 | David Copperfield (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 The greatest ever story teller, takes me on a rollercoaster of emotion with every re-visit, this is a book I will never tire of.
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 | The World According to Garp (Black Swan) by John Irving
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 Dickens for the modern age...
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.20 / Used from: £1.84 Forget that you were forced to read this at school, it is a spellbinding novel
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 | Matilda by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: £0.01 Forget Harry Potter, this is what kids tales should be like.
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 | The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Galloped through the first 700 pages then slowed to a crawl as it neared the end as I never wanted this book to end
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 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Popular Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: £2.17 / Used from: £0.01 Heartwarming tale of a developing kinship
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 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £3.96 / Used from: £0.07 Every line is so beautifully crafted
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 | Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy used from: £0.40 A tense and gripping insite into the mind of a murderer, absolutely fascinating
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 | So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy) by Douglas Adams
Buy used from: £0.01 My favourite of the five although obviously would not recomend reading this one in isolation, start at the beginning and look forward to meeting Wonko the Sane
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 | The Lord of the Rings (3 Book Box set) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £11.96 / Used from: £11.37 Just because you have seen the films... not an excuse for avoiding the mamouth and highly rewarding journey that is the books!
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 | On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £5.04 / Used from: £0.49 A book I read whenever I'm travelling, makes me wish I was born 30 years ago.
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 | Making History by Stephen Fry
Buy used from: £0.01 An entertaining, witty and cleaver read, just as one would expect from Mr Fry.
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 | Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy used from: £0.30 Absolutely horrifying, I read this in one sitting as I could not have slept a wink with the thought of being watched.
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 | One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Buy used from: £0.01 Interesting insight into the minds of the insane - or are they?
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £0.99 My favourite book during the 'teenage angst' years
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 | Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Buy new: £4.80 / Used from: £1.00 I've read a few of Welsh's and it is easy to see why this one beacme a film, the book, however, offers so much more.
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 | We Need To Talk About Kevin (Five Star Paperback) by Lionel Shriver
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.01 Terrifying, fascinating, disturbing and thought-provoking. Very topical.
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 | Vanity Fair (Wordsworth Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Becky Sharp is literature's best-written heroine
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 | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite author gets a second spot in the list.
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 | The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
Buy new: £4.12 / Used from: £0.01 A recent good read.
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 | Mr Vertigo by Paul Auster
Buy new: £4.46 / Used from: £2.82 Having just discovered Paul Auster, I currently cannot get enough... I had been desperate for another modern author similar to Irving and I do believe he could be it!
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 | History of the World in 10½ Chapters (Picador Books) by Julian Barnes
Buy used from: £0.01 A satirical gaze at our past - beautifully written
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