 | Moby Dick: Or, the Whale (Penguin Popular Classics) by Herman Melville
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 A veritable leviathan of a volume.......Sorry.
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 | Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £0.01 Quite simply a luxurious read. probably the most pleasurable I've encountered.
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.21 Approachable masterpiece about the absurdity of war.
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 | Cancer Ward (Penguin Modern Classics) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Buy used from: £9.97 Solzhenitsyn requires stamina and endurance, the rewards though can be great.
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 | Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich
Buy used from: £2.92 Artist versus repressive regime. Leaves you reassessing your CD collection.
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 | Les Miserables (Classics) by Victor Hugo
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £0.01 Just a thrilling action-adventure rollercoaster of a story.
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 | Atonement by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Surprisingly clever little plot, try reading Woolf's 'To The Lighthouse' or 'Mrs. Dalloway' first though to help you appreciate the first 200 pages.
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 | Dombey & Son (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy used from: £0.01 Sickeningly overly sentimental Victoriana, but I loved every page.
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 | Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Popular Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £2.18 / Used from: £0.01 Reading Hardy is like eating chocolate, moderate your intake or it'll make you sick.
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 | The Complete Novels: The Trial; America; The Castle by Franz Kafka
Buy used from: £3.44 Even without understanding the allegorical aspects, I love Kafka's dark nightmarish stories.
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 | Persuasion by Jane Austen
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 What can a mere mortal like me say about Austen.
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 | The Water of the Hills (Picador Books) by Marcel Pagnol
Buy used from: £0.01 By no means a great book, but still one of the most memorable I've ever read.
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 | Lolita (Penguin Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £5.35 / Used from: £1.67 Everything is not always quite what it seems, but this truly is genius.
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 | Goodbye to All That (Essential Penguin) by Robert Graves
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £1.23 Thankfully this is as far removed from 'Birdsong' as you can get.
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 | Diary of a Nobody (Penguin Classics) by George Grossmith
Buy new: £4.74 / Used from: £0.01 Do you ever feel that everybody is laughing at you, but you don't actually know why.
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 | The Sound and the Fury (Vintage Classics) by William Faulkner
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.43 My own superficial understanding of this novel is best left secret, I have no wish to appear totally ignorant. But hey I enjoyed the story bit.
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 | To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
Buy used from: £2.40 One of the few school books that I actually made an effort to read.
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 | The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) by Hector Berlioz
Buy new: £15.07 / Used from: £9.63 A giant ego infatuated by his own talent, and a pair of pink boots.
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 | A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £4.84 / Used from: £3.00 Avoid any preconceptions formed from watching that awful film, this book is for the more discerning reader.
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 | The Forsyte Saga: Volume 1: The Man of Property, and, In Chancery, and, To Let by John Galsworthy
Buy used from: £1.70 The changing values of society from one generation to the next.
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 | The Road to Wigan Pier (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £3.62 Grandad. What was Socialism?
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 | Three Men in a Boat: to Say Nothing of the Dog (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jerome K. Jerome
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 LOL. Believe me you will.
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 | Dictionary of Khazars (Vintage International) by Pavic
Buy used from: £2.03 Probably a little gimmicky and too quirky for most tastes, but I went along for the ride and came out smiling.
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 | The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) by Naguib Mahfouz
Buy new: £16.16 / Used from: £16.35 A facinating view of Muslim purdah by a master storyteller.
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 | Waiting for Godot (Acting Edition) by Samuel Beckett
Buy new: £7.70 / Used from: £3.49 A pleasurable read but a word of warning. Nothing happens.
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