 | Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
Buy new: £6.31 / Used from: £1.31 Wonderful. I read it every year to keep my spirits up.
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 | A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R.R. Martin
Buy new: £4.39 / Used from: £1.93 For my money, George is much more entertaining than Tolkein.
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 | Roadkill by Kinky Friedman
Buy used from: £0.44 Don't worry about the plot. This is the Kinkster at his best.
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 | Raising Holy Hell by Bruce Olds
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 A remarkable novel about a remarkable man. Very prescient.
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 | The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Twentieth Century Classics) by G.K. Chesterton
Buy new: £1.72 / Used from: £1.04 Chesterton at his whimsical best.
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 | Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.34 Don't really like Pratchett, but this meks me laff!!
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 | London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £4.47 Just amazing.
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 | Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Buy new: £3.62 / Used from: £2.92 Brilliant and strangely comforting.
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 | Dr.Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex by Olivia Judson
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £3.00 Funny, erudite and informative.
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 | The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: £14.00 / Used from: £8.00 He's right, you know!
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 | Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
Buy new: £5.56 / Used from: £0.01 Read this in only three days. Loved it.
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 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £1.02 The only book by Chabon that I have really loved.
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 | Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £2.87 / Used from: £0.01 Coupland at his best.
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 | Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £3.00 Vonnegut is madder than a bag of fish - but brilliant
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 | Flowers For Algernon (Gollancz S.F.) by Daniel Keyes
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £1.89 A genuine SF classic
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 | Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Brilliantly inventive and fast-paced.
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 | His Dark Materials Gift Set: "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass": His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £8.50 Amazing stuff. Not for kids at all.
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 | Falstaff by Robert Nye
Buy used from: £1.92 Makes me want to drink sack and go a-wenching.
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 | Jaguars Ripped My Flesh by Tim Cahill
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.47 Each of Cahill's books are a delight. This was my first.
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 | Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £3.59 / Used from: £1.10 Made me have a nightmare full of button-eyed people!
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 | The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy: And Other Stories by Tim Burton
Buy new: £3.06 / Used from: £0.01 I love Jimmy the hideous Penguin boy.
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 | Wise Children (Vintage Classics) by Angela Carter
Buy new: £3.04 / Used from: £2.00 My favourite Angela Carter book.
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 | Gin: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva-The Eighteenth Century Gin Craze by Patrick Dillon
Buy used from: £12.95 I have been know to be fond of the odd G&T.
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 | House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Buy new: £14.00 / Used from: £10.50 Couldn't get this book out of my head for weeks.
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 | Flashman (The Flashman Papers) by George MacDonald Fraser
Buy new: £4.39 / Used from: £0.49 Huzzah for good old Flashy.
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