 | Catch-22 (Vintage Classics) by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.90 Beautiful, timeless book with great comedy and sharp focus and fantastical characters
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.68 The clarity of the imagery and characterisation struck a chord like a giant cracked bell
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 | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £3.45 A stunningly paced, incredibly crafted, emotional journey of a book
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 | The Rum Diary (Bloomsbury Classic Reads) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.51 Partially autobiographical account of fast paced jouranlistic life in Puerto Rico in the sixties
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 | Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.53 A must read for all those American Political machinations and the Nixon era
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 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Popular Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Where my interest in books started, Twain is still a hero
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 | Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
Buy used from: £0.01 The book that introduced allegorical metaphor to me. I think!
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.09 / Used from: £2.95 Scary vision of a future, watch the film straight after the book. Then watch FOX news.
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 | Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £1.00 A finely crafted, daring book that holds you spell bound and revulsed, yet always mindful.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £1.40 One of the best first person narratives I've had the pleasure to read, very moving.
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