 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £2.20 Dark satire of war and despair. Insanely funny.
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 | The Glass Bead Game (Vintage Classics) by Hermann Hesse
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £2.98 Hesse's magnum opus.
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 | The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Buy used from: £0.01 A moving family drama interwoven with the Indian conscious.
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 | Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: £5.80 / Used from: £1.43 A simple novella about the power of redemptive love. Wonderful.
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £0.01 Magically evoked survival of a boy and his cat.
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 | The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Vintage Classics) by Yukio Mishima
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £1.99 About the elusive nature of beauty, desire, and life.
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 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: £5.29 / Used from: £0.01 Rich in joy. Hope exists in a Siberian prison camp. A gem of a novel.
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 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £0.01 Utterly astounding in its sweeping magnitude. Saleem's narrative is the story of modern India and so, so much more.
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 | The Collector (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.26 Unsettling and deeply disturbing. A man kidnaps a woman and hides her in his basement.
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 | Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: £4.53 / Used from: £0.01 A man is scarred during a physical assault and literally and metaphorically 'loses face.'
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 | Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Buy used from: £2.79 The quest for enlightenment, 'kill the Buddha.'
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 | Heavy Weather (Everyman Wodehouse) by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy new: £9.39 / Used from: £7.25 Be entertained! Wodehouse is the master.
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 | Wise Children (Vintage Classics) by Angela Carter
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Wildly evocative, this thrills and delights. Carter writes about female twins and their showbiz relatives. What a show it is!
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 | Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 Rushdies best novel since 'Midnight's Children'. The love of two people is torn apart and a bitter revenge ensues.
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 | Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £1.78 The ultimate post-modern novel. Time-travel, aliens, and war all wrapped up in a nice humorous bundle. Vonnegut at his finest.
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 | Higher Ground by Caryl Phillips
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.58 You'll seethe at the injustice, your blood will boil with frustration and impotent rage.
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 | Things Fall Apart (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Chinua Achebe
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £2.46 The greatest of African novels and thats saying something.
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 | The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.40 The devil comes to town and all hell breaks loose. Its time for forgiveness.
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 | Beloved by Toni Morrison
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £0.29 A mother kills her daughter in order to save her from a life of slavery.
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 | Les Miserables (Classics) by Victor Hugo
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £0.01 I can swim in the memory of this novel. Hugo through his vivid characters brings France alive.
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