 | Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.99 Teenage gangster tries to cover up a murder. Rightly viewed as a classic.
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 | All the Pretty Horses: Volume One of The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Unforgettable story of two boys setting off to find work as ranchers in Mexico. The descriptions are just brilliant.
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 | The Crossing (Border Trilogy) (paperback) by Cormac McCarthy
Buy used from: £25.00 A boy traps a wolf that has been preying on his father's farm and sets out to return it to the wilderness. Probably better than its predecessor, and definitely more moving.
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 | Invisible Man (Essential Penguin) by Ralph Ellison
Buy used from: £2.37 The trials and tribulations of a black man in a rascist society. A great story, although it does start to drag a bit by the end.
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 | The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £2.97 A novel idea, a world where the axis powers won the war, is let down by a story which is just not very interesting.
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 | High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £2.35 The inhabitants of a skyscraper degenerate into tribes and wage war on each other. Unconvincing, but enjoyable.
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 | Bodies by Jed Mercurio
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 An eager young doctor quickly becomes disillusioned with hospital life. Just don't read it if you want to go into medicine.
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 | Altered Carbon (Gollancz S.F.) by Richard Morgan
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £1.07 Solid sci-fi adventure, albeit one that tries too hard to be gritty.
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 | Chess: A Novel (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Stefan Zweig
Buy new: £4.27 / Used from: £1.03 Short story about a mysteriously gifted chess player, best read in one sitting.
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 | Watchmen by Alan Moore
Buy new: £8.56 / Used from: £6.49 Rather overrated but still a good read. The characters are brilliantly realised, but the fact that they dress up in costumes or have superpowers rather detracts from this.
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