 | Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin Classics) by Thomas De Quincey
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £2.44 Guide to the wonders of opium, or confessionary mish-mash? I don't know, I haven't read it yet.
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 | The Call of Cthulhu: And Other Weird Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) by H P Lovecraft
Buy new: £7.12 / Used from: £4.60 Dire pulp, or profound cosmic meditation dressed as dire pulp? I don't know, I haven't read it yet.
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 | Poetics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
Buy new: £4.82 / Used from: £2.82 The only how-to writer's guide you'll ever need. Apparently.
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 | Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Buy new: £4.85 / Used from: £1.03 The Next Big Thing in Fantasy. They say the sequel's even better.
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 | The Scar by China Mieville
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £1.98 The sequel. Better? Don't know. Haven't read it yet.
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 | The Metaphysical Poets
Buy used from: £0.01 Actually, I have read this, but I was seventeen at the time and lost that copy ages ago. So I haven't read this copy.
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 | Madness and Civilization (Routledge Classics) by Michel Foucault
Buy new: £8.29 / Used from: £6.52 Definitely haven't read this yet.
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 | The Order of Things (Routledge Classics): Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault
Buy new: £8.46 / Used from: £7.02 Or this.
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 | Archaeology of Knowledge (Routledge Classics) by Michel Foucault
Buy new: £8.77 / Used from: £6.98 Or this.
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 | The Birth of the Clinic (Routledge Classics) by Michel Foucault
Buy new: £9.87 / Used from: £8.50 No.
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 | Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Penguin Social Sciences) by Michel Foucault
Buy new: £8.42 / Used from: £6.39 Nope.
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 | The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge v. 1 by Michel Foucault
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £3.70 Ah, now... I haven't read this.
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 | The History of Sexuality: The use of Pleasure v. 2 (Penguin History) by Michel Foucault
Buy new: £8.42 / Used from: £6.05 Unfortunately not, no.
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 | The History of Sexuality: The Care of the Self: The Care of the Self v. 3 (Penguin History) by Michel Foucault
Buy new: £7.77 / Used from: £3.50 Afraid not. Really looking forward to it, though.
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 | Ethics: v. 1: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 v. 1 (Essential Works of Foucault 1) by Michel Foucault
Buy new: £8.57 / Used from: £6.90 Read some bits of this.
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 | Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: v. 2: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 v. 2 by Michel Foucault
Buy new: £9.49 / Used from: £7.58 And this.
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 | Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 v. 3 (Essential Works of Foucault 3) by Michel Foucault
Buy new: £10.29 / Used from: £7.58 And quite a lot of this. But not all of it.
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 | Introducing Foucault by Chris Horrocks
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.01 And I should probably read this before I read any of the others...
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 | The Anatomy of Melancholy (NYRB Classics) by Robert Burton
Buy new: £14.76 / Used from: £11.68 I keep dipping into this, but it scares the crap out of me. A bit like the sea in that respect.
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 | The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense by John Ralston Saul
Buy new: £14.01 / Used from: £13.21 This is hilarious and vicious and brilliant. Well, the two entries I've read are.
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 | My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Buy new: £4.77 / Used from: £0.01 But not 'read'.
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 | The Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy: 1890-2000
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £6.89 Not to be read at night. Which is when I do most of my reading. So I haven't read it yet.
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 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics) by Laurence Sterne
Buy new: £6.27 / Used from: £2.23 Haven't read this (quelle surprise!), but also sort of have, in a po-mo kind of way that Sterne would, I'm sure, appreciate. If he wasn't dead.
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 | Houdini's Box: On the Arts of Escape by Adam Phillips
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.64 A case study in this is about a compulsive book buyer, so maybe this should be at the top of my list.
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 | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Routledge Classics) by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Buy new: £7.36 / Used from: £5.20 Supposedly, if you've read this, you don't need to read anything else... I'm saved!
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