 | The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room" by Paul Auster
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.25 Auster is the most experimental and progressive writer alive today, this proves it.
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 | Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Saul Bellow
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £4.00 Bellow is so good it's not even funny. Philosophy, sociology, uncomparable construction all here.
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 | Underworld by Don DeLillo
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £0.01 DeLillo, is a master, complex, challenging and extremely rewarding, read everything he ever wrote.
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 | The Sound and the Fury (Vintage Classics) by William Faulkner
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.39 Incredible polyphonic narrative, ground breaking at time of publication (1928) high modernism at its most expansive
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 | The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.68 If you don't know, now you know. Short, flawless, deserves to be read again and again
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 | On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.99 Often seen as a studenty, pretencious novel, it's influence upon publication cannot be underestimated in terms of the literary impact and the social impact. Defined a generation. That simple.
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 | Mrs Dalloway (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £0.15 Progressive, innovative, captures the essence of the era. Highly textured and stylised, think you know modernism, not until you understand Woolf, this is her at the height of her powers
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 | The Sportswriter (Harvill Panther) by Richard Ford
Buy used from: £0.01 Modern day Hemingway, with a much improved characterisation. His work is so important, will be on university courses for centuries, a true master
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