 | Fictions by Jorge Borges
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £2.23 Ignore the first story on your first read and this might just be the best thing written in the 20th century. Except...
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 | The Aleph and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Jorge Luis Borges
Buy new: £8.24 / Used from: £6.76 ... that this is even better. Borges gets closer to perfection than anyone else, ever.
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.01 This has to be the most beautiful novel I've ever read. Just magnificent.
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 | Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.08 / Used from: £2.87 This one's up there as well...
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.19 And this is probably the funniest. And such a better cover than the newer editions!
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 | Gulliver's Travels (Oxford World's Classics) by Jonathan Swift
Buy used from: £0.30 Most certainly not a 'children's book'. Wonderful.
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 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy used from: £2.29 Powerfully written, with great characterisation.
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 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: £1.97 It's like '1984'! Only good...
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 | Coming Up for Air (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £2.08 ... but don't think I dislike Orwell. It's just that this is far, far superior.
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 | Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £6.22 / Used from: £2.94 And this.
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 | Metamorphosis and Other Stories, The (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £3.74 / Used from: £0.01 A bit hit and miss, but when it hits it's just so, SO great.
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 | Winnie the Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh) by A.A. Milne
Buy used from: £0.01 Stop looking at me like that. A great book, and you try finding someone who's not read it.
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 | The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory: AND Shakespeare's Memory (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jorge Borges
Buy new: £7.80 / Used from: £5.00 And just to end, another of the best from JLB.
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