 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £1.45 My favourite book and favourite writer. I think this book is phenomenal, a real literary work of genius that cannot be described aptly but must be read with dedication and concentration.
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 | House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Buy new: £14.99 / Used from: £14.00 I urge everyone to read this book, it's absolutely masterful. An interesting retaliation against literary convention but never at the expense of a truly gripping and often chilling story. Blew me away
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.42 / Used from: £0.01 Truly hilarious and truly gut wrenching. Not everybody's cup of tea but this book really stuck with me and I have been enjoying Heller's other work since.
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 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.70 What I like about Sylvia Plath is her wicked and dark sense of humour which stops this book becoming completely morose or self pitying. I really admire her work.
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 | Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
Buy used from: £3.93 My favourite book as a child, I first read it when I was 9 and it was the first book to make me cry. It is a childs book and yet it is uncompromising about the brutality of war and abuse.Unforgettable
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 | Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Directors Cut by Jhonen Vasquez
Buy new: £8.38 / Used from: £4.00 Johnny is the poster boy for the gothic comic generation. Witty and intelligent and extremely violent and I love it.
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 | The Dirt - Motley Crue: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Neil Strauss
Buy new: £8.47 / Used from: £6.79 I'm not at all into Motley Crue but this is one of the most hilarious books I have ever read. It's like Spinal Tap but so much sleazier. A wonderfully ridiculous rock and roll bio.
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £4.80 / Used from: £0.01 I thought this book was excellent and couldn't have been written better.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Emily Brontë
Buy new: £3.83 / Used from: £1.27 Wonderfully dramatic. Very flamboyant and poetically written.
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 | Love in the Time of Cholera (Read Red) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.01 Engaging characters, very human and believable and I think Marquez writes women very well. Beautiful literary style.
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 | The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Buy used from: £3.88 Lempedusa's writing style is not dissimlar to Marquez which is probably what hooked me. A very well written book with great characters and a brilliant setting.
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 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Buy used from: £0.01 I was really encaptivated by this book, the people are the most wonderful of eccentrics in the most colourful of settings. Makes me want to go to Savvanah!
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 | The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Buy new: £5.11 / Used from: £1.50 Che Guevara relates his experiences of travelling around South America. An intimate look at the revolutionary through his personal experiences of the brilliance and the poverty of the land.
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 | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £0.02 Extremely imaginative, there is no one like Owen Meany! I loved Irving's style and humour and abundance of imagination and look forward to reading more of his work.
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 A masterful and poetic piece of storytelling at its best. There is a definite feel of listening to the storyteller weave his tale. Grizzly, macabre, fascinating and ultimately phenomenal work.
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