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	Word Virus: The William Burroughs Reader (Flamingo Modern Classic) by William S. Burroughs Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £4.40 "We intend to destroy the police machine and all its records. We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems. We have heard enough." The greatest writer of the 20th Century.
	Less Than Zero (Picador Books) by Bret Easton Ellis Buy used from: £0.01 "You look pale" says my father. "It's the drugs" I say quietly. "What?" he says, "Nothing." I reply. Nihilism and apathy in 1980s LA.
	The Master and Margarita (Harvill Panther) by Mikhail Bulgakov Buy used from: £2.70 "Poor Ivan had tried to convince her that The Devil did not exist, on the bed sat the nonexistent one." Perfect.
	The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Buy new: £4.75 / Used from: £0.37 "The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you." Adolescent depression and mental illness in the 1950s.
	Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century by Greil Marcus Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £7.20 "Michael Jackson stands in the White House Rose Garden with Ronald Reagan... 'Beat It' has been used in an anti-drink driving commercial." Punk and modern art and today's culture
	The Divine Comedy: Inferno v. 1 (Penguin Classics) by Dante Alighieri Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £3.24 "I stood on souls fixed under ice/ to me they looked like straws worked into glass." It'll destroy you.
	Invisible Man (Essential Penguin) by Ralph Ellison Buy used from: £2.44 "Two huge women with spoiled cream complexions struggled as they walked past, their hips trembling like massive flames." Black American alienation.
	The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon Buy new: £5.27 / Used from: £2.11 "She stared at the pills in it, then understood. 'That's LSD?' She asked him." Complex novella about communication and conspiracies in 1960s California.
	Selected Poems and Letters (Penguin Classics) by Arthur Rimbaud Buy new: £7.65 / Used from: £5.15 "I know dusk/And dawn, rising like a multitude of doves./ What men have only thought they'd seen, I've seen." Visionary teen destroys poetry, creates rock n' roll.
	American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis Buy used from: £0.01 "You're a whore and I want to play about in your blood." Anyone who hates it doesn't understand the concepts of satire or irony. Nor do they understand that it's just really, really good.
	Notes from Underground and The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Buy used from: £0.45 "The best thing is conscious inertia! So long live the underground." Dostoevsky was from somewhere else entirely.
	Junk Mail by Will Self Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 "A friend of mine, a newspaper columnist, has a penchant for cocaine." How you wish you lived is how Will Self lives.
	Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh Buy new: £4.80 / Used from: £3.00 "I am high as a kite and horny as a field of stags. It's been a beautiful day." Best novel of the last fifteen years. Everything else by Welsh is poor.
	A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anthony Burgess Buy new: £4.84 / Used from: £1.94 "'Come and get one in the yarbles! If you have any yarbles, you eunech jelly thou!'" Burgess was right to be angry about it, he never wrote anything better.
	The Holy Bible 10th Anniversary Edition [2CD + DVD] by Manic Street Preachers Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £3.24 "Yeh, 4st 7, the epilogue of youth/ Such beautiful dignity in self-abuse/ I've finally come to understand life/ Through staring blankly at my navel." Everything else is quite pointless.
	Up the Bracket by The Libertines Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £5.48 "In slow motion eating breakfast/ At the Sideview Hotel/ Slipping down fine/ Everything's going so well." The best band out of England. Except for The Smiths...
	The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths Buy used from: £7.99 "I broke into the Palace/ With a sponge and a rusty spanner/ She said, "I know you and you cannot sing."/ I said "That's nothing you should me play pianner." We don't have to say anything.
	Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook by Peter Cook Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £0.01 "I went to get another Nesquik and when I came back... well, she was gone." As Stephen Fry said, the funniest man who ever drew breath.
	Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £6.08 "Dying is an art/ Like everything else/ I do it exceptionally well/ You could say I've a call." The end of poetry.
	The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.08 "And each successive shot was another loud, fateful rap on the door of my undoing." We all feel like Mersault sometimes.
	Screaming Fields Of Sonic Love by Sonic Youth Buy new: £3.18 / Used from: £2.39 "I can't keep quiet in my silly head/ It takes a teenage riot to get me out of bed." Everything by Sonic Youth is immensely good.
	Peep Show - Series 2 [DVD] [2005] Buy new: £8.08 / Used from: £2.15 "You won't be looking so cocky, Jeff, when I break into the office with a Kalashnikov and 200 rounds of ammunition." Mark Corrigan is a comedic version of a Camus hero.
	Last Words (1960s A) by William S. Burroughs Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £4.88 Love. The most natural pain killer there is." Burroughs did his best work when he was confronted by his own mortality.