 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.04 / Used from: £3.46 The ultimate social prophesy
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 | Catch-22 (Vintage Classics) by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £1.48 Rarely will you say 'spot on' to yourself so much... utterly brilliantly conceived
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 | No Logo: No Space. No Choice. No Jobs by Naomi Klein
Buy new: £5.20 / Used from: £0.25 The commerical world in all it's ugly, naked guises. A real wake-up call
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 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: a Novel (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ken Kesey
Buy new: £5.76 / Used from: £2.34 it's a thin line between madness & genius... This is a work of genius about the concept of 'madness'.
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 | Henry V (The New Penguin Shakespeare) by A. Humphreys
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite Shakespeare since I read it for GCSE English 12 years ago.
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £5.00 A glorious tale of life in a lifeboat with a tiger. Martel has phenomenal imagination, a worthy Booker Prize winner
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £1.97 The best of all adolescent adventures. Fact.
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £0.01 Similar to Catcher in the Rye in some ways, a unique style of prose thrusts this book among the best of recent years
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.81 Drug-crazed abandon in it's purest form, & a snap-shot of life among beat generation protagonists
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 | The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £2.65 Er, more drug-crazed abandon in it's purest form, & a snap-shot of life among beat generation protagonists
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 | On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Kerouac
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.50 The best of the beat novels. Ground breaking use of spontaneous prose, written in 3 weeks flat.
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 | Wilt by Tom Sharpe
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.14 You can't read this on the bus or you'll look a twat laughing to yourself so much.
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 | The Interpretation of Dreams (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Sigmund Freud
Buy new: £3.77 / Used from: £0.82 OK, back to the 'dream' theme... some of it is absolute bollocks, all of it is thought provoking.
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 | The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £540.50 Could he have possibly dreamt the impact these three books would have?
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 | Sleepers: A True Story When Friendship Runs Deeper Than Blood by Lorenzo Carcaterra
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 You'd-never-believe-it-if-you-didn't-know-it-was-true. Tragic tale ending in perfect revenge
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 | High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 It says on the cover that every man should read it, then give it to their girlfriend to read so they'll pity him. So true
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 | Northern Lights: WITH Subtle Knife AND Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £9.87 A wonderful fantasy somewhere between Harry Potter & Lord of the Rings
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 | Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Buy used from: £0.01 Another favourite from my school years
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 | Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock
Buy new: £5.37 / Used from: £1.31 Your beliefs about life will 'evolve' after reading this... The closest science comes to religion
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 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: £1.97 I'm starting to notice a 'mankind is really messed up' theme to this list... sorry, but they're all really good books!
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 | Porno by Irvine Welsh
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 An even better read than the prequel, 'Trainspotting'
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 | Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
Buy used from: £2.11 Fantastic prison story with a dream ending... shame it's so short
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 | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Buy new: £4.57 / Used from: £0.01 My first & still my favourite Roddy Doyle.
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