 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.42 / Used from: £0.91 Possibly the greatest novel of the twentieth century - a revelation.
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 | The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Buy used from: £5.89 One of the most powerful and passionate books I have read.
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 | The Sportswriter (Harvill Panther) by Richard Ford
Buy used from: £0.01 Extraordinary writing, deceptively effortless, great central character.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £1.46 Who needs my recommendation?! Will change the way you speak!
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 | Tropic of Cancer (Harperperennial Classics) by Henry Miller
Buy used from: £0.75 Exhilarating - Henry Miller is one of the most underrated and misunderstood writers of the 20th century.
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 | The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
Buy used from: £2.97 Has to be counted as one novel, though each is wonderful - together they are flawlessly beautiful - a work of true genius.
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 | All the Pretty Horses: Volume One of The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.01 Awesomely good - both epic and reassuringly human at the same time, poetic without ever being pretentious (unlike me!).
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 | Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 The first Barbara Kingsolver I read, my favourite of her books - inspiring, a good-to-be-alive book but far from superficial.
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 | Underworld by Don DeLillo
Buy used from: £0.01 A book to be read and re-read - worth buying for the fabulous opening section.
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 | Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Essential Penguin) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 Has to be here for its humanity, its dialogue and its characters, all equally wonderful.
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