 | Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 A clear winner in this competition. Any pseudo-intellectual wouldn't be seen dead without it. Apparently, it's about philosophy.
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 | The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics) by John Bunyan
Buy used from: £0.59 Oh dear Lord, get it away from me. It's at least 3,000,000 pages long, and all of them are as interesting as each other.
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 | Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Collins classics) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £2.98 No one ever actually reads The Complete Works, but almost everyone has bought it for 25p in Oxfam. Sadly, about 4 plays will get read in this anthology, whilst Cymbaline and others will never be.
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 | The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd Ed. by Geoffrey Chaucer
Buy used from: £6.20 As above - no one ever reads it, they just keep it around in case they pass a horse which needs to be clubbed to death with this enormous anthology. Exceptions are the students who must read it.
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 | On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £0.48 A favourite since the 1970s, although its place in the list is falling fast. Perhaps the book is becoming too mainstream?
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 | Treasury of Polish Love: Poems, Quotations and Proverbs (Treasury of Love) by Miroslaw Lipinski
Buy new: £7.24 / Used from: £1.59 Not necessarily this book, but you know the sort I mean; the kind of thing you'd have to look really hard to find on the bottom shelf of the library's World Literature section.
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 | The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £5.14 / Used from: £0.01 It's always a favourite, except among people who've actually READ it, and know how unspeakably dull it actually is.
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 | Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth by Ruth S. Noel
Buy used from: £0.01 Oh, YOU know these people. They've long since forgotten how to just simply read books and enjoy them.
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 | Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration by Tracy Strong
Buy new: £21.84 / Used from: £23.77 The man with the name that can't be written correctly continues to raise a person's assumed IQ by at least 15%
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 | War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 25 years ago, and this would have been number one. Sadly, it's now been relegated to the perifery of this dubious field.
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