 | Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck "Essentials") by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.49 If you want a book about poverty and hopelessness you can't go wrong with this one.
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 | Letter to the Soviet Leaders by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Buy used from: £0.01 A damning indictment of the Soviet system, also a concise critique of all totalitarian régimes and politicians that hide behind the excuse of ideology to justify unjust actions.
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 | Hidden Agendas by John Pilger
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Chilling accounts of cases of injustice the world over, often perpetrated by and then unreported by the West.
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £2.19 / Used from: £0.01 Great plot, full of suspense, memorable characters but with a strong message throughout of the human need to retain basic humane values.
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| THE Ipcress File by Len Deighton
Brilliant Cold War spy novel. Superb dialogue, characterisation. The main character (who remains nameless throughout) is a bit of a heartless bastard though.
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 | The Complete Prose by Woody Allen
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Ridiculously funny, surreal and genius in this work comprising his three books. The story about the lacoste crocodile would be my favourite.
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 | At Swim-two-birds (Penguin Modern Classics) by Flann O'Brien
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £3.20 Kind of like The Matrix except without the pretentions and with truckloads of humour. The man was a genius.
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 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar: And Six More (Puffin Teenage Fiction) by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: £0.01 Faith, but that man Mr Dahl could tell a great tale. This collection of mostly weird short stories. My favourite was the one about The Fingerer, a pickpocket by trade.
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 | Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Buy used from: £0.01 Often funny, often tragic story about wasted lives but also perseverence of friendships no matter what the relationships go through.
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £0.01 Judge it for yourselves. Odd, yes. Great, also yes. Is it a parable? Maybe. Which story do you believe?
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 | Laptop Dancing and the Nanny Goat Mambo: A Sports Writer's Year by Tom Humphries
Buy used from: £0.01 Judge this book by it's cover. Its an often thighslappingly funny, often cynical look at the life of a sportswriter full of insights into the plights of modern sport too.
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 | Reefer Madness: ...and Other Tales from the American Underground by Eric Schlosser
Buy used from: £0.01 3 essays as examples of why areas of the law in the US concerning drugs, migrant labour and the sex industry are in urgent need of reform.
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 | Republic (Oxford World's Classics) by Plato
Buy used from: £0.30 Book about morality, many aspects still relevant today. Karl Popper called Christianity Platonism for the masses. In this book you can read what the man himself had to say.
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 | The Prince (Oxford World's Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
Buy used from: £0.01 Can be seen as a justification for why leaders in all walks of life act as ruthlessly as they do. I don't think Machiavelli was advocating Machiavllianism, I think he was just stressing that it works
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