 | Bonjour Tristesse (Essential Penguin) by Francoise Sagan
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.01 Beautifully written, short and sweet
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 | Anna Karenina: A Novel in Eight Parts by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Buy used from: £1.13 I discovered this when in love with Russia, and now I'm in love with the novel as well. The characters are all intimately described, you feel as though you know and understand them.
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 | Katherine (Coronet Books) by Anya Seton
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £0.01 An imense love story, probably more for the girls.
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 | A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £4.83 / Used from: £1.86 A book that really makes you think and reevaluate.
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 | The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Buy used from: £0.01 A simple story line, but gripping none the less.
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 | The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
Buy new: £10.30 / Used from: £7.25 Quite a tough book, but satisfying.
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 | Lolita (Penguin Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £5.32 / Used from: £1.65 A book that is captivating and has to be read to have an opinion on
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £4.43 / Used from: £0.01 Another must read, just to know how it ends.
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 | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 I can reread this countless times and each time it always suprises me.
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 | No Logo: No Space. No Choice. No Jobs by Naomi Klein
Buy new: £5.20 / Used from: £0.24 Truly a bible for anyone who is at all suspicious that there is a darkside to globalisation and capitalism.
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 | The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £5.14 / Used from: £0.01 I was pleasnalty suprised by this!
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £0.06 The more you read this the more you realise just how much depth there is.
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 | Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Buy used from: £0.01 I was just taken in by this one.
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 | Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £0.01 Still one of my favourites.
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 | Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.75 The first one of his I read, and it was very enjoyable.
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 | The Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy used from: £3.92 Another from my Russian obsession. Magical. Like nothing you've ever read before.
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 | Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Buy used from: £0.01 I saw the movie and had to read the book.
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Flamingo modern classics) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy used from: £0.12 The closest thing to doing drugs, but without the aftermath.
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 | The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 I never cry, but this corny book gets me everytime.
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 | Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 A big novel to wallow in, preferably in a bubble bath.
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 | The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.01 Much hyped, and worth it all. Very interesting.
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 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.46 Necessary to understand, very honest.
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 | Hamlet (The New Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £0.01 Backbone of English theatre, and good stuff too.
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 | Vlad the Drac by Ann Jungman
Buy used from: £0.01 ....I was very into vampires when I was a child....
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 | Debutantes by Charlotte Bingham
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Another secret wallow of a book.
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