 | Desolation Angels (Paladin Books) by Jack Kerouac
Buy used from: £2.86 If your a fan of contemplating the void, as Kerouac, you need to read this book... top rating
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 | For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.50 Hemingways books are so simple and encapsulating - they are like lullabys for grownups..
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 | Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.75 Orwell at his most captivating! Although non-fiction, this is a real nice read.. been so long since I read it, but it still stands out in my mind...
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 | Rumi: Whispers of the Beloved by Jelaluddin Rumi
Buy new: £1.76 / Used from: £0.30 Rumi - the sun that warms and transforms hearts, attracting people from all creeds, classes and religions.
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 | Dubliners (Collector's Library) by James Joyce
Buy new: £3.06 / Used from: £2.49 The name James Joyce should not put off anyone from reading a book. This book reads easily and is a real nice starter that will surely make you a fan...
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 | The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Buy used from: £0.01 If your feeling philisophical - pick it up. Never disapoints! Another book that will stay in your memory for years...
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 | Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £3.12 / Used from: £3.90 Chuk's books are a real twist. This or Choke should be enough to haunt you for a while..
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 | Moon Palace by Paul Auster
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.86 Paul's books are really well written, this being my favourite. The beach would have been my choice.. alas its not a virgin runway anymore. Cheers Leonardo.
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 | Hell's Angels (Penguin Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: £3.69 / Used from: £4.25 HST. Gonzo journalism at its finest. If you haven't read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, lower your head in shame..
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 | The Wicked Wit of Oscar Wilde: Centenary Edition by Oscar Wilde
Buy used from: £0.27 To get back one's youth, one merely has to repeat one's follies.
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 | Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by William S. Burroughs
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £3.58 Godfather of the Beats
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 | Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.20 low-pay, low-prestige, no-future jobs. Need a lift?
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 | Rimbaud by Graham Robb
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.73 The inspiration for so many people of the 20th century, from Jim Morrison to Bob Dylan and beyond....
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 | Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £5.45 Miguel de Cervantes masterpiece... sketches of Spain with his sidekick Sancho!
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Red Classics) by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £2.72 The rich. New York style... a classic from Fitzgerald. This and his short stories stick out as great reads..
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 | Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions) by Conrad
Buy new: £8.54 / Used from: £6.61 The book Apocalyps Now was based on.. A real adventure story. Reads easy too...
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 | Imperial Ambitions: Conversations with Noam Chomsky on the Post-9/11 World by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: £8.77 / Used from: £2.22 Not clever enough to make your own ideas? Fine. Use one of the worlds leading intellectuals!
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 | The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia by Lutz Kleveman
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.89 Real interesting read, not a boring page in the book! Recognise and understand the countries that we hear in the news every day..
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.99 Cult classic. What makes it more interesting is the alleged relationship with this book and psychotics...
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £1.59 A cant-put-it-down fiction. Real classic.
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 | The Plague (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £3.62 My favourite from Camus... Reminds me a bit of Orwells Homage to Catalonia..
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £3.50 Haven't read any better Latin American literature...
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 | Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jorge Luis Borges
Buy new: £3.70 / Used from: £4.00 Great short stories...
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 | The Metamorphosis (Dover Thrift) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £1.19 / Used from: £0.01 'As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning after disturbing dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect'
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 | Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy used from: £1.53 WWII fiction. a suprisingly interesting read....
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