 | To the Lighthouse (Oxford World's Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy used from: £5.48 Probably the best one to start with: a moving exploration of mortality, mourning, and creativity.
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 | Mrs Dalloway (Oxford World's Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy used from: £1.27 The other suggested starting point: a busier, more crowded novel, looking at power, authority, and madness in a militarized state. David Bradshaw's OUP edition is recommended.
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 | Orlando: A Biography (Penguin Modern Classics) by Joseph Conrad
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 A more relaxed, playful novel, to give some sense of Woolf's range
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 | A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas (Oxford World's Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy used from: £1.04 A Room of One's Own is a playful and persuasive exploration of the place of women in a patriarchal culture, and will illuminate all of Woolf's works, but particularly Orlando and To the Lighthouse.
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 | The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction (Oxford World's Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £4.99 "The Mark on the Wall" was Woolf's first really experimental story, and reading this collection gives some idea of her artistic intentions.
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 | The Waves (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £0.01 The Waves: of all Woolf's novels, this one is the furthest removed from conventional fiction; it's a work that rewards repeated readings, as images and ideas gradually come into focus.
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 | Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
Buy new: £8.38 / Used from: £4.47 If you want an account of Woolf's life, Lee's is beautifully crafted and is the fruit of a long-standing interest in its subject.
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 | Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life: An Inner Life by Julia Briggs
Buy used from: £8.50 Briggs is particularly good on the ways Woolf wrote and revised her novels; this study is full of interesting details from the manuscripts.
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 | The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Buy new: £14.01 / Used from: £12.48 A collection of scholarly essays on all aspects of Woolf's works.
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