 | Under the Net (Vintage Classics) by Iris Murdoch
Buy new: £5.81 / Used from: £0.01 the best starting point, accessable, intelligent and still totally modern
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 | The Age of Reason (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy new: £6.22 / Used from: £3.46 philosophy, politics, a great story and written by a true literary genius
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 | Pierrot Mon Ami (French Literature) by R Queneau
Buy used from: £8.72 an underrated classic, more straight forward than sartre, and funny as well
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 | The Mandarins (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Simone de Beauvoir
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £4.50 putting the money where their mouth was this is the existentialists- how they really lived and worked with their philosophy
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 | Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Richard Farina
Buy new: £5.68 / Used from: £3.68 another underated treasure, structural genius and owes much to the beats but subtly as good
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 | Room at the Top by John Braine
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £2.99 A break from the removed pessimism - Joe Lampton's heart really breaks, you feel it in the words.
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 | The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £2.97 the darker side of existentalism, brooding and pessimistic, but brilliant
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 | Lucky Jim (Penguin Modern Classics) by Kingsley Amis
Buy new: £5.66 / Used from: £1.42 another pessimistic chancer, not a lot goes on but you might find it funny
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 | Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.01 the original angry young man, quick funny but an eye opener to the world of language
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 | Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
Buy new: £5.72 / Used from: £0.81 more violent but again very funny, one to get to last
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