 | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.91 Clever, inspiring, wonderful.
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 | The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room" by Paul Auster
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.13 Mind-boggling yet taut wander through New York.
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 | The Trial (Vintage Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £3.23 Scary, unsettling and utterly comical. Always return to it thinking 'is this the best book ever written?'
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 | The Clay Machine Gun by Viktor Pelevin
Buy used from: £8.54 Like having a challenging and upsetting dream in an undergound nightclub.
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 | Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Classy introduction to Ballard's shocking but accurate view of modern society.
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 | Rhinoceros: WITH The Chairs (Penguin Modern Classics) by Eugene Ionesco
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £4.98 Everyone turns into a rhino; what more do you need from a play.
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 | Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.86 Cute and popular yet carries a mystique that starts you thinking.
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 | Beckett Trilogy: "Molloy", "Malone Dies", "The Unnamable" by Samuel Beckett
Buy new: £21.39 / Used from: £48.12 Like rubbing stones against your face; thorough, unforgiving, yet ultimately rewarding.
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 | Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy new: £10.78 / Used from: £0.01 Overlooked, confusing, brilliant. Pop culture cliche blown to bits.
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 | The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 I think of Roth as a man who just can't stop writing, and thank god.
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