 | Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Buy new: £6.15 / Used from: £0.01 A beautifully crafted tale of three successive generations of women in a family caught up in the events of Chinese history. The fact that it is all true simply makes it even more difficult to put down
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 | Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Buy new: £4.29 / Used from: £0.01 Beautiful, poetic and heart rending. I don't know a single person who has not loved this book.
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy used from: £0.01 The ultimate romance novel. How any man will ever match up to Mr Darcy I will never know...
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 | Waterland by Graham Swift
Buy used from: £0.01 An amazing book that combines a sense of history and place with some beautifully realised characters. Swift is one of the authors people will still be reading in 100 years time.
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 | I Capture the Castle (Vintage Classics) by Dodie Smith
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Written from the point of view of one of the most delightful characters in English Literature this is a book I didn't read until very recently and I am kicking myself for not discovering it earlier..
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 | His Dark Materials Gift Set: "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £6.50 Technically a childrens' book but only in the same way that 'Lord of The Rings' is. Stunning.
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 | Edward Thomas. Collected Poems. by Edward Thomas
Buy new: £8.89 / Used from: £6.14 My favourite poet. Enough said.
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 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
Buy used from: £0.48 In my opinion this is the best of the books produced by the Bronte sisters - and that's REALLY saying something.
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 | White Teeth
A stunning debut novel about life, family and what it means to 'fit in' in a multi cultural society - I read this book in one sitting.
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 | Our Mutual Friend (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite Dickens novel. Its darker and less comic than some of his other, and perhaps, more popular novels but the story gripped me throughout.
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 | Daniel Deronda (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £0.01 Those who believe 'Middlemarch' was Eliot's masterpiece are quite simply wrong.
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 | Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £0.01 This is a real word of mouth book. Recommended to me by a friend it has since done the rounds of my friends and family and has been universally loved.
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 | Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Buy used from: £4.68 Science fiction at its best - even for those who cannot stand science fiction!
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 | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £6.18 / Used from: £0.01 Utterly and completely fascinating.
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 | Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Buy new: £4.70 / Used from: £2.00 The only way I can describe Flaubert's writing style is to say that its like drowning in chocolate. I just wish I could read the original French!
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 | The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary classics) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.40 A frightening vision of a future where religion and politics have destroyed American society. Yet what sticks in my mind is the basic hope and humanity that surfaced from this novel - a beautiful read
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 | Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope
Buy new: £5.66 / Used from: £0.01 Wendy Cope's humourous poems always put me in a good mood and so a copy of one of her collections (this being my favourite) is never far from hand.
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