 | The Collector (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £3.50 Creepy. Fowles is amazing.
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £4.80 / Used from: £0.01 Great story for adults and children. I like the pictures too.
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 | American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £2.59 Not for the faint-hearted.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £1.96 'Don't ever tell anybody anything, if you do you start missing everybody'
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 | Nights at the Circus (Vintage Crucial Classics) by Angela Carter
Buy used from: £3.99 utterly original, spectacular settings and a great host of characters - what more could you ask for?
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 | The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Not in the canon but a fantastic book. This book will teach you how to be at one with schizophrenia
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 | The French Lieutenant's Woman (Reading Guide Edition) by John Fowles
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £2.47 Anyone who mocks the Victorians with such flare is fine by me
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 | Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Thackeray
Buy new: £6.02 / Used from: £0.41 About the quasi-rise and fall of Rebecca Sharp and the various immoral people she encounters on her quest for money and status.
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 | The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.80 Now this is what an 'english' novel should be, stiff upper lip and suffer in silence - very merchant ivory don't you think?
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 | Where I'm Calling from: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £4.85 Cathartic. Wouldn't mind having this book with me if I was stranded on an island with wild beasts - after all, it could always be worse, I could be one of Carver's characters
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 | Laughter in the Dark (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.36 http://litarture.blogspot.com/2008/07/thinking-of-having-affair-of-leaving.html
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Dickens at his best, if you've never read anything by Dickens then this is a good place to start.
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 | Complete Dramatic Works by Samuel Beckett
Buy used from: £4.58 Opium for the masses
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