 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.74 Quite possibly the funniest book I've ever read.
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 | On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £5.02 / Used from: £3.11 A classic for good reason. It made me feel alive.
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 | I Capture the Castle (Red Fox Older Fiction) by Dodie Smith
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The characters are eccentric, the setting is wonderfully romantic, but what really makes this book stand out is the lively, honest, naive voice of Cassandra - the heroine.
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 | Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.07 These stories of losing control and destruction have a way of evoking a very real empathy in the reader - the writing makes these characters real and personal.
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 | Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £4.26 Possibly the longest novel known to man, but worth every single minute.
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 | The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Just wonderful. Sad, heartbreaking, comic, playful, honest, revealing.
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 | The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Buy new: £5.04 / Used from: £0.58 Recommended to absolutely everyone.
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.09 / Used from: £2.76 No comment needed.
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 | Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £2.53 Marquez is a brilliant writer. This is my favorite of his novels - it is sad but charming, romantic without being nauseating.
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 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Buy used from: £0.01 My absolute, all-time favorite novel. A fantastic example of 'tragi-comic' done well.
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 | Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Buy new: £5.41 / Used from: £0.01 The first and best of Jeannette Winterson's novels.
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 | Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises (Arrow Classic) by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.72 / Used from: £0.27 Quietly sad. With Hemingway's stark, masculine style, this book might actually be the definition of 'stiff upper lip'.
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.01 I've never read anything like it.
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