Listmania!
misleading books
The Golden PigThe Golden Pig by Mark Penny
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £4.03
you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll never walk straight again.
TrainspottingTrainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £1.62
Totally hopeless as a travel guide.
Fight ClubFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £4.61 / Used from: £2.85
Not so much a club as a collection of paper.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador)The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador) by Oliver Sacks
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £1.45
I tried this once when inebriated, I never wore that hat again.
One DayOne Day by David Nicholls
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £5.99
May cause coitus interruptus.
To Kill a MockingbirdTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.30 / Used from: £1.94
No advice on bird irradication.
Sex and Drugs and Sausage RollsSex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls by Robert Rankin
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.50
Also makes a paperweight
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-timeThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £4.80 / Used from: £0.01
Not really a dog book.
The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary classics)The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary classics) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01
This is the kind of dross that drove away Shelley.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: a Novel (Penguin Modern Classics)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: a Novel (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ken Kesey
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £2.35
Awesome but bird is a metaphor, a metaphor.
The AssociateThe Associate by John Grisham
Buy new: £8.54 / Used from: £1.35
good old grish
When Will There be Good News?When Will There be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01
Not soon enough.