 | Monty Python: v.2: Just the Words: Vol 2 by Graham Chapman
Buy used from: £0.01 Scripts from all the TV series. Sometimes they missed completely, but there is so much more here than just The Silly Walks and The Dead Parrot. A cheerful bedside companion.
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 | Revolution in the Head: "Beatles" Records and the Sixties by Ian MacDonald
Buy used from: £1.68 The Beatles' studio tracks. Who did what, when and why - it's all here
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 | The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 On a personal level, perhaps the most subversive comedy ever. Impossible to film so you have to read the book. Approach with caution
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy used from: £1.43 When Terry Gilliam made the film he had to match the book as closely as possible. Even if it's only partly true it's a shocking inditement of either HST or The American Dream
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.22 On a cultural level, possibly the most subversive comedy ever. George W. Bush's Dad should have read it to him!
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 | V by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £3.16 Marginally more accessible than Gravity's Rainbow, his meisterwork. Weird and wonderful in a more palatable dosage
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 | Valis (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £4.43 / Used from: £1.25 PKD's berserk cosmology almost crystallises into a tale of madness, death and alienation with a rock/ambient soundtrack.
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 | A Scanner Darkly (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.50 Very dark, but easier than Valis. Written in 77, PKD's view of a future in which everyone is justifiably paranoid. If the drugs and dealers don't get you the cops will. Thank goodness he was wrong!
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 | The Sirens Of Titan (S.F. Masterworks) by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £1.64 An early example of extra-terrestrial jokes, but amongst the gags there lurks hidden wisdom. Opened the door for Douglas Adams
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 | The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Genre defining - if Douglas Adams hadn't written this book an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters would have only managed to ape him - hello Terry Partchett, amongst others.
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 | The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas by Paul Theroux
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 The greatest travel writer of the last 30 years goes from New York to Patagonia by train. As time passes the historical element increases.
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 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £0.01 In the 70s Pirsig thought we were going down the pan, and suggested some solutions. Lots of people read this book, so why are we, collectively, even more screwed today?
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