 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £0.84 The greatest novel in the english language...comic, tragic, unsentimental and brilliant.
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 | A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.41 As honest an account of love and life that was ever written.
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 | Another Country (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £2.21 Baldwins study of the universal human condition has an emotional resonance that is as precious, flawed, beautiful and doomed as the characters which it depicts.
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 | Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £0.01 A hugely ambitious novel that flaunts the authors intellect yet avoids the pitfalls of pretention.
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 | On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £5.70 / Used from: £1.50 Like all the best romantic literature this is simple, honest, fluid and timeless. A love story about life and those who embrace it.
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 | The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £0.01 So much more than just a murder mystery....
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 | The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £3.12 Open to endless interpretations, this deceptively simple novel is Kafka's finest achievement.
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 | Dispatches (Picador) by Michael Herr
Buy new: £4.85 / Used from: £0.01 An unfliching portrait of the surreal apocalypse that was Vietnam.
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 | Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Buy used from: £0.01 The original 'controversial novel'...viciously witty, knowingly ironic and perfectly executed.
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 | A Clockwork Orange (Essential Penguin) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.26 Surreal, warped, brutal, vibrant and vital. One of the most extraordinary works of all time...Burgess stretches the limits of language and the boundaries of the imagination.
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.38 / Used from: £0.81 A simultaneously tender and harsh indictment of the corrupting influence of money.
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 | Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy used from: £0.01 "Last night i dreamt i went to Manderley again"...the greatest opening line of any novel ever written.
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 | Cruising Paradise: Tales by Sam Shepard
Buy used from: £0.01 Evocative and melancholic slices of sun drenched americana. Shepard proves himself as a short story maestro of impressive economy and startling emotional resonance.
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 | The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts (Penguin Modern Classics) by Arthur Miller
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £1.74 Arthur Miller uses a 1692 witch hunt to draw parallels with McCarthy era moral panic in this devastating play.
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 | Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy used from: £0.01 A surprisingly dark and subtly affecting novel from the premier chronicler of English society.
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 | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Changed Hollywood by Peter Biskind
Buy used from: £4.89 Gossip galore and plenty of scandoulous anecdotes in Biskinds definitive document of 70's American cinema.
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