 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy used from: £3.00 Still as relevant as it ever has been (except for the title)
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 | Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.46 As dark and twisted as Fight Club. Very Good
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 | Spares by Michael Marshall Smith
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.38 Chilling premise, well written
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.30 / Used from: £1.92 Often seen as just a school text, but this is a fascinating read
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 | Brave New World (Flamingo Modern Classics) by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: £1.26 Huxley's nightmarish vision is gripping, if only the story matched the setting
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 | The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Buy new: £4.24 / Used from: £0.13 The book is just as amazing as the circumstances surrounding its conception.
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 | Darkest Day by Christopher Fowler
Buy used from: £0.01 Fowler's style is compelling, another fantastic addition to his roster
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 | Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.40 Yet another socio-political commentary in the list. More down to earth than Huxley or Orwell.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.98 For the 'cynical adolescent' in all of us
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 | The Collector Collector by Tibor Fischer
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 Slightly crazy, pottery based fiction
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 | Number9dream by David Mitchell
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Gripping dreamlike novel, put me off ten pin bowling though.
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 | Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £5.53 / Used from: £0.01 A very easy book to read, and all the better for it
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 | Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
Buy new: £5.43 / Used from: £0.01 Very Stark
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 | Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 So much better than Trainspotting and Welsh's other mediocre offerings
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 | Manchester United Ruined My Life by Colin Shindler
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A better version of fever pitch, with a fantastic title
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 | House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Buy new: £16.49 / Used from: £9.56 Appears to be a bit of a gimmick at first, but the quality of the writing still exceeds that of the printing
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 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Buy used from: £0.01 Included for the first half of the book. Seemed to lose its way later on.
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 | One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Buy used from: £0.01 A book that grips you from the start and doesn't let you go until the end
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 | The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson
Buy new: £4.53 / Used from: £0.01 Slightly strange, but intriguing novel from the writer of Withnail
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 | If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
Buy used from: £0.02 Fantastically written book about nothing.
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 | The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 The book that caused me to read all the others on this page. Brilliantly funny
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 | Junky (Essential Penguin) by William S Burroughs
Buy used from: £1.86 Not a happy book
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 | Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Buy used from: £0.01 Deserved winner of the Booker prize
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 | The Gringo Trail: A Darkly Comic Road-Trip Through South America by Mark Mann
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.12 A readable travelogue, surely some mistake
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 | The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Buy used from: £2.76 Top quality writing from the irrepressible Murakami
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