![]() | A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Buy used from: £0.01 Life's important questions probed on New Year's Eve night from various points of view. Beautifully written, sad and funny. Easily his best book since HIGH FIDELITY.
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![]() | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Buy used from: £0.22 Phenomenal and dazzling debut, primarily about two brothers surviving the death of their parents. Dave Eggers is brilliant and this book will stand the test of time.
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![]() | Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy used from: £2.47 Possibly Vonnegut's best book -- certainly an enjoyable read!
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![]() | Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £2.70 Another enjoyable Vonnegut book that will leave you smiling.
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![]() | The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 An extremely enjoyable work for those (few) of you unfamiliar with it.
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![]() | Post Office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
Buy used from: £2.99 Blunt and funny -- for times when you've lost all patience for precious literature.
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![]() | Factotum by Charles Bukowski
Buy used from: £3.98 Another enjoyable down-and-out romp through blasted America.
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![]() | The Losers Club by Richard Perez
Buy new: £6.38 / Used from: £2.17 From the neo-Bukowski school. If you've ever dreamt of being a writer and have nothing to show for it but a mountain of rejection letters, then you'll understand this book! Also funny.
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![]() | Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Buy used from: £0.01 Of course, I needed to include this classic romp.
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![]() | The Acid House by Irvine Welsh
Buy new: £5.02 / Used from: £0.01 A collection of shorter bits -- quite excellent.
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![]() | Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £4.61 / Used from: £2.95 Ennui in America. Go on pick a fight!
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![]() | Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.00 Another very smart book from this superb cutting-edge author.
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![]() | Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.95 Another phenomenal novel from the author of Fight Club.
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![]() | High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £8.06 / Used from: £1.99 Beautifully Written -- and highly entertaining -- novel about loneliness and the impossibility of understanding the opposite sex. We've all been there.
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![]() | Less Than Zero (Picador Books) by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy used from: £0.01 Ellis' first (some say, shabbily written) novel is still memorable -- short and unsettling, like a bad dream.
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![]() | On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Kerouac
Buy used from: £5.38 A fluidly written, very enjoyable novel. A rite of passage book in America.
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![]() | The Dharma Bums (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.12 Perhaps his second best book, one I have certainly enjoyed. Kerouac's short-lived infatuation with the Zen way of life.
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![]() | Tropic of Capricorn (Modern Classics) by Henry Miller
Buy used from: £0.01 My favorite Henry Miller book. Well-sustained.
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![]() | Tropic of Cancer (Harperperennial Classics) by Henry Miller
Buy used from: £1.91 My second favorite Miller book. His first: a groundbreaking work. Unconventional and desolate.
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![]() | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy used from: £1.46 A wonderful satire of American excess. Energetic and tense writing. Insanely funny.
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![]() | A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Buy new: £4.29 / Used from: £0.01 A drug addict's long climb back from hell. Tough, gritty bare-bones writing. Compelling.
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![]() | You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
Buy used from: £8.99 Dave Eggers second book. Less hype with this one, but you'll enjoy it.
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![]() | Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Buy used from: £7.35 A fantastic and original novel. Truly one of a kind.
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![]() | Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973 by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: £6.79 / Used from: £5.10 Excellect collection of Bukowski's poetry. Start here if you've never read his work. America's obsession with winners and losers is plain to see. Bukowski sides with the losers.
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![]() | Lolita (Penguin Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £3.51 I needed to include this haunting and oddly amusing masterpiece.
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