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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics)One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics) by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: £3.10 / Used from: £3.12
Always makes me grateful for what I have.
Only ForwardOnly Forward by Michael Marshall Smith
Buy new: £2.32 / Used from: £0.79
Sci-Fi noir at its finest
Virtual LightVirtual Light by William Gibson
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Hardcore cyberpunk at its best
Count ZeroCount Zero by William Gibson
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More cyberpunk from a man who defined the genre
The Winter of Our Discontent (Penguin Modern Classics)The Winter of Our Discontent (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Steinbeck
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Realist beauty from Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men (Penguin Red Classics)Of Mice and Men (Penguin Red Classics) by John Steinbeck
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Steinbeck, so real it touches your soul...
Third World War: August 1985Third World War: August 1985 by John Winthrop Hackett
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The only useful counter factual history I've ever read
Bad City BluesBad City Blues by Tim Willocks
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Brutal but somehow touching
Captain Hornblower R.N.: "Hornblower and the 'Atropos'", "The Happy Return", "A Ship of the Line"Captain Hornblower R.N.: "Hornblower and the 'Atropos'", "The Happy Return", "A Ship of the Line" by C.S. Forester
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Hornblower trilogy. What the responsibility of commanding an RN sailing ship was really like, I imagine!
SparesSpares by Michael Smith
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More sci fi noir from the genre busting Marshall Smith.