 | House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Buy new: £16.48 / Used from: £11.99 Johnny discovers a trunk full of notes written by a blind man, describing a documentary film called "The Navidson Record" that deals with the terrifying events that have taken place on Ash Tree Lane.
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 | The Half Brother by Lars Saabye Christensen
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.22 Barnum retraces 50 years in his family's unconventional history, which begins with the rape of his mother at the end of World War II. From this crime, Barnum's half-brother, Fred, is conceived.
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 | Sometimes When You Pursue the Beast, It Eats You: by Nkrumah Shabazz Steward
Buy used from: £21.10 Offspring of the brilliant 8bm.com. Biting social and political commentary that is spot on and extremely entertaining! Includes over 200 articles on a range of different subjects.
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 | Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines by Bill Hicks
Buy used from: £6.02 This collection features Hicks's controversial humor and witheringly funny attacks on American culture, from its worship of celebrity and material goods to its involvement in the first Gulf War.
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 | Last Chance to See.... by Douglas Adams
Buy used from: £9.40 The BBC asked Adams and his team to film some of the most endangered animal species throughout the world.The photographs are in two separate sections and help readers to visualize the unusual animals.
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 | The Book of General Ignorance (A Quite Interesting Book) by John Lloyd
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £0.01 So you think Alexander Graeme Bell invented the telephone? - Compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes culled from the wonderful BBC show, QI.
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 | The Complete Calvin and Hobbes: v. 1, 2, 3 (Calvin & Hobbes) by Bill Watterson
Buy used from: £41.25 Comic strip following the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative six-year old boy, and Hobbes, his energetic and sardonic—albeit stuffed—tiger.
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 | The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Buy used from: £10.95 "Don't panic!" - Arthur Dent's boring life in the West Country is changed one morning when contractors pull up to his house in order to demolish it to make way for a "hyperspace bypass".
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 | Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox
Buy new: £6.26 / Used from: £0.79 "Typical!" - Anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people.
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 | America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart
Buy used from: £2.30 America-The Book: A very funny 2004 bestseller that parodies & satirizes US politics & worldview, the media, the 2-party system, voting & campaigns. I recommend the audio book narrated by Jon Stewart.
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 | The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal by Desmond Morris
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.72 Desmond Morris was the first to watch the naked ape in a different way: not as a human interpreting other humans, but as zoologist watching apes.
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 | A Class Divided: Then and Now by Peters
Buy new: £8.95 / Used from: £24.26 Examines how a "discrimination" exercise in 1970 affected children participants then and in 1984.
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 | King Rat by China Mieville
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 China Miéville's urban fantasy novel, King Rat, is inspired by the unlikeliest of sources, the Rat King legend and the Pied Piper of Hamelin fairy tale.
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 | Beatles by Lars Saabye Christensen
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £4.36 My all-time favourite book. ~ Kim Karlsen and his three buddies Gunnar, Ola and Seb do occasionally like to think of themselves as the Fab Four. Beatles is the story of their friendship.
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 | The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Buy used from: £3.50 2006 bestselling non-fiction book. - "When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." ~ R. Pirsig
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 | The Model by Lars Saabye Christensen
Buy new: £6.88 / Used from: £0.33 A painter is diagnosed with an eye disease. He asks an old friend, a washed-up oculist for help. But the price for his eyesight is high. A brilliant portrayal of an artist's obsession.
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 | The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.01 There're many hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no words exist. This text uses place names to describe some of these.
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 | Brain Droppings by George Carlin
Buy new: £7.12 / Used from: £0.01 Contains much of Carlin's stand-up comedy material on people, politics, religion, and the silly things we do in life.
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 | The Demon-haunted World by Carl Sagan
Buy used from: £25.00 Sagan muses on the current state of scientific thought (and pseudoscience). The book is intended to explain the scientific method to laypeople, & to encourage people to learn critical thinking.
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 | I'm Not Stiller (Swiss Literature) by Michael Bullock
Buy used from: £2.36 Mr. White traveling in Switzerland is arrested & accused of being Anatol Stiller, a famous sculptor, wanted by the police. Is he Stiller or isn't he?
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 | The Education of Koko by Francine Patterson
Buy used from: £0.67 Koko, a lowland gorilla, learns to adapt to speak American Sign Language. - Non-fiction.
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 | Hotel Paradise by Martha Grimes
Buy used from: £0.81 A provocative study of lonely people and a delightful read. An enchanting portrait of spunky Emma Graham, the 12-year-old narrator, an incorrigibly inquisitive girl with a love of rib-sticking food.
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 | The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (New English library) by Stephen King
Buy used from: £0.01 A 9-year-old girl, smart and resourceful, gets herself lost in the deep woods when she strays off the path for a moment and struggles to survive with a little food & not especially sensible clothing.
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 | Gerald's Game by Stephen King
Buy new: £6.56 / Used from: £0.01 Jessie accidentally kills her husband, and is trapped. Each hand cuffed to a bedpost, the keys out of reach, Jessie howls for help. As the long hours pass, shadows start growing all around her.
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 | Dr. Neruda's Cure for Evil by Rafael Yglesias
Buy used from: £0.70 Searching for a cure for his own evil, a renowned psychologist discovers he must delve into his own past and confront the nature of evil itself.
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