 | Lanark: Life in Four Books (Canongate Classics) by Alasdair Gray
Buy used from: £5.40 lays waste to everything else on this list. took over my life, will take over yours! trust me!!
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 | Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Buy new: £2.90 / Used from: £0.01 oh dear vernon! so good it bought tears to my eyes. mind bendingly good book. my fave until I read Lanark!
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 | Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith
Buy new: £2.34 / Used from: £0.68 fiercely original, and 'funny', like the sun is 'hot'. do yourself a BIG favour and read this book!
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 | The Sixth Day and Other Tales by Primo Levi
Buy used from: £0.84 i've read every Levi book. I strongly recommend you do the same. picked this one as I remember it being even more special than the usual Levi.
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 | Underworld by Don DeLillo
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £0.20 a monster of a book, but by the time you reach the last page, you will wish it was twice as long. White Noise by the same authour is also very good.
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 | Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: £8.32 / Used from: £4.25 don't be put off by the title. A very warm and human book. Are you 'reading the russians'??
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 | The Sirens Of Titan (S.F. Masterworks) by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £2.44 / Used from: £2.19 my favourite vonnegut. lent to me by my sister about 13 years ago, I've read it three times! a very funny book, better than slaughterhouse 5 (which is also very good!) as is
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 | Vonnegut Omnibus: "Welcome to the Monkey House", "Palm Sunday" by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.70 and also 'player piano' if you can find it anywhere! his first book I think!
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 | In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £2.25 impossible to explain, just oddly beautiful. very short book, can be read in one sitting!
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 | Pastoralia by George Saunders
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £1.30 very, very, very funny! and quite weird too. Very weird actually!
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 | Spares by Michael Marshall Smith
Buy new: £3.05 / Used from: £0.91 very funny and gripping book, but 'only forward' just pips it for me.
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 | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Flamingo Modern Classics) by Robert Tressell
Buy used from: £3.35 I'm readin this one at the moment!! A very good read. If you work for a living, you need to read this book. If you don't work for a living, even more so!
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 | The Jungle (American Library) by Upton Sinclair
Buy new: £2.27 / Used from: £1.00 similar in scope to the ragged trousered....A great book about the meat packing houses in 1910 chicago, and specifically the lives and hardships of the workers and their families. chick-lit it ain't!!
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 | Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: £3.55 / Used from: £3.55 this book mentions the above upton sinclair book. A very funny book. Struck me as the stepping stone from catcher in the rye, to vernon god little. I lap this stuff up!
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 | Monkey (Penguin Classics) by Wu Ch'eng-En
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £3.54 picked this up in a bookshop once, and then couldn't find it for years! glad I did though! an amazing book, never read anything like it. Want to try something different? this is your boy.
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 | The Insult (Bloomsbury Classic Reads) by Rupert Thomson
Buy new: £3.50 / Used from: £1.55 I'm a big fan of Rupert Thomson. This book is great, quite dark, the sub-story is almost a book in itself! read this book!!
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 | Revolutionary Road (Modern American Fiction) by Richard Yates
Buy used from: £3.80 I read this a couple of years ago. I was amazed this book is not more well known. Deserves to be up there with the classics. The Easter Parade as also very good. I intend to read all the Yates I can!
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.01 Read this when I was about 15 or 16 when I was a huge Nirvana fan (scentless apprentice from in utero is about this book) this book will swallow you up and not let you out 'til you've finished!
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £1.19 A very funny read. Quite a few people find it har d to get into, but it's worth your trouble. Joseph Heller died whilst I was reading this!
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 | Coming Up for Air (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £3.65 / Used from: £3.64 there's more to Orwell than animal farm and 1984. This is my favourite. Keep the aspidistra flying, is also excellent!
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