 | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.99 Kundera's genius lies in his ability to leave so much space in his novels, you dont read them, you inhabit them
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 | Slaughterhouse Five Or, The Children's Crusade (Paladin Books) by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy used from: £4.51 Vonnegut's gut-wrenching honesty is revelatory and his compassion all consuming
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 | Tropic of Capricorn (Modern Classics) by Henry Miller
Buy used from: £0.01 Other end of the scale from the two above but just as riveting, and what a writer
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 | Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
Buy used from: £0.01 Deeply, deeply funny and Amis can write a sentence like no other
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 | Love by Angela Carter
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £3.54 has the ability to make her earthbound stories seem otherworldly
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 | If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Vintage classics) by Italo Calvino
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.40 Brilliantly parodies the fictional process and creates a magical story at the same time
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 | Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Buy new: £1.78 / Used from: £0.01 Read it in a single sitting.
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 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.59 Worlds within worlds within worlds...
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 | Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: £4.50 / Used from: £0.01 Couldnt really say why, but this affected me deeply.
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 | The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Buy new: £4.70 / Used from: £0.01 As did this, a topic we are all familiar with but his time from within
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 | Babel Tower by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 She is an astonishing writer
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 | Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean Rhys
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £1.18 Reading this is akin to stepping inside the claustrophobic, paranoid mind of Rhys. Mesmerising.
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 | Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Buy used from: £12.56 On of the last of the public intellectual giants. Can make you feel unsettled like no other. We have become to safe in our reading- Borges is a key to another, braver world
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 | As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Buy new: £5.26 / Used from: £1.55 Unlike anything you've read before or will read again
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 | The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: £5.27 / Used from: £2.11 Why Pynchon is so mesmeric is beyond me. But he is and does more in these few pages than most do in a career.
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 | Where I'm Calling from: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £4.86 Carver somehow is the underbelly of America
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 | The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room" by Paul Auster
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.01 If there is a better storyteller around then please enlighten me...
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 | The Dharma Bums (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.24 He is villified but this is a supremely joyful book
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 | Imajica by Clive Barker
Buy used from: £0.01 This was as good as acid for me when I was younger. He often gets the tag of horror writer, how wrong.
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 | Immortality by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.01 That man again.
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 | The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.56 A great tale superbly written
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