 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.24 / Used from: £1.97 Well written, thought provoking and a tearjerker in places- my favourite book.
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 | The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.31 Incredibly sad to begin with but full of hope at the end, I love this book!
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £4.71 / Used from: £0.01 This is written from the perspective of a boy with asperger's syndrome; very unusual but well done.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £1.98 Narrated by a teenage boy whose life is a mess!
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 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.22 A fantastic portrayal of a troubled mind, it will leave you wondering.
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 | The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary classics) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.32 A dystopian novel which I couldn't put down, this one also keeps you wondering
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 | Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £0.01 Incredibly sad in places, i cry every time I read it!
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 | A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £4.83 / Used from: £1.87 Scary!
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 | Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.90 Very strange but very good.
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 | The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 I challenge you not to cry. Beautiful and haunting.
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 | Lucky by Alice Sebold
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Extremely sad as it is a true story and written by the author of The Lovely Bones, which she based on her experience.
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 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £0.01 Another sad but true story. All my favourite books seem to be tragedies!
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 | A Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
Buy new: £9.49 / Used from: £0.01 The story behind the great man. This helped me understand him and emphasised why he is one of my heroes.
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 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £5.21 / Used from: £0.14 A tragic tale, you cannot help but love and sympathise with poor Tess!
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 | The End of the Affair (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.65 Very well written and unusual, by one of my favourite authors.
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 | Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Buy new: £4.72 / Used from: £0.01 A good insight into what it was like for geisha, especially as it was written by a man.
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 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £4.85 / Used from: £0.01 A classic love story, it will make you laugh in places.
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 | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £0.01 Incredibly emotive- Faulks weaves a romance into a brilliant portrayal of life in WW1.
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.04 / Used from: £3.43 Obviously a classic but very scary
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 | The Awakening: And Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) by Kate Chopin
Buy used from: £0.01 Underrated; a classic, in my opinion.
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