 | Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.97 Incredibly powerful book of stories set in Selby's native Brooklyn in the 50's. This book will take the wind out of your lungs and leave you with the books images printed in your mind for ever!
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 | Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics) by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Yes, this is undoubtedly a masterpiece and I've only just read it. (whilst in St Petersburg, where the book is set). I should have read this years ago!
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy used from: £1.99 Probably the most frightening book ever written - especially so, considering how accurately Orwell predicted the Big Brother world in which we now live
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.49 Another book that I'd put off reading for years because I thought I wouldn't be interested in it's war theme. Well, it's not really about war, it's about Yossarian and he's a legend!
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.97 Always powerful and real enough to bring your mood down for days even after countless reads! But it brings you down in a kind of good way!
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 | Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Buy new: £4.36 / Used from: £0.40 Surely everyone's read this?? Impossible to put down!
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 | Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £2.99 One of the most accurate and terrifyingly satrical novels ever written
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 | The Demon: A Novel by Hubert Selby Jr.
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £4.50 Every bit as powerful as Last Exit... this book is absolutely impossible to put down. You're constantly going to be wondering what's going to happen next - even though you already know!
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 | Ask the Dust by John Fante
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £1.68 Bandini the anti-hero: pitied as much as one longs to be him!
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 | Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.00 Possibly the original Ask The Dust. John Fante loved this book and so do I!
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 | Pulp: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
Buy used from: £5.00 This book is hilarious! Classic Bukowski style but for once not autobiographical. The words just flow like beer!
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 | On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £5.70 / Used from: £0.71 It's a fair critique that it's hard to like the central characters in this book. But it's classic escapism. One reads it and dreams of the open American road with not a care in the world!
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 | The Rum Diary (Bloomsbury Classic Reads) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.89 Soon to be a Bruce Robinson directed movie starring Jonny Depp. I hope it looks as I picture the scenes in this book!
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 | The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £1.97 Quite a short book this, once you start you'll easily find yourself reading it through in one sitting - and loving every minute of it!
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 | The Fuck-up by Arthur Nersesian
Buy new: £4.71 / Used from: £0.01 If you like Catcher in Rye and similar style books you'll love this. It's raw and brutal
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