 | The Jungle Books: Jungle Book AND Second Jungle Book (Penguin Modern Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.01 Rich story-telling; can be read by children and adults again and again
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 | The Valley of Fear (Oxford Sherlock Holmes) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Buy used from: £0.01 Classic Sherlock Holmes thriller
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 | Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
Buy used from: £1.76 Another book aimed at children, but a hit with adults. Prose introduction to philosophy
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 | The Beach by Alex Garland
Buy used from: £0.01 A gripping escape
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 | The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Penguin Classics) by Jan Potocki
Buy new: £8.41 / Used from: £6.54 A Russian doll of a book, from a Polish author: layers of fantastic stories within stories
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 | An Intimate History of Humanity by Theodore Zeldin
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Personal interviews provide a looking-glass into the sociology of the past
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 | Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared M. Diamond
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £5.00 Convincing explanation of the world's history
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 | Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (20th anniversary edition with a new preface by the author) by Douglas R Hofstadter
Buy new: £13.26 / Used from: £8.48 Heavy, but worth it. Maths, artificial intelligence, music and art cunningly combined
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 | Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Penguin Science) by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: £7.18 / Used from: £4.97 Enticingly illustrates the power of evolution
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 | The Fabric of Reality: Towards a Theory of Everything by David Deutsch
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £3.49 An original and exciting perspective on science and knowledge
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 | The Big Sleep and Other Novels (Penguin Modern Classics) by Raymond Chandler
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £6.12 Oozes style from every page
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 | The Meaning of the 21st Century: a Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future by James Martin
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.89 Read this now
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