 | Geek Love (Abacus Books) by Katherine Dunn
Buy new: £5.68 / Used from: £2.58 Amazing tale of circus freaks. Weird and touching.
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 | Not Fade Away by Jim Dodge
Buy used from: £4.88 Like Steinbeck's Cannery Row with added rock and roll.
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 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £1.27 I know I know, suicidal lady poet. It doesn't bode well. But it is FABULOUS!
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![Fraser Macdonald G. : Flash for Freedom] (Plume)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518HJ7QP7SL._SL75_.jpg) | Fraser Macdonald G. : Flash for Freedom] (Plume) by George MacDonald Fraser
Buy used from: £3.30 OK so GMF is a reactionary old git but this and all the other Flashies are great fun.
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 | Different Seasons by Stephen King
Buy used from: £0.01 Long short stories. The stuff the movies Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me were based on is between these covers.
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 | Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.01 Several books in one. Brilliant. Clever. Entertaining.
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 | A Confederacy of Dunces (Pocket Penguin Classics) by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £1.68 Ignatius is one of the all time great comic characters.
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 | Para Handy by Neil Munro
Buy used from: £0.01 Funny stories of men gently conniving against each other.
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 | Guys and Dolls: The Stories of Damon Runyan by Damon Runyan
Buy used from: £6.08 Funny stories of men violently conniving against each other.
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 | Roger's Profanisaurus Rex: From the Pages of "Viz", the Ultimate Swearing Dictionary by Viz
Buy used from: £22.70 For the schoolboy in all of us
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 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics) by Muriel Spark
Buy used from: £0.99 The greatest novel ever written imo. The creme de la creme.
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 | Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Easy reading fiction written with intelligence.
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 | Carter Angela : Wise Children by Angela Carter
Buy used from: £1.51 A lifetime of illigitimate theatre. Wonderfully funny.
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 | The Swell Season (Picador Books) by Josef Skvorecky
Coming of age, playing jazz, dodging nazis and communists.
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Monumentally good portrait of a monster.
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 | The Cone Gatherers: A Haunting Story of Violence and Love (Canongate Classics) by Robin Jenkins
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £2.25 Why this book isn't better known is beyond me. It has first class charecterisation and is tightly written with a gripping plot. You'll be glad you found Robin Jenkins.
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