![]() | Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
Buy used from: £0.01 Coupland's grasp of his subject matter (in this case computers, Microsoft, etc) is so solid it's astounding. This book is a pillar of emotional intellect.
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![]() | Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.22 Probably the most simple of Coupland's chosen subject matters (middle-class teendom), but probably his most charming and innocent too.
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![]() | Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.01 A book for fans of Salinger and The Smiths. Beyond perfection.
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![]() | Bright Young Things by Scarlett Thomas
Buy used from: £10.97 Vastly enjoyable, firghteningly realistic, and intensely keyed-into modern popular culture. The ending is astounding.
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![]() | Going Out by Scarlett Thomas
Buy used from: £4.34 As cutting edge as Bright Young Things, but even sharper and bolder. Unfair to compare directly to Coupland, but that zeitgeist feel is very aparent here.
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![]() | After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £2.48 / Used from: £2.00 Cryptic, but not pretentious. Short stories, but long enough to tap into your emotions and make you feel intensely sad or elated, or whatever.
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![]() | The Room by Hubert Selby Jr
Buy new: £3.35 / Used from: £3.34 Words that could never be used to describe this book include pleasant, just, positive, or light. It may be dark, but it's realism is astounding.
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![]() | One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night by Christopher Brookmyre
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A book with such a fantsatic feeling of nostalgia that you want to call up all your old school friends right after finishing it. Engrossingly entertaining.
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![]() | The Fuck-up by Arthur Nersesian
Buy new: £2.96 / Used from: £0.48 Great little story. Just a tale of a normal loser, but with totally unpredictable situations.
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![]() | The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
Buy used from: £0.01 Auster is a continually excellent writer, but this one is especially well-written and entertaining. Brilliant little story.
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![]() | Mr. Phillips by John Lanchester
Buy new: £2.28 / Used from: £0.01 A small work of genius. This is the story of Holden Caulfield if he had grown-up to be middle-aged in London.
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