 | Breakfast of Champions Breakfast of Champions by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut
Buy used from: £26.06 A moving, wise, utterly magnificent and deeply affecting distillation of EVERYTHING - full of wide open beavers.
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 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Popular Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 A demotic masterpiece.
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 | Ham on Rye ("Rebel Inc") by Charles Bukowski
Buy used from: £4.99 Majestic, wounded, and moving, a cynical, furious evocation of a tortuous existence.
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 | King Richard III (New Cambridge Shakespeare) (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £1.88 Shakespeare's finest - nasty stuff, and one of literatures greatest villains. Genius.
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 | Where I'm Calling from: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £4.91 Devastating and direct, the 'ordinary' masses toil with life's foibles and skewed mundanity. Beyond compare, perhaps the greatest writer ever?
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 | Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.01 Exciting, enjoyable, thought-provoking, funny, littered with stunning dialogue and an ultra-modern feel of disorientation and enlightened apathy - completely brilliant.
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 | All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £0.01 Ditto - the best dialogue now being written, surely.
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.39 / Used from: £1.55 An obvious choice. Masterpiece.
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 | House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Buy new: £16.48 / Used from: £14.14 Terrifying, ridiculously involving. How has he done this? Stunning.
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 | The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Buy used from: £0.01 Ditto. Thrillers surely can't improve on this?
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 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Vintage classics) by Edward Albee
Buy new: £5.37 / Used from: £0.97 A cynically brilliant shredding of washed up WASPS and their replacements - some of the finest dialogue exchanges I've ever come across. Hysterical, hyperbolic, high-octane.
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 | A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.08 / Used from: £3.40 The lazy, unscrupulous rich implode, and Waugh is clearly loving it. So are we.
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 | Crash by J.G. Ballard
Buy used from: £1.00 Men and machines become inextricable in modern malaise. Icy masterwork.
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 | The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Buy used from: £0.01 Magnificent examination of Eighties capitalist polarities.
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 | The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Buy used from: £0.01 Awesome dialogue, heartbreaking but terse finale.
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 | Naked Lunch (Harperperennial Classics) by William S. Burroughs
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £2.75 Drug addled nightmares are scarcely as thrilling...
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy used from: £1.00 ...and these two are unrivalled masterworks.
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 | Notes from the Underground by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy new: £4.72 / Used from: £0.50 Hopeless, nihilistic and malevolent. Stunning.
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 | The Age of Innocence (Penguin Popular Classics) by Edith Wharton
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Beautiful.
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 | Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.01 Hilarious.
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 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Buy new: £6.45 / Used from: £0.28 Haven't finished it yet, but don't want to...
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 | Beckett: Waiting for Godot (Landmarks of World Literature) by Lawrence Graver
Buy used from: £2.92 Frightening, mind-boggling.
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 | The Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics) by John Donne
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £4.00 The Love Album.
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 | Lolita (Penguin Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £3.27 Majestic.
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 | The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Buy used from: £2.86 Occasionally terryfying, the nearest to Lynch in print...
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