 | The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth by James Lovelock
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £2.27 A fantastic way to look at the world and her glorious processes
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 | On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Buy used from: £2.60 Devestating and beautiful - one of the most horrifying books ever writen
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 | The Beach by Alex Garland
Buy used from: £0.01 Inspirational - every youth should be made to read this before leaving school - I did, and one day I woke up in Cambodia...
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 | Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Buy used from: £3.02 Better than Orwell's 1984? Maybe. Definitely superior to Brave New World.
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 | Young Adam (International Writers) by Alexander Trocchi
Buy used from: £0.99 Strangely compelling, this almost poetic novella is a strange mixture of themes, romantic but bleak (in a good way)
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 | Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Buy new: £1.79 / Used from: £0.01 What can I say? The best book ever written. Brutal, powerful and so real. All politicians should be made to read this.
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 | You Can't Go Home Again (Perennial Classics) by Thomas Wolfe
Buy new: £18.00 / Used from: £8.01 Passionate and amazingly descriptive of human beings and the strange things we do.
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 | The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Hilarious and worryingly thought provoking. Makes you think, what if?
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £2.46 Bring it on. Makes you wanna go on a massive mind-bender and just not care!!!
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 | The Secret Island by Enid Blyton
Buy used from: £0.29 One for the child in you (or for kids in general). Heartwarming escapism.
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 | James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: £0.01 Probably my favourite, but read as much Dahl as possible before it's too late.
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 | The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Buy used from: £3.44 Awesome. All scientists should read the Truth. Tells you where you are from...
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 | Holy Bible by -
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £6.76 The original Book. Not read the Koran yet. Full of quality stories - Revelation is a bit like Fear and Loathing...
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 | Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Buy used from: £3.05 Read this, tragic, comic, lovely and terrible. I was completely enthralled all way through.
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 | Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Hardy is wonderful. Read all his books. This is probably the best. Real natural and earthy world he creates.
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 | The French Lieutenant's Woman (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles
Buy new: £5.57 / Used from: £3.50 Like Hardy on a gin binge. Lots of realism and strangely fulfilling stiff-lipped lust and debauchery.
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 | Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jonathan Swift
Buy new: £2.17 / Used from: £0.01 Uber-satire timeless treatise on the nature of humanity. Will make you look with disgust in the mirror. Joy.
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 | Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Buy new: £4.67 / Used from: £2.23 Strange to be proud of a smackhead. Welsh sums up late 20th Century Scottish life in a hilarious and gripping account. Read the book, watch the film.
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 | Travels with My Aunt (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.45 Lovely and funny. What a beauty of a story. Makes you want to travel too.
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 | Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
Buy used from: £4.66 Makes you realise yanks aint so bad.
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 | On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Kerouac
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.55 Another immense travelling book. Read it and get itchy feet.
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