 | A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.77 V.S. Naupaul's masterpiece. Prophetic.
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 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £6.39 / Used from: £2.94 My all-time favourite book. It is also very funny.
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 | Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.99 Terrifying protrayal of modern day South Africa.
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 | The Human Factor (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £2.68 Greene is the master of moral ambiguity.
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 | A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy used from: £4.99 Beautifully written. I found myself laughing out aloud time and again.
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 | Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Buy used from: £30.97 Exquisitely written. Wickedly funny.
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 | Of Human Bondage (Vintage Classics) by William Somerset Maugham
Buy new: £6.59 / Used from: £2.40 This semi-autobiographical novel is Maughm's best. Don't be intimidated by its size.
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 | Time's Arrow or the Nature of the Offence by Martin Amis
Buy new: £2.33 / Used from: £2.33 Stylistic. Also, very harrowing.
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 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ken Kesey
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £4.45 Unputdownable
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 | The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy used from: £0.10 One of the best campus novels. Unnerving
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 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) by Muriel Spark
Buy new: £8.57 / Used from: £5.08 However many times I read this book, it never loses its sparkle.
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 | Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
Buy new: £0.01 / Used from: £0.01 Underneath its patina of deadpan writing style, this is a very moving story.
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 | The Secret History (Read Red) by Donna Tartt
Buy used from: £1.40 A pageturner.
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 | The Beginning of Spring (Flamingo) by Penelope Fitzgerald
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 A delightful read. The best of Penelope Fitzgerald's novels.
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 | My Secret History by Paul Theroux
Buy used from: £0.01 An excellent read. Theroux is incapable of writing a boring sentence.
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 | Flaubert's Parrot (Picador Books) by Julian Barnes
Buy new: £2.83 / Used from: £0.01 A quirky novel by Julian Barnes.
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 | Seize the Day (Penguin Red Classics) by Saul Bellow
Buy used from: £0.99 Its brevity is only matched by its brilliance
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 | Tin Men by Michael Frayn
Buy new: £2.20 / Used from: £2.00 An early book by the great Michael Frayn. Extremely funny.
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £3.59 / Used from: £4.47 One of my all time favourites.
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 | Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £1.75 Belongs to the days when Philip Roth still had a sense of humor.
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 | Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £3.23 A belter of a book.
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 | The Go-Between (Penguin Modern Classics) by L.P. Hartley
Buy new: £3.60 / Used from: £2.93 Starts with the immortal line: "Past is a foreign country....". A truly great book.
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 | Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.40 An autobiographical novel. Very droll.
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 | Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.98 An extraordinary book. Very moving.
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 | Fear of Flying (Vintage Blue) by Erica Jong
Buy used from: £5.99 Cult classic. Outrageously funny at times.
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