 | Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (20th anniversary edition with a new preface by the author) by Douglas R Hofstadter
Buy new: £13.27 / Used from: £10.25 Mind blowing. Some of the musical elements were above my head but it was still a truly mind stretching experience
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 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £0.37 A fantastic story intercut with increasingly intensive philosophy
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 | The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary classics) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.33 Chilling and deeply moving, unputdownable
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 | The Crow Road by Iain Banks
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £0.01 Complex and deeply satisfying - a feelgood book
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 | Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 Another fantastically multilayered and paradoxical book with a gripping story to drag you through it
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 | Confessions of a Philosopher: A Journey Through Western Philosophy by Bryan Magee
Buy used from: £3.88 Part autobiography, part sweeping introduction to philosophy, all a storming good read
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 | Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 His best book - grabs you from the very first page and never lets go
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 | Flowers For Algernon (S.F. Masterworks) by Daniel Keyes
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £1.90 If this doesn't make you cry, you have no heart.
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 | Made in America by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £5.60 / Used from: £0.01 His first (and best) attempt at non fiction - packed with amusing stories and anecdotes you will be deperate to pass on to other people
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 | Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos) by Dan Simmons
Buy used from: £0.01 If you like the SF/philospohy mix this series of 4 (the Hyperion Cantos) is the greatest - another book that made me cry.
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