 | Story of the Eye: By Lord Auch (Penguin Modern Classics) by Georges Bataille
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £2.18 The most surreal, metaphysical and dark book ever known to man. Bataille's masterpiece couldn't ever disappoint.
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 | Blue of Noon (Penguin Modern Classics) by Georges Bataille
Buy used from: £8.99 Another Bataille classic, fans of Nietszche and nihilism will love this apocalyptic visionary that will live on perpetually in the world of literature.
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 | The Atrocity Exhibition: Annotated (Flamingo Modern Classics) by J.G. Ballard
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.70 This is thee best surreal novel ever written! A great piece of transgressive literature that still baffles even the most open minded of readers. A tour-de-force of nightmarish landscapes and celebs.
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 | Crash (Vintage Blue) by J.G. Ballard
Buy used from: £1.00 It'd shocked the world and it still shocks now. Ballard's novel explores darkest areas of eroticism - the world of car crash fetishism.
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 | Last Exit to Brooklyn (Bloomsbury Classic Reads) by Hubert Selby Jr.
Buy used from: £2.92 Disturbing, no-hold-barred account of life in the roughest area of New York - Brooklyn. Selby isn't for the faint of heart, his words are strong and his visions stay with you violently!
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 | Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.67 An under-rated book by Paluhnuik, the hype over one of the stories (in which caused people to faint) may have overshadowed most of its brutal genius!
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 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.00 Dark and haunting, this is a portrayal of a young female lost and depressed, one of the truest accounts of manic depression and desperation. It is easy to lose yourself in Plath's poetic abyss.
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 | Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley
Buy new: £8.76 / Used from: £8.18 Crowley's portrait of drug addiction is a great book of fiction (even though it merely reflected his own personal life). If this was a book by Hunter S. Thompson, this would be a more acclaimed novel.
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 | Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics) by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 The nihilistic masterpiece in all of its glory will live forever! A story of survival, injustice, freedom, religion and politics is one of thee best literature works in history.
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 | 120 Days of Sodom (Arena Books) by Marquis De Sade D.A.F.
Buy new: £10.39 / Used from: £8.11 Unclean, bestial, repulsive, inhumane, cruel and of course sadistic (derived from 'DeSade' itself) this is his extreme attack against capitalism and bourgeois rules. Read if you dare!
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 | Heart Of Darkness : by Joseph Conrad
Buy used from: £0.01 This is an intricate novel but it pushes the boundries of literature in every sense. It is in many ways incoherent but the visions it offers you are rich and profound. A must read!
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