 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: a Novel (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ken Kesey
Buy new: £5.08 / Used from: £2.38 My all time favourite book. Forget about the film: read this!
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 | Sometimes a Great Notion: A Novel by Ken Kesey
Buy used from: £5.88 A magnificent follow up. Has some of the best characters I have ever read in book
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 | The Demon: A Novel by Hubert Selby Jr.
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £4.50 A gut wrenching portrayal of the concept of original sin. The real 'American Psycho'
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 | Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
Buy new: £5.38 / Used from: £6.27 Another Selby, equally as dark and terrifying. Beware: this book will stay with you for days
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 | Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 An interesting and worthwhile look at 21st centuy America and its obsession with death and the media. Also incredibly funny
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 | Lolita (Penguin Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £3.51 'A love affair with the English language'. A beautiful read about a very dark subject
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 | Atonement by Ian McEwan
Buy used from: £0.01 An ambitious and clever novel. If the ending doesn't have you in tears then you are inhuman
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.01 There is a microcosm for just about every aspect of civilisation in this book. Highly enjoyable
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy used from: £1.47 A crazy and hypnotic ride through Las Vegas as seen through the eyes of the very drugged up Mr Thompson. Some very interesting stuff about the 60s in here too
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 | Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
Buy used from: £1.67 One of those rare books that's extremely funny, deepy moving and meaningful all in one. However, quite erotic so be warned
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 | What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 A simple story about an old man reflecting on his familial life, Beautifully written with wholly realised characters.
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 | Well by Matthew McIntosh
Buy used from: £0.21 A collection of short stories about suburban life in Seattle. Although it does have quite a few low points, when it's good, it really shines
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 | Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.14 A hilarious and thought provoking read about the rather disgusting world of money we live in
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 | Regeneration by Pat Barker
Buy used from: £0.01 A look into man's mind and the horrific impact war has upon it.
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