 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Life altering and philosophical.
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 | Post Office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
Buy used from: £2.96 Funny, brilliant, completely different to everything else you've ever read. Reading Bukowski isn't like reading at all.
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 | Valley of the Dolls (Virago Modern Classics) by Jacqueline Susann
Buy new: £6.45 / Used from: £3.06 This hasn't really aged whatsoever. Kind of trashy. Unputdownable.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £1.42 I love Holden Caulfield. Everyone should read this book.
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy used from: £1.95 Chilling but essential reading.
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 | Junky (Essential Penguin) by William S Burroughs
Buy used from: £1.70 This amuses me. Like Bukowski but a bit more downtrodden.
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 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.20 Makes me feel not alone. It's really sad she died so young.
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 | The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £1.44 This is really empowering (not to sound all Oprah or anything). Makes you want to throw away your make up.
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 | Cat's Cradle (Essential Penguin) by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.93 / Used from: £2.69 This is just brilliant. Vonnegut is hilariously funny and odd and this should be read by everyone with a sense of humour or a brain.
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 | Factotum by Charles Bukowski
Buy used from: £3.83 Just good and Bukowski-esque.
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 | Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £2.48 Makes you feel bad for Bukowski. Bukowski is king though.
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.42 / Used from: £2.00 Funny.
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 | Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America - A Memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Buy new: £5.22 / Used from: £0.01 The Bell Jar for the nineties.
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 | Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World by Sarah Vowell
Buy used from: £0.01 The hot chocolate of the book world.
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 | Zazie in the Metro (Penguin Modern Classics) by Raymond Queneau
Buy used from: £1.73 Brill. Like you're watching a film.
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 | Steppenwolf (Essential Penguin) by Hermann Hesse
Buy new: £5.72 / Used from: £2.49 |
 | The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: £5.32 / Used from: £3.61 Beautiful book.
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 | Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
Buy used from: £0.01 |
 | Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera
Buy used from: £8.98 |
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