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My Best Books that reel around my head
The Catcher in the RyeThe Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £1.99
A book for anyone who ever feels on the outside
The Unbearable Lightness of BeingThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £0.01
I think the cleverest thing I've come across
In the CutIn the Cut by Susanna Moore
Buy used from: £1.51
Real women & relationships - very funny and ironic if you look for it
The Bell JarThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.22
Amazing and infinitely underrated
The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics)The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.99
Really shocking stuff
The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals (Oxford World's Classics)The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals (Oxford World's Classics) by Dorothy Wordsworth
Buy used from: £0.01
War Poems of Wilfred OwenWar Poems of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.03
Best war poet, like John Clare for War. Also ASIN 0701136618
Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Shakespeare)Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £4.68 / Used from: £0.01
I read this when I was about 14 and didn't find it hard at all. Also Hamlet/MND.
The Peloponnesian War (Classics)The Peloponnesian War (Classics) by Thucydides
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £0.62
Ok, so I did History, can you tell. Salway's Roman Britain also good
The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon, the Choephori, the Eumenides (Penguin Classics): 0The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon, the Choephori, the Eumenides (Penguin Classics): 0 by Aeschylus
Buy new: £0.30 / Used from: £0.01
Lysistrata, Frogs, Plato/Socrates also good
The Hobbit - illustrated hardbackThe Hobbit - illustrated hardback by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £7.05
Read this when I was 8 (other versions: 0261103288 & 0006754023 ) I prefer to LOTR
The English PatientThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Buy new: £11.48 / Used from: £0.10
Very different from the film
Linda McCartney's World of Vegetarian Cooking: Over 200 Meat-free Dishes from Around the WorldLinda McCartney's World of Vegetarian Cooking: Over 200 Meat-free Dishes from Around the World by Linda McCartney
Buy used from: £0.03
Best veggie book
Memoirs of a GeishaMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01
A little American in places, but great considering he's a guy!
Captain Corelli's MandolinCaptain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £4.71 / Used from: £0.01
So much better than the film, If Paxman rates it, can't be half bad
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of LanguageThe Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £14.38
I've seen him lecture, amazingly clever guy
Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.28
Dvd also has a rather nice Mr Sewell ahem oh we were talking about books weren't we
Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £4.20 / Used from: £0.17
(0141023546 a new reprint)
The Secret Garden (Collector's library)The Secret Garden (Collector's library) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Buy new: £4.28 / Used from: £0.01
I seem to relate to stories about orphans lol
Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £0.01
People are mean to Jane Eyre grrr. The days when a teacher meant something (reprint also 0141028165)
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir of a ChildhoodAngela's Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood by Frank McCourt
Buy used from: £0.01
Miserable Irish childhood
The Velveteen Rabbit (Creative Editions)The Velveteen Rabbit (Creative Editions) by Margery Williams
Buy used from: £0.20
Be real
The Iliad (Penguin Classics)The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer
Buy new: £6.27 / Used from: £4.18
Better than the Odyssey & The Aeneid