| The Parallax View (Short Circuits) by S Zizek
Buy new: £9.95 / Used from: £9.24 mind blowingly clever guy's magnus opus and future essential reading for anyone with an interest in metaphysics or a left-wing theory
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| For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.95 Hemmingway's masterpiece and an example par excelence of the divided subject
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| The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.50 six hundred pages where little happens somehow ditracts remarkably little from some of the most fantastically vivid prose i have ever read
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| Ideology: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
Buy new: £6.88 / Used from: £8.25 witty and genuinely funny without compromising an incredible insightfulness and a thorough explanation to some key ideas
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| Age of Extremes : The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991 by E.J. Hobsbawm
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £3.49 the 20th century in about five days of reading!
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| One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Routledge Classics) by Herbert Marcuse
Buy new: £5.69 / Used from: £6.00 the subversive totalitarian nature of modern capitalism revealed
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| Moments of Reprieve (Penguin Modern Classics) by Primo Levi
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £6.13 encapsulates the core of levi's view of human nature and in a way that will make you cry and laugh in equal measures despite the world that it is set in
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| High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.01 i am rob gordon
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![]() | Penguin Great Ideas : Civilisation and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
Buy new: £0.90 / Used from: £0.40 criticize Freud all you want, though if you read this and try to deny at least a fraction of truth in it then you are stunningly naive
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![]() | Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock
Buy new: £2.90 / Used from: £2.50 how to understand how we will never be able to understand the complexities of how our planet works as a total system
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| How to Read Lacan (How to Read) by Slavoj Zizek
Buy new: £2.48 / Used from: £3.39 lacan is mind boggleing ... zizek is funny.... revealing and interesting without the brain melting and subsequent tears
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