 | Our Man in Havana (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.89 Perfectly planned so you grin at all the little twists fitting together. Great game of checkers.
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 | Under the Net (Vintage Classics) by Iris Murdoch
Buy new: £5.81 / Used from: £0.01 Like the line where Graham Greene and Iris Murdoch meet. Plenty philosophy to consider, then fun all the way through as well.
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 | The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £0.01 Great because old Thomas manages to get just how you feel, especially the ladies.
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 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J.K. Rowling
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £0.01 You know you want it. It's like a guilty pleasure. You don't have to tell anyone.
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 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 I defy you to not adore Mr. Rochester. What a character.
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 | Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Buy new: £4.65 / Used from: £2.26 Nice book. Nice to read whilst sunbathing. Poor Madame Bovary.
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 | The Periodic Table (Essential Penguin) by Primo Levi
Buy new: £5.72 / Used from: £2.16 Wonderful stories, some of them are true, some of them are about carbon atoms. What more can you want?
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 | Sophie's Choice (Vintage classics) by William Styron
Buy used from: £2.68 Totally fascinating, unputdownable. One of the best stories ever.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.30 / Used from: £1.20 'lawyers were children once' or something to that effect.
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 | The Plague (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £3.00 Good in the way that Camus is, describes things in such a way that you have to think about them.
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 | Inferno, The by Alighieri Dante
Buy used from: £0.56 You wouldn't think, though it's part of the divine comedy, but very funny really.
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 'I sometimes have sick fancies, and I have a sick fancy I should like to see some play. Play, play' Sometimes everyone wants to be Miss. Havisham.
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 | Gravity by Erica Wagner
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Very twisted little book of stories. Very good.
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 | The Philosopher's Pupil (Vintage Classics) by Iris Murdoch
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.00 Excellent story, excellent characters, excellent everything. Iris Murdoch was a genius.
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 | Travels with My Aunt (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.40 Another perfect story. Just like a daydream about what you want to do when you're 'elderly.'
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 | Daniel Deronda (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £0.01 Very 'costume drama' but also quite thoughtful. Stuck in my head for months.
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 | Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £3.57 Perfect book, perfect book. Kostoglatov = best man in the history of the universe.
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