 | Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Buy used from: £8.94 Some people don't like it but I just think it's hilarious!!! Don't know why people think it's so 'important'...I just though it was a great laugh!!
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 | Brothers Karamazov (Bantam Classics) by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy new: £4.91 / Used from: £2.99 This really blew me away! I never wanted it to end, it's got the lot, great story, great characters, humour and of course a lot of the author struggling to come to terms with the meaning of life.
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 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 25th Anniversary Edition: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.52 Utterly unique, scarily clever. I found it hard work but it really was worth it, there's some radical ideas kicking around here.
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 | The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargos Llosa
Buy new: £5.65 / Used from: £3.55 A great political thriller, draws you right into it's world.
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 | Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West (Picador Books) by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £4.50 Fantastic writing, weirdly atmospheric, brutal and very unique...
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 | What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
Buy used from: £6.99 I've read quite a bit about buddhism and I personally think this is the best introduction you can get. It's quite 'technical' but gets right to the heart of the buddah's teachings.
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 | His Dark Materials Gift Set: "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £10.00 These are supposed to be for kids???!!
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 | Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £1.00 Pretty dark and a bit depressing but it's great writing.
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 | English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
Buy new: £4.55 / Used from: £0.01 great fun and informative
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 | The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.38 / Used from: £2.89 The last few pages are just incredible.
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 | Germinal (Penguin Classics) by Émile Zola
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.69 A great story, part of a long series, I've loved everything I've read by Zola.
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 | Things Fall Apart (African Writers Series) by Chinua Achebe
Buy used from: £2.00 Sad but very beautiful evocation of african village life and how us europeans started messing it all up.
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 | If Not Now, When? (Penguin Modern Classics) by Primo Levi
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £3.80 I'd recommend you read all his books but they are pretty harsh, this is good place to start, a novel and I love it.
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 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 All this in one day!! Makes you think...................
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 | The Glass Bead Game (Vintage Classics) by Hermann Hesse
Buy new: £6.69 / Used from: £3.00 Personally I loved the ideas in this book
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 | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.00 A moving story, war, romance, drama, heart in mouth moments...highly recommended!!
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 | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £0.03 Another book I never wanted to end, funny as hell and a classic character.
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 | The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
Buy used from: £4.47 I utterly detest 'self help' books but a friend recommended this to me and I do think there's a lot of wisdom here, along with some rubbish mind you.......
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 | Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land by Patrick French
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 The real story on tibet, exposing it's darker side as well as it's incredible history, anyone shouting free tibet needs to read this
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 | City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple
Buy new: £5.77 / Used from: £2.00 If you've ever thought about going to india this is a great book about delhi, take it with you and read it when you are there, fascinating.
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 | The Way of the White Clouds by Anagarika Govinda
Buy used from: £2.50 A great travelogue of pre china tibet and a look at some of the more mystical practices of tibetan buddhism
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 | Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
Buy used from: £1.08 There are so many miracles in this book and if it's all true then...well, wow.....there's some crazy stuff out there....
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 | The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S.N. Goenka by William Hart
Buy new: £5.61 / Used from: £3.00 Another book on buddhism, read this and then do a 10 day course, a great experience!!
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 | The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: A Spiritual Classic from One of the Foremost Interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism to the West by Sogyal Rinpoche
Buy used from: £2.75 A great book about tibetan buddhism, great stories of lamas and reincarnation. Lots of background as well as doctrine. Remember tibetan buddhism is only one aspect of buddhism though...
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 | Asana, Pranayama, Mudra and Bandha by Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Buy new: £12.05 / Used from: £7.43 Everyone's into astanga nowadays but I reckon this is a great all round book on yoga, a good place to start even if you want to practice astanga eventually.
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