 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
Buy used from: £12.78 If you've not yet read this, be ashamed! An extraordinary book by an extraordinary woman.
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 | Complicity by Iain Banks
Buy new: £3.52 / Used from: £0.01 One of the most disconcerting books I've ever read.
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 | Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £0.88 Contrary to popular opinion, I found this book utterly enchanting. A must for Kundera fans.
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 | The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations by C Lasch
Buy new: £3.57 / Used from: £3.16 This non-fiction masterpiece certainly made me think...
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £2.69 A classic. Requires no real explanation!
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.66 Infinitely complex, but an ESSENTIAL read. My favourite of the selection.
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 | No One Writes to the Colonel (International Writers) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: £2.76 / Used from: £0.04 Unassuming little tale for the melancholy.
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 | Pedro Paramo (Five Star) by Juan Rulfo
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £3.04 Another sinister Latin-American story. Not for the faint hearted.
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 | Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library) (Modern Library) by Oscar Wilde
Buy used from: £1.64 Mr. Wilde's most infamous character - the slick-tongued Sir Henry Wooton - steals the show in this glorious 19th century classic.
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 | Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.33 Indispensable reading for disillusioned twenty-somethings.
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 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £0.01 She is staggering.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 Tragic story of love beyond death. Perfect for morbic romantics...
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 | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.01 Tumultuous and heart-breaking.
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 | Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Something of a continuation of 'Birdsong'. Faulks excels himself again.
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 | Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.01 This highly-criticised McEwan work is an easy read, but the twisting themes of love and hatred are compellingly portrayed.
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 Well, it's to be expected.
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 | The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by John Keats
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £0.20 "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
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 | Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £3.27 / Used from: £2.10 Nine little gems. Give yourself up to the allure.
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.57 / Used from: £0.01 Czechoslovakian treasure, arguably Kundera's best work. Inspirational.
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 | Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Popular Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 The horror story to end them all. Shelley's expertly crafted story of tragedy and obsession stretches the boundaries of the archetypal Gothic novel.
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 | Down and Out in Paris and London (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £3.75 / Used from: £2.75 Orwell mildly embellishes his past poverty in this vivid description of underclass existence.
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 | A Clockwork Orange (Essential Penguin) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £0.45 'Choodessny!' You'd be a 'nazz' not to read it.
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 | Nausea (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy new: £3.75 / Used from: £3.50 A chance to reflect....
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 | Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A beautiful story. Elegantly prosed and incredibly moving.
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