 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £4.20 / Used from: £0.15 I think Heathcliff is perfectly justified in his behaviour. Oh too love like this.
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 | Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Classics S.) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £0.26 A book for everyone and no one. Nietzsche excessive poetic masterpiece. He essentially invented the modern age yet still people dismiss it. Greatest man who ever existed in my world.
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 | The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.40 To those people who want to help me when I don't need it or want it, read this then get lost.
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 | Nausea (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £3.66 To be painfully aware that existence is completely absurd and probably not even possible.
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 | Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Buy used from: £14.24 Humiliation, loneliness, despair, shame, lust, hunger. What, you haven't read this?
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 | The Bandini Quartet by John Fante
Buy new: £8.37 / Used from: £6.51 I recommend this above all the other masterpieces on this page simply for it's ability to speak directly to the reader. Arturo Bandini is genius.
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 | Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics) by Malcolm Lowry
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £4.17 It's amazing when you come to think of it how the human spirit seems to blossom in the shadow of the abbattoir - Malcolm Lowry - Under the Volcano. Alchoholism and Insanity....brilliant.
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 | Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Buy used from: £23.80 One night while they're all asleep, all happy people, believe me, ought to be put to sleep for real, that'll be the end of them and their happiness once and for all.-Celine. Will we survive this night
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 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £0.98 In my opinion far more enjoyable than Ulysses.
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 | Hangover Square: A Story of Darkest Earl's Court (Penguin Modern Classics) by Patrick Hamilton
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £4.25 SLAYS TWO. FOUND GASSED. Thinks of Cat.- Hamilton. George Bone's loneliness and unrequited love for Netta. How can you not sympathise.
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 | On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Kerouac
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.50 Go Go Go ... run away my son see the world. Sex Drugs and Jazz. Energetic Beat Masterpiece.
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 | Steppenwolf (Penguin Modern Classics) by Hermann Hesse
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 | Post Office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
Buy used from: £1.67 Honest, funny and sometimes brutal and a crap job. Beat cool.
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 | Sombrero Fallout ("Rebel Inc." Classics) by Richard Brautigan
Buy used from: £7.00 Funny, sad and apocalyptic all at the same time. We create the mess we're in.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £1.98 I could tell you about it but I don't feel like it. Boredom as an excuse. Excellent.
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 | A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: £5.93 / Used from: £2.96 The funniest book I've ever read.
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 | Lanark: Life in Four Books: A Life in 4 Books (Canongate Classics) by Alasdair Gray
Buy used from: £2.59 |
 | Junky (Penguin Modern Classics) by William S Burroughs
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £3.68 Another Existential Beat Classic. Interesting to see how much drug slang has crept into modern language.
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 | Death and the Penguin (Panther) by Andrey Kurkov
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | Invitation to a Beheading (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £8.41 / Used from: £6.07 |
 | Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is (Penguin Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £3.70 If you think it's arrogant you're missing the point.
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 | Complete Poems (Poetry pl§eiade) by Charles Baudelaire
Buy used from: £80.00 Ah Baudelaire.....The only poet I truly love.
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 | The Blind Owl by Sadiq Hidayat
Buy used from: £4.87 Sadegh Hedayat studied with Sartre in the 1940s then killed himself in 1951. Great persian book. Like witnessing a mind crumble.
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 | Youth by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £1.99 An honest Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
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