 | Diary of a Nobody (Wordsworth Classics) by George Grossmith
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Poking fun at middle-class mores at the end of the 19th century.
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 | Three Men in a Boat: to Say Nothing of the Dog (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jerome K. Jerome
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 The book I've re-read most. Sentimental, funny and irresistable.
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 | Dead Souls (Penguin Classics) by Nikolai Gogol
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £4.32 Brilliant humourous evocation of 19th Century Russia.
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 | The Devils: (The Possessed) (Classics) by Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky
Buy new: £7.55 / Used from: £0.01 Chilling yet funny portrait of bogus Russian revolutionaries.
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 | A Dance to the Music of Time: vol.1: Spring by Anthony Powell
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £4.47 12 consecutive novels to limber you up to try Proust! Absorbing.
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 | Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Henry Miller
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.90 Sexy , funny and so exuberant. Paris in the twenties.
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 | Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £2.15 Genre setting treatment of war with interlaced fantasy.
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 | The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.17 The best of his non heroic heroes. Plenty of Irishness in this one.
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 | A Son of the Circus by John Irving
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Launches straight in to his off-beat world. Read them all!
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 | Vanity Fair (Penguin Popular Classics) by William Thackeray
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 The best of the 19th century heavyweight social dramas.
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 | The Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy used from: £3.25 Post Russian revolution satanic comedy masterpiece.
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 | Hand-reared Boy (Independent Voices) by Brian W. Aldiss
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £4.34 1st of trilogy. Highly evocative memoir of sexual awakening.
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 | Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.56 Non-fiction about bullfighting on a surface level. Macho stuff!
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 | Vile Bodies (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £3.49 Brilliant evocation of rich young things in the 1920's
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 | P. G. Wodehouse Life At Blandings Omnibus: Something Fresh, Summer Lightning, and, Heavy Weather by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy used from: £6.26 Just three from many hilarious country house sagas.
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 | Travels with My Aunt (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.96 His most approachable and easily absorbed book.
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 | The Trial (Vintage Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.50 Such things as nightmares are made of.
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 | The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
Buy used from: £4.92 Topical choice with author recently in the news
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 | The Plague (Essential Penguin) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.01 Bleak and yet uplifting.
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 | Earthly Powers (Vintage Classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £4.36 A much harder read, but worth the effort
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 | Palimpsest: A Memoir by Gore Vidal
Buy new: £7.65 / Used from: £0.01 Autobiography of a fascinating life and times in the USA
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 | Borstal Boy (Arena Books) by Brendan Behan
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £0.96 That lovable Irish twinkly thing shines through adversity
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 | The Pickwick Papers (Wordsworth Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 The lighter essence of Dickens
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 | The Big Sleep: An Philip Marlowe Mystery (Penguin Fiction) by Raymond Chandler
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.49 Unashamedly brash and appealing to fantasists everywhere
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 | On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £5.70 / Used from: £0.72 Iconic to the those like me growing up in the late 50's/early 60's.
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