 | How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Buy used from: £0.01 So heart wrenching. I was a sobbing wreck. But that's a good recommendation I promise. Stunning
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £4.44 / Used from: £0.01 Brilliant. A must must read.
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 | My Family and Other Animals (Essential Penguin) by Gerald Durrell
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.01 All time favourite? Top 5 certainly. Beautiful read.
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 | The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred by Carl-Johan Vallgren
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £0.01 What a title. Atmospheric and moving.
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 | The Crow Road by Iain Banks
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £0.01 A modern classic.
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 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £0.01 I've read this a hundred times and I never tire.
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 | Polo by Jilly Cooper
Buy used from: £0.01 Her finest work. I think I'd like to be Jilly Cooper. She rocks!
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 | Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.99 Spooky and scarey. Glad I was of an adult age when I read this. Buttons shouldn't be that frightening.
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 | The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy used from: £0.01 Loved this. However his other books have been so disappointing in comparison.
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 | Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Buy new: £5.42 / Used from: £0.01 Part of my teenage years. Not that I'm inclined to redheads or women. But this book affected me.
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 | Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Buy used from: £0.68 This is perfection. I adore this book.
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 | A Room with a View by E M Forster
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £0.01 I always remember the field of violets for some reason. Terribly English. Terribly Romantic.
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 | A Confederacy of Dunces (Essential Penguin) by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £2.85 Not to everyone's taste. But he has a certain charm.
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 | His Dark Materials Gift Set: "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £6.49 I think it broke my heart in two. Spellbinding.
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 | The Common Years by Jilly Cooper
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.19 Jilly again. She truly is fabulous and this one is real life!
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 | Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Just as good as the motion picture.
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 | I Capture the Castle (Virago Modern Classics) by Dodie Smith
Buy used from: £0.01 There's the first line and then you're in. Wish I'd found it when I was 15.
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 | Little Women (Oxford World's Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.84 OK, so it's a bit cliched, but I did find this one at 15 and I still love it.
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