 | Lucky Jim (Penguin Modern Classics) by Kingsley Amis
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £1.40 Quite simply, the funniest book ever written.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. Salinger
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £2.35 For I while I thought I was Holden.
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 | Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Buy used from: £7.21 Still jus as funny as when it was written.
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £4.08 / Used from: £0.71 Brilliant and moving: the template for all coming-of-age stories
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 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce
Buy used from: £3.28 For me, Joyce's finest.
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 | Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
Buy used from: £0.01 Speilberg's movie is just as good, if not better.
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.20 Scared the pants off me when I first read it at 16.
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 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.91 Pure magic (realism).
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 | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £3.75 Wrath is an understatement.
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £1.70 Tragic, hysterical, satirical anti-war perfection.
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