 | Titus Groan (Gormenghast trilogy) by Mervyn Peake
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £0.15 Totally engrossing other-world - gothic with a vengeance
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.42 / Used from: £1.99 Bizarre characters in wholly believable warscape
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 | The Difference Engine by William Gibson
Buy used from: £9.86 Wonderful evocation of Victorian times - as they should have been.
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 | The Pickwick Papers (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy used from: £0.01 Very funny - and a great introduction to Dickens
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 | Dune by Frank Herbert
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The original (and by far the best) volume of the Dune series
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 | The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever: "Lord Foul's Bane", "Illearth War" and "Power That Preserves" by Stephen Donaldson
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £4.57 Lord of the Rings - for grown-ups
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 | Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: £6.19 / Used from: £0.01 If you know a farmer who is using pesticides - buy him this book, and stand over him while he reads it!
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 | Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Brilliantly funny - much better than the Disc-World series
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 | Mythago Wood (Mythago 1) by Robert Holdstock
Buy used from: £2.27 Spooky exploration of ancient English folk-tales
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 | The Lady in the Lake", "the Little Sister", "the Long Goodbye", "Playback" (Everyman's Library classics) by Raymond Chandler
Buy new: £12.25 / Used from: £9.19 The original and best crime stories. Beyond cool!
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 | The Jeeves Omnibus: No.1 by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy new: £11.59 / Used from: £8.99 Delightful evocation of the years before society was killed by World War II
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 | Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
Buy new: £6.11 / Used from: £0.01 The scariest historical novel
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 | Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.90 Brilliantly complex story of cryptography, gold and unrequited love
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 | Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle
Buy used from: £0.01 An historical novel of intrigue and strangeness. READ THE FOOTNOTES!!!!!
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 | Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £2.33 Classic ecological view of the planet
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 | Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (20th anniversary edition with a new preface by the author) by Douglas R Hofstadter
Buy new: £13.26 / Used from: £8.49 Perfect work-out for the brain...
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 | The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
Buy used from: £0.25 Dawkin's masterwork. Everything you wanted to know about evolution but were afraid to read "Origin of Species"
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 | Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.40 Marvellous place to start with this extraordinary author
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 | Regeneration by Pat Barker
Buy used from: £0.01 Chillingly realistic journey through the Hell of the First World War
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 | On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £5.70 / Used from: £1.99 For all old (and young) hippies everywhere...
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 | Waterland by Graham Swift
Buy used from: £0.01 A wonderful story of the Fens that reflects the gentle, slow (but brutal) pace of life there
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 | Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Buy new: £5.56 / Used from: £1.68 Whenever I need to go back to my youth...
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 | Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices (Penguin Modern Classics) by Dylan Thomas
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.20 Poetry to be spoken out loud - or listened to (if it's Richard Burton)
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 | Silent Spring (Penguin Modern Classics) by Rachel Carson
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £3.83 The first warnings of global devastation - which we still continue to ignore
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 | The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis: Most Credible Theory of Human Evolution by Elaine Morgan
Buy new: £5.95 / Used from: £3.09 Wonderfully likely research into human origins
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