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Books wot are my favouristist to reed.
Brighton RockBrighton Rock by Graham Greene
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.81
Sociopathic teenage gang leader goes about obsessing over sex and killing folk. Sounds bad, sure, but you know what kids are like at that age, probably just his hormones.
To Kill a MockingbirdTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.30 / Used from: £0.91
Rumor has it Truman Capote wrote this, not Harper Lee. Frankly I don't care if Ronald McDonald wrote it, it's bloody brilliant.
The Cone Gatherers: A Haunting Story of Violence and Love (Canongate Classics)The Cone Gatherers: A Haunting Story of Violence and Love (Canongate Classics) by Robin Jenkins
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £2.20
It's a haunting story of...oh.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics)The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £3.96 / Used from: £0.98
Worried this would just be full of jokes about flowers n teaspoons, but it's vicious. Murder, suicide, drugs. Think Tarantino in knickerbockers...with added jokes about flowers and teaspoons.
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five PartsThe Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £12.27 / Used from: £6.80
Look, let's be honest, nobody has a clue what Stephen Hawking is on about so your better off reading this. Also written by a genius of sorts, it's suprisingly informative with much much better gags.
Nineteen Eighty-FourNineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £3.08
One man’s nightmarish struggle against an oppressive state in which your every move is monitored and controlled by Big Brother. On the plus side tho, no sign of Davina McCall. Every cloud n all that.
Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No DogsRotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs by John Lydon
Buy new: £8.57 / Used from: £4.44
First hand account of a rebellious life before, during and after punk. Funny and balanced (includes interviews with people who hate him). There's nothing he hasn't seen...apart from maybe a toothbrush
Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Classics)Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley
Buy new: £4.08 / Used from: £0.72
It's sort of like the modern Prom...oh
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: a Novel (Penguin Modern Classics)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: a Novel (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ken Kesey
Buy new: £5.02 / Used from: £2.10
Pretty inspiratinal tale about not letting yourself be worn down and institutionalised. Just you wait, fourty years time ther won't be an old folks home in the land can hold me.
HolesHoles by Louis Sachar
Buy new: £4.36 / Used from: £0.01
Yeah it's a kids book, but it also happens to be an amazing. Poison, lynching, shootings, slave labour, crime, money, gypsy curses - all the stuff kids are into these days.
David Copperfield: Personal History of David Copperfield: The Personal History of David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)David Copperfield: Personal History of David Copperfield: The Personal History of David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.52
Of all the Dickens I've read this is my favourite, mainly cos this is all the Dickens I've read. All the usual ups and downs: fun and laughter, violence and crulety, wealth and joy, death and despair.
Things the Grandchildren Should KnowThings the Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett
Think Dave had it bad? Get a load of this. Life story of E from the Eels. Really well written and incredibly chipper for a man who ended up the sole surviving member of his family by forty.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Penguin Classics)The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Penguin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £1.35
Suppose you could see this as a dark drug novel of sorts. Think Irvine Welsh in a cravat.
Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with DeathSlaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £3.02
Is he a time traveller? Is he a mad old war veteran. Do you care? If so, read this.
Bound for Glory (Penguin Modern Classics)Bound for Glory (Penguin Modern Classics) by Woody Guthrie
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £5.49
Facinating first hand account from the folk singer who witnessed an oil boom, economic bust and world war. Not all bad, few camp fire singalongs too. Inspired a certain somebody's autobiograpy.
Heart of Darkness (Penguin Classics)Heart of Darkness (Penguin Classics) by Joseph Conrad
Buy new: £4.32 / Used from: £2.52
It's really haunting, really atmospheric, but perhaps most importantly of all it's really short.
Chronicles: Volume OneChronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £0.01
A certain somebody's autobiography.
The Time Machine (Penguin Classics)The Time Machine (Penguin Classics) by H.G. Wells
Buy new: £4.42 / Used from: £1.98
Just found out Wells was a suppourter of Eugenics and used this book to make his point. If it had worked I'd of been dead...still, jolly good read.
The ChrysalidsThe Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £2.77
Don't mistreat people with an extra toe. You might not like where they eventually end up sticking it
The Secret HistoryThe Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £5.38 / Used from: £0.01
I'll level with you, I haven't actually read this yet - I'm gonna - but I mean, look at her name. Hee-hee-hee. Donna Tartt. Lost your respect, haven't I?