 | The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.01 Started the year with this . One of my favourite authors but not one of his strongest works.
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 | Slash: The Autobiography by Slash
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £1.75 Rock n Roll debauchery on a level with the Motley crue book .
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 | Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin
Buy new: £4.92 / Used from: £1.00 Entertaining memoir of Steve's early days.
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 | Moab is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.68 Fry is a national treasure and this is a well written and amusing book . Shame it only covers the first 18 years of his life.
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 | Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £10.65 Very funny book about the life of the Oscar winning former stripper.
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 | Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: £5.37 / Used from: £3.07 The film was moving and inspirational and this book gave alot of depth to the story.
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 | The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Buy new: £4.24 / Used from: £0.01 Tragic but very well written especially given the manor in which it was written.
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 | The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £2.50 Pretty bleak stuff .Hard to enjoy but easy to admire.
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 | Yes Man by Danny Wallace
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.20 My first and certainly not the last Wallace book. Strangely inspirational..looking forward to seeing the movie.
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 | Things the Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett
Buy used from: £8.24 Really loved this book . Devoured it in a couple of days.
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 | Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £6.39 See comments RE - The Road
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 | American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy used from: £0.01 Been meaning to read this for ages , found it in the charity shop for a quid . A darkly satirical gem.
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 | Are You Dave Gorman? by Dave Gorman
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 A delightfully silly book . makes me want to go on a quest like that.
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 | Blindness by Jose Saramago
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.19 One of my favoutites of the year . Thoroughly reccomend it .
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 | The Beach (Penguin Celebrations) by Alex Garland
Buy used from: £1.00 Wasn't sure i'd like this , but I got it free with The Times and gave it a go. Really glad I did as it was excellent. Film was atrocious and Hollywoodised.
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 | Join Me: The True Story of a Man Who Started a Cult by Accident by Danny Wallace
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.01 Another crazy quest from Wallace . Just as good as Yes Man.
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 | The Tesseract by Alex Garland
Buy used from: £0.01 Another charity shop find . Not quite as good as The Beach but still well worth a go.
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 | Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £3.97 Poorly reviewed but I liked . A typically dark and twisted book about the filming of the worlds biggest gang bang.
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 | Black Like ME by John Howard Griffin
Buy used from: £0.65 Pretty controversial for its time . A white man undergoing a medical procedure to darken his skin and keeping a diary of his experiences of racial prejudice in the 1950's deep south.
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 | Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £1.50 Like a lot of people swept up on his election win I gave this a go. I suppose I should have expected it from a politicians memoirs ..worthy but a bit dull . The only one of the year I gave up on.
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 | Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.70 Pretty disgusting in places but I thought this was an excellent book from another of my favourite authors . Uniquelly written and structured.
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 | Why Do I Say These Things? by Jonathan Ross
Buy used from: £0.01 Got this for christmas and it seemed like a bit of light hearted fun to end the year on ...especially following Haunted , haven't got that far yet.
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