 | Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Most well known 20th Century piece of Russian Lit. Won the Nobel Prize.
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 | The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future by Will Self
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 I hate his over-indulgent and self-absorbed books. Not keen on the guy either. He is all Self.
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 | The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anne Frank
Buy new: £5.70 / Used from: £0.01 This book, I am sure, needs no introduction.
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 | Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Very funny guy. His style is usually referred to as a Philip Roth/Kingsly Amis hybrid, and I quite agree. This is my Favourite.
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 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Buy new: £6.45 / Used from: £0.35 Chabon's prose and narrative style seems a bit soft but this is well worth a read. Pulitzer Prize winner.
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 | Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
Buy new: £6.03 / Used from: £4.37 The Late Great Nobel Prize winning Saul Bellow.
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 | The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 by Wladyslaw Szpilman
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Wladyslaw Szpilman's autobiographical account of his time in the Warsaw ghetto is most famous for the Polanski film.
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 | American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Buy new: £4.64 / Used from: £1.56 Roth is America's most powerful contemporary writer. His 90's work won him numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize for this. 'Sabbath's Theatre' is my personal favourite.
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 | Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Orange Prize
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 | Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.14 Liked 'Stardust' the film. Tried 'Anansi Boys' and got about 50 pages in before I decided to stop wasting my life. However, his 'Sandman' graphic novels are supposed to be magnificent.
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 | Zofloya: or The Moor (Oxford World's Classics) by Charlotte Dacre
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £5.99 A Gothic Horror masterpiece. Along with Mathew Lewis' 'The Monk' they are the jewels of the genre.
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 | The Stars' Tennis Balls by Stephen Fry
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.00 A pop-intellectual funny guy come actor.
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 | Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 The autobiography of the world's most respected, influential and prolific singer/songwriter.
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.55 Damn I love this book. His best work.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £1.99 You either love it or you think it's rubbish. If you think it's rubbish then those who love it say you just don't get it. But really it IS rubbish!
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 | The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts (Penguin Modern Classics) by Arthur Miller
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £1.36 Pulitzer Prize winning playwright. I'm sure everyone has studided this for GCSE. He also went out with Marilyn Monroe - Lucky Guy!
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 | Woman on the Edge of Time (A Women's Press classic) by Marge Piercy
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.84 Feminist/Passivist activist and a wonder of a writer.
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 | Foundation (The Foundation Series) by Isaac Asimov
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.01 The King of Golden-Age American sci-fi. His entire works describe a vast and sprawling galaxy with a phenomenal vision of timescale.
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 | The Forever War (S.F. Masterworks) by Joe Haldeman
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.92 This is one of the most perfect pieces of sci-fi you will ever read.
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 | The Book Of Skulls (S.F. Masterworks) by Robert Silverberg
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.04 He is a bit hit and miss. The peak of his older stuff is included in the sci-fi masterworks series (a good guide).
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 | The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
Buy new: £13.59 Foremost poet of the first world war (despite his displeasment with such a tag). His 'Memoirs of a...' series are good too.
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 | Howl (Pocket Poets) by Allen Ginsberg
Buy new: £3.88 / Used from: £1.06 Outlaw poet of a generation.
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 | The Trial (Vintage Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.50 'The Metamorphosis' should also be read. A tortured soul who is eulogised by every intended intellectual. Spawned the turm 'Kafkaesque'.
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 | If This Is a Man / The Truce by Primo Levi
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.31 Auschwitz survivor. Completed a large and confesional body of work before his suicide. Should be essential reading for everyone. Also see 'The Drowned and the Saved'
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 | The Complete Prose by Woody Allen
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Comedy genius. Check out his films too (and fortunately there are tons of them).
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