 | Tropic of Capricorn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Henry Miller
Buy new: £2.96 / Used from: £1.98 The first of Henry Miller's adventures into the psyche of a man walking and dreaming.
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 | Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman
Buy new: £3.65 / Used from: £3.49 If there's ever a dull moment in my studies, a nice essay about Zack and Friends from 'Saved by the Bell' definitely helps.
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 | Sarah Kane: Complete Plays (Methuen Contemporary Dramatists) (Contemporary Dramatists) by Sarah Kane
Buy new: £8.03 / Used from: £7.99 Dig into the late Sarah Kane's work like you would unearth the remains of a lost friend or lover.
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 | Certain Fragments : Contemporary Performance and Forced Entertainment by Tim Etchells
Buy new: £18.69 / Used from: £19.90 Love Forced Entertainment! Tim Etchells' insights on performance and life itself are truly essential to an understanding of modern life/performance.
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 | Post Office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £1.99 A must for anyone who thought their 'style' was something unique. He already did it!
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 | Dangling in the Tournefortia by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: £6.59 / Used from: £3.98 My favourite of Buke's poetry. Love it or leave it, he doesn't care.
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 | Hunger by Hamsun Knut
Buy new: £1.34 / Used from: £3.35 Knut Hamsun is an incredible precursor to most anything located on the fringe in modern writing.
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 | Pan by Knut Hamsun
Buy new: £16.52 / Used from: £9.50 Pan is reflective of the thoughts of those who can't quite cope with all of modernity can offer. Let loose and enjoy the mountain, forget society and shoot your own foot.
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 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy used from: £7.85 Read on a dull, rainy weekend. But love the synopsed style of documenting events rather than psychoanalysing the protagonist.
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 | The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Buy used from: £2.80 Art Nouveau at its best. Venture into the dark side of Architecture's dark horse, Howard Roark.
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 | Kill Two Birds & Get Stoned by Kinky Friedman
Buy new: £3.54 / Used from: £3.07 The Jewboys have lost their 'Kink'! But he's simply bumming around in New York with a red hot model and plotting to blow up Starbucks. Anarchy in a cowboy hat...
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 | These Are My Rivers: New and Selected Poems 1955-1993 (New Directions Paperbook, 786): New and Selected Poems 1955-1993 (New Directions Paperbook, 786) by L Ferlinghetti
Buy new: £7.88 / Used from: £8.42 I love Larry as well! His scat, his jive, his joke, his notes... See America as it really was.
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 | The Theater and Its Double by Antonin Artaud
Buy new: £3.21 / Used from: £3.62 Read Artaud and see the future of modern man.
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 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Buy used from: £0.01 Gen-X/Lazy Era/MTV Age... all exemplified by brilliant prose and quirky practices.
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 | Ham on Rye ("Rebel Inc") by Charles Bukowski
Buy used from: £5.00 "The first thing I remember is being under something." Clarity is something to shoot for.
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