![]() | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £6.16 / Used from: £0.01 Kept me captivated from beginning to end - I've read it about 10 times now, and also use it as a reference book. Amazing!
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![]() | The Lord of The Rings (Based on the 50th Anniversary Single volume edition 2004) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £12.47 / Used from: £0.01 I agree with it's claim that it is 'the book of the century' - it is!Another one that I keep going back to.
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![]() | The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 A heart-warming book - the ending is just awesome.
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![]() | Rebecca (Virago modern classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £1.68 The book is marvellous, the ending lets it down a little, but in all an amazing book!
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![]() | Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Buy new: £3.96 / Used from: £1.51 A book that had a profound effect on my life. I cry every time I read it. A must read.
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![]() | Stargirl (Black Apple) by Jerry Spinelli
Buy used from: £0.01 Probably a childs book, but I still love the characters; they are very real and you can recognise yourself in them.
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![]() | How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Buy new: £4.69 / Used from: £0.01 A beautifully written, heart-wrenching book.
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![]() | James Herriot Omnibus: "Every Living Thing", "If Only They Could Talk", "It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet", "Let Sleeping Vets Lie" by James Herriot
Buy used from: £0.99 It makes me laugh out loud and cry as well, an amazing series of stories.
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![]() | Floss by Kim Lewis
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 A never forgotten childhood book.
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![]() | Isabel's Bed by Elinor Lipman
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.01 A strange, but beautiful book. The ending is a bit rubbish, but apart from that a lovely story.
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![]() | Jane Eyre (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.84 A stunning book. Loved it all, could hardly put it down!
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![]() | Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife
Buy used from: £18.00 The ultimate book on animals, perfect as a reference book or just to explore for pleasure.
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![]() | The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 The most beautiful, uncheesy love story that allows you to get a feel for Egyptian culture
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![]() | The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Buy new: £5.03 / Used from: £0.01 Also a love story and with a fabulous plot that kept me enthralled
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![]() | Life in the Undergrowth by Sir David Attenborough
Buy new: £13.48 / Used from: £0.99 So interesting! Beautiful colours and the writing makes ur gasp in wonder at the creature.
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![]() | Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Penguin science) by Stephen Jay Gould
Buy used from: £0.01 Just wonderful!
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![]() | The Encyclopedia of Mammals
Buy used from: £68.95 A brilliant book, detailed enough to have helped me in my exams for my diploma, but also good just to dip into quickly. Stunning pictures!
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![]() | The Woman in White (Penguin Popular Classics) by Wilkie Collins
Buy new: £2.25 / Used from: £0.01 Such a delicious tale!
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![]() | Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Penguin Popular Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 Oh my goodness, what a book. So beautifully sad and twisted. One to go back to time and time again!
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![]() | The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Buy new: £3.95 / Used from: £1.50 This wonderful book had me crying for about ten minutes at the end!
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![]() | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
Buy new: £4.26 / Used from: £1.78 Another stunner of the book. Warning: it's teary!
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![]() | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: £3.82 / Used from: £0.87 Another weepy, but such a beautifully written book! I seem to like making myself cry :S
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![]() | Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Beautiful. It captured so many emotions perfectly.
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![]() | Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher
Buy new: £5.56 / Used from: £0.01 Makes you question so many things. Beautifully and sympathetically written.
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![]() | The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Buy new: £3.84 / Used from: £0.18 Funny, bright, sharp and also deep, sad and wonderfully written. An adventure of a book.
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