 | A Confederacy of Dunces (Pocket Penguin Classics) by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £1.68 Ignatius is one of the great comic creations of literature!
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 | POP. 1280 by Jim Thompson
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £1.19 Perhaps not as famous as other works such as "The Getaway", but a brilliant dark comedy that has you laughing even as you shudder.
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 | Fat Ollie's Book by Ed McBain
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £0.01 McBain has written dozens of books, and I've loved all of the ones that I've read so far, but as this is the first one which I discovered, it seems like as good a starting place as any.
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 | The Old Devils (Vintage Classics) by Kingsley Amis
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £3.25 Along with Lucky Jim, this is an absolute classic. Gentler than Martin Amis, but with a wonderful humanity and humour scattered liberally from start to finish
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 | Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.97 One of his best. A great story, unmarred by the levels of complexity and showing off that sometimes afflict his work.
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 | Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Buy new: £4.83 / Used from: £0.91 An epic sci-fi society wonderfully created by this up-and-coming writer
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 | Ubik (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £1.96 Becoming ever more popular with Hollywood, I've yet to read a novel which by Philip K Dick which wasn't memorable (albeit often mind-bending). Sometimes the drugs do work!
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 | Koko by Peter Straub
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £0.01 A dark, gripping page turner. Horror doesn't always need fantastical monsters and gore to be effective.
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 | At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror No. 1 (H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus) by H.P. Lovecraft
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.86 If only someone had the imagination to turn these stories into films! Gothic horror where what is unsaid and unseen let's your brain scare itself! An under-rated genius on a par with Conan Doyle/Poe
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 | Flashman and the Angel of the Lord (Flashman 09) by George MacDonald Fraser
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.62 Very far from pc, but very funny, and you even learn something about Victorian history as you read!
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 | I Am Legend (S.F. Masterworks) by Richard Matheson
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.69 A fantastically claustrophobic and original take on the vampire novel.
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 | The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
Buy new: £5.90 / Used from: £0.08 Brilliantly funny, shocking at times. A master of the English language carrying on the tradition of Oscar Wilde
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 | The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £10.46 / Used from: £7.66 A paradoxically frivolous genius who could say more with one witty remark than most could say in a novel!
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 | Cycle of Violence by Colin Bateman
Buy used from: £0.01 This, along with Bateman's other early novels, is a riot. Laugh out loud funny, rather than the more traditional sense of rioting in Ulster...
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 | High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 A must-read for anyone who has ever made a mix-tape for the girl, boy or other of their dreams.
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