 | Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady (Classics) by Samuel Richardson
Buy new: £13.48 / Used from: £9.50 At 1536 pages long, this is a major investment of your time. But it's so worth it.
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 | Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
Buy used from: £0.50 I'm a big fan of Alison Weir's historical biographies, but I found her first novel a big disappointment.
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 | A Passage to India by E M Forster
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Another big deal calssic, but I didn't really enjoy this one.
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 | Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Classics) by Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos
Buy used from: £0.01 This is more like it. Make sure you get a good translation though. The one I read is by P W K Stone.
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 | Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 It's alright, I suppose.
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 | The Wings of the Dove (Classics) by Henry James
Buy used from: £0.01 Henry James and I don't get on. It's probably not his fault.
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.01 Magical realism. This inspired 'The House of Spirits' and, while I enjoyed this, I have to confess to liking the Allende novel better.
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 | Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Essential Penguin) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 Excellent. And it's only thin, so give it a go.
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 | Eva Luna (Essential Penguin) by Isabel Allende
Buy used from: £0.01 I couldn't finish this.
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 | Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Funny, sad and sweet. So readable, you'll finish it in a day.
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.39 / Used from: £1.55 This was good, although the characters seemed very alien somehow.
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 | Shakespeare's Sonnets (Arden Shakespeare.Third Series) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £3.99 I love the sonnet form. It's so accessible somehow. These are a great starting point if you've just developed an interest in poetry. Universal, beautiful, succint and almost catchy.
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 | Baby Touch Picture Book
Buy used from: £0.01 Deserves a mention for *finally* sparking an interest in books in my son.
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 | Cross Stitch (Outlander, US) by Diana Gabaldon
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.50 Another page-turner. A silly premise, I suppose. But who cares?
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 | The Wizard of Oz (Puffin Classics) by L. Frank Baum
Buy used from: £0.01 Very trippy and weird. And I mean that as a compliment.
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 | Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years 1) by Gregory Maguire
Buy new: £5.13 / Used from: £1.99 Skip this and just read Number 15.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.30 / Used from: £1.20 I'm so glad I chose to read this at Christmas. It's the literary equivalent of chicken soup and makes you feel all warm inside.
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