 | A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
Buy new: £4.84 / Used from: £1.79 V.S. Naupaul's masterpiece. Prophetic.
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 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 My all-time favourite book. It is also very funny.
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 | Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Terrifying protrayal of modern day South Africa.
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 | The Human Factor (Vintage classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Greene is the master of moral ambiguity.
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 | A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy used from: £4.34 Beautifully written. I found myself laughing out aloud time and again.
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 | Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Buy used from: £1.19 Exquisitely written. Wickedly funny.
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 | Of Human Bondage (Vintage classics) by William Somerset Maugham
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £5.02 This semi-autobiographical novel is Maughm's best. Don't be intimidated by its size.
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 | Time's Arrow or the Nature of the Offence by Martin Amis
Buy new: £5.04 / Used from: £1.85 Stylistic. Also, very harrowing.
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 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: a Novel (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ken Kesey
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £2.35 Unputdownable
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 | The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy used from: £0.01 One of the best campus novels. Unnerving
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 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) by Muriel Spark
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £6.99 However many times I read this book, it never loses its sparkle.
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 | Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Underneath its patina of deadpan writing style, this is a very moving story.
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 | The Secret History (Read Red) by Donna Tartt
Buy used from: £1.58 A pageturner.
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 | The Beginning of Spring (Flamingo) by Penelope Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.84 / Used from: £0.01 A delightful read. The best of Penelope Fitzgerald's novels.
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 | My Secret History by Paul Theroux
Buy used from: £0.01 An excellent read. Theroux is incapable of writing a boring sentence.
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 | Flaubert's Parrot (Picador Books) by Julian Barnes
Buy used from: £0.01 A quirky novel by Julian Barnes.
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 | Seize the Day (Penguin Red Classics) by Saul Bellow
Buy used from: £7.97 Its brevity is only matched by its brilliance
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 | Tin Men by Michael Frayn
Buy new: £4.54 / Used from: £0.01 An early book by the great Michael Frayn. Extremely funny.
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.09 / Used from: £2.95 One of my all time favourites.
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 | Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Buy new: £5.76 / Used from: £2.18 Belongs to the days when Philip Roth still had a sense of humor.
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 | Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.37 A belter of a book.
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 | The Go-Between (Penguin Modern Classics) by L. P. Hartley
Buy new: £6.19 / Used from: £1.68 Starts with the immortal line: "Past is a foreign country....". A truly great book.
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 | Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £2.48 An autobiographical novel. Very droll.
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 | Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Buy new: £6.26 / Used from: £2.87 An extraordinary book. Very moving.
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 | Fear of Flying (Vintage Blue) by Erica Jong
Buy used from: £0.01 Cult classic. Outrageously funny at times.
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