 | The Sea by John Banville
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 Very worthy Booker winnner
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 | A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Buy new: £4.29 / Used from: £0.01 Engaging account of drug and alcahol rehab
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 | City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple
Buy new: £5.77 / Used from: £1.35 Fascinating travel novel / historical analysis of ancient and mysterious city
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 | The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas by Paul Theroux
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.19 Probably the best travel writer
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 | Love in the Time of Cholera (Read Red) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.01 Genuinely engrossing, unlike 100 Years of Solitude
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 | Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargos Llosa
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Loopy narrative from Peru's failed presidential candidate
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 | The Power and the Glory (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.10 Graham Greene's best?
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 | They Shoot Horses, Dont They? (Midnight classics) by Horace McCoy
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £4.95 Dark side of the American depression
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 | The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 by Wladyslaw Szpilman
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Somewhat tarnished by the cinematic conceits of the movie but still worth reading
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 | On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £0.01 The jury is still out on this author - but enjoyable all the same
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 | Brazil (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Updike
Buy new: £6.58 / Used from: £2.99 Journey into Brazil's Heart of Darkness
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 | Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics) by Malcolm Lowry
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.88 Best novel about Mexico ever written
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 | Saturday by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Tangible portrait of upper-middle class British life in the build-up to the Iraq war
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 | All the Pretty Horses: Volume One of The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.01 Bloodthirsty, cinematic, fatalistic Western - fantastic
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 | The Mimic Men by V. S. Naipaul
Buy new: £5.05 / Used from: £2.99 Typically dark analysis of the colonial experience
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 | Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.01 Tries to do too much - but a highly imaginative experience all the same
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 | The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Buy used from: £0.01 Thatcher's Britain, from a gay perspective. Fantastic
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 | I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Some familiar and well-trodden Wolfe themes here, but highly entertainining all the same
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 | The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Buy new: £11.39 / Used from: £0.01 One of his more compelling novels
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 | The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right by Michael Lerner
Buy new: £23.70 / Used from: £1.05 Fascinating socio-political commentary
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 | Villages by John Updike
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Updike savages US suburban life, but this is nothing on 'Rabbit is Rich'
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 | Death in the Andes by Mario Vargos Llosa
Buy new: £6.23 / Used from: £0.01 Brutal and disorientating account of boredom, withcraft and terrorism in the Peruvian Andes
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 | Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Buy new: £4.56 / Used from: £1.67 Engaging debut by promising young author
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 | Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £5.08 / Used from: £0.01 Ever-readable, Faulks bravely tackles Victorian medical science and largely succeeds
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 | The Tribes of Britain by David Miles
Buy used from: £4.91 Fascinating and informative
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