 | Masquerade: The Amazing Camouflage Deceptions of World War II (255P) by Seymour Reit
Buy used from: £2.95 Fascinating and true stories of camouflage wizardry.
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 | Beauty in Exile: The Artists, Models and Nobility Who Fled the Russian Revolution and Influenced the World of Fashion by Alexandre Vassiliev
Buy used from: £59.35 Not just interesting to ladies and Russians, a powerful book.
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 | Kim (Penguin Popular Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 A great spy novel, in the setting that RK captured well.
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 | The Glass Bead Game (Vintage Classics) by Hermann Hesse
Buy new: £6.69 / Used from: £3.75 Endure the dull beginning, it's worth it.
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 | East of Eden (Steinbeck "Essentials") by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £3.14 Endure the dull beginning of this one also, it's really worth it.
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 | Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973 by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: £6.79 / Used from: £5.10 Get points with the ladies for reading poetry, unless they've read this brilliant obscene wit.
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 | Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy used from: £5.20 Read anything by Hunter S. Thompson, he's a brilliant journalist under all that crazy.
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 | Shogun: A Novel of Japan by James Clavell
Buy new: £6.95 / Used from: £1.95 Set in the year 1600, a European pilot is shipwrecked in Japan, which to him is very alien. He flourishes by his natural strength. Don't watch the movie series, it's awful!
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 | Biblical Hebrew (Teach Yourself) by Roland Kenneth Harrison
Buy used from: £3.75 You will quickly gain confidence in your skills, as no one will know this language well enough to correct you.
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £4.55 If I am the first person who has told you to read this book, I feel sorry for you.
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 | Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jorge Borges
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £4.12 Excellent, enjoyable short stories.
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 | Incomplete Revolutions: Success and Failures of Capitalist Transition Strategies in Post-communist Economies by Adam Zwass
Buy new: £77.95 / Used from: £30.86 Romania's economy is the only interesting thing in the history of all economics.
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 | The Art of Soap Making (Harrowsmith Contemporary Primer) by Merilyn Mohr
Buy used from: £4.55 Feel crafty and play with chemicals.
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 | The Art of War (Running Press Miniatures) by Tzu Sun
Buy new: £2.81 / Used from: £0.20 Aren't you curious about this book?
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 | Selected Poems of Li Po by D Hinton
Buy used from: £6.21 Chinese poet, read it without looking at the date it was written and then try to guess.
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 | Anthology of Drama by William B. Worthen
Buy used from: £6.81 I think you should read this to be informed on a new subject.
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 | Five Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard: "Ivanov", "The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters", "The Cherry Orchard" (Oxford World's Classics) by Anton Chekhov
Buy used from: £0.01 If you don't think about these being plays, they are very funny stories.
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 | " No One Writes to the Colonel" and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.01 Some of the most addictive writing in the world.
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