Glamorama Bret Easton Ellis

The End of Eternity Isaac Asimov

Generation X Douglas Coupland A weird, highly intelligent trashing of the whole yuppy culture - Gay Times

The Dancers at the End of Time Michael Moorcock

To Kill a Mockingbird Harper

A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey Kesey can be funny, he can be lyrical, he can do dialogue, and he can write a muscular narrative. In fact there's not much better come out of America in the sixties. - Douglas Eadie, Scotsman

Catch-22 Joseph Heller A wild, moving, shocking, hilarious, raging, exhilarating, giant roller-coaster of a book - Maurice Dolbier, Herald Tribune

A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange is not only about man's violent nature and his capacity to choose between good and evil. It is about the excitements and intoxicating effects of language... a cleverly sustained solo of virtuoso phrase-making and jazzy riffs - Daily Telegraph

Under Milk Wood Dylan Thomas

Ivanov Anton Chekhov

Metamorphosis Franz Kafka

The Liar Stephen Fry 'The Liar is hilarious - page after page of the most outrageous and often filthy jokes, delicious conceits, instant, brilliant ripostes that would only occur to ordinary mortals after days of teeth-grinding lunacy' -Literary Review

Trainspotting Irvine Welsh The voice of punk, grown wiser and grown eloquent - Sunday Times

"The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so, he labors under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion. His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the glands."

- William Faulkner

I'm also very partial to Herge's Adventures of Tintin and the Winnie-The-Pooh stories by A.A Milne

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