 | Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Buy used from: £0.01 I really love this book. If you like it try the others. It really makes you think though the first book is the most outstanding.
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 | Back Home (Puffin Books) by Michelle Magorian
Buy new: £2.95 / Used from: £0.01 This is a really good book about an insider trying to belong.
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 | Other Boleyn Girl, The by Philippa Gregory
Buy used from: £1.63 This is a fun read but I wouldn't take the historical facts seriously though.
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 | I Capture the Castle (Red Fox Older Fiction) by Dodie Smith
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 A truely fantastic book about 17 year old Cassandra, her diary and her first love. Wonderful
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 | Granny Was a Buffer Girl by Berlie Doherty
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.95 A short but sweet novel about 1 family and all their stories. This is an essential coming of age novel without being saccharine.
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 | Right Ho, Jeeves (Everyman Wodehouse) by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy new: £9.34 / Used from: £7.19 Everyone should read Jeeves becaus it is a classic and very funny
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 | Tamar by Mal Peet
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.59 A wonderful book about 2 spies in Holland, 1 of them called Tamar (thought it's not that much about spies but relationships) and the other Tamar, a teenage girl.
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 | Anne of Green Gables by L. Montgomery
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 A fun read about Anne Shirley and all her mishaps( there are many)
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 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Buy used from: £5.99 One of the best romances in history if you strip the book down to the plot.
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 | Macbeth (Penguin Popular Classics) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Good beginning for younger readers as the interpretations of ambition and greed are quite simple. However Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet are my favourites.
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 | Troy (Point) by Adele Geras
Buy used from: £0.01 A retelling of the seige of Troy.
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 | The Seeing Stone (Arthur) by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £0.01 I have to say that I do love myths and legends but this is one of the best, combining medeival life and the Authurian legends.
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 | Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Buy used from: £0.01 A wonderful love story with a lovely ending, Emma is among my favourite books along with P & P.
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 | The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £16.99 / Used from: £11.68 Read them for the bibblical representation, the Chronicles are favourites of children's literature for a reason.
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 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 This novel is often chosen for screen adaption because of the lack of over sentimentality. Read it and you see, however I found the segment with the Rivers was a low point.
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 | Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci Series) by Diana Wynne Jones
Buy used from: £0.01 Admittidly for the younger reader but still quite fun.
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 | Atonement by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 This is one of the most moving books I have ever read.
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 | England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton by Kate Williams
Buy used from: £8.99 This is the first "real" historical biography that I read, I did not know much about the period to begin with. I found the structure easy to deal with and the portrait of Emma Hamilton was sympatetic
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 | The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.14 Uncle Matthew is one of the most eccentric characters in English Literature. This book is both deeply affecting and amusing, Linda is one of my favourite heroins.
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 | Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Very touching but uniquely funny,
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