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Top Ten Existentialist Essentials

	Nausea (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £2.19 Possibly the simplest and most beautiful book ever, a torrent of confusion, ecstasy, despair, colour and purity
	The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.56 Very similar to Nausea, this is the most poignant look at society and its rules that I've read
	Kid A by Radiohead Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.45 The closest I've come to musical perfection, though you have to be in the right state of mind. Which you obviously are if you read books like these...
	Rumble Fish [VHS] [1983] Buy used from: £0.12 Coppola called this film 'Camus for kids', and with some justification; my favourite ever film
	The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.22 Musically the polar opposite of Kid A, The Holy Bible is the apocalyptic product of Richey Edward's mental torment. Swings from painfully righteous to achingly soft and beautiful, this is a must have
	The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 The Dice Man is almost the psychological analysis and diagnosis for all of humanity's problems in one highly readable dose - until you remind yourself it's only a novel...
	1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Buy new: £12.65 / Used from: £3.00 The classic political novel, warning of the dangers of a potential totalitarian state. Powerfully written, and rightfully deemed one of the greatest books ever
	Generation Terrorists by Manic Street Preachers Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.48 Further education into the greatness of Manic Street Preachers! Effective political rants throughout, even if you're not a fan of the punky sound on this album
	Fight Club [VHS] [1999] Buy used from: £0.01 A surprisingly poignant look at violence and the destruction of beauty. Still a very commercially successful film, though probably for all the wrong reasons
	Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath Buy used from: £2.50 Well it was between this and Nietzsche, and I thought there should be some poetry in here. Underrated collection, many of which went on to form the bulk of the ground-breaking Ariel