 | Aberystwyth Mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce
Buy new: £2.84 / Used from: £0.01 The main reason this book appeals is that I grew up in Aberystwyth - entertaining but actually the worst book on the list
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 | Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
Buy used from: £0.44 Hugely entertaining, ground breaking book - read for the doodles and the comments in the margin even if you don't enjoy the rest
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 | Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite Coupland book - beautifully written & moving
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 | Slaughterhouse 5: The Children's Crusade - A Dirty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £2.32 Idiosyncratic, thought provoking, moving - a small book but packed with ideas and humour; a book to be treasured and read many times
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 | The War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.40 A collection of wonderful poetry from my favourite WWI poet. He retains a biting edge and anger that makes his poetry both moving and readable.
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £2.99 Probably the best book of the 20th century - packed with ideas and humour - every time you read it you get something new from it
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £3.11 / Used from: £0.70 An easy choice - a great book for all that
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 | Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
Buy new: £2.75 / Used from: £0.01 Another easy choice - an even better book
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 | Complicity by Iain Banks
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite book by one of my favourite authors - positively crackles with energy and wit - massively enjoyable (as are most of his books)
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 | Unreliable Memoirs: Autobiography (Picador Books) by Clive James
Buy new: £2.84 / Used from: £0.01 The funniest pseudo-biography ever - I laughed until I cried
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 | Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Buy used from: £0.01 Visceral - an amazing book (although a strong stomach is recommended)
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 | The World According to Garp (Black Swan) by John Irving
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The first John Irving book I ever read and still the most entertaining - very, very funny
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 | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Probably the best John Irving book; certainly the most moving
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 | The Rabbit Omnibus by John Updike
Buy used from: £5.24 John Updike is a fantastic writer - almost all of this work is interesting and involving - the Rabbit books are perhaps the most accessible and enjoyable
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 | Dead Babies by Martin Amis
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.23 Loved the early books - stay away from the later work - particularly Time's Arrow
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 | American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy used from: £0.01 I didn't expect to like this book - but it is fascinating - deeply disturbing and often darkly funny.
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 | High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 A wonderful book (and a very good film) - captures a certain type of male (behaviour) perfectly
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 | La Confidential by James Ellroy
Buy used from: £66.38 My favourite Ellroy (although they are all good) - loved the fim too
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 | Post Office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: £3.67 / Used from: £3.49 |
 | Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut
Buy used from: £5.04 A fantastic collection of short stories
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 | Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.20 |
 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Picador Books) by Ken Kesey
Buy used from: £0.01 |
 | Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
Buy used from: £0.19 |
 | Brave New World (Flamingo Modern Classics) by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: £1.20 |
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