 | Les Miserables (Penguin Popular Classics) by Victor Hugo
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 Victor Hugo's masterpiece. An invaluable contribution to world literature.
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 | Madame Bovary (Wordsworth Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Flaubert breathes life into Emma Bovary, and world literature gains one of its most notorious figures.
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 | Nana (Oxford World's Classics) by Émile Zola
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £3.59 A wondrous ethography, not only of its era, but ours too, since it denudes pesudo-morality of its pretence and lets the true colours of human pathos shine brightly under the Parisian sun.
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 Loved everything about this book. Fitzgerald was a craftsman, full stop.
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 | Lady Chatterley's Lover (Wordsworth Classics) by D.H. Lawrence
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Lawrence's novel was criticised for its explicit sex scenes, yet its themes concern ethos and the fragility of the human soul. Can almost touch it.
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 | The Kreutzer Sonata (Penguin Great Loves) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £3.68 / Used from: £0.93 Good narrative pace, and a brilliant example of viewpoint.
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 | To the Lighthouse (Wordsworth Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 I saw, and I heard, and I felt, and travelled in time's labyrinths. A novel full of pictures.
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 | Contempt (New York Review Books Classics) by Alberto Moravia
Buy new: £5.44 / Used from: £3.24 A great lesson on human weakness and egocentricity.
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 | Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (Wordsworth Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 The work of one of literature's most brilliant realists, and a human being of great ethos and intelligence. Mark Twain was grand, no question about it.
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 | Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Buy new: £4.36 / Used from: £0.47 Golding delivers a gem on human nature and its true colours outside the frames of civilisation.
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 | "The Third Man" and "The Fallen Idol" (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy used from: £0.93 The most classic of noirs. Its ambience, its plot, its characters, everything adds up to an examplary narrative.
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 | Don Quixote (Wordsworth Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Nobody else ever managed to epitomise utopia better than Cervantes. If this is not a classic, I do not know what is.
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