 | Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.01 Beautifully written and spiritually uplifting story of a time when the lands that became Scotland were not united
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 | The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (Panther) by Jose Saramago
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.70 This is a book where the upcoming extermination of whole waves of European culture haunts the multithreaded narrative. Brilliant.
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 | The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £0.79 Mulisch at his most powerful and spiritual. One of the best books I have ever read.
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 | Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £0.01 The fact this is notionally a children's book originally put me off. But it turned out to the most enjoyable as well as stimulating book I have read in years.
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 | The Dumas Club, The Ninth Gate by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Buy used from: £5.21 Brilliantly conceived investigation into the power of evil and the temptation of love.
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 The book which got me into reading seriously: Es muss sein!
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 | Trilogy: "Molloy", "Malone Dies", "Unnameable" (Calderbooks) by Samuel Beckett
Buy used from: £15.00 Beckett knew about suffering, but he also knew the joy you can experience in between.
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 | Naive. Super by Erlend Loe
Buy used from: £9.99 Erland Loe has managed to conjure up a fresh, uplifting and deceptively simple novel. Unique.
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 | Silk by Alessandro Baricco
Buy used from: £0.01 Demonstrates that brevity conquers all. Breathlessly affecting.
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 | The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
Buy used from: £0.14 There is something about the almost inconsequential style Sebald uses that just haunts you. A brilliant dialogue between fiction and history.
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 | Confessions of a Mask (Peter Owen Modern Classics) by Yukio Mishima
Buy used from: £3.33 Mishima was a troubled man and in his possibly most autobiographical novel we can see why. I found this an eye opener.
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