 | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Buy new: £6.77 / Used from: £0.04 General Fiction: Easily the best book I have ever read, or ever expect to read. Life changing and compelling. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
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 | The Player of Games (The Culture) by Iain M. Banks
Buy new: £5.56 / Used from: £0.02 Sci-Fi: For me this is the best of the Culture novels. Astoundingly inventive.
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 | Dave Barry's Greatest Hits by Dave Barry
Buy new: £4.12 / Used from: £0.01 Humour: A collection of this American columist's funniest articles. Made me cry with laughter (and occasionally sadness).
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 | The Cornish Trilogy (The Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, and, The Lyre of Orpheus): What's Bred in the Bone, The Rebel Angels, The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies
Buy new: £11.17 / Used from: £0.32 General Fiction: A superb story from a great storyteller. Interesting, thought provoking, and well written throughout
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 | The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Buy used from: £32.95 General Fiction: A hugely inventive book. Funny, and a great read. A secret government department battles to maintain the line between everyday fact and literary fiction.
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 | The Complete Robot (Robot series) by Isaac Asimov
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £1.29 Sci-FI: An anthology of Asimov's robot stories. Simply written, but well thought out and ground breaking. A coherent view of the future from a classic writer
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 | The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Buy used from: £0.01 Crime: A fascinating book fictionalizing the birth of systematic crime detection.
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 | Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 General Fiction: An account of philosophy and the history of philosophy. Easy to read and yet information packed.
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 | Yesterday in the Back Lane by Bernice Rubens
Buy used from: £0.01 General Fiction: A young girl's life is permanently blighted when she kills a man who attempts to rape her.
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 | The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 Sci-Fi: Mostly Harmless (q.v.)
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 | Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (20th anniversary edition with a new preface by the author) by Douglas R Hofstadter
Buy new: £13.27 / Used from: £10.25 Maths/Computing: A must for every computer programmer. Almost a background to the philosophy of computing (if that makes sense)
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 | Writing Home by Alan Bennett
Buy used from: £0.01 A mixture of diary, autobiography, and some of his fiction.
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