 | The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes: Contains 56 Stories and 4 Novels including The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Buy new: £12.31 / Used from: £0.01 I picked this up when I was 15 and have been an obsessive Sherlockian ever since. Some of the best stories ever written in the English language. My desert island book- deservedly in 1st place.
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £2.19 / Used from: £0.01 This is the only book I was forced to study which I didn't end up loathing. Probably because it's a masterpiece.
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 | Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 Simply one of the most beautiful, thoughtful books I've ever read.
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 | Making History by Stephen Fry
Buy used from: £0.01 Stephen Fry at his twinkling best.
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 | Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
Buy new: £6.67 / Used from: £0.01 I love magic and I love the 'Twenties. So a book about a magician from the '20s was bound to please. A great story which haunted me for days.
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 | Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog (Essential Penguin) by Jerome K Jerome
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 Vic Reeves' favourite book and certainly one of mine too. Hilarious stuff.
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 | The Diary of a Nobody (Prion Humour Classics) by George Grossmith
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.69 A classic of British humour.
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 | Very Good, Jeeves! (Everyman Wodehouse) by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy new: £7.97 / Used from: £5.36 It's impossible to pick out one Wodehouse above the others. Just go and read everything he ever wrote if you know what's good for you.
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 | Three Plays: "Blithe Spirit", "Hay Fever", "Private Lives" by Noel Coward
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £4.16 I was obsessed with Noel Coward for a while. Pretty much everything the man wrote was touched with gold. These are probably my favourites though.
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 | The Importance of Being Earnest: 3-act Version (Acting Edition) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £8.25 / Used from: £1.99 What can one say about possibly the funniest play in the English language? Read it and always remember how funny Miss Prism is.
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 | Northern Lights: WITH Subtle Knife AND Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £4.98 Sublime. Incredible. Thought-provoking. Beautiful.
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