 | The Player of Games (The Culture) by Iain M. Banks
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £0.01 The best Iain Banks novel of them all. Utterly compelling. I read it as often as I can bear.
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 | The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Only just chosen after his "The Innocent" because it's still the most amazing prose I've read. "Atonement" is absolutely awesome too.
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 | Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.01 Rachel Cusk is enthralling, claustrophobic, wonderful. I feel I've grown up with her novels.
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 | Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy used from: £2.80 There are many good Heinlein stories, but this is that and something more, and for that reason I'd say it's his best.
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 | The Dancers At The End of Time (S.F. Masterworks) by Michael Moorcock
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £3.00 Moorcock is an incredible writer (I love his Jerry Cornelius novels) and the dancers are, for me, his best creation. Fun, romantic, massively original, dreamy fantasy.
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 | The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £5.75 A tremendous book about designing things to be usable - one of my bibles as an interaction designer.
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 | Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Neuromancer is the famous one, but this from the end of the trilogy has all the excitement and better prose!
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 | The Black Rubber Dress by Lauren Henderson
Buy used from: £0.01 Lauren Henderson's crime novels are wonderful fun. Read them all in sequence.
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 | Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (Panther) by Haruki Murakami
Buy used from: £2.99 Murakami is one of the best novelists alive; but I've listed this because I read it recently and it's an amazing book. Enthralling, and I'm not sure why.
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 | The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £12.27 / Used from: £4.88 How did I forget to add this to the list??? I love the Dirk Gently novels too.
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 | Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 And speaking of weird and funny novels, don't miss this.
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 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1) by J.K. Rowling
Buy new: £4.53 / Used from: £0.01 I know it's everywhere now, but the Harry Potter books are very good.
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 | Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel by Helen Fielding
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 I love the book but I love the film too, so I listed the book with the film's cover. Compromise.
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