 | Dispatches (Picador) by Michael Herr
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.01 truly stunning account of the war, by the man who later co-wrote Apocalypse Now
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 | The Illuminatus!: Trilogy by Robert Shea
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £3.10 All the narrative structure of a bowl of spaghetti, but you still can't put it down
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Flamingo modern classics) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy used from: £0.12 Imagine 'Withnail and I' set in Las Vegas, only with two Withnails, no 'I' and heinous amounts of drugs...
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 | Rivethead by Ben Hamper
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £0.54 The perfect antidote to all the corporate motivation-speak.
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 | Etiquette for Outlaws by Rob Cohen
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.01 The urban counterpart to all those 'survival' books, and a damn sight funnier
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 | Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.08 Yes, that was my reaction too, but just give it a try. Absurdly fascinating.
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 | Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English? by Edward Behr
Getting bombed in Algeria one day, then living La Dolce Vita on the Riviera the next. What a life.
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 | The Dark Art of Death (Black Medicine) by N. Mashiro
Buy new: £7.75 / Used from: £6.34 Don't try this at home. Good for dropping into conversations at dinner parties,though.
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 | Page & Ingpen : Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were by Robert Ingpen
Buy used from: £39.95 The world of your imagination is just as real as the 'real' world. But in a different way.
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 | Watchmen by Alan Moore
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £4.50 Don't be put off by the comic-book format. This is an exceptional novel.
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 | The Divine Comedy: Inferno v. 1 (Classics) by Dante
Buy used from: £0.01 Surprisingly readable. Don't bother with the other two parts. Really.
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 | Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
Buy used from: £1.68 An ideal Christmas present for that ageing maiden aunt. Or maybe not.
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 | Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice and Alcohol-free Beer by P.J. O'Rourke
Buy new: £5.28 / Used from: £0.01 Two of the best from the funniest political commentator around. Deny his logic if you can.
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 | Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence and a Bad Haircut by P.J. O'Rourke
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 And the second of the two. Satisfyingly sneery, at everything including himself.
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 | Distant Voices by John Pilger
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 The flip-side of O'Rourke. Not much to laugh about, but still compulsive reading.
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| Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
A beautiful book which has to be listened to, not read. For my money this modern version is the best.
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 | Omnibus: Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales No. 3 (H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus) by H.P. Lovecraft
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.17 The only writer who ever managed to scare me. This is the best place to start.
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 | The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols (Penguin Dictionaries) by Alain Gheerbrant
Buy new: £10.69 / Used from: £9.99 Stuff you never even dreamed you never knew.
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 | The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Buy new: £4.77 / Used from: £2.92 Dark and decadent fairy tales. 'Little girls, this seems to say, never stop along your way'
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 | The Life and Loves of a She-devil (Coronet Books) by Fay Weldon
Buy used from: £0.01 The best modern revenge story ever... go get 'em, Ruth.
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 | What Would Betty Do by Bradley
Buy new: £7.32 / Used from: £0.15 Magnificent - America's Best Christian (tm) tells it like it is.
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 | Life of Johnson (Oxford World's Classics) by James Boswell
Buy new: £14.44 / Used from: £3.85 If Johnson was alive today, he'd make a fortune in stand-up comedy
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 | Tarot of Marseilles Deck by Anonymous
Buy new: £13.46 / Used from: £15.24 The original. Get this and ridicule anyone who uses any other kind.
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