 | Foundation (The Foundation Series) by Isaac Asimov
Buy new: £4.42 / Used from: £0.01 Ill found my list on A for Asimov, the founder of robots in fiction. This lists about the books that have contributed to my own growth as a author, which produced my first novel, seen below
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 | Wake of the Raven by Graham Worthington
Buy used from: £19.03 ....my first novel, a mixed-genre fiction, with elements of psychological drama, erotic tension, adventure, and social observation. Excellent reviews, set in the Far East, in 1951
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 | Another Country (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £2.21 ....B for Baldwin, most central of late twentieth century black authors....
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 | Rendezvous With Rama (S.F. Masterworks S.) by Arthur C. Clarke
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £1.25 The first and best of Clark's Rama series. Cardboard characters - which Sci-Fi readers often don't worry about - but sweeping scientific imagination
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 | Great Expectations (Wordsworth Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite of Dicken's novels. Strange events in a boy's life combine to produce a deluded and snobbish young man
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 | Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £0.91 Complex thriller, & a satire on the modern flood of books finding hidden mysteries and coded messages in everything including ancient laundry lists
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.41 / Used from: £1.64 Fitzgerald, one of the most perceptive of American authors. The illusions of wealth and social status in early twentieth century America
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 | Our Man in Havana (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.89 More hilarity with Greene's tale of a spy who isn't. This author is usually associated with stories of bitterness and revulsion
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 | Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises (Arrow Classic) by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.72 / Used from: £0.45 Hemingway's classic of the Lost Generation: expatriate American in Europe
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 | True Patriot Love: Four Generations in Search of Canada by Michael Ignatieff
Buy used from: £24.39 A Canadian's account of his family's arival in a new world
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 | The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) by Henry James
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £2.98 Illusions of wealth and social position in early twentieth century America
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 | The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £2.82 Said to be obscure, but really a simple tale of a man trying to justify his life in a hostile world
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 | That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.17 The best Lewis's Space Trilogy. A wide range of memorable characters, the evil more interesting than the good
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 | Elric Of Melnibone: "The Stealer of Souls" AND "Stormbringer" (Fantasy Masterworks) by Michael Moorcock
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.67 Central to Moorcock's immense 1960s output of Swords and Soucery fantasy
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 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: £3.82 / Used from: £0.69 An excellent and moving romance, complicated by time travel
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 | Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £2.47 Orwell's all time classic of the horrors of totalitarian rule
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 | Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £9.00 / Used from: £6.51 Teenage terrorists terrify terribly. From which you might guess I don't take this author too seriously
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 | The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins
Buy used from: £0.01 My favourite of Robbin's sagas. The last days of the gunfighters, the early days of Hollywood's rise
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 | Frankenstein (Wordsworth Classics): Or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 18-year old Mary Shelly produces this, the most coherent of all monster stories
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 | The Lord of The Rings (Based on the 50th Anniversary Single volume edition 2004) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £12.47 / Used from: £0.01 Who else under T? A brilliantly created alternative world
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 | Exodus.: Das große Epos um die Gründung Israels by Leon Uris
Buy new: £6.83 / Used from: £9.94 Monumental account of the struggle of Israel's founding
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 | Tales Of The Dying Earth (Fantasy Masterworks) by Jack Vance
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £2.53 Vance's best work. No heavy flights of intellect, but witty fantasy entertainment
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 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wordsworth Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Wilde's only novel (he was a playwright rather than an author of novels) the classic of a degenerate whose portrait shows his true character
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 | Van Rijn Method (Technic Civilization) (Technic Civilization) by Poul Anderson
Buy new: £14.03 / Used from: £3.30 Interstellar trading in a future society
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 | Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.01 A true? account of eighties alternative lifestyles and family dysfunction. No way I can do all I want to in one list; I'll continue in "Authors Who Helped Me As an Author #2
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