Listmania!
Some random cuts, 2007
The Wasp FactoryThe Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01
Vaguely entertaining, but not worth the ramble.
The Journey Home (Cinema Classics)The Journey Home (Cinema Classics) by Olafur Johann Olafsson
Buy used from: £0.01
Pointless, but beautiful. Light and airy.
The Complete Polysyllabic SpreeThe Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £2.21
Dreary, indeed boring in parts.
The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Penguin Popular Classics)The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Penguin Popular Classics) by Erskine Childers
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01
Not the classic it once presumably was.
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 yearsGuns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared M. Diamond
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.94
Thought provoking, though not entirely convincing.
The Noodle MakerThe Noodle Maker by Jian Ma
Buy used from: £7.60
Short, but worrying.
One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.40
Brilliant and succinct. A must read.
Memoirs of a Spymaster: The Man Who Waged a Secret War Against the WestMemoirs of a Spymaster: The Man Who Waged a Secret War Against the West by Markus Wolf
Buy used from: £1.19
A human face, from the man with no face. Eminently readable.
Pillars of the Earth: 10th Anniversary EditionPillars of the Earth: 10th Anniversary Edition by Ken Follett
Buy used from: £0.28
Long, but worth persevering the first few hundred pages.
The God of Small ThingsThe God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
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Excellently written insight into the nature of Caste.
Lord Jim (Twentieth Century Classics)Lord Jim (Twentieth Century Classics) by Joseph Conrad
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Complex, possibly brilliant. Not one for the beach.