 | In Search of Lost Time: 6 Volumes by Marcel Proust
my book of life
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 | Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
Buy used from: £0.01 the things i need to remember about love
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 | The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 to remind me that i don't want to do this job forever...
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 | A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 the things i don't want to believe about love
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 | The Fortress (Writings from an Unbound Europe) by Mesa Selimovic
Buy new: £17.05 / Used from: £15.98 a beautiful book of love and corruption from the old Yugoslavia, if you'll excuse the term, which somehow slipped through the censor's net
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 | The Bride Stripped Bare by Anonymous
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 subversive! men will never look at women in the same light again...
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 | The Periodic Table (Essential Penguin) by Primo Levi
Buy new: £5.72 / Used from: £2.16 because it's all just carbon... really.
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 | Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.01 hope for my dotage
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 | Death and the Dervish (Writings from an Unbound Europe) by Mesa Selimovic
Buy new: £15.20 / Used from: £5.76 demanding, but beautiful. Reminscant of crime and punnishment, but to my mind, better.
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 | Love, Etc by Julian Barnes
Love etc,. Definatley.
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 | Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Buy new: £6.26 / Used from: £2.24 chortle...
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Twentieth Anniversary Edition by Milan Kundera
Buy used from: £11.84 worthy of inclusion if only for a passage on religion
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 | Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow
Buy used from: £4.64 angst!
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 | English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
Buy new: £4.50 / Used from: £0.01 the vicar is one of the most amusing characters in lit!
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 | Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue (Vintage Classics) by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.08 to remind me that just because i don't earn a decent wage, i shouldn't kill the landlord...
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 | Les Mots / Words (Methuen's Twentieth Century French Texts) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy used from: £19.98 I've included this because i couldn't find Nausea and this is my second fave from j-p s
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| All Said and Done: The Autobiography of Simone de Beauvoir by Simone de Beauvoir
Buy used from: £9.05 watch out for the mirrors!
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| Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic
Buy used from: £6.60 one to wrestle with - but worth the struggle!
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 | Metroland (Picador Books) by Julian Barnes
Buy used from: £0.01 epat!
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £1.43 because i remember thinking just like that
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 | The Bridge Over the Drina by Ivo Andric
Buy new: £8.36 / Used from: £3.99 Introducing Lotika...
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 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 the best opemng paragraph i can think of. And the rest is rather good too.
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 | An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 run off to join an orchestra?
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 | Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andric
Buy used from: £11.73 Again, Andric manages to weave a few hundred years of history into a great Bosnian read
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 | Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Buy used from: £3.45 this man's attempts at self-justification are just breath-takingly maddening. But an interesting read, nonetheless
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