 | Wild Highway by Bill Drummond
Buy new: £6.77 / Used from: £6.46 "Bad Wisdom" was so good, but I still haven't found the time to read its long awaited sequel
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 | Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Buy new: £1.50 / Used from: £0.01 The reviews made me run for it, but at 800 pages, who am I kidding?
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 | Up in the Old Hotel: Reportage from "the New Yorker" by J Mitchell
Buy new: £6.38 / Used from: £0.33 It was on my first order from amazon ever, and is still waiting for its time
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 | Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle (Baroque Cycle 1) by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.39 Along with its two sequels, the Baroque Cycle is my reading Tanelorn
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 | The Dancers at the End of Time (S.F. Masterworks) by Michael Moorcock
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.00 And speaking of Tanelorn, just one of the Eternal Champion's volumes still waiting
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 | Mother London by Michael Moorcock
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.97 And then, there's this other side of Moorcock.
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 | V by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.00 At least I haven't bought "Against the Day" yet (but I'll probably do much before reading V.)
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 | Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by G Marcus
Buy used from: £8.78 A decade ago I couldn't resist the book's cover, it introduced me to Marcus, but I never crossed the first few pages, yet.
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 | House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Buy new: £14.00 / Used from: £10.50 Another case of raving reviews and an impulsive order.
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 | Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
Buy new: £2.87 / Used from: £2.14 Surprisingly, I did read all of my other DeLillo books.
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 | From Hell by Alan Moore
Buy new: £14.68 / Used from: £14.67 Supposodely Moore's masterpiece (and then there's V for Vendetta as well).
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 | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £4.10 / Used from: £0.28 Yes, I know.
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 | The Mezzanine (Granta Paperbacks) by Nicholson Baker
Buy used from: £0.04 There's really no excuse with 135 pages, but I'm afraid its moment has passed.
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 | The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
Buy used from: £10.12 But I did read "A Clean, Well Lighted Place" more than once.
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 | The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £12.59 / Used from: £8.99 The extracts published in "The Guardian" were too good to resist.
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 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Buy used from: £0.01 And yet, I became an Eggers' fan.
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 | Tender Is the Night (Wordsworth Classics) by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £1.89 / Used from: £0.01 Well, I had a Hemigway, so a Fitzgerald is due.
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 | The Journal Of A Tour To The Hebrides With Samuel Johnson, Ll.D. by James Boswell
Buy new: £5.88 / Used from: £11.68 And the Complete Works of Johnson hiding just behind it.
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 | Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £4.04 The book without which no such list can be complete.
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