 | Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library classics) by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £5.71 Utterly brilliant! Philosophical, psycholgical and emotional, combines every acpect of human nature beautifully.
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 | The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £5.16 An epic tomb of human insight and a study of man's relation with god, guilt and truth.
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 | Notes from the Underground (Dover Thrift) by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy new: £1.25 / Used from: £0.01 A precursor to existentialism, the voice of a lonely man speaking universal truths about the human condition.
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 | Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £3.25 Heartbreakingly beautiful. Tragic and Truthful.
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 | Nausea (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £2.50 A poetic analysis of the contigency of human life and the despair one feels at being without purpose
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 | Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Canongate Classics) by Alasdair Gray
Buy new: £6.50 / Used from: £3.40 "A Life in Four Books" The story of a life and an afterlife, covering more than the four stages of man.
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 | In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way v.1: Swann's Way Vol 1 (Vintage Classics) by Marcel Proust
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £2.50 A long, rambling, slow exploration of art, emotion and sensation
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 | In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories (Independent Voices) by Delmore Schwartz
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £1.00 The most surreal, absurd and brilliant collection f short stories I have ever read.
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 | Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.11 Clarity in absurdity!
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 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Vintage Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £3.47 / Used from: £1.17 unforgettable, captures sublimely the human obsession with youth and art.
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 | The Great Gatsby (Pocket Penguin Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £5.22 / Used from: £0.65 Both a criticism and a celebration of the American Dream it is beautifuly written, poetic in its capture of atmosphere and has one of the most memorable endings ever written.
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 | Fathers and Sons (Oxford World's Classics) by Ivan Turgenev
Buy new: £4.16 / Used from: £2.21 A battle between the young and the old, the atheist and the theist. A masterpeice.
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 | The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £2.99 Whats going on? Why am I here? What should I do? Brilliant in its surreality.
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 | The Castle (Vintage Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.02 |
 | Nadja (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Andre Breton
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.09 Life and conicidence
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 | A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £4.84 / Used from: £1.86 Voilence and intelligence. Mutually incapatible? think again.
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £3.14 The most ineresting thing for me in this book is the concept of room 101, how fear can challenge love.
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 | Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy new: £4.60 / Used from: £4.16 The great man himself tells us who we are and what we are
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 | The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 An optimistic book amongst all thoes ladden with doom
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