 | The Trial (Vintage Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.50 A great, strange book. Brilliantly evokes emotions of despair and confusion in a sinister, nightmarish world of bureaucracy.
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 | Flashman (The Flashman Papers) by George MacDonald Fraser
Buy new: £5.79 / Used from: £0.01 Once you have read one of the Flashman books you will have to read all of them. Hilariously funny and well written with interesting historical insights.
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 | The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.83 A beautiful book to read, to hold and look at. Puts in words the joys and emptiness sometimes felt after travelling.
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 | American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy used from: £0.01 A shocking look at madness and modern life. Some say it simply has shock value but it is certainly thought provoking.
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 | The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.02 / Used from: £0.43 This is an enthralling short story of a man's battle with nature. Touching and beautifully written.
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 | I Am Legend (Gollancz) by Richard Matheson
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.39 A great horror novel and an engrossing study of paranoia and loneliness.
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 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Buy used from: £1.91 This book has been called 'life changing'. Maybe, but it certainly made me think more deeply than any other book I have read since and it gives a great desire to read around the subjects discussed.
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 | Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift) by Henry David Thoreau
Buy new: £2.25 / Used from: £0.01 An inspiring account of 'the simple life'. It makes you want to be a better person and reject the unimportant material desires of modern life.
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 | If This Is a Man / The Truce by Primo Levi
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.19 A harrowng account of Primo Levis's time in a concentration camp. A book about evil, suffering, hope and man's desire to survive. Definitely worthwhile.
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 | The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics) by Jaroslav Hasek
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £4.50 Brilliantly funny First World War satire. Svejk is a legendary comic character!
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 | The Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy used from: £3.25 A darkly satirical novel written and set during Stalin's purges. Strange and wonderful. A fantastical tale of good and evil.
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 | The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £1.73 A sparsely-written, beautifully bleak book about a man and his son after the end of the world. It is both harrowing and full of hope. An amazing book.
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