 | East of Eden (Steinbeck "Essentials") by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £3.12 An epic study of family relations and isolation.
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £9.00 / Used from: £3.60 Funny, sad, intensely intelligent.
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £1.00 The greatest magical realism that will ever be written?
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 | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Buy used from: £4.89 A heart wrenching study of lost hope and emotional endurance.
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 | How the Mind Works (Penguin Press Science) by Steven Pinker
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.47 A fantastic introduction to neuroscience.
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 | The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich
Buy new: £12.97 / Used from: £11.77 Easy to read with a lot of information. The perfect entry into the study of art history.
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 | Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.99 Not sure I'll ever understand all of this but an incredible experiment pushing literature to its limits.
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 | The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Some of the most evocative writing I've ever read.
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 | An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (Frontiers in Physics) by Michael E. Peskin
Buy new: £35.12 / Used from: £32.50 An essential introduction to quantum field theory. Less structured but more readable than Weinberg.
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 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: £3.74 Worrying, Moving and remarkably ahead of its time.
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 | Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy used from: £0.52 One of the most portentious books of the last century
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.42 / Used from: £1.99 Funny, surreal. The ultimate book about the lunacy of war
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