 | The Autumn of the Patriarch (International Writers) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.98 The final days of a Caribbean tyrant. Long, dense, experimental, stunning.
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 | Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £1.87 Carter's indisputed masterpiece tells the picaresque tale of Fevvers, a winged trapese artist, and her journeys from London through to Siberia and back again.
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 | Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.57 Probably the greatest novel of the 20th century. Bemusing, funny, brilliant.
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 | Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £11.26 Celine's semi-autobiographical novel based around his experiences in the first world war.
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 | Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
Buy new: £3.36 / Used from: £2.99 Genet's first novel, written while still in prison, is an erotic, and dreamlike reimagining of his past.
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 | The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
Buy used from: £4.85 Ballards' most experimental work, fully of gross, fractured images
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 | Red Shift (Collins Voyager) by Alan Garner
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £2.00 Clipped and sparse in form, this is a cruel and beautiful novel
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 | The Ticket That Exploded by William Burroughs
Buy new: £5.44 / Used from: £49.39 Burroughs takes the novel into a completely new area. Liberating
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 | As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Buy new: £2.95 / Used from: £1.50 Faulkner seems to be undergoing something of a renaissance - and about time too. This mixes experimental prose along with astonishing narrative power.
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 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £6.39 / Used from: £3.00 Rushdie's never come close to bettering this magic realist reimagining of India's rebirth
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