 | Alice in Wonderland (Penguin Classics) by Hugh Haughton
Buy used from: £0.01 All childhoods should start here, learning rationalisation and defiance.
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 | The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £2.93 ... and all adulthoods continue here. It ain't Wonderland after all.
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 | Dialectic of Enlightenment (Verso Classics) by Theodor W. Adorno
Buy new: £10.07 / Used from: £7.50 The view from the 1940s. What have we become?
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 | Negative Dialectics by E.B. (translator) Ashton
Buy new: £30.39 / Used from: £23.91 Quite possibly the greatest book ever written.
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 | The World as Will and Representation - Volume 1: v. 1 by Arthur Schopenhauer
Buy new: £8.69 / Used from: £7.21 Mesmerising and intimidating in equal measure...
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 | World as Will and Representation - Volume 2: v. 2 by Arthur Schopenhauer
Buy new: £9.17 / Used from: £7.78 ...and yes you do need both volumes. It gets better and better.
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 | Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.97 Thrill to what fiction (and language) can do.
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 | Damaged Gods: Cults and Heroes Reappraised by Julie Burchill
Buy used from: £0.01 The finest social critic of latter days on blistering late-80s form.
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| A Wave by John Ashbery
Buy new: £8.06 / Used from: £2.50 Who needs poetry? Turn to the title poem of this, and get it down you.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £4.25 / Used from: £0.84 Only the finest novel in the English language.
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 | The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Modern Classics) by Saul Bellow
Buy new: £8.37 / Used from: £5.77 Dazzling, exhilarating American prose. Bellow never bettered this.
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 | Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Buy used from: £7.69 And while we're on the subject... Go for this rather than 'On The Road'.
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 | The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy
Buy used from: £0.30 For anyone who has ever been bullied. Pulp fiction at its most literate and humane.
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 | Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £4.51 Further excursions into the contemporary picaresque...
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 | The Danzig Trilogy: The Tin Drum / Cat and Mouse / the Dog Years by Gunter Grass
Buy used from: £10.81 ...continued.
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 | Richard III (3rd) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £0.01 Everyone else has chosen 'King Lear'. This is the best of the history plays.
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 | Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
Buy new: £19.95 / Used from: £14.82 Superbly written historical meditation. They should have let him make it twice as long.
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| The Art of Eating (Picador Books) by M.F.K. Fisher
Buy used from: £1.33 This is the way to write about food, with respect but without pretension.
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 | England's Dreaming: The "Sex Pistols" and Punk Rock by Jon Savage
Buy used from: £4.99 The best account of the 20th century's most important artistic upheaval.
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| Billie's Blues: Biography of Billie Holiday by John Chilton
Buy used from: £2.99 I'm not much of a one for biography, but here is a fine one. Now go look her up in the CD section...
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