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Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk (50th Anniversary Edition) by William S. Burroughs, Oliver Harris

A semi-autobiographical account, narrated in a matter-of-fact manner, of the author’s life as a drug addict. The story ranges from …

The Girl on the Boat by P. G. Wodehouse

"Dudley, there is no tomorrow!" "Then how about this afternoon?" by Shepherd Mead

Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin

Delta of Venus is a book of fifteen short stories by Anaïs Nin published posthumously in 1977—though largely written in …

The small bachelor by P. G. Wodehouse

Island by Aldous Huxley (Perennial classic)

The final novel from Aldous Huxley, Island is a provocative counterpoint to his worldwide classic Brave New World, in which …

Doctor Zhivago by Борис Пастернак

This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published …

Money for Nothing by P. G. Wodehouse

'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen FryA P.G. Wodehouse novel.The peaceful …

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow

Bursting with cutting-edge speculation and human insight, Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a coming-of-age romantic …

The Girl in Blue by P. G. Wodehouse

A void by Georges Perec (A Verba Mundi book)

A Void, translated from the original French La Disparition (lit. "The Disappearance"), is a 300-page French lipogrammatic novel, written in …

Virtual reality by Howard Rheingold

The Burroughs file by William S. Burroughs

Moral mazes by Robert Jackall

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

'You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have …