 | A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.79 That ending... You'll cry so much you'll dehydrate
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 | Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Buy new: £5.76 / Used from: £2.11 Catcher in the what??? This is the ultimate book of teen angst
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 | The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £2.71 A tragicomedy of manners. A must.
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 | The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £6.26 / Used from: £4.00 Frustrating, perplexing, addictive. Kafka meets Bret Easton Ellis via Ian McEwan
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.40 / Used from: £1.55 "Tender is the Night" is NOT better! Cutting yet languid-- truly great.
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 | Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics) by Joyce James
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Joyce at his most accessible. Poignant and insightful
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 | A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Buy used from: £2.63 So dark it's searing.
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 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Just a great story, and ever so British
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.42 / Used from: £1.99 A cliched choice no doubt, but I still love it. Beauty in chaos.
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 | American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy used from: £0.01 Utterly sick and depraved. You know that already, though.
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 | The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
Buy new: £5.12 / Used from: £0.01 Not the best book ever, but seriously thought-provoking stuff
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 | Mort (Discworld Novels) by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.00 A guilty pleasure. Probably the best Discworld novel.
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 | American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £1.74 One of the best books of the last twenty years? Cuts to the bone with an elegant blade
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 | The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £1.25 Underrated McEwan-- devillishly nasty
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 | The Green Mile (Read a Great Movie) by Stephen King
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.60 Don't scoff. It's a great book-- Stephen King's best
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 | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £6.89 / Used from: £0.01 Can't...stop...reading...
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 | Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog by Dylan Thomas
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £2.14 An almost forgotten book-- very tender and readable
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 | The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary classics) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £1.68 My, oh my. How scary.
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 | High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 I love it to bits. So shoot me. Middle-brow lit at its best.
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 | Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £5.82 My favourite poet-- not quite everything in here, but it's very affordable and mostly comprehensive
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 | The Bonfire of the Vanities (Picador Books) by Tom Wolfe
Buy used from: £0.01 A chunky beast of a novel. Sweeping, funny and savage
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 | Great Expectations (Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £1.82 Couldn't go without mentioning a Dickens. My favourite one-- universally important and it has Dickens' most tragic character Miss Havisham in it.
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 | The Metamorphosis (Dover Thrift) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £1.50 / Used from: £0.01 A nice cheap introduction to Kafka.
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 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £0.95 A bit of a slog to get through, it's worth it though.
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 | Last Orders by Graham Swift
Buy new: £5.11 / Used from: £0.01 Poignant and true. Better than Waterland? Maybe...
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