 | American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 It's magnificent, all his others are flawed in comparison
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 | Winesburg, Ohio (Penguin Twentieth-century Classics) by Sherwood Anderson
Buy new: £4.24 / Used from: £0.01 Read it again and again
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 | The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £9.25 / Used from: £6.63 If you love language and have unaccountably failed to read this, then buy the annotated version
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 | Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.91 Set aside at least a month, and take a big run-up
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 | The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Buy used from: £0.01 Maligned by envious critics but this is a cracking read
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 | The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
Buy new: £5.95 / Used from: £0.01 A rambling masterpiece - deadpan dialogue interwoven with searching commentary
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 | Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow
Buy used from: £4.64 Dazzling but also poignant, which you have to take when you can get it with Bellow
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 | The Beautiful and Damned (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £4.36 Even more beautifully written than Gatsby
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £0.01 One of a kind - burn the 'sequel'
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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: £2.53 Quicker to read than to summarise
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