 | Diary of a Nobody (Wordsworth Classics) by George Grossmith
Buy new: £1.79 / Used from: £0.01 Poking fun at middle-class mores at the end of the 19th century.
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 | Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jerome K. Jerome
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 The book I've re-read most. Sentimental, funny and irresistable.
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 | Dead Souls (Penguin Classics) by Nikolai Gogol
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £4.51 Brilliant humourous evocation of 19th Century Russia.
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 | The Devils: (The Possessed) (Classics) by Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky
Buy new: £3.88 / Used from: £0.58 Chilling yet funny portrait of bogus Russian revolutionaries.
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 | A Dance to the Music of Time: Spring Vol 1 (Dance to the Music of Time) by Anthony Powell
Buy new: £9.45 / Used from: £9.45 12 consecutive novels to limber you up to try Proust! Absorbing.
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 | Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Henry Miller
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £3.70 Sexy , funny and so exuberant. Paris in the twenties.
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 | Slaughterhouse 5: The Children's Crusade - A Dirty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £3.00 Genre setting treatment of war with interlaced fantasy.
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 | The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.00 The best of his non heroic heroes. Plenty of Irishness in this one.
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 | A Son of the Circus by John Irving
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Launches straight in to his off-beat world. Read them all!
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 | Vanity Fair (Penguin Popular Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
Buy new: £1.81 / Used from: £0.01 The best of the 19th century heavyweight social dramas.
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 | The Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy used from: £3.47 Post Russian revolution satanic comedy masterpiece.
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 | Hand-reared Boy (Independent Voices) (Independent Voices) by Brian W. Aldiss
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.47 1st of trilogy. Highly evocative memoir of sexual awakening.
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 | Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £1.65 Non-fiction about bullfighting on a surface level. Macho stuff!
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 | Vile Bodies (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £3.77 / Used from: £3.02 Brilliant evocation of rich young things in the 1920's
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 | P. G. Wodehouse Life At Blandings Omnibus: Something Fresh, Summer Lightning, and, Heavy Weather by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £6.95 Just three from many hilarious country house sagas.
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 | Travels with My Aunt (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £2.24 His most approachable and easily absorbed book.
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 | The Trial (Vintage Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £2.89 Such things as nightmares are made of.
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 | The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
Buy used from: £2.66 Topical choice with author recently in the news
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 | The Plague (Essential Penguin) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £3.77 / Used from: £1.00 Bleak and yet uplifting.
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 | Earthly Powers (Vintage Classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £3.99 A much harder read, but worth the effort
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 | Palimpsest: A Memoir by Gore Vidal
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £2.15 Autobiography of a fascinating life and times in the USA
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 | Borstal Boy (Arena Books) by Brendan Behan
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.97 That lovable Irish twinkly thing shines through adversity
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 | The Pickwick Papers (Wordsworth Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £1.86 / Used from: £0.01 The lighter essence of Dickens
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 | The Big Sleep (Penguin Fiction) by Raymond Chandler
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £1.50 Unashamedly brash and appealing to fantasists everywhere
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 | On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £3.68 / Used from: £2.75 Iconic to the those like me growing up in the late 50's/early 60's.
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