 | The Trial (Vintage Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.50 Kafka; not the anguished outcast he's viewed to be, much better than he gave himself credit for. Hauntingly masterful.
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 | Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Buy used from: £24.10 Supposed to be sexist, Celines autiobiograhical novel is frigtening and witty.
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 | Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
Buy used from: £0.48 A magical coming of age story, deeply evocative and visual
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 | The Castle (Vintage Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.90 Classic Kafka- the persucuted outcast within a totalitarian and pointless society. Superb!
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 | On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £5.03 / Used from: £2.48 The Beat bible. A must read for all aspiring beats, bums and travellersinspiring kids everywhere. Echoeing Hemingway with lots of food and drink (minus the bullfighting)
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.98 A realsitic, funny and painful description of a youths breakdown
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 | Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy new: £9.54 / Used from: £4.50 Beter than the Brothers Karamazov, worlds best murder story
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 | Rembrance of Things Past Volume 3; The Captive; The Fugutive; Time Regained by Marcel Proust
Time regained is the best but all of his remembrances should be read
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 | Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (New Directions Classics) by W Saroyan
Buy used from: £7.15 Best known for his plays; Saroyan is also a masterful short storyteller, a mode not to be overlooked, this book is his best.. Writing in the Depression.
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 | The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
Buy used from: £3.86 Widely considered Mailer's best book and the best true account of a murderer.
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.71 An outrageously halarious autobiographical novel about Thompsons and his lawyer's exploits in said town, with a car full of drugs.
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 | The Complete Marquis de Sade, Vol. 1 by Marquis de Sade
Buy new: £9.27 / Used from: £7.83 Devilishly saucy a must for all erotica fans. Depicting Sade's fantasy's many of which were written while being imprisioned in a mental asylum.
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 | Howl (Pocket Poets) by Allen Ginsberg
Buy new: £4.13 / Used from: £1.00 The Beat bible for Poets. A widely acclaimed masterpiece.
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 | Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £7.50 One of the best erotic novels, surreal and maddening writtem whilst Genet was in prison.
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 | Go (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Clellon Holmes
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £4.27 The cynics Beat bible alternative to On the Road. A slightly less excessive and more realsitic view of similiar times.
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 | Père Goriot (Oxford World's Classics) by Honoré de Balzac
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £1.50 Balzac's gritty and realsitic portrayal of the poor in Paris. Umm smell the dirt.
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 | In Cold Blood: A True Account of A Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Essential Penguin) by Truman Capote
Buy new: £8.04 / Used from: £2.89 Capotes true account of two murders. Watch the movie, it shows behind the scenes making of the book and that Capote wasn't just an onlooker. Gripping.
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.40 / Used from: £0.86 A tale of excess of the lost Generation. Classic Jazz fiction
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 | Faust: Pts. 1 & 2 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Buy used from: £10.00 Goethes masterpiece, the classic tale of love and the devil
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 | Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises (Arrow Classic) by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.72 / Used from: £0.16 Drink, food and Bullfighting, what more could you want?
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 | Madness in the Family by W Saroyan
Buy new: £7.75 / Used from: £2.51 A collection of Saroyans late stories equally brilliant as his earlier ones. He didn't publish any stories for over 40yrs half his writing life.
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 | Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.97 Just one day but masterfully portrayed, absolutely seemless. Molly's monologue at the end is classic stream-of-conciousness.
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 | Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by William S. Burroughs
Buy new: £6.88 / Used from: £3.99 Absolutely vulgar, crude and unrelenting- brilliant!
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 | The Dharma Bums (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.22 Completely beat. The best Buddhist story. Simply serene
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 | Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973 by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: £5.86 / Used from: £4.55 A descendent of the Beat Generation; Bukowski is hilarious.
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