 | The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 The best of the best
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 | Catch-22 (Vintage Classics) by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £2.41 Not far behind. And possibly the funniest book ever
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 | White Noise (Picador Books) by Don DeLillo
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.06 Simuvac - classic. Postmodern masterpiece, and a lot shorter than Underworld
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 | Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.31 Astounding. And again, shortish - always a bonus
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 | Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy used from: £0.30 Worth the hard work. And the main guy is called Raskolnikoff
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £7.18 Meta-fiction of the nth degree. Read it just for one image to do with certain female bodily smells attaching themselves to male hairdos
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 | Death in the Andes by Mario Vargos Llosa
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.01 Wonderful balancing of contrasting tones, themes - should really read everything by Llosa
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 | Unless by Carol Shields
Buy used from: £55.00 Best feminist novel I've ever read. But that is reductive - a moving, endlessly resonant work of fiction
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 | The Stranger by Albert Camus
Buy used from: £0.33 Sums it all up
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 | The Corrections
Buy used from: £0.56 Great structure, language and scope. Like DeLillo, observations simultaneously excruciating and hilarious
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