 | Namedropper by Emma Forrest
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 This book is brilliant. You want to have Viva's life/be her/ nick her clothes, and if all else fails you just want to read the book over and over again
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 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.20 This is a strange novel, and if nothing else it gives you good suggestions for a mix tape. The madness angle was subtle and well written, though slightly harder to empatise with if you're female
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 | The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
Buy used from: £4.92 WEIRD. The best bit is when the eels are swimming inside the horses's head. I'm sure I didn't get all the symbolism about Germany's stunted growth, but I liked it on my own ignorant level
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 | Thinks... by David Lodge
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 This book made me feel cleverer than I am, which is a GOOD thing. I liked the male/female narration style (though I HATED Messenger). Also good is the extracts from the creative writing class
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 | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Funny but twisted. Good depending on you mood but if you're looking for a wholesome good time go for Bill Bryson or Helen Fielding
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 | The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy: And Other Stories by Tim Burton
Buy new: £5.37 / Used from: £0.01 Brilliant and sick. Best rhyme? 'He never forgave her unholy alliance:a sexual encounter with a kitchen appliance.'
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 | The Hours by David Hare
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.01 Because I am a fool I didn' t totally appreciate Mrs Dalloway, so this book is my Woolf study guide, as well as being a simply fanastic novel
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 | Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 oooh this is good. Fairly lengthy, but you don't care when you first read it 'cos you're just desperate to find out what happens, but you may start to notice it on the second go. Worth reading!
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 | The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: £5.41 / Used from: £0.47 This is an excellent book. People say not much happens in it, but ignore them. If you don't read it you don't deserve to have eyes. And the cover is pretty too.
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 | Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Reeheeally looong, and I read it ages ago and I liked it then. Best to read when you're feeling a bit sleepy.
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 | The Beach by Alex Garland
Buy used from: £0.01 Scary. And better than Lord of the Flies. And good to read on holiday. Or in the rain. Or on the roof of the biology department.
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 | Go West Young f*Cked up Chick by Rachel Resnick
Buy used from: £1.81 I like this because I am immature and shallow. Sue me.
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