 | Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.10 An obvious one, but this is THE text for modernism.
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 | Beloved by Toni Morrison
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £0.27 My favourite modern novel.
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 | Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow by Ted Hughes
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £1.50 Twisted, dark poetry. Funny too.
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 | The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: £5.76 / Used from: £3.58 This is one of the most important books of our time.
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 | Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology Bk. 1: First Book: General ... Edmund Husserl -- Collected Works) by Edmund Husserl
Buy new: £24.64 / Used from: £14.00 And one of the most influential thinkers of the last century.
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 | Plays: "The Homecoming", "Tea Party", "The Basement", "Landscape", "Silence", "Night", "That's Your Trouble", "That's All", "Applicant", "Interview", ... Story) Vol 3 (Faber Contemporary Classics) by Harold Pinter
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £6.09 Less obvious than Beckett. Better too, in my opinion.
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 | Notes from Underground and The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy used from: £0.03 This is where Nietzche found inspiration for his 'Genealogy'.
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 | Gender Trouble (Routledge Classics) by Judith Butler
Buy new: £10.17 / Used from: £7.62 Essential reading for gender theory.
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 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics) by Laurence Sterne
Buy new: £6.26 / Used from: £2.10 If the rest have been a bit heavy - a classic comic text.
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 | Philosophical Investigations: The German Text with a Revised English Translation: German Text, with a Revised English Translation by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £19.01 And finally: the greatest work of the twentieth century.
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