 | The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £1.90 Camus uncovers things we never thought we might feel. Comforting and dizzying. Be sure to read it in a single day.
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 | Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jorge Borges
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £3.96 Mad and ingenius. My thoughts have never been the same since.
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £0.01 Reads like a nostalgia of anecdotes and events that never actually happened to you. A hilarious one at that.
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 | A Farewell to Arms (Vintage Classics) by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.17 By the end Hewmingway has shown us oblivion. It might as well be the end of the world. Utterly soul destroying in the best possible way.
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 | Where I'm Calling from: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £12.42 Delightfully terse. I'll leave it at that.
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 | The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £0.38 This book stays with you like a secret. Haunting yet somehow rather delicate.
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 | Ragtime (Penguin Modern Classics) by E. L. Doctorow
Buy new: £5.29 / Used from: £2.99 For me, this comes closer than anything else to a revival of the oral storytelling tradition appropriate to the modern era.
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 | Leaves of Grass (Penguin Classics) by Walt Whitman
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £3.00 I am convinced the secret of the universe is contained in 'Song of Myself'. If it was music, people would make love to it.
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