 | Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.01 A timely reminder that Generation-X kids were originally the drop-outs. Of course the internet changed all that ...
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 | The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Buy used from: £1.89 I could have put every book ever written by Murakami on this list, but I'll settle for this one - a huge novel that fails gracefully
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 | London Fields by Martin Amis
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £0.01 The first book I read after leaving school, it changed my whole perspective on what reading could be
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 | The Fuck-up by Arthur Nersesian
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.04 Classic piece of indie-lit. The guy starts with zip and it goes downhill from there.
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 | Homeboy by Seth Morgan
Buy used from: £0.01 It's cult status due in no small part to the subsequent death of the author, the story of wayward characters who still know right from wrong is a page-turner from the outset
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 | 101 Reykjavik by Hallgrimur Helgason
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £0.53 An Icelandic slacker story. Need I say more?
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 | Post Office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
Buy used from: £3.60 It was so hard to get hold of Bukowski's books in the UK 20 years ago. You kids don't know how lucky you are ...
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £4.43 / Used from: £0.01 Chilling, cold and compelling - simply one of the best stories ever.
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 | Betty Blue (Abacus Books) by Philippe Djian
Buy new: £6.66 / Used from: £0.01 Blows the film completely out of the water.
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 | Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue (Vintage Classics) by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.66 A 19th century indie-novel, don't ignore it just because it's old.
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 | Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America - A Memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £0.01 I love difficult women. And as they come, only Kurt Cobain and Ted Hughes had more on their plates.
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 | Candide (Penguin Popular Classics) by Voltaire
Buy new: £2.17 / Used from: £0.01 Candide chases his dreams around the world before coming to the conclusion that life is better spent looking after one's garden.
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 | Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Buy new: £4.77 / Used from: £0.01 Catcher In The Rye for the new millenium
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 | Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: The novel which became 'Blade Runner' (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.96 Bleak picture of an owl-less world.
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 | Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £6.27 / Used from: £3.24 The best title for a book, ever. But what on earth are those inklings about?
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