 | Young Adam (International Writers) by Alexander Trocchi
Buy used from: £5.76 Short, thoughtful, brilliant - highly recommended
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £1.49 Complicated, long, hardwork? Yes - Brilliant read? Big Yes
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 | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Buy used from: £5.80 Excellent work and a moving read
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 | Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy used from: £0.03 Pretty much as good as it gets, don't pre-judge this book
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 | A Clockwork Orange (Essential Penguin) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £3.57 / Used from: £0.99 Creative, interesting and a great story to match
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 | Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess by Danny Sugerman
Buy used from: £7.45 Interesting window into life with 'The Doors' and heroin
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 | The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Great writing, good story and great characters
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 | Dispatches (Picador Thirty) by Michael Herr
Buy used from: £0.01 Writing about war as it is: f**ked up
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 | Louis de Bernieres Box Set of 3 books: The War of Don Emmanuels Nether Parts / Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord / The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman by Louis De Bernieres
Buy used from: £12.50 Two great books and one okay one (1st one best - last worst)
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 | Post Office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £1.99 Ham on Rye better - but start here
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 | Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics) by Chinua Achebe
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £2.99 West Africa a 100 years ago - fable like
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 | The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Buy new: £3.67 / Used from: £2.20 Another South American masterpiece
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 | A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Buy used from: £0.95 Best Indian read I have come across
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 | A Confederate General from Big Sur / Dreaming of Babylon / the Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions (Three Books in the Manner of Their Original ed) by Richard Brautigan
Buy used from: £0.33 The Hawkline Monster - my favourite Brautigan (and book)
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 | Sombrero Fallout ("Rebel Inc." Classics) by Richard Brautigan
Buy used from: £40.94 Start here for Brautigan joy
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 | Ask The Dust by John Fante
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.40 V. good, but a little over-rated
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 | The Beach by Alex Garland
Buy used from: £0.01 Forget the film - discover a great book
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 | Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £3.00 Vonnegut's best?
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 | Scepticism Inc. by Bo Fowler
Buy used from: £1.72 Vonnegut updated, brillantly original
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 | Stone Junction by Jim Dodge
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.47 Doesn't end as well as it starts, but this is a top draw book
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 | Not Fade Away by Jim Dodge
Buy new: £3.62 / Used from: £1.97 Fear and loathing.. step aside, anything by Dodge is excellent
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