 | The Trial (Vintage Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £3.01 / Used from: £3.23 Came free with The Guardian (no less), finally get to find out what the big fuss is about and what the hell Kafka-esque means.
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 | Great Apes by Will Self
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 I loved My Idea Of Fun so this should make for some light reading after The Trial, must remember to keep dictionary handy though.
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 | The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
Buy used from: £3.00 An apparent classic that I've seen reviewed very favourably on various sites.
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 | The Acid House by Irvine Welsh
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.01 Big fan of all Irvine Welsh I've read previously, esp Glue, Filth and Trainspotting; once I got through the language barrier.
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 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £1.99 Another classic. Although I haven't read any Oscar Wilde before I sort of know the story from movies etc...
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 | The Plague (Essential Penguin) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £3.68 / Used from: £1.08 I enjoyed The Outsider and I've heard that this is a classic symbolic take of the Nazis invasion of Europe.
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 | The End of the World News by Anthony Burgess
Buy used from: £0.10 I heard that he wrote A Clockwork Orange and instead of going for something that I already know inside out from the movie, I thought that I'd first try another one of his works.
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 | Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (MaxNotes) by Anita Davis
Buy new: £0.01 / Used from: £0.01 I'd never heard of this before until I came across it on the net; sounds fascinating.
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 | A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £2.46 / Used from: £2.60 Hemmingway was recommended to me (though I was aware of him by reputation) by my girlfriend after she read The Old Man and The Sea which she promptly lent to someone else. So I'll read this then.
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 | Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.62 Again one that I'd never heard of and seen in someone else's list (these are great aren't they?) and something spoke to me in the review.
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 | Junky (Essential Penguin) by William S. Burroughs
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £1.95 I've always been curious about drug addiction, but not that curious. Although after trying to watch The Naked Lunch I'm not sure what will come of this.
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 | On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Kerouac
Buy used from: £0.33 A book that could make me give up my job, indulge in free love and live each day to the fullest... Bring it on Jack!
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