 | Candide (Penguin Popular Classics) by Voltaire
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 Wise, funny and true - you'll find your world view described somewhere in here.
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: £5.15 / Used from: £3.13 The master of 'fantastical reality' or however you want to describe this.
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 | The Lord of The Rings (Based on the 50th Anniversary Single volume edition 2004) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £12.47 / Used from: £0.01 At times a bit long winded but the level of detail shows that this is the work of an incredible imagination.
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 | Weaveworld by Clive Barker
Buy used from: £0.01 Similarly this is another great and highly ambitious fantasy adventure.
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 | The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Very funny and very English science fiction romp.
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 | Red Dwarf Omnibus: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers AND Better Than Life by Grant Naylor
Buy new: £9.47 / Used from: £0.01 Inspired by the above and rather good.
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 | The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.01 A great sci fi writer - this is brimming with ideas.
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 | Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £6.63 / Used from: £1.78 More sci fi - this doesn't take itself too seriously.
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 | Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by George Orwell
Buy used from: £0.16 Considered an all time sci fi classic and rightly so.
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 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Buy new: £5.29 / Used from: £3.25 See the above comment.
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 | Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 A sci fi novel with a very different perspective and incredibly moving.
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 | The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 See the above comment.
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 | Glue by Irvine Welsh
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 His best book populated with the best characters and funniest dialogue.
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 | High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 One for all those list writers out there...
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 | Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Buy new: £4.82 / Used from: £0.01 A great 'coming of age' story - and very funny.
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 | The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Should you read this? Let the dice decide...
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 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £4.92 / Used from: £0.01 Whatever you do don't watch the film instead!
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 | The People's Act of Love by James Meek
Buy new: £5.37 / Used from: £0.01 Very Russian and very strange - in a compelling way.
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 | His Dark Materials Trilogy: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass: "Northern Lights" WITH "The Subtle Knife" AND "The Amber Spyglass" by Pullman; Philip
Buy new: £21.49 / Used from: £17.00 Pretty 'out there' for supposed children's fiction.
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 | Watership Down (Puffin Books) by Richard Adams
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £0.01 Another classic children's book.
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 | Titus Groan (Gormenghast trilogy) by Mervyn Peake
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £0.25 Full of larger than life characters.
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