 | The Rings of Saturn: An English Pilgrimage (Panther) by W.G. Sebald
Buy used from: £1.49 The book that most affected me in 2001. Quite, quite beautiful.
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 | The Heart of the Matter (Vintage classics) by Graham Greene
Buy used from: £1.13 More Catholic misery from master-storyteller Greene.
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 | Nineteen Seventy Four (Red Riding Quartet) by David Peace
Buy used from: £28.94 Grim realistic violence set back home 'Oop North': grand!
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 | The Woman in the Dunes by K. Abe
Buy used from: £2.38 Compelling metaphorical parable from Japanese surrealist.
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 | The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Buy new: £2.39 / Used from: £0.01 Emotionally wrenching debut from Schlink.
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 | A Disaffection (Vintage Classics) by James Kelman
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £3.75 Kelman's finest most fully realised novel.
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 | Mother London by Michael Moorcock
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.03 Big hearted novel from a massive talent.
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 | Sputnik Sweetheart (Panther) by Haruki Murakami
Buy used from: £11.54 Murakami's best.
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 | Radon Daughters: A Voyage, Between Art and Terror, from the Mound of Whitechapel to the Limestone Pavements of the Burren by Iain Sinclair
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £3.50 More psychogeographical East-end weirdness from Sinclair.
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 | Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.50 One of the finest anti-war novels around.
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 | A Rage in Harlem (Canongate Crime Classics) by Chester Himes
Buy used from: £2.74 Not one of America's best crime or black writers, one of the best writers period.
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 | Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
Buy used from: £0.05 Cool slice of zeitgeist by trendy - but v fine - young Japanese star.
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 | Closer by Dennis Cooper
Buy used from: £5.25 The first novel in Cooper's challenging five novel cycle.
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 | The Legend of the Holy Drinker by Joseph Roth
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £4.00 Forgotten European master. Get them all.
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 | Falling Slowly by Anita Brookner
Buy used from: £0.01 Brookner's novels are all the same ... and they are all superb.
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