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Essential Books
Nineteen Eighty-FourNineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy used from: £0.21
Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics)Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy used from: £4.42
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics)One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £0.01
Catch-22 (Vintage Classics)Catch-22 (Vintage Classics) by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.90
The Funniest Book Ever, No Doubt
Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with DeathSlaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £1.75
An Anti-War Science fiction Novel, but wait, Its funny too!
The Little PrinceThe Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Buy new: £4.16 / Used from: £0.01
A childrens' book for adults
Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth CenturyDark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower
Buy new: £8.08 / Used from: £4.40
A suberb conception of Europe in the last century
Hagakure: The Book of the SamuraiHagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Buy new: £8.07 / Used from: £15.80
If nothing else, Very Interesting
9-11 (Seven Stories' Open Media)9-11 (Seven Stories' Open Media) by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: £4.68 / Used from: £0.01
Relevant, intelligent, thought provoking.
L' Etranger (Folio)L' Etranger (Folio) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £6.55 / Used from: £0.97
Does it seem pretentious to list the french version?
The Torture Garden (Empire of the Senses)The Torture Garden (Empire of the Senses) by Octave Mirbeau
Buy used from: £3.00
If you were ever an angsty manics fan you should read this
Paranoia in the Launderette (Bloomsbury paperbacks)Paranoia in the Launderette (Bloomsbury paperbacks) by Bruce Robinson
Buy used from: £19.95
By the author of Withnail and i
Ajax, Barcelona, CruyffAjax, Barcelona, Cruyff by Frits Barend
Buy used from: £8.69
Conversations with a legend
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in PolandOrdinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R Browning
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £2.93
A shocking account of the awful deeds of 'ordinary men' in the holocaust
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the HolocaustHitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Buy new: £9.97 / Used from: £4.23
One of the most controversial history books of recent years
The Communist ManifestoThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Buy used from: £1.20
You'd be surpised how few people have actually read it
Marx for BeginnersMarx for Beginners by "Rius"
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Its a bit easier than Capital
The Catcher in the RyeThe Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.91 / Used from: £0.88
Wierd but interesting