Listmania!
Some of my favourites
Midnight's ChildrenMidnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £0.80
winner of the booker of bookers and with good reason. A really beautiful, surprising and memorable book.
The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
Buy used from: £0.01
Timeless adventure
ImmortalityImmortality by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.01
philosophy for the masses
The Hidden Huxley: Contempt and Compassion for the MassesThe Hidden Huxley: Contempt and Compassion for the Masses by David Bradshaw
Buy new: £13.99 / Used from: £0.01
Not the Huxley of Brave New World - a fascinating insight into a brilliant mind
The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £2.99
I read it in one sitting - Camus can describe feeling like nobody else
The Selfish GeneThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Buy used from: £1.04
Popular science as it should be
How the Mind Works (Penguin Press Science)How the Mind Works (Penguin Press Science) by Steven Pinker
Buy new: £7.12 / Used from: £3.77
Fascinating
The Wasp FactoryThe Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01
Probably the best debut novel ever
Ender's Game (The Ender saga)Ender's Game (The Ender saga) by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £1.37
if you don't like sci-fi, you are about to be converted
The Woman in White (Oxford World's Classics)The Woman in White (Oxford World's Classics) by Wilkie Collins
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Brilliant and original - Collins is an often overlooked and underated writer
Danny the Champion of the World (Puffin Fiction)Danny the Champion of the World (Puffin Fiction) by Roald Dahl
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I must have read this 50 times as a kid
Blue/orange (Modern Plays)Blue/orange (Modern Plays) by Joe Penhall
Buy new: £6.59 / Used from: £5.99
a fantastic play and a devilishly clever script
The Master and MargaritaThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.46
The devil comes to Russia and all hell breaks loose!
CryptonomiconCryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.70
fact and fiction blend to create a masterpiece