![]() | The Magus by John Fowles
Buy used from: £0.09 This is one of the finest books any one could hope to read, compelling from start to finish. I envy anyone who is yet to be captured under it's spell.
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![]() | Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Buy used from: £0.01 uncompromising and gritty this is a beautifully crafted novel.
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![]() | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (New Directions Paperbook) by T Williams
Buy used from: £4.31 'Cat....' is the finest of Williams tales - The temperature is high, the amotsphere could be cut with a knife and then a few home truths are told.
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![]() | The Outsider (Essential Penguin) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £2.56 A short and deeply disturbing novel.
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![]() | The Man in the High Castle (Roc) by Philip K. Dick
Buy used from: £2.48 Ignore the fact that it's sci-fi, anyone can enjoy this - the social tension is tangible throughout.
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![]() | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 A bit different than most of the books here, its a good story nontheless and well told.
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![]() | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.60 A great stage play, very witty and thought provoking.
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![]() | All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £2.54 Superior to Birdsong in many ways, but very different and leaves an overiding feeling of sadness.
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![]() | The Pearl (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £5.34 / Used from: £0.01 Simple in presentation but has some great underlying philosophy.
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![]() | They Shoot Horses, Dont They? (Midnight classics) by Horace McCoy
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £4.95 Bleak, desperate and an uncomfortable read, this is a classic tale of people desperate to better themselves at all costs.
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![]() | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £1.50 This is just amazing, nothing compares to the genius behind the plot and devestating conclusion!
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![]() | Death and the Penguin (Panther) by Andrey Kurkov
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.48 I hadn't heard of this guy before I read this, the book was recomended to me by a friend and it doesn't disapoint. Darkly funny and very original.
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![]() | A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £2.87 A masterpiece of tradgedy and comedy, never has a book made me laugh out loud this much before.
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![]() | Le Grand Meaulnes (Penguin Modern Classics) by Henri Alain-Fournier
Buy used from: £6.49 I was strangely drawn back to this recently, it has certain qualities that are rare to find in modern fiction.
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![]() | A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy used from: £0.01 I know Dickens isn't everone's cup of tea - but this is cool, honest.
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![]() | The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargos Llosa
Buy new: £5.50 / Used from: £0.47 This is really moving stuff and a great way to learn more about the murky history of the Dominican Republic.
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![]() | Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.64 Short and sweet - this is Marquez at his story telling best.
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![]() | South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Buy used from: £1.00 Perhaps not Murakami's best known work, but my favourite so far.
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![]() | Ubik (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £2.46 Multi-layered and always keeps you guessing until the end. Very clever superior sci-fi tale.
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![]() | Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Buy new: £6.66 / Used from: £0.01 Facinating reading and not a bad film either, well worth checking out.
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![]() | Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.98 Compelling and at times disturbing to read, fans of fight club will not be disappointed.
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![]() | Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Buy used from: £0.01 As cool a novel now as it was 20 years ago when I first read it.
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![]() | Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy used from: £0.18 Orwell's finest? Probably.
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![]() | The World According to Garp (Black Swan) by John Irving
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 I wasn't sure about this at first but it really grew on me, well worth having a look at.
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![]() | Post Office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
Buy used from: £2.96 The chronicle of a man pretty hard done by, sounds great right?
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