 | Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £2.95 Changed the face of modern literature - a classic to read and reread
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 | At Swim-two-birds (Penguin Modern Classics) by Flann O'Brien
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £4.25 Novel within a novel within a novel from the unacknowledged master of Dublin and drink
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 | The Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy used from: £3.44 Yet more layers and layers as the devil comes to Moscow
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 | Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy new: £2.17 / Used from: £0.01 Guilt and beyond - dense dense writing
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 | How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 The very best of contemporary Scottish writing
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 | Dog Years by Gunter Grass
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.45 Storytelling, character writing and a vast swathe of history plus the Miller and the worms that tell the future.
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.19 The whole dumb ridiculousness of it all
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 | The Third Policeman (Paladin Books) by Flann O'Brien
Buy used from: £0.16 The second modern classic from Myles and a surreal extravaganza
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 | And the Ass Saw the Angel (Essential Penguin) by Nick Cave
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £7.45 Flawed but apocalyptic writing
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 | The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
Buy used from: £106.19 Unbelievably talented and overlooked
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 | The Barracks (Faber Fiction Classics) by John McGahern
Buy used from: £0.01 A spare and clean prose that depresses and uplifts
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 | The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
Buy new: £8.97 / Used from: £8.17 Four perspectives to the same events dislocated. Superb storytelling.
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 | London Fields by Martin Amis
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £0.01 Who would have thought that writing about characters where everyone is a s**t could be so enthralling
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 | Cry ME a River by T.R. Pearson
Buy used from: £0.44 A crime novel but extremely well written with great characters and a lot of laughter
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 | Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £1.40 The Hungarian Revolution and a basketball team - about as funny as it gets passages of which I still cannot read without falling off the chair in gales of hysterics
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 | The Earth (Classics) by Emile Zola
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £0.01 A vivid picture of agricultural life to companion Germinal
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 | The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.40 Read, reread, reread, reread
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 | Trilogy: "Molloy", "Malone Dies", "Unnameable" (Calderbooks) by Samuel Beckett
Buy used from: £22.99 Early and hilarious Beckett
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 | A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book) by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £2.13 Ignatius J Reilly - the all time incompetent idiot - hilarious through and through
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 | Paradiso by JL Lima
Buy new: £8.29 / Used from: £5.70 Brilliant depth and clarity - the very best of Latin American writing
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