 | A Clockwork Orange (Essential Penguin) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £5.01 / Used from: £0.45 An influencial dystopia, If you think youth culture is bad now have a read of this.
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 | Tipping the Velvet (Virago V) by Sarah Waters
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.19 Victorian history with a twist! Fantastic characterisation, a million times better than the BBC Drama
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 | The Lord of the Rings (3 Book Box set) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £11.96 / Used from: £6.99 Words cannot decribe this trilogy, I am under the spell of the ring of power
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 | How the Dead Live by Will Self
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Will self conveys an 'alternative'view on life after death involving a popular music singing foetus, and living with the weight that you lost and put on in your former life. Interesting!!!!
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 | Hooky Gear by Nick Barlay
Buy used from: £0.01 A great read brimming with black humour
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 | The Passion (Contemporary classics) by Jeanette Winterson
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.79 "I'm telling you stories. Trust me." I put all my trust into wintersons storytelling ability. Gripping, a masterpiece I'll never forget
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy used from: £0.01 Austen deserves pride of place on all top ten reads, she makes C18th Britain accessable to teens and OAP's alike
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 | Much Ado About Nothing (New Cambridge Shakespeare) (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £6.92 / Used from: £1.80 Laugh, cry, or just read in awe of the Shakespearian delight that is 'Much ado about nothing'
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 | The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.01 Deserved winner of the booker prize, Atwoods novel is full of twists and turns. An imaginative and unpredictable read
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 | Mrs. Dalloway (Wordsworth Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 The stream of conciousness in this novel is to die for, nobody can do it better than Wolfe! Well except maybe Winterson!
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 | Lady Chatterley's Lover (Essential Penguin) by D H Lawrence
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 Well, what can I say about this book! Obviously British prudishness didn't have a hold over Laurence. It's a shame that Jackie Collins doesn't reach the same standard.
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 | Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.34 Poetry that is almost as good to just look at as it is to read. Personal, bleak but terrific all the same
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 | The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
Buy new: £5.30 / Used from: £3.25 Hated by men, adored by women. Laugh till you cry and cry till you sob. My personal favourite is Mrs Beast.
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