 | The Swarm: A Novel of the Deep by Frank Schätzing
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.84 Ok so it could probably shed 200 pages, but it's still the best ecothriller I've read to date
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 | Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £0.01 Into mountaineering? No, me neither - this is still an excellent book though
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 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: £2.40 My favourite dystopia! As relevant today as it ever was.
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 | Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £1.09 Excellent writer, cool book too
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 | E: A Novel by Matt Beaumont
Buy new: £2.34 / Used from: £0.01 Ever thought of a job in advertising? Read this first
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 | The Good Life: Up the Yukon without a Paddle: Up the Yukon Without a Paddle by Dorian Amos
Buy used from: £6.88 The ultimate antidote to modern life
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 | The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Buy used from: £4.45 The best adventure book ever written
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 | Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £2.10 One of many from the late, great Vonnegut
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 | The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £1.87 / Used from: £1.87 Mesmerising, should be read in one sitting
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 | Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £2.86 Deluded fool, or the ultimate search for truth?
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 | I Am Legend (S.F. Masterworks) by Richard Matheson
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £1.22 More sophisticated than the film with an entirely different ending - hard to believe this was written in the fifties
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 | Endurance: The True Story of Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic by Alfred Lansing
Buy used from: £2.85 No one could have written this as fiction - pure inspiration
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 | Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics) (Penguin Popular Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 intense, disturbing, provocative - way ahead of its time
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 | The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £4.69 / Used from: £3.13 Didn't quite move me to tears, but came close
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 | The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left by Ed Husain
Buy new: £6.19 / Used from: £3.60 The book the terrorists don't want you to read
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 | World War Z by Max Brooks
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £5.30 How will you survive the Zombie War?
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