 | Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £3.67 Very funny - Orwell's most entertaining novel and one of the best books about London ever written.
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 | The Mahabharata (Penguin Modern Classics) by R. K. Narayan
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £4.85 A splendid, highly readable rendition of the epic story
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 | Monkey (Penguin Classics) by Wu Ch'eng-en
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £3.89 Remember the TV series - well here's the original story minus the bad dubbing
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 | The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Buy new: £5.82 / Used from: £1.76 A brilliant thriller. One of the few books that I would deem impossible to put down
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 | The Cider House Rules: Now a major film starring Michael Caine by John Irving
Buy used from: £0.01 Very funny and moving. A great introduction to Irving. A long slog but worth it
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 | Knots by R.D. Laing
Buy used from: £2.48 This book scares me. Facinating nonetheless
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 | A Clockwork Orange (Essential Penguin) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.94 Has to be on the list. A classic distopian tale
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 | "Othello" (Arden Shakespeare.Third Series) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £7.72 / Used from: £3.65 The greatest play ever written?
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 | Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook by Peter Cook
Buy used from: £0.01 Funny as hell. Testament to a genius
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 | The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £6.26 / Used from: £2.79 Dense and facinating. Unforgettable
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 | Carry on, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy used from: £0.44 A class act. I'm still in the middle of reading it but will start all over again as soon as it's over
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 | The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers v.2: Two Towers Vol 2 by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 The whole trilogy is superb, but this is the best part
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 | On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £3.33 Like many, I read all of his books as a teenager and I owe him a huge debt becuase of it
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 | Barnaby Rudge (English Library) by Charles Dickens
Buy used from: £0.01 This book is great. Rudge tells the story several families who find their lives overturned by the violent events of history.
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 | The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy used from: £0.01 Hardy's most morally complex tragedy and his best by far
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