 | Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 The female version of Lord of the Flies!
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 | I Capture the Castle (Vintage Classics) by Dodie Smith
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 A touching depiction of first love, with a bravely ambivilent ending
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.30 / Used from: £1.25 One of the few books I read at school that I enjoyed
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 | Franny and Zooey by J. Salinger
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £2.50 Two short novellas about grief and obsession
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 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £1.50 The story of a young woman's descent into depression, I loved this when I was 17
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 | A Kestrel for a Knave (Penguin Modern Classics) by Barry Hines
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.98 A British classic. Although the Northern industrial landscape has now gone, the central relationship between Billy and his kestral is timeless
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 | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Penguin Modern Classics) by Carson McCullers
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £3.40 One of the most amazing books about human beings and the projections we put on them tha I have read
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 | On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £5.03 / Used from: £2.72 This book proves that the importance of reading is the readers involvement with other people's worlds- I loved this as a 15 year old girl in a suburb of London!
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 | Le Grand Meaulnes (Penguin Modern Classics) by Henri Alain-Fournier
Buy used from: £6.91 A great story about adolescant love
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 | The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £0.01 A sinister, amazing novel
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