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10 Brave Books
The Catcher in the RyeThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £2.03
Hamlet for the terminally adolescent, and a creative masterpiece.
Raiders of the Low Forehead (Attack!)Raiders of the Low Forehead (Attack!) by Stanley Manly
Buy used from: £3.90
Probably the sickest novel ever written, also inspired and side-splittingly funny.
Sombrero Fallout ("Rebel Inc")Sombrero Fallout ("Rebel Inc") by Richard Brautigan
Buy used from: £17.25
Poingnant, personal and 'out there' creatively.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 25th Anniversary EditionZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 25th Anniversary Edition by Robert M. Pirsig
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.97
Ground breaking book, largely autobiographical and hugely influental.
LuckyLucky by Alice Sebold
Buy new: £3.06 / Used from: £0.01
Best selling author recounts her own rape, harrowing and honest.
The Bear Went over the MountainThe Bear Went over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle
Buy used from: £1.76
Wildly inventive novelist turns on the publishing industry with savage/suicidal satire
The Scheme for Full EmploymentThe Scheme for Full Employment by Magnus Mills
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Hideous and hilarious attack on the worst of working class attitudes.
PuckoonPuckoon by Spike Milligan
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A vision of Ireland gone mad from a mad comic who dared tell some home truths.
Trials of the Monkey: A Darwin Goes in Search of America and Happens Upon Himself (Duck Editions)Trials of the Monkey: A Darwin Goes in Search of America and Happens Upon Himself (Duck Editions) by Matthew Chapman
Buy new: £22.74 / Used from: £1.55
Descendent of Charles Darwin opens his heart, and the family skeleton closet.
BedtimeBedtime by Clare Pollard
Buy new: £5.56 / Used from: £4.00
Not our greatest poet, but one unafraid to talk about smear tests!