 | From Here to Eternity by James Jones
Buy used from: £2.31 War bad, love good, but being tough is great.
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 | Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Buy used from: £0.01 Odysseus returns to ithaca via the Carolinas after finding out that 'war bad, love good.'
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 | Roots by Alex Haley
Buy new: £6.26 / Used from: £2.78 'Kamby balongo' that means what a moving story about pride.
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 | A Confederacy of Dunces: A Novel by John Kennedy Toole
Buy used from: £26.61 Read this book for a 'Night of Joy'.
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 | The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Buy used from: £0.01 Great imagery, funny words (e.g. 'ghibli' and 'vascular sizood') and an unlikely bunch of protagonists make for a classic tale.
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 | Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Buy new: £17.60 Before there was Butch and Sundance there was Call and McCrae.
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 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: a Novel (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ken Kesey
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.21 The real RPM lives and dies not on screen but in this book.
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 | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £3.50 The unforgettable story of the little guy who tamed 'Hester the Molester'.
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 | Catch-22 (Vintage Classics) by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.90 If you're crazy enough to read this book then you're crazy enough not to have to.
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 | Birdy (Vintage Classics) by William Wharton
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 | The World According to Garp (Black Swan) by John Irving
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 You must read this book 55 times.
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 | Slaughterhouse-Five.: Or The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.84 / Used from: £6.32 Navigate from 1944 Dresden to Tramalfadore and back, and then do it again.
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 | Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Buy used from: £6.68 Yes I know it's a cliche to love this book, but Mark David Chapman should never be confused with a true iconoclast.
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 | The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.01 Yar, but the sea washes away our terrible pasts.
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 | Empire Of The Sun : by J.G. Ballard
Buy used from: £0.01 Definitely not a 'feel good' book, but a great perspective on WWII.
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 | Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake
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 | The Naked and the Dead (Flamingo Modern Classics) by Norman Mailer
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 | American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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 | The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
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 | The Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics) by Ernest Hemingway
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 | The Bachman Books by Richard Bachman
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 | The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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 | Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £4.50 / Used from: £2.44 |
 | On the Road (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy used from: £9.00 |
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