 | Of Mice and Men (Penguin Red Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £3.94 / Used from: £5.19 Not as good as its reputation, but a classic nontheless.
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 | Unpeople: Britain's Secret Human Rights Abuses by Mark Curtis
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.22 Meticulously researched critique of British foreign policy, but Curtis' smug tone lets this otherwise excellent book down.
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 | A Lover's Discourse (Vintage Classics) by Roland Barthes
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £4.16 At times poetic, at times indulgent: so-so overall.
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 | Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £2.90 An intricately crafted modern novel with many twists.
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 | Imperial Ambitions: Conversations with Noam Chomsky on the Post 9/11 World by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: £1.69 / Used from: £1.59 Chomsky at his best. All his books are a must!
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 | Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind by V.S. Ramachandran
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £4.70 An interesting companion to Oliver Sacks' "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat".
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 | Big Sur (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £2.92 / Used from: £2.20 Not one of his best, but a quick and enjoyable read.
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 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Popular Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 Very earthy descriptive prose from Joyce. Much more readable than the impossible "Ulysses".
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 | Wall and Piece by Banksy
Buy new: £13.00 / Used from: £9.25 Politically astute graffiti art with a wry twist.
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 | Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jorge Luis Borges
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.66 Stories, essays and parables from Argentina's best writer. Some mindblowing paradoxes and sly twists.
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 | Bloody Foreigners by Robert Winder
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.00 A history of Britain shown from the eyes of immigrants. Shows how some of the aspects of British culture most lauded as British were in fact contributions by succesive waves of immigrants.
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 | Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £1.69 A personal account of a young boy dealing with a dominating father.
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 | Four Quartets (Faber Poetry) by T.S. Eliot
Buy new: £3.75 / Used from: £0.22 Modernist poetry. Puts many diverse points in time on one axis.
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 | The Wretched of the Earth (Penguin Modern Classics) by Frantz Fanon
Buy new: £6.59 / Used from: £4.25 A handbook for Algerian freedom-fighters during their fight for independance from French colonial rule.
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 | How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £2.30 Subtle displays of utter genius. A brilliant book written by a thoroughly decent chap.
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 | Faust: Pt.1 (Oxford World's Classics) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Buy new: £1.93 / Used from: £1.49 This is high art. Dark, deep and superbly written.
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 | Endgame by Samuel Beckett
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £4.95 Apocalyptic hopelessness from the master of the bleak.
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 | Utopia (Penguin Classics) by Sir Thomas More
Buy new: £1.45 / Used from: £1.27 50% catholic tract, 50% communist treatise. The book which introduced the term "Utopia".
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 | Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient (Penguin Modern Classics) by Edward W. Said
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £5.69 Little more than academic timewasting. Why it has such a prestigious status amongst intellectuals, I'll never know.
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 | The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (Penguin Social Sciences) by Peter L. Berger
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £4.50 While the authors must have worn out their thesauruses with this book, one can't help but think that under all the academic posturing, there is very little substance.
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 | Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.75 Murukami writes some of the sharpest dialogue since "Pulp Fiction".
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 | Selected Poems by Langston Hughes
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.37 Charming poetry that many can relate to.
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 | The Gift (Routledge Classics): Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies (Routledge Classics) by Marcel Mauss
Buy new: £9.49 / Used from: £6.39 Not really what I was looking for, but I suppose someone more interested in anthropology might find something here.
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 | By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.98 To paraphrase Truman Capote: "This isn't writing, it's typing!"
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 | The Heart of a Dog (Vintage Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £2.94 A classic parable about the failings of the Soviet experiment.
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