 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 It will dissolve you into the pages.
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 | The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Very, very, very evocative.
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 | The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Entertaining philosophically and conceptually.
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 | Castaway by Lucy Irvine
Buy used from: £0.01 Good movie with Oliver Reed but this is better and gives greater insight into Irvine's feelings
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 This is so very beautiful. The best end of a book I've read.
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 | Blindness by Jose Saramago
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.12 An analogy of our neglect for the world. Philosophically insightful.
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy used from: £1.95 Its not just that they get you, its that they get you just as you start to think they might not.
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 | Eyeless in Gaza (Vintage Classic) by Aldous Huxley
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £9.36 Beautifully constructed narrative. We all at some point have to find out who we are.
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 | Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £1.66 GCSE favourite but actually a fantastic book. The fragility of societies yet endeavour of survival instincts.
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 | The Joke by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £0.57 Every action has a consequence. More so when under the communist eye.
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 | High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Awful ,awful, movie adaptation, brilliant brilliant book. A crystal clear insight into the modern, artistic, British male, and the traps they set for themselves.
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 | For Whom the Bell Tolls (Vintage Classics) by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.53 Strength is keeping your head when all around you are losing theres. Another magnificent ending.
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 | The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Everyone should read this. Everyone.
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 | The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 And this. Grabs you by the collar pulls you into its twisting tale , throws you out and you think "blimey, that was well good".
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 | The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 A very intriguing thriller that'll have your eyes shooting across pages near the end.
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 | Slaughterhouse-Five.: Or The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.84 / Used from: £6.32 Vonnegut could see it all and would have put it right if he'd had the chance. The best anti war novel really.
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 | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Although this is another great anti war book. It takes a different tack, it throttles you with haunting images juxtaposed against exquisite sentences.
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 | Things Fall Apart (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Chinua Achebe
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £2.60 Tragic, a story of pride being summounted by greed.
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 | Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £0.01 A great little Texan story of a kid in the wrong place at the wrong time, all the time. Funny and sad all at once.
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.42 / Used from: £2.00 Get through the first 70 pages and then the message and charm of this come out.
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