 | War and Peace (Penguin Popular Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
Buy used from: £0.01 It may look huge and daunting but is very readable and contains a fascinating tapestry of Russian society.
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 | The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Buy new: £5.08 / Used from: £0.01 Paints an amazing picture of childhood innocence in beautiful prose.
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 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £5.01 / Used from: £0.84 Admittedly quite a difficult book, but if you can get past that the prose is so rich with images that each sentence is like a story in itself.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.26 / Used from: £1.94 One of the few books I can read over and over and still enjoy as much as the first time.
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 | The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 An often hilarious look at South American life that also speaks a lot of truth about the continent.
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 | Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises (Arrow Classic) by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £0.91 A great look into lives of excess in the 20s. Knowledgeably written and very readable
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 | All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Buy new: £5.08 / Used from: £2.49 Haven't got round to re-reading it since I was 11, but remember it as first book that genuinely stirred deep emotions.
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 | The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.01 An overlooked masterpeice! At times very hard going but worth every effort.
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 | An Accidental Man (Vintage classics) by Iris Murdoch
Buy new: £6.83 / Used from: £3.00 Hilarious, thought provoking and very very English!
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 | Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy used from: £0.33 Just read it!!
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