 | Foundation (The Foundation Series) by Isaac Asimov
Buy new: £4.42 / Used from: £0.01 The Classic Asimov novel. About the struggle of humanity in a distant future, and how collective action and conscience can make a difference.
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £12.15 / Used from: £3.00 This book needs no introduction. A warning from a writer of genius.
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 | The Making of the English Working Class (Penguin History) by E. P. Thompson
Buy new: £15.97 / Used from: £4.69 Long, inaccessable, polemical. A worthwhile classic about the Common People during the British Industrial Revolution.
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 | The Age of Revolution: Europe, 1789-1848 by E.J. Hobsbawm
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £3.38 This classic takes a more worldwide perspective to Thompson. One of many classic works from Hobsbawm.
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 | Capital: An Abridged Edition (Oxford World's Classics) by Karl Marx
Buy used from: £6.10 Another worthwhile but difficult classic. Often termed "One of the most unread bestsellers ever!" Marx's theory is here for all to behold. Take from it what you will.
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 | The Communist Manifesto (Oxford World's Classics) by Karl Marx
Buy used from: £0.05 Easier and shorter than Capital. Worth reading and still relevant.
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 | The Condition of the Working Class in England (Oxford World's Classics) by Friedrich Engels
Buy used from: £4.00 An excellent piece of investigative journalism that did a lot to delveop Engels' own ideas.
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 | The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
Buy used from: £5.58 A more down-to Earth futuristic detective story from the master of science fiction.
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 | Prelude to Foundation (The Foundation Series) by Isaac Asimov
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Asimov came back to write this prequel after a long period away from the Foundation series. Many of his ideas have brilliantly matured in the intervening half a century. Well worth reading.
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 | The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe
Buy used from: £0.01 An odd choice is such company. However, humour says a lot about us, as does this classic tale of growing up in the 70s.
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 | Brave New World (Flamingo Modern Classics) by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: £4.18 Another dystopian future. Says a lot about the period Huxley was writing.
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 | For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.42 Hemingway's classic novel of the Spanish civil war.
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 | The Lord of the Rings 3 book boxset (movie covers) by J. R. R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £6.98 Why is this book the most popular of the 20th Century? I think anyone who has read it can answer that question.
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 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Penguin Popular Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 This tragic tale should be read by anyone interested in the condition of humanity.
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 | Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
Buy used from: £0.01 Claudia Hampton lives through the broad sweep of the 20th Century. War peace and love all come to her. Touching and gripping.
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