 | The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £3.01 Bleakly funny discourse on reality and perception and the insane nature of human existence. Easily number one.
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 | Lolita (Penguin Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £5.42 / Used from: £1.67 |
 | Rabbit, Run (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Updike
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.01 The greatest American novel ever written - what Salinger might have written were he not so sentimental
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 | The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £0.46 By Some margin the greatest living author and this is his masterpiece
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 | Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West (Picador Books) by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £50.46 Unflinching portrayal of human brutality, in turn dispelling the myth of the noble savage,
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 | The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £2.53 100 Years Of Solitude is more well known, but this is the best. Hilarious document of the reign of a mad dictator
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 | The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.79 / Used from: £2.89 What do you want from me?
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 | American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £1.75 He gets better and better with age. The story of one man raging against the disintegration of conventional morality.
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 | Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Buy used from: £29.76 The last coward on earth.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £4.08 / Used from: £1.45 |
 | Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £4.45 |
 | Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £2.85 Sharper and funnier than Catch-22
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 | The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room" by Paul Auster
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | Blindness by Jose Saramago
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.19 |
 | Spring Snow (The sea of fertility) by Yukio Mishima
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.89 Suicide, class divisions, madness, and beautiful prose. Very Japanese, then.
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 | The Information by Martin Amis
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 A failed writer laments the success of his talentless friend and so vows to ruin him. This being Amis the plot is full of holes but it is his comic gift that sets him apart.
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 | Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Like Roth an author who bravely tackles the empty headedness of excessively liberal thinking
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 | Midnight's Children (Vintage Classics) by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £5.56 / Used from: £3.00 |
 | Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.43 The portrait of a moron as an artist. It may just be me but i found this to be extemely funny.
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 | The Third Policeman (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Flann O'Brien
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.50 |
 | To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £4.56 / Used from: £1.50 Difficult but worthwhile.
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 | A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £2.87 |
 | Old Masters: A Comedy (Phoenix Fiction) by Bernhard
Buy used from: £6.41 |
 | Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
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 | Something Happened by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £0.01 |
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