 | The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Really couldn't put it down. Felt smug when I solved the clues before the characters!
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 | The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £4.86 Very interesting exploration of maternal ancestry - check out www.oxfordancestors.com
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 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Popular Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 Truly vile. I loved it.
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 | The Secret Garden (Penguin Popular Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Buy new: £1.79 / Used from: £0.01 The first book I ever read by myself. Absolutely magical.
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 | Redwall (Red Fox Older Fiction) by Brian Jacques
Buy used from: £0.01 Laughed and cried out loud the 1st time I read this. I thought it was just because I was young, but did exactly the same thing when I re-read it recently!
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 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Penguin Popular Classics) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 Not nearly as dated as I'd imagined. Brilliant stories.
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 | Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock
Buy used from: £10.75 Far-fetched but very well argued. Really makes you think.
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 | Travels with My Aunt (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £2.23 Fabulous story. Changed my views on love.
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 | Dune by Frank Herbert
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Really the best sci-fi book ever. It has everything. Do not judge this by the film.
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 | The Monster Bed by Jeanne Willis
Buy used from: £0.32 Great childrens' book. I was never afraid of monsters after this.
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 | Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: How to Get What You Want in Your Relationships by John Gray
Buy new: £6.24 / Used from: £2.25 Does not patronise or put men down. Everyone I've spoken to who's read this agrees that it really is true!
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 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) Paperback by J.K. Rowling
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 I wish I was a witch.
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 | Servant of the Empire by Raymond E. Feist
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Witty, touching and full of intrigue. Breaks away from quest-type fantasy books.
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 | The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children) by Jean M Auel
Buy new: £3.21 / Used from: £0.08 What can I say? Everyone I've recommended this to has loved it, bought the series then recommended it to their friends. She spent years researching it and it's really paid off.
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 | The Days Are Just Packed (Calvin and Hobbes) by Bill Watterson
Buy used from: £0.33 Really, really good. Buy them all.
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 | How to Hold a Crocodile by Diagram Group
Buy new: £8.54 / Used from: £0.27 An amazing fountain of trivia that is excellent toilet reading (I'm told)
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 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.01 Very eccentric, very English, very good.
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 | The Liar by Stephen Fry
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £0.39 A bit pretentious, but I'm hoping that was on purpose to go with the plot. It's one of those books you've got to read twice to understand, but it's worth it.
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Buy used from: £0.74 Disgusting, dark, cynical and ironic.
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