 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £4.21 / Used from: £0.10 My absolute favourite novel. It has been since I first read it in year 7.
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 | Katherine by Anya Seton
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.17 My second favourite. Tells the story of Katherine Swynford, mistress of John of Gaunt.
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £0.01 My third. I first read it when I was about 11 and the excitement I feel when I read it has never gone away.
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 | The Iliad (Oxford World's Classics) by Homer
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £3.41 Amazing story. Not a novel, but I decided to sneak it on anyway.
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 | Persuasion (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £4.28 / Used from: £0.01 Another Austen makes it on the list. I love Anne Elliot.
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 | Here be Dragons by Sharon Penman
Buy new: £10.46 / Used from: £0.01 First of Sharon Penman's magnificent trilogy about the last independent princes in Wales.
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 | Frenchman's Creek (Virago Modern Classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.54 My favourite Daphne du Maurier novel. A brilliant novel about identity and how far you can escape the world. I read it practically every term in university.
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 | Cross Stitch (Outlander, US) by Diana Gabaldon
Buy new: £5.55 / Used from: £0.19 Original and brilliant, I think I will cry when I have no new books in this series to look forward to.
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 | Little Women (Classics S.) by Louisa Alcott
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.01 I have loved this since childhood. I always wanted to be a cross between Jo and Beth.
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 | Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Classics) by Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos
Buy used from: £0.01 One of my all-time favourites. Stunning and marvellous.
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 | North and South (Penguin Classics) by Elizabeth Gaskell
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 My first Elizabeth Gaskell novel.
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 | Venetia by Georgette Heyer
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.60 Probably my favourite Heyer, but so many of her novels should really be on this list. The dialogue between Venetia and Damerel is witty and entertaining.
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 | Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics) by Walter Scott
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.41 Another of my childhood favourites.
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 | The Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford World's Classics) by Ann Radcliffe
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £4.32 My first, and favourite Gothic novel.
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 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: £3.82 / Used from: £0.99 One of the best "new" novels I have read.
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 | The Conquest by Elizabeth Chadwick
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.36 Elizabeth Chadwick is one of my few must-buy authors. This book is one of my favourites.
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 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
Buy new: £5.21 / Used from: £0.79 Yet another novel I read as a pre-teen that has stuck with me.
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 | Ruth (Oxford World's Classics) by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Buy used from: £1.46 Another Gaskell. Daring for it's time... but not sure if that really excuses the ending.
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 | Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Buy new: £7.48 / Used from: £2.14 Brilliant western,
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 | Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Fascinating.
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 | The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary classics) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.18 Discovered this while at university and it still strikes many chords.
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 | Cecilia: or Memoirs of an Heiress (Oxford World's Classics) by Fanny Burney
Buy new: £8.57 / Used from: £5.57 I love, love, love the novels of Frances Burney.
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 | The Rector's Daughter (Virago modern classics) by F.M. Mayor
One of the most moving novels I have ever read. A hidden gem.
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 | I Capture the Castle (Red Fox Older Fiction) by Dodie Smith
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 One of the best heroines in literature.
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 | Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Buy new: £3.89 / Used from: £1.44 For my inner teen?
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