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential Penguin) by Jean Rhys
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.48 for those who have read Jane Eyre and looking for a different perspective...excellent post-colonial writing with poetic language
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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: £5.99 / Used from: £3.50 the only fantasy i read; i confess to disliking tolkein and harry potter
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 | Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 requires patience, but a worthwhile read; his other books are not bad too
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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 if you want to read calvino, this is IT...a novel of manifold permutations
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 | Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Flamingo) by Roland Barthes
Buy used from: £3.99 a book that changes your way of seeing things and thinking about photography
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 | Walking (Little Books of Wisdom) by Henry David Thoreau
Buy used from: £1.50 for those who believe in stopping to smell the flowers, this is THE BOOK...check out his journals too, as well as 'walden'
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 philosophical, heavy, depressing; but nevertheless a great book alongside 'immortality'...
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 | Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £2.60 like 'the little prince', this is a MUST-READ...funny and educational
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 | The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.91 this IS poetry. i love 'preludes' and 'gerontion'...(and 'the wasteland' of course)
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 | The Sane Society (Routledge Classics) by Erich Fromm
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £7.31 excellent philosophical reading for humanists
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 | Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Buy used from: £0.49 another excellent non-fiction book for humanists
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 | Lust for Life by Irving Stone
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.41 a book on the life of painter vincent van gogh that makes one laugh and cry
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 | Danny the Champion of the World (Puffin Fiction) by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: £0.01 my favourite roald dahl...
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 | Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Buy new: £17.99 / Used from: £6.59 my other favourite besides Eliot; this is more life-affirming
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