 | Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.00 The best of the cyberpunk genre. By turns fascinating, thrilling, amusing and satirical, it starts with problems at a Mafia pizza franchise and just gets better.
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 | The Little Sister (Vintage Crime) by Raymond Chandler
Buy used from: £5.07 Bleak and vicious. Marlowe as complete outsider. 'California. The department store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.... You're not human tonight, Marlowe.'
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 | The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Buy new: £5.82 / Used from: £2.20 Slow, thoughtful, the complete portrait of Marlowe. - ''I'm a romantic...'' ''And you don't make a dime at it.'' ... ''But I can always tell a cop to go to hell. Go to hell, Bernie.''
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 | Rommel? Gunner Who?: A Confrontation in the Desert by Spike Milligan
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.01 I read this until it fell apart. Always amusing, occasionally horrifying. War from the South London level.
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 | American Tabloid by James Ellroy
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.00 Brutal, gripping, complex, amoral. Ellroy once stated that he initially started writing the way he thought crime books should be written, then realised he had to write with his own voice. This is it.
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 | Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
Buy new: £7.09 / Used from: £2.53 Great read for anyone interested in how Hollywood works. He talks a lot of sense.
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 | A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy used from: £2.92 A beautiful portrait of drifting, useless people. Bleak and vicious at times.
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 | Ragtime (Picador Books) by E.L. Doctorow
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 Fascinating subject matter, a flowing interlinking tapestry of a work.
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.42 / Used from: £1.99 I'll let everyone else rave over this one....
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 | Success by Martin Amis
Buy used from: £0.01 Not everybody's cup of tea. A good intro to the works of Martin Amis (themes, locales, style...) and less intimidating than the similar but thicker ''London Fields'' or ''Money''.
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 | The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco by John Birmingham
Buy used from: £0.01 Funny and slightly poignant. Some great characters and cinematic moments.
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 | Ambient by Jack Womack
Buy used from: £2.19 Womack's books present an absolute nightmare vision of the near future. This is the opening one in a loosely connected series. Disturbing stuff.
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