 | Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £2.75 Beautifully written, and encourages the reader to think while reading. All done without overwhelming the reader.
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy used from: £1.75 In many ways better than it's predecessor; Animal Farm, yet isn't quite as good. Still a great read.
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 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: a Novel (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ken Kesey
Buy new: £5.02 / Used from: £2.10 The mad and often confusing world of the narrator is briliiantly presented to us by Kesey.
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 | On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £2.00 Fast paced and subtly detailed. After two weeks my copy was completely battered as I took it everywhere. I was unable to put it down.
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 | A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £2.10 A focused novel without the writing out doing the story; and vice versa
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 | The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £3.13 Very clever, and a strongly created alternative universe.
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 | The Hobbit (Essential Modern Classics) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.01 Loved it as a child. And it's still as great today.
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 | Crash (Vintage Blue) by J.G. Ballard
Buy used from: £1.00 Read! even if it is just for the gorgeous opening chapter.
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.40 / Used from: £1.64 No words can describe why I like this book, I just do.
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 | Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £4.94 Haven't actually finished reading this, as it's quite heavy. However, of what I have read, the influence it has had over modern literature is obvious.
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 | The Waves (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £4.72 / Used from: £0.01 ....I haven't started it just yet, but am about to. And i am quite looking forward to it.
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