 | Finnegans Wake (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £8.41 / Used from: £6.37 It'll be translated into English one day.
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 | Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £3.25 The longest example of Chick Lit ever.
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 | The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel (Classics) by Francois Rabelais
Buy used from: £0.01 Classic filth!
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 | The Iliad (Oxford World's Classics) by Homer
Buy used from: £0.01 I can't consider myself to be well read without having tackled this baby...
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 | The Aeneid (Oxford World's Classics) by Virgil
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.34 ...and this one.
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 | The Sleepwalkers: a Trilogy by Hermann Broch
Buy used from: £4.74 Milan Kundera told me to buy it.
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 | Being and Nothingness: Essay on Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy used from: £8.49 Pretentious, moi?
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 | Discourse on Method and the Meditations (Classics) by Rene Descartes
Buy used from: £0.48 OK, yes, I am pretentious...
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 | The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato
Buy used from: £0.37 ...but not enough to have actually read this stuff.
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 | The Ethics of Aristotle (Classics) by Aristotle
Buy used from: £0.01 Ethics? I prefer Thuththex.
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 | The Bhagavad-gita (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
Buy new: £5.13 / Used from: £2.04 The best English translation, apparently.
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 | The Upanishads (Classics)
Buy new: £4.65 / Used from: £2.32 Ditto.
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 | Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.08 Thomas Pynchon doesn't do minimalism.
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 | Underworld by Don DeLillo
Buy new: £8.56 / Used from: £0.01 Don Delillo doesn't do minimalism either.
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 | Earthly Powers (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy used from: £6.67 I hope this one isn't all written in Nadsat.
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 | Great Apes by Will Self
Buy new: £6.84 / Used from: £0.01 Hey, hey, we're the monkeys!
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 | Critique Of Pure Reason (Everyman) by Immanuel Kant
Buy used from: £1.90 More pretentious stuff that looks good on the bookshelf...
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 | Capital: An Abridged Edition (Oxford World's Classics) by Karl Marx
Buy used from: £6.10 ...which is supposed to make me seem like an interesting person...
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 | Leviathan (English Library) by Thomas Hobbes
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £0.26 ...but signally fails.
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 | The Social Contract (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Buy new: £3.29 / Used from: £0.63 Oh dear, this really is basic stuff...
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 | Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Paine
Buy used from: £1.90 ...that I ought to have read many years ago.
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 | Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.01 I love Marquez, but I just haven't got around to this one somehow.
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 | The Idiot by F.M. Dostoyevsky
Buy used from: £0.01 Ditto for old Laughing Fyodor.
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 | England's Dreaming: The "Sex Pistols" and Punk Rock by Jon Savage
Buy used from: £5.00 The past of the "no future" brigade.
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 | Remembrance of Things Past: v.1: Vol 1 (Penguin Classics) by Marcel Proust
Buy used from: £0.92 The Big One. I need to regain quite a bit of lost time to read this.
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