 | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
a quite brilliant book about the struggles and realities in Captalism
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 | Nausea (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £3.58 A book that literally changed my outlook on life in my late Teens
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 | The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.70 Camus's popular gem.A book with power and a strangeness that just grabs you from the 1st line
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 | The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy
Buy new: £6.85 / Used from: £2.98 Follow up to American Tabloid,the classic American conspiracy novel leaves America with its underbelly on show for all the world to see
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 | Aberystwyth Mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce
Buy used from: £0.01 A Welsh book with American Noir detective feelings done better in some comical parts
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 | Zuckerman Unbound by Phillip Roth
Buy new: £8.46 / Used from: £3.49 A classic.Simple as that.
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 | Catch-22 (Vintage Classics) by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £1.48 What can you say,that hasn't been said by clevery people than me
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 | Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.29 I was going to say don't let a film ruin this book but someone beat me to it, it's just too important to be man-handled
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 | Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £0.01 A book I just couldn't put down,I read it through in one sitting and I'm not a fast reader,worth the sleepless night
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 | Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Buy new: £4.77 / Used from: £0.01 Another new writer I enjoyed immensely and it won the Booker prize,that shocked me
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 | Killing Suki Flood by Robert Leininger
Buy used from: £0.01 Now here's a book that would make an excellent movie,why hasn't it been brought to the big screen
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.01 A clever and beautiful book written with warmth and a delight to read
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 | Any Human Heart by William Boyd
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.10 A book written like a diary about the long life through the 20th century of Logan Mountstuart,a man who's in Paris writing and New York as an Art dealer. Great
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 | Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 A look at the future of gated communities a briliantly handled not so far in the future look at the haves,belittling the have nots.
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 | The Western Lands (Picador Books) by William S. Burroughs
Buy used from: £1.00 Burroughs rips open the scabs so you can see the truth underneath, this is part of a trilogy of books,I'd love to see Pete Jackson make this trilogy or any half decent film maker just not Cronenburg
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 | The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Buy used from: £0.01 I think the Times said it all,"At once epic and humane, its panoramic vision is infused with wit and warmth." what else can I add?
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 | The Thief's Journal (Twentieth Century Classics) by Jean Genet
Buy used from: £9.95 A strange and wonderful book about a mans fall into the depths of an amoral part of criminal society,every part of which was illegal even Love?
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 | The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 A book I wore out reading and re-reading,I even had a little venture with the Dice but I kept bottling out when I didn't like the option it gave me,like almost certainly being arrested or beat up.
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 | The Killer Inside Me (Crime Masterworks) by Jim Thompson
Buy used from: £19.17 A sheriff with a deep-rooted violent psychosis,a superb account of the mind of a mad-man
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 | Cash: The Autobiography by Johnny Cash
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 A man who was there at the start of the white music explosion,through ups and lots of downs his death just months after a classic video of Hurt.The Man in Black.Who else
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 | The Collection: "Wrong Case", "Last Good Kiss" and "Dancing Bear" by James Crumley
Buy used from: £14.95 three classic crime novels,the main character a hard drinking olde American, told with knowledge of drink and crime/grime?
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 | The Four Great Novels: The Dain Curse; The Glass Key; The Maltese Falcon; Red Harvest (Picador Books) by Dashiell Hammett
Buy used from: £2.87 The master the one all the others try to emulate.Hammett is the Crime king
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 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £0.31 Everyone told me this book was a handful but I found it a wonderful read and beautifully expressive,it made me look at my life.But I was only 19 I read it again at 35 and I nearly cried
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 | Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 A book that I laughed out loud reading,my Dad asked what I was reading and started reading it within minutes he waslaughing loudly. A comedy classic
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 | Stark by Ben Elton
Buy used from: £0.01 Elton's first an still my personal fave,I know I've probably forgot books better than these but I couldn't put this down when it first came out.
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