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10 Brave Books
The Catcher in the RyeThe Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £0.47
Hamlet for the terminally adolescent, and a creative masterpiece.
Raiders of the Low Forehead (Attack!)Raiders of the Low Forehead (Attack!) by Stanley Manly
Buy used from: £3.62
Probably the sickest novel ever written, also inspired and side-splittingly funny.
Sombrero Fallout ("Rebel Inc")Sombrero Fallout ("Rebel Inc") by Richard Brautigan
Buy used from: £10.00
Poingnant, personal and 'out there' creatively.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 25th Anniversary Edition: An Inquiry into ValuesZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 25th Anniversary Edition: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £1.49
Ground breaking book, largely autobiographical and hugely influental.
LuckyLucky by Alice Sebold
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01
Best selling author recounts her own rape, harrowing and honest.
The Bear Went over the MountainThe Bear Went over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle
Buy used from: £0.31
Wildly inventive novelist turns on the publishing industry with savage/suicidal satire
The Scheme for Full EmploymentThe Scheme for Full Employment by Magnus Mills
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Hideous and hilarious attack on the worst of working class attitudes.
PuckoonPuckoon by Spike Milligan
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A vision of Ireland gone mad from a mad comic who dared tell some home truths.
Trials of the Monkey: A Darwin Goes in Search of America and Happens Upon Himself (Duck Editions)Trials of the Monkey: A Darwin Goes in Search of America and Happens Upon Himself (Duck Editions) by Matthew Chapman
Buy used from: £1.38
Descendent of Charles Darwin opens his heart, and the family skeleton closet.
BedtimeBedtime by Clare Pollard
Buy new: £6.26 / Used from: £6.09
Not our greatest poet, but one unafraid to talk about smear tests!