 | Geek Love (Abacus Books) by Katherine Dunn
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.89 Brilliant, funny, sad, beautiful
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 | The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson
Buy new: £1.05 / Used from: £0.01 Coming of age brilliance
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 | A Confederacy of Dunces (Essential Penguin) by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.15 A hilarious book about a horrible man
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £1.47 Obvious choice but awesome non the less
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 | Fup: A Modern Fable by Jim Dodge
Buy new: £1.56 / Used from: £0.42 Tiny book, big fun
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 | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £3.33 moving and glorious
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 | Death and the Penguin (Panther) by Andrey Kurkov
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £1.45 It's got a peguin in it.
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 | A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £1.89 A book about rehab
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 | The Dirt - Motley Crue: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Neil Strauss
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £5.68 A book about how to get into rehab
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 | My Elvis Blackout by Simon Crump
Buy used from: £15.96 Weird short stories about all sorts of Elvis's
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 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £1.02 Great book about war, friendship and escaping from sacks
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 | You're An Animal, Viskovitz! by Alessandro Boffa
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £1.57 Very funny, very original, very good. Buy it now
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 | Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Buy new: £1.50 / Used from: £0.01 Makes you feel a bit like a geek. But good lord it's some good reading
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 | To kill a mocking bird by Harper Lee
Sure you read it for G.C.S.E. but read it again, it's worth it.
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 | In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Penguin Modern Classics) by Truman Capote
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £3.49 It's about murder and it's written by a man with a squeeky voice, what more do you want?
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 | Not Fade Away by Jim Dodge
Buy new: £3.62 / Used from: £1.97 Drugs, cars and dead pop stars.
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 | The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
Buy new: £8.39 / Used from: £3.97 Yeah it's for kids, but the sheer lunacy had to be inspired by something illegal
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 | Scepticism Inc. by Bo Fowler
Buy used from: £1.77 If you like god you wont like this. Very funny attack on organised religion
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 | The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics) by Malcolm X
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £5.12 This man lived a crazy and amazing life.
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 | The Hunter by Julia Leigh
Buy new: £3.50 / Used from: £0.01 Nothing happens, but somehow you never get bored.
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 | And the Ass Saw the Angel (Essential Penguin) by Nick Cave
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.66 Dark, nasty, wrong and yet very entertaining.
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 | The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £0.01 half man, half bull, all good.
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 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £1.39 / Used from: £1.39 Just like Dorian this book never gets old (sorry)
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