![]() | The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Buy new: £4.54 / Used from: £2.35 amazon suggests a good comment would be "a good introduction to astronomy". This isn't but if you spend your life staring at the stars then you'll probably enjoy this.
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![]() | Lycanthropy by Patrick Wolf
Buy new: £9.21 / Used from: £7.50 everything he's done is good but this is transcendant. Equally for your quietest moments of introspection and your most self destructive. Magic position's coming soon.
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![]() | The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education by Grace Llewellyn
Buy used from: £6.93 sadly not avalible here but seek it out. The first step in realising how unimportant and shackling the education system is while also offering a viable alternative. Potentially life changing.
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![]() | Nalda Said
Buy used from: £4.17 Also unavalible. For anyone has or wants to undertand cripling shyness. Also about the constraints put on us by our past and the choice to move on and change our lives for the better
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![]() | The "Idler": Green Man -How to Save the World without Really Trying Issue 38: Green Man -How to Save the World Without Really Trying Issue 38
Buy new: £5.65 / Used from: £5.13 the idler along with nude magazine are zines made good. They cover what they choose to and as a consequence are random and interesting enough to mix burlesque with flyfishing or crass and cloudwatchin
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![]() | Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century by Alex Steffen
Buy new: £17.47 / Used from: £10.13 It may be inconveniently true that climate changing is on course to destroy us but there may be a solution, 608 pages of them in fact.
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![]() | Strangeland by Tracey Emin
Buy new: £3.06 / Used from: £3.50 I can't explain or justify this but it's just compelling even if you know little of her work. Quite short but well written
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![]() | Go Now - CD - Richard Hell by Richard Hell
To paraphrase (or ideed lazily misquote)-a writer is the best job in the world, you can spend a day masturbating and as long as you describe it in an interesting way thats one day spent productively.
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![]() | A Man Without a Country: A Memoir of Life in George W. Bush's America by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £2.81 / Used from: £2.50 The only book of his i've ever read but very good, though short. Along the same lines as hunterSthompson's Kingdom of Fear but with less guns.
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![]() | Tideland by Mitch Cullin
Buy new: £1.05 / Used from: £0.47 like alice in wonderland but with human taxidermy. Theres a film out soon which is supposed to be good
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![]() | Snow Cake [2006]
Buy new: £2.08 / Used from: £2.00 Alan Richman,a talkative version of the "strange" one from Breakfast Club,autism,Canada. Don't read reviews or watch traile, they give across a major plot twist. Go into it (snow)blind and be amazed
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![]() | Girl, Interrupted
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £1.44 Angelina Jolie can act? who knew. Like the second half of Sylvia Plaths Bell jar. The books also good though has less narative and more memoir
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![]() | Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Buy used from: £2.59 You will belive a gorilla can talk, well ok you probably won't but you should still listen to what its saying. The sequels are also good, esp story of B which covers different ground.
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![]() | Blankets by Craig Thompson
Buy new: £11.38 / Used from: £11.37 you hear a lot of people talking about graphic novels as literature but the trenchcoats worn in summer tend to stop anyone listening. No super powers here, just the power of young love and great art
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![]() | Remember That I Love You by Kimya Dawson
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £5.49 <_> ---> ^_^ always cheers me up. 12/26 is so sad though it was written before New Orleans
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![]() | Last Book You'll Ever Read and Other Learning by Frank Ogden
Buy used from: £0.33 This isn't the right book but hteres a short story collection by Ewan Morrison that has the same name contains the best short stories i've ever read. Seek it put and you won't regret it
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![]() | Oulipo Compendium
Buy new: £13.99 / Used from: £11.82 experimental writing, you probably already know if the idea appeals to you. Also read the newest mcsweeneys for more oulipo
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![]() | 32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-comics by Adrian Tomine
Buy used from: £8.20 More teen art comic, this time shorter strip and more neurotic but equally as good as blankets
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![]() | Dead Like Me - Series 1
Buy new: £29.98 / Used from: £12.98 Best series recently. Girl gets hit by toilet, becomes grim reaper, family falls apart, office job, independant living. Moral=participate.Ignore its first review, they speak not of what they know
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![]() | Horses by Patti Smith
Buy new: £4.64 / Used from: £3.40 "she knows the record was made long before she was born, but it speaks louder to her than Korn" Tender Trap
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![]() | Vice: The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll by Suroosh Alvi
Buy new: £6.91 / Used from: £6.91 challenging journalism of hipster tat? Either way you have to respect their attitude. You may disagree to what they're saying but it's important that someone is saying it.
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![]() | Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
Buy used from: £45.06 The sonic youth of books=Kathy Acker
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![]() | Goo [Deluxe Edition] by Sonic Youth
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £13.35 The sonic youth of music=Sonic Youth (supriisingly) - their pop album but still quite abstract especially in the extras
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![]() | Tigermilk [VINYL] by Belle & Sebastian
Buy new: £8.48 Got Tigermilk? get it again on vinyl , more than ten years on it's still as good if not better than most other bands also try delgados while you're at it
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![]() | Cunt: A Declaration of Independence (Live Girls Series) by Inga Muscio
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £8.26 Buy it for the title, read it for it's insightfulness, chastise me for my spelling, make a cup of coffee, piss off
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