 | On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £6.24 / Used from: £3.49 A bohemian odyssey
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 | The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £3.92 Dazzling surreal humour .A big inspiration for the song "Sympathy for the Devil".
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 | Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics) by Malcolm X
Buy new: £6.94 / Used from: £4.99 A man who first turns his back on a dissolute life. Then bravely and analytically stands up to his oppressors both black and white
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 | Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.74 Describes the bright hopes and desperate disillusionment of a chaotic, brutal war
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 | England's Dreaming by Jon Savage
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £5.23 The sex pistols with all the filth and fury
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 | If This Is a Man (Everyman's Library Classics) by Primo Levi
Buy new: £8.39 / Used from: £6.52 Two works of autobiography. "If This is a Man" tells of Levi's experiences as a victim of the Holocaust
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 | Voltaire's Coconuts: Or Anglomania in Europe by Ian Buruma
Buy new: £0.01 / Used from: £0.01 Voltaire's Coconuts weaves a compelling story of the ways in which European exiles and emigrés have fallen under the spell of the intangible mix of snobbery,liberalism,xenophobia & tolerance
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 | The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (Picador Books) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £3.50 This collection of essays and articles shows Thompson to be a true leader in counter culture
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 | Dispatches (Picador) by Michael Herr
Buy new: £2.36 / Used from: £0.01 Herr's take on Vietnam: a hallucinatory mess and bitchs brew of John Waynes on LSD
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 | Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.50 A wonderfully curious and imaginative adventure through an alternative future-now Japan
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 | For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £3.19 Lean Hemingwayesq style and insight into the human condition
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 | POPism: The Warhol Sixties by Andy Warhol
Buy used from: £3.44 The late artist's intimate journals revealing insights into Warhol's 1960's world -Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies
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 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics) by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.33 Solzhenitsyns writing is void of sentimentality .This book conveys the barbarity of the Stalin era Gulag.
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 | Junky (Penguin Modern Classics) by William S. Burroughs
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £3.75 Welcome to the sordid underground world of the 1940's drug addict and associated lifestyle
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 | Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division by Deborah Curtis
Buy used from: £2.97 Revealing the duality of a man. This one with a Heart of darkness
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 | The Forgotten Soldier (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Guy Sajer
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.46 An account from the German side on the eastern front WW2 .A true clash of the titans
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 | The Autobiography of a Super Tramp (Oxford Paperbacks) by William Henry Davies
Buy used from: £3.40 A tramps journey of discovery around England & accross America in the late 19th century. Excellent read and much better then the group of the same name.
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 | The Trial (Vintage Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £3.14 / Used from: £2.65 A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit. A crime whose nature is never revealed to him.
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