 | The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 I liked this book a lot, and found it nothing like as gruesome as people say, that is apart from the bit with the baby in the hospital. You'll know what I mean!
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 | The Beach by Alex Garland
Buy used from: £0.01 The first three quarters or so of this book are superb, you really feel like you're wandering around Thailand yourself. After that I thought it lost its way a bit and then finished too suddenly
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 | Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson
Buy new: £4.83 / Used from: £1.39 Not great, to summarise: lots of pilots get shot down during WW1
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 | Casino Royale (Penguin Viking Lit Fiction) by Ian Fleming
Buy new: £4.68 / Used from: £0.01 Inspired to read this by the film, expecting it to be really cheesy like the old-school Bond films, but was pleasantly suprised: buy it now!
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 | Papillon (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Henri Charriere
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £1.98 A bit underdeveloped I thought, because he escapes from prison so many times there isn't enough space for the author to go into real detail of how he plotted each break, which was disappointing.
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 | The Green Mile (Read a Great Movie) by Stephen King
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.60 The book I have most enjoyed in a long while. I just wish King would write more "normal" stuff like this.
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 | Regeneration by Pat Barker
Buy used from: £0.01 Never really got into this, despite it being well written and full of likeable characters
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 | Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Nothing much happens, but a very touching book nonetheless
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 | For Whom the Bell Tolls (Vintage Classics) by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.69 Man sits in a cave for about 400 pages then blows up a bridge
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 | Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West (Picador Books) by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £7.99 Cowboys and Indians... with a vengeance
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 | The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £0.01 Amusing as always, Bryson recounts his childhood adventures
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 | The Crow Road by Iain Banks
Buy new: £5.31 / Used from: £0.01 Another book where not much happens, becomes a murder mystery for a while but it's always pretty clear who the culprit is. Would still recommend it if you don't want thrills and spills
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 | Blankets by Craig Thompson
Buy new: £14.48 / Used from: £13.35 Yet another book where not much happens, but this has nice pictures to make up for it. Very enjoyable, but not good value for money, it only takes a few hours to read!
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 | Imperium by Robert Harris
Buy used from: £2.50 Political "thriller" set in ancient Rome. Not terribly thrilling, but I liked the portrayal of Cicero's rise from obscurity
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