 | The Gift (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £8.40 / Used from: £5.05 I thought Lolita was okay so when i saw this in oxfam i thought i'd see what else he has to offer.
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 | The Idiot (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy used from: £1.00 Feel i should read Dostoyevsky for the sake of my existentialist leanings.
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 | What Is Literature? by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy used from: £1.77 The subject matter interests me and so does a Sartrean perspective, looking forward to this one.
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 | Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £6.26 / Used from: £3.59 Murakami was introduced to me by a friend and i've really enjoyed reading him.
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 | A Clockwork Orange (Essential Penguin) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.20 I have a mission to read everything i feel like a person should have read. This is one of such books.
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 | The Blood of Others (Twentieth Century Classics) by Simone de Beauvoir
Buy used from: £4.93 Saw this in an Oxfam bookshop and as i've read Sartre's novels i feel i should read hers too, it's only fair!
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 | Thinks... by David Lodge
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 My dad's trying to get me to read this due to its philosophical content, and i have a friend that loves him as an author. We'll see!
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 | Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Bought this for 10p! Small book but a well known title, but i don't really know what to expect.
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 | The Trial (Picador Books) by Franz Kafka
Buy used from: £0.01 Like i said, i'm on a mission to read the classics.
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 | Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Kafka by William Hubben
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £1.84 I've studied Kierkegaard and Nietzsche in my philosophy degree, my literary interests draw me to this book. But i'll only read it when i've read Kafka and Dostoyevsky too.
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.42 / Used from: £2.20 Again one of those i feel i should read.
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 | Underworld by Don DeLillo
Buy new: £8.56 / Used from: £1.05 Bought this upon recommendation but the size has put me off tackling it yet. I have been assured it's worth it.
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 | Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jules Peabody Verne
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 To satisfy my classic science fiction tendencies.
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 | Gullivers Travels (Signet Classic) by Jonathan Swift
Buy used from: £0.01 I found a really nice copy of this and couldn't resist it.
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 | High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Love the film, one day i'll read the book.
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 | The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Buy used from: £0.50 A modern classic? we'll see
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 | White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 I will get round to it, to see what all the fuss is about.
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 | Grandmother's Tale by R. K. Narayan
Buy used from: £7.59 Recently read 'The Painter of Signs' and enjoyed it, so when i saw this in a 2nd hand bookshop i had to get it.
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 | Where Angels Fear to Tread (Penguin Modern Classics) by E.M. Forster
Buy used from: £0.83 I really loved 'A Room With a View', so this was another exciting 2nd hand find!
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 | The Black Prince (Vintage Classics) by Iris Murdoch
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £2.01 This is one i haven't read yet. I have read 16 Murdoch novels roughly, i love the characters. These books keep me going when i don't know what to do next.
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