 | Underworld by Don DeLillo
Buy new: £8.56 / Used from: £0.01 The search is over. This is the Great American Novel.
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 | Herzog (Penguin Modern Classics) by Saul Bellow
Buy new: £5.66 / Used from: £2.63 Genius. Blew me away. Nothing happens, mind you.
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 | Jude the Obscure (Penguin Popular Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £2.17 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite book. Instilled in me a love and appreciation for education. And it's so damn sad!
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 | The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Maybe Roth is too clever for his own good, but this is a damn fine book.
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 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £0.55 Rushdie's best book and probably the best modern novel on India
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 | The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £5.67 / Used from: £1.70 Don't read it if you're likely to be offended. Yes, its blasphemous. Yes, it's a beautiful novel.
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 | On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £5.02 / Used from: £2.47 The ultimate road trip.
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 | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £5.64 / Used from: £2.94 Who says politics and literature don't mix?
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £11.70 / Used from: £8.98 They say everybody's got one novel in them. Not many are as good as this though.
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 | Manhattan Transfer (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Dos Passos
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.19 Amazing, brings 1920s Manhattan to life.
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 | Nausea (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £3.63 This book changed my life. I never knew these things could be put into words.
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 | The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £1.99 This short book elucidates the whole human condition. Genius.
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 | The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £2.89 Terrifying, absorbing, incredible.
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 | A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Buy used from: £0.86 A beautiful and fascinating novel.
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 | Demons: A Novel in Three Parts by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £4.24 Much funnier and more political than Crime and Punishment (which is fantastic as well)
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 | Paradise by Toni Morrison
Buy new: £5.77 / Used from: £0.01 Despite being a favourite of Oprah, Toni Morrison is a very fine writer.
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 | The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Suffocatingly, heartbreakingly beautiful.
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 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Popular Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 An awesome all-American adventure.
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 | Moby Dick: Or, the Whale (Penguin Popular Classics) by Herman Melville
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 A classic study of manic obsession.
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 | Zuckerman bound by Philip Roth
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £1.79 Like myself, Roth and Zuckerman are proud alums of the U of C, but that's not the only reason I love this trilogy.
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 | The Secret History (Read Red) by Donna Tartt
Buy used from: £1.00 Dark things happen when you start studying ancient greek...
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 | Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
Buy new: £8.15 / Used from: £4.96 Linear narrative is for wimps.
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