 | The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Buy used from: £2.61 Haruki's tour-de-force. His real skill is how he can merge the surreal with the mundane to make it believable.
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | Death and the Penguin (Panther) by Andrey Kurkov
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.48 Recommended by a Haruki loving friend - a fine recommendation - the strange and eventful life of an obituary writer and his pet penguin.
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 | Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.00 Far better than Fight Club & Choke - inventive and subversive.
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 | Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Buy used from: £4.50 Simplicity, clarity and beauty. A wonderful story.
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 | Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Buy used from: £0.01 Most aptly titled book ever.
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 | The Dharma Bums (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £3.56 |
 | Norwegian Wood (Panther) by Haruki Murakami
Buy used from: £1.93 Haruki tells a melancholic tale of inevitable doom like no other. Beautiful.
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 | A Year with Swollen Appendices: The Diary of Brian Eno by Brian Eno
Buy used from: £47.00 Fascinating diary of a year in the life of the multi-faceted Grand-daddy of Ambient. Not even the presence of Bono can spoil it.
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 | The Plague (Essential Penguin) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | Nausea (Modern Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy used from: £0.66 |
 | The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room" by Paul Auster
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | The Fuck-up by Arthur Nersesian
Buy new: £4.71 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | 45 by Bill Drummond
Buy used from: £5.00 Written when Drummond hit 45 years of age - he reflects on music, art and tea. Give thanks that he exists - just don't buy Bad Wisdom which is ruined by Mark Mannings puerile crap.
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 | One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Buy used from: £0.01 |
 | A Wild Sheep Chase (Panther) by Haruki Murakami
Buy used from: £3.83 |
 | Stupid White Men: ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation by Michael Moore
Buy used from: £0.01 Occasionally hectoring and as subtle as a brick (his attempt at political stand-up is no match for Bill Hicks) but thank God he's out there chipping away at the venal scum who lord it over us proles.
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 | Post Office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
Buy used from: £1.85 Brutal, economical prose. Leaves me short of breath & wanting more. Not unlike my wife.
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 | Blackbox by Nick Walker
Buy used from: £0.01 |
 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.42 / Used from: £2.00 |
 | The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy used from: £2.84 Hunter's early novel is way out of character from his gonzo stuff - and pretty wonderful for it.
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 | This Is Modern Art by Matthew Collings
Buy new: £9.21 / Used from: £8.42 I could have chosen any of Matt's books. His conversational, pseud-free style is a rarity for the genre. Unlike others he isn't afraid to admit to incomprehension in the face of art.
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 | American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story by Cynthia True
Buy used from: £0.01 Not the greatest biog ever written but anything that keeps Bill's name alive can only be a good thing.
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 | The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 |
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