 | The Castle (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £5.72 / Used from: £3.43 Just the master of nightmares.
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 | The Immoralist (Penguin Modern Classics) by Andre Gide
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £3.45 An involving story of a man torn between opressive duty and obsessive pleasure-seeking.
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 | Vertigo by W.G. Sebald
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £2.00 Various explorations of memory and forgetting. The Kafka chapter is fantastic.
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 | Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Buy new: £6.66 / Used from: £0.01 A mystery with heart, intellect, charm and a wondeful lead character.
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 | Fair Play by Tove Jansson
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £2.27 Beautiful stories from the author of the Moomin books. Learn something about humanity.
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 | Eternal Monday by Gyorgy Petri
Buy used from: £0.38 A hungarian poet who combines wondeful symbolism with historical commentary in his work.
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 | Death in Venice and Other Stories (Vintage Classics) by Thomas Mann
Buy new: £5.34 / Used from: £3.17 A short novel full of detail and awkwardness. But in a good way!
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 | Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life (Penguin Popular Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 Sharp, grimly amusing tragi-comedy. Still very relevant!
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 | The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Georges Simenon
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 Another gripping but also funny and thoughtful mystery.
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 | She Came to Stay (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Simone de Beauvoir
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.98 De Beauvior, like Satre, can have a rather impenetrable style at times, but books like this one make her well worth the effort.
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 | Steppenwolf (Penguin Modern Classics) by Hermann Hesse
Buy new: £5.21 / Used from: £2.99 Every teenager has to read this. And then re-read it as an adult, and notice the nuances you missed the first time.
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 | The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil
Buy new: £9.67 / Used from: £5.41 Long but fascinating if you're at all interested in the modernists - it's all in here.
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