 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £2.30 A book for anyone who ever feels on the outside
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 I think the cleverest thing I've come across
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 | In the Cut by Susanna Moore
Buy used from: £0.76 Real women & relationships - very funny and ironic if you look for it
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 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.63 Amazing and infinitely underrated
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.40 / Used from: £1.60 Really shocking stuff
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 | The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals (Oxford World's Classics) by Dorothy Wordsworth
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 | War Poems of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.79 Best war poet, like John Clare for War. Also ASIN 0701136618
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 | Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £5.13 / Used from: £0.01 I read this when I was about 14 and didn't find it hard at all. Also Hamlet/MND.
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 | The Peloponnesian War (Classics) by Thucydides
Buy new: £6.30 / Used from: £1.99 Ok, so I did History, can you tell. Salway's Roman Britain also good
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 | The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon, the Choephori, the Eumenides (Penguin Classics): 0 by Aeschylus
Buy used from: £0.01 Lysistrata, Frogs, Plato/Socrates also good
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 | The Hobbit - illustrated hardback by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £15.49 / Used from: £10.00 Read this when I was 8 (other versions: 0261103288 & 0006754023 ) I prefer to LOTR
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 | The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Buy used from: £0.01 Very different from the film
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 | Linda McCartney's World of Vegetarian Cooking: Over 200 Meat-free Dishes from Around the World by Linda McCartney
Buy used from: £1.49 Best veggie book
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 | Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.01 A little American in places, but great considering he's a guy!
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 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £4.15 / Used from: £0.01 So much better than the film, If Paxman rates it, can't be half bad
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 | The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal
Buy new: £18.91 / Used from: £7.99 I've seen him lecture, amazingly clever guy
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 | Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.58 Dvd also has a rather nice Mr Sewell ahem oh we were talking about books weren't we
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £4.11 / Used from: £0.92 (0141023546 a new reprint)
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 | The Secret Garden (Collector's library) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Buy new: £4.28 / Used from: £3.00 I seem to relate to stories about orphans lol
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 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
Buy used from: £0.01 People are mean to Jane Eyre grrr. The days when a teacher meant something (reprint also 0141028165)
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 | Angela's Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood by Frank McCourt
Buy used from: £0.01 Miserable Irish childhood
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 | The Velveteen Rabbit (Creative Editions) by Margery Williams
Buy used from: £0.08 Be real
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 | The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £3.69 Better than the Odyssey & The Aeneid
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