 | In a Doghouse by Throwing Muses
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £6.00 This is the beginning. Although any Muses/Kristin Hersh/Belly/Tanya Donelly album would do. Essential listening.
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 A classic!!
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 | Harry Potter Paperback Box Set: Four Volumes by J.K. Rowling
Buy used from: £12.00 These are addictive!
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 | The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths
Buy used from: £4.99 I put this on any time I feel sorry for myself.
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 | Pretty on the Inside by Hole
Buy used from: £2.29 In the nineties it felt like Hole would change the world.
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 | Le Tigre by Le Tigre
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £6.50 Kathleen Hanna did.
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 | Radio Ethiopia by Patti Smith Group
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.84 And just for the beauty of Pissing in a River
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.01 One I read more recently, with the charm of Captain Corelli. The names are as confusing as a Russian novel.
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 | The Golden Notebook (Paladin Books) by Doris May Lessing
Buy used from: £0.01 Possibly saved my sanity. If we want to be melodramatic.
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 | The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories
Buy used from: £0.99 One of the best collections of short pieces I've ever come across.
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| Suspense: Orient Express / This Gun for Hire / the Ministry of Fear / Our Man by Graham Greene
Buy used from: £40.24 For Ministry of Fear, but since it comes with so much, this one. Conflicts abound.
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 | Gold Against the Soul by Manic Street Preachers
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.45 JDB never again matched the roar of From Despair to Where...
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 | The Plague (Essential Penguin) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.01 MSP introduced me to a LOT of literature.. This can't go unmentioned
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 | Nausea (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £3.57 Erm.. ditto.
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 | Fanny Hill: Or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Wordsworth Classics) by John Cleland
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 I couldn't stop laughing, err - a valuable insight into the literary C18th male. Lol.
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 | The Importance of Being Earnest (Penguin Popular Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 Hilarious again, but this was supposed to be...
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 | Hope Is Important by Idlewild
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £0.73 A very very important album... One to jump around to. I have a soft spot.
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 | Medea and Other Plays : Medea; Hecabe; Electra; Heracles (Penguin Classics) by Euripides
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £0.01 RAH!!! Angry and violently vibrant
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 | In Cold Blood: A True Account of A Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Essential Penguin) by Truman Capote
Buy new: £8.04 / Used from: £2.93 Gripping
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 | The Professor (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
Buy used from: £0.01 My favourite Bronte, a strange tale.
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 | Grace by Jeff Buckley
Buy used from: £0.38 Has the voice of an angel
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 | You Got Me Fraiche by Lapsus Linguae
Buy used from: £5.39 Glasgow based Lapsus Linguae simply rock. Get ready to have your head blown apart by one of the very best bands you're ever going to hear of. It's as simple as that.
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 | Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Buy new: £4.28 / Used from: £0.01 A book to stay up all night for
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 | Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Again, anything by Winterson would do, but who can resist flying princesses and journeys that defy time and space?
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