 | Grits by Niall Griffiths
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 Drug-addled tale of Aberystwyth wasters. Like Irvine Welsh with Welsh landscapes.
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 | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 Crime and Punishment meets Twentieth Century. Thickly plotted, atmospheric page-turner.
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 | The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Hilarious, dark, disturbing. Huge twist.
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 | Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Buy new: £4.80 / Used from: £1.00 Reads like shredded tatters of a real novel.
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 | Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy used from: £0.44 Like The Secret History, but written earlier. And in Russia.
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 | Saturday by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £13.49 / Used from: £0.01 Contemporary writing at its finest.
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 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.01 (of course)
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £0.01 Sensuous prose that stands out from post-modernist iciness.
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 | The Collector (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles
Buy new: £5.08 / Used from: £1.20 Gripping capture/escape narrative, full of a dripping, evil sort of sexuality. Very dark, very claustrophobic.
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 | Brass by Helen Walsh
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 Euphoria, comedown (LOADS of typos)
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 | Northern Lights: WITH Subtle Knife AND Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £11.99 The man has written a children's book where God dies. Hats off.
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 | Less Than Zero (Picador Books) by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy used from: £0.01 Like reading a slab of metal.
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