 | Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy used from: £0.01 Brilliantly written, interesting story...perhaps his best novel yet, but maybe one reserved for Easton Ellis enthusiasts
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 | Underworld by Don DeLillo
Buy new: £8.56 / Used from: £0.01 The most epic book of our generation. Sheer brilliance from a geniune master
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 | Slaughterhouse 5 (Vintage Crucial Classics) by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy used from: £10.54 Very very good...enough said
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 | Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.00 All Palahniuk's novels so far have been masterpieces. I love this one
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 | Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.46 ...and this one! a brilliant idea.... and effortlessly readable. Palahniuk may be the next big BIG thing
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 | Images: My Life in Film by Ingmar Bergman
Buy used from: £8.99 This is not so much a cinema book as it is an autobiography from a brilliant artist. European cinema's equivalent of Shakespeare tells all...
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 | American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Yes...it had to be on here, and yes...it is THAT good. A cult classic, good place to start for B.E.E.
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 | Les Enfants Terribles (Vintage Crucial Classics) by Jean Cocteau
Buy new: £3.73 / Used from: £0.01 dare you play The Game......... now published by Vintage at only £3.99 it is a steal! have a read...
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 | Libra by Don Delillo
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.30 Another one from America's master novelist. A novel about the lives of those involved (or not) with the JFK assassination. Intrigued...well worth a read
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 | Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK by Gerald L. Posner
Buy used from: £3.03 From fiction to fact...a compelling account. The most 'difficult-to-put-down' book on this list
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 | God, Time, & Stephen Hawking by David Wilkinson
Buy used from: £4.55 You don't need to be a christian (i'm not), and you don't need to be a scientist (i'm not)... a hugely readable discussion about complex topics, made easy
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 | Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy used from: £1.91 I couldn't resist throwing this in....the book that spawned a legend
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 | On Godard (Da Capo Paperback) by Jean-Luc Godard
Buy new: £13.05 / Used from: £4.90 Dylan revolutionised music, Godard did the same to film. A bit technical, but for any fan of his, or for anyone interested in the thoughts of a pioneer, this is indispensable
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 | Lyrics: 1962-2001 by Bob Dylan
Buy used from: £35.00 A musician, yes...but a poet first. This is the anthology of a voice of the generation. A true giant of his art, this is brilliant stuff
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 | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £6.20 / Used from: £0.01 Brilliant. Makes everything seem so simple, and makes the reader feel like a genius!
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 | The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £6.26 / Used from: £1.50 This shouldn't be here really, cos i'm still reading it and might not like it by the end. But at the moment it has me intrigued and mesmerised. Very original, very recommended
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 | Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £1.49 Intelligent, witty, and funny. Very inventive and not hard to see why it won so many prizes
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 | Finally Truffaut by Don Allen
Buy used from: £9.99 This is brilliant, for fans of Truffaut, and for general cinema lovers. The one film book that I'd have on a desert island........
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 | Shoot the Piano Player (Rutgers Films in Print) by Francois Truffaut
Buy used from: £5.89 ...were it not for this one. Truffaut's most enjoyable film is treated with the respect it deserves in this amazing study and review. Everyone should own this
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 | The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures) by Paul Zanker
Buy new: £19.35 / Used from: £17.71 One from my course...this is THE book for this period. Paul Zanker is a genius. Archaeology, art history, architecture. His knowledge knows no end!
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 | The Forum of Trajan in Rome: A Study of the Monuments in Brief by JE Packer
Buy new: £29.40 / Used from: £18.50 A brilliant summary of Packer's groundbreaking work. And much cheaper than the originals (£400!)
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 | Principles of Roman Architecture by M Wilson Jones
Buy new: £15.74 / Used from: £33.87 Quite cheap. This is the best. A bit heavy-going sometimes, but Wilson Jones knows his stuff. Gives new depth to Roman architecture
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