 | Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics) by Herman Melville
Buy used from: £0.01 I love this book, but you might not. One of the first 'modern novels', painting the struggle between man and nature on an epic canvas.
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 | Billy Budd (Wordsworth Classics) by Herman Melville
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Excellent collection. I particularly love 'Billy Budd' and 'Bartleby the Scrivener'.
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 | Ask the Dust by John Fante
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.99 The great American classic of passion, wild emotion, joy, hate, love, desire and fear... And that's all in the first chapter.
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 | The Bandini Quartet by John Fante
Buy new: £8.37 / Used from: £6.51 All four of Fante's best books (Road to Los Angeles, Wait Until Spring Bandini, Ask the Dust and Dreams from Bunker Hill) collected together in an excellent, affordable, Indispensable edition! Joy!!!!
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 | 1933 Was a Bad Year by John Fante
Buy used from: £0.59 Crams more emotion, humour and insight into just a few pages than Tony Parsons will manage in a lifetime of writing.
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.89 If this book were a diamond it would be as big as the Ritz.
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 | The Beautiful and Damned (Penguin Modern Classics) by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Buy used from: £1.49 My second favourite Fitzgerald book.
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 | Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises (Arrow Classic) by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £1.09 Get yerself tight and read this classic. Hemingway's best.
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 | A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.47 Great evocation of war, written in his distinct, deceptively simplistic style.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £1.98 Has to be here.
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 | Where I'm Calling from: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
Buy new: £9.07 / Used from: £6.36 The master of subtle, powerful, haunting short stories.
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 | The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room" by Paul Auster
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Fantastic.
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 | The Music of Chance (Faber Fiction Classics) by Paul Auster
Buy used from: £0.04 Auster does it again...
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 | Moon Palace by Paul Auster
Buy new: £5.37 / Used from: £1.67 ... and again!
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 | The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy used from: £0.01 I feel that this collection of interlinked stories is Brett Easton Ellis's best. This is a great collection and vastly underrated.
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 | Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £3.72 Bukowski's best - a searing account of a lonely, unloved adolescent descending into alcoholism.
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 | Chump Change ("Rebel Inc") by Dan Fante
Buy used from: £9.20 More alcoholism, this time from John Fante's son. He writes about frightening subjects with a tortured sense of humanity and compassion.
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 | Poachers by Tom Franklin
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 The spiritual heir to Raymond Carver in the brutal atmosphere of the American South.
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 | Life After God by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £1.52 I'm not such a big fan of Coupland but I quite like this one. Sorry.
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 | True Tales of American Life
Buy new: £5.38 / Used from: £0.01 American life in the words of ordinary people. Sometimes extraordinary.
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