 | Catch-22 (Vintage Classics) by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.90 A wonderful american satire. The seminal work in my literary education.
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 | The Brothers Karamazov (Bantam Classics) by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Buy new: £2.36 / Used from: £0.33 A brutal classic. An examination of the human psyche from the top drawer.
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 | Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £3.35 My favourite Vonnegut. The book begins with the dedication. Total and complete simulacrum.
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 | Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
Buy new: £6.42 / Used from: £0.01 A magical debut.
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 | Couples by John Updike
Buy used from: £1.88 Classic nostalgie de la boue. Fluctuates between the putrid and the picturesque.
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 | The Waves (Vintage Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.35 My favourite work of Woolf's.
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 | Tender Is the Night: A Romance (Penguin Modern Classics) by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £2.95 A terribly moving and poignant work.
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 | The Plague (Essential Penguin) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £0.96 Encapsulates the beauty of human endeavour, and the nobility of self sacrifice.
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 | Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £3.50 Purely for Kilgore Trout. A Grostesque of obscene proportions.
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 | Closing Time by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.53 Exceedingly underrated. Obviously not the orignal, but a great novel in its own right.
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 | Winesburg, Ohio (Penguin Twentieth-century Classics) by Sherwood Anderson
Buy new: £1.58 / Used from: £0.01 This book is really cool. Very funny.
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 | Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Buy new: £3.31 / Used from: £1.67 Everyone likes this book. And if you don't, you're probably broken.
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £4.34 / Used from: £0.01 Exceedingly tender and beautifully crafted. The book also works well in EFL lessons!
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