 | Catch-22 (Vintage Classics) by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.90 Incredibly funny.You will want everyone you know to read it
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 | Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.49 Brilliant.Post-nuclear war Britain with Punch and Judy shows etc.
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 | Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
Buy new: £8.96 / Used from: £3.95 Lyrical look at America from imaginative novelist
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 | The Bridge by Iain Banks
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Narrator is in hospital after a car crash.But his mind is trapped in a bridge.Mesmerising stuff
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 | Northern Lights: WITH Subtle Knife AND Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £5.00 Very imaginatice series, parallel worlds,philosophical questions,armoured bears,God,war against the Church etc.Great stuff.Recently voted 3rd in the BBC Big Read competition
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 | Neuromancer by William Gibson
Buy new: £5.89 / Used from: £0.45 Matrix heads only.From the man who invented the term 'cyberspace',a seminal futuristic novel
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 | A Secret History of the IRA by Ed Moloney
Buy used from: £2.95 Definitive history of the Provisional IRA.Very detailed on Army Council members , meetings etc.Very good on Adams,the Peace Process etc.
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 | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
Buy new: £12.28 / Used from: £8.19 Excellent history of Hitler and the Nazi regime from '33 to '45.Very good on Hitler's backround and Germany's willingness to allow the Nazi's take power.
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 | Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Buy used from: £1.30 Brilliant history of the battle that changed the war.Compelling tale of the significance of Stalingrad, the road to the Caucases oil fields,the build-up and the ruthless execution.Magnificent.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.91 / Used from: £0.88 Classic.Teenage America as it was first chronicled.Great humour,very moving.A favourite.
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 | Unreliable Memoirs: Autobiography (Picador Books) by Clive James
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.01 Hilarious autobiography of the Clive's early days.Great yarns,very well told.Read the other volumes as well
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 | Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 If you like football, you'll love this.Everything there is to be said on being a fan.The book is actually about growing up.Brilliant
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 | High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £1.21 THE book on Rock Music ,as experienced by males.Incredibly entertaining.
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 | Confessions of a Philosopher: A Journey Through Western Philosophy by Bryan Magee
Buy used from: £2.63 A great introduction to philosophy by one its best polularisers.How he discovered philosophy,discussions of the great questions, rivetting reading.
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 | The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy by Bryan Magee
Buy new: £8.28 / Used from: £7.59 Each philosophjer is the subject of a dialogue between McGee and a contemporary expert.Excellent introduction to the subject covering all the important themes.
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