 | Geek Love (Abacus Books) by Katherine Dunn
Buy new: £5.64 / Used from: £1.65 Brilliant, funny, sad, beautiful
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 | The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson
Buy new: £4.53 / Used from: £0.01 Coming of age brilliance
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 | A Confederacy of Dunces (Essential Penguin) by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £1.51 A hilarious book about a horrible man
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.42 / Used from: £2.20 Obvious choice but awesome non the less
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 | Fup by Jim Dodge
Buy used from: £0.01 Tiny book, big fun
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 | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £2.20 moving and glorious
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 | Death and the Penguin (Panther) by Andrey Kurkov
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.48 It's got a peguin in it.
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 | A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Buy new: £4.30 / Used from: £0.01 A book about rehab
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 | The Dirt - Motley Crue: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Neil Strauss
Buy new: £8.47 / Used from: £6.49 A book about how to get into rehab
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 | My Elvis Blackout by Simon Crump
Buy used from: £5.40 Weird short stories about all sorts of Elvis's
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 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Buy new: £6.45 / Used from: £0.28 Great book about war, friendship and escaping from sacks
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 | You're an Animal, Viskovitz by Alessandro Boffa
Buy new: £4.60 / Used from: £0.05 Very funny, very original, very good. Buy it now
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 | Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Makes you feel a bit like a geek. But good lord it's some good reading
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.30 / Used from: £1.20 Sure you read it for G.C.S.E. but read it again, it's worth it.
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 | In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Penguin Modern Classics) by Truman Capote
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £3.31 It's about murder and it's written by a man with a squeeky voice, what more do you want?
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 | Not Fade Away by Jim Dodge
Buy used from: £4.86 Drugs, cars and dead pop stars.
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 | The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
Buy new: £8.36 / Used from: £4.00 Yeah it's for kids, but the sheer lunacy had to be inspired by something illegal
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 | Scepticism Inc. by Bo Fowler
Buy used from: £0.01 If you like god you wont like this. Very funny attack on organised religion
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 | The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics) by Malcolm X
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.99 This man lived a crazy and amazing life.
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 | The Hunter by Julia Leigh
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Nothing happens, but somehow you never get bored.
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 | And the Ass Saw the Angel (Essential Penguin) by Nick Cave
Buy used from: £6.74 Dark, nasty, wrong and yet very entertaining.
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 | The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
Buy used from: £0.01 half man, half bull, all good.
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 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £3.96 / Used from: £1.00 Just like Dorian this book never gets old (sorry)
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 | The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £10.91 / Used from: £8.05 Father and son make their way though post apocalyptic America. Bleak and scary.
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 | Bravo Two-Zero: The true story of an SAS Patrol behind enemy lines in Iraq by Andy McNab
Buy new: £4.50 / Used from: £0.01 Don't read this book or any book like it. Seriously, you're better than that.
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