 | David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy used from: £0.01 I think I'd like to meet Dickens down the pub.
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 | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £3.50 For non-practising homosexuals everywhere.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. Salinger
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.83 My favourite book.
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 | On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £5.05 / Used from: £1.75 Beaut.
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 | War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.01 Half of the meaning of life.
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 | The Brothers Karamazov (Penguin Classics) by F. M. Dostoevsky
Buy used from: £1.43 The other half.
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 | Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.36 And, er, the other half.
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 | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 I loved this.
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 | The Lord of The Rings (Based on the 50th Anniversary Single volume edition 2004) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £12.47 / Used from: £0.01 A good old yarn. Which is what it's all about.
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 | Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £4.68 Largely an obscene book. Contains many profundities.
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 | Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £2.77 A right laugh, like.
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy used from: £0.01 Read Bleak House too, if you get the chance.
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 | Underworld by Don DeLillo
Buy used from: £3.50 What's all this Great American Novel business, anyway. THIS IS!
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 | Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £5.44 / Used from: £0.01 Something near to genius, I reckon, in its way.
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 | Bluebeard (Delta Fiction) by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy used from: £3.99 Should be hovering somewhere inside my top ten, when I think about it.
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Or as my mate Fraser calls it, The Unbearable Lightness of Being Posh.
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.41 / Used from: £1.64 Beautiful. Might as well have been my number one.
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 | Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Buy new: £6.66 / Used from: £0.01 One of those books that mixes a good thriller plot up with a bit of thinking....
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 | The Cornish Trilogy (The Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, and, The Lyre of Orpheus): What's Bred in the Bone, The Rebel Angels, The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies
Buy new: £11.16 / Used from: £6.11 This one's a feast.
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 | Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £0.91 Same type of fare as the last two. Check out the Name of the Rose, too.
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 | Fatherland by Robert Harris
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 It'll probably take you about an hour to read this one. It's that good.
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 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £4.01 / Used from: £0.01 He reminds me a bit of Davros, but this is a great book. It sweeps you away.
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 | The Dork of Cork by Chet Raymo
Buy used from: £1.91 One of those stories where a character becomes one of your main muckers.
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 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre
Buy used from: £1.79 All three in the trilogy are brilliant. Didn't know if it would be my kind of thing. Really enjoyed them.
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 | Arnold: Education of a Body Builder by Arnold Schwarzenegger
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £10.25 Not strictly a story, but has to be included anyway. A very spiritual text. I'm not even joking, either.
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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 Mine's a bear, apparantley. I really wanted an otter, but there it is.
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 | Arabian Nights: Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics) by PENGUIN GROUP (UK)
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £3.00 Miles better than you think it's going to be.
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