 | David Copperfield (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 All that makes Dickens great is in this book. Probably the best lineup of characters of all his novels.
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 | The Odyssey (Oxford World's Classics) by Homer
Buy used from: £0.37 A tale of a man making his way home. Timeless.
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 | The Rainbow (Wordsworth Classics) by D.H. Lawrence
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 A unique talent. At his best Lawrence writes with awesome power and he is frequently at his best in The Rainbow.
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 | Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.01 Balzac's insights and comments on human nature are always spot on. Second only to Dickens in his ability to create memorable characters.
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 | The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room" by Paul Auster
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.01 Nothing better has been written in the last twenty years. Lingers in the mind long afterwards.
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 | Bleak House (Wordsworth Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Dickens at his most coherent and structured. But, like all his books, its the characters that make it great.
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 | The Complete Prose by Woody Allen
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 This is very very funny.
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 | Big Sur (Flamingo Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy used from: £0.89 My favourite of his books but I would read 'On the Road' first to get your bearings.
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 | Erewhon by Samuel Butler
Full of clever and thought-provoking ideas and very well written.
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 | The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy used from: £0.01 Every bookshelf should have a few Jeeves and Wooster. Great stuff!
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