![]() | Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £3.44 Some works trancend their artistic discipline. Ulysses is so much more than a novel. It is a work of genius that only makes sense with multipile readings. Hard work, but infinitely rewarding.
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![]() | East of Eden (Steinbeck "Essentials") by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £4.50 John Steinbeck is a master of storytelling and East of Eden is his most sublime achievment.
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![]() | In Dubious Battle (Penguin twentieth-century classics)
Buy used from: £1.80 This book is so good, I read it in one sitting. Has one the most horrifically brilliant endings of any work of literature.
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![]() | Germinal (Oxford World's Classics) by Émile Zola
Buy used from: £1.19 One of the best novels of the 19th Century. Bleak and harrowing and yet a masterpiece of socialist writing.
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![]() | Weaveworld by Clive Barker
Buy used from: £0.01 The best of Clive Barker's novels and for my money the best fantasy novel ever.
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![]() | Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
Buy used from: £0.01 'He who fights dragons too long,' said Nietzsche, 'becomes a dragon himself.' Esentially the moral of Orwell's most important novel.
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![]() | The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £12.28 / Used from: £5.00 I've read the first three novels so many time I can practically recite them from heart. As much politcal satire as sci fi at times. Genius.
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![]() | The Garden of Unearthly Delights by Robert Rankin
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 If you haven't discovered Robert Rankin yet, then now's the time.
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![]() | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite book of recent years. But avoid The Little Friend like the plague!
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![]() | Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy used from: £5.86 More frightening than 1984 as all the events in this book actually took place.
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![]() | As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.01 Laurie Lee walks the roads of Spain in the weeks and months before the Civil War. Great, great book.
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![]() | Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Popular Classics) by Mary Shelley
Buy new: £2.17 / Used from: £0.01 So good, not even studying it at college could ruin it.
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![]() | Tropic of Cancer (Harperperennial Classics) by Henry Miller
Buy used from: £1.00 'Good novels,' wrote Orwell of Miller, 'are writen by people who are not frightened.' Not for the easily offended.
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![]() | Our Man in Havana (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.97 Possibly the greatest English novelist of the 20th century, this is my favourite of his books.
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![]() | Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
Buy used from: £0.01 An excellent novel from Mr Generation X himself. Also read Microserfs.
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![]() | His Dark Materials Gift Set: "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £5.50 Forget Harry Potter, Pullman has created something truely original. Great stuff.
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![]() | Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: £8.37 / Used from: £5.94 Any Chomsky is invaluable, but this collection of discussions with members of the public is as good an introduction to the man as any.
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![]() | Bill Hicks: Agent of Evolution by Kevin Booth
Buy used from: £6.50 An important new biography of Bill Hicks. Shows the man behind the comedy.
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![]() | James Joyce (Oxford Lives) by Richard Ellmann
Buy new: £13.97 / Used from: £11.62 Regarded by many as the greatest biography ever writen, this is an essential read for anyone wanting a greater insight into the chaotic life of Joyce.
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![]() | Catch-22 (Vintage Classics) by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £1.48 Sheer absurdity and brillaint use of word play. A 20th century classic.
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![]() | The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £1.73 His greatest novel. Not for people who bore easily.
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![]() | Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Buy used from: £12.99 At times you want to cry out reading this book. Horrific throughout, a true anti war novel.
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![]() | For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.59 Hemmingway at his best.
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![]() | A People's History of the United States: 1492-present by Howard Zinn
Buy new: £32.29 / Used from: £15.00 An alternative history of the most powerful country in the world. Essential reading
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![]() | Hidden Agendas by John Pilger
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 Be warned! If you wish to remain in ignorance of the world you live in, avoid this book. Journalism with a capital J. One of the few heros left in the world.
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