 | Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West (Picador Books) by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £4.55 Brutal, violent, but brilliantly descriptive.
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 | On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £5.02 / Used from: £2.74 Makes you want to get in the car and never come back.
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 | Post Office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
Buy used from: £3.00 Funny and sad in equal measure.
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 | Desert Solitaire by E. Abbey
Buy used from: £1.22 A beautiful homage to the desert south-west, a sad indictment of man's impact on nature.
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 | Cry of the Justice Bird by Jon Haylett
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £2.29 Vividly beautiful story set in Africa.
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 | Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
Buy new: £5.01 / Used from: £1.34 A charming view of small-town living.
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 | The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £0.01 Shocking yet original and brilliant.
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £2.39 Hilarious, Thompson's masterpiece.
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 | Tortilla Flat (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £4.77 / Used from: £1.49 Could have picked any of his, this is less known than some but a story that has everything that's good about Steinbeck.
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 | The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses / The Crossing / Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £5.70 / Used from: £1.99 You MUST read this book. You owe it to yourself.
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 | Down Under by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £0.01 Hysterical. I don't know anyone who doesn't enjoy his books.
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 | Watership Down (Puffin Books) by Richard Adams
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £0.01 Talking rabbits? I know, but it's so good.
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 | Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Buy used from: £0.51 A Western that appeals to everybody.
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 | American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £1.04 Cold, bleak, yet clever black comedy.
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