Amazon.co.uk: Good, heavy reads

1. Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics) by Malcolm Lowry

The list author says:
	"Dense, transcendental, political, diabolical. Filled with pain but without self pity. Also has a sense of humour if you look for it."

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(19 customer reviews)

2. Crash by J. G. Ballard

The list author says:
	"Erotic masterpiece by a one-time master. Plot dissolves under a morass of pornographic imagery and acid trips.Don't let anyone tell you this is a bad book."

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(26 customer reviews)

3. Waiting For The Barbarians by J M Coetzee

The list author says:
	"Brilliant Dostoyevsky-like examination of conscience, Empire, and imprisonment that questions the values of 'civilisation'."

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(20 customer reviews)

4. Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West (Picador Books) by Cormac McCarthy

The list author says:
	"McCarthy's masterpiece. Amoral and bloody. A brutal tale, somewhat satanic, of cut-throats and scalpings in 1840s Mexico."

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(105 customer reviews)

5. Auschwitz : The Nazis & The 'Final Solution' by Laurence Rees

The list author says:
	"Laurence Rees' brilliant history of the biggest killing factory in history. Looks at how people behave in extreme situations and includes vital interviews with victims and perpetrators alike."

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(52 customer reviews)

6. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The list author says:
	"Dark tale but something of a black comedy too. Nabakov's use of language amazing. And Humbert Humbert a comic genius despite his crimes."

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(97 customer reviews)

7. Harper Perennial Modern Classics - Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard

The list author says:
	"Forget the film, Ballards' semi-autobiographical war novel is graphic and surreal in its descriptions of death and disease in Japanese occupied China."

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(27 customer reviews)

8. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

The list author says:
	"Koestler's best novel in a trilogy that examines the ethics of revolution."

�6.29 Used & New from: �3.37

(39 customer reviews)

9. The Damned (Penguin Classics) by Joris-Karl Huysmans

The list author says:
	"Absorbing novel about devil worship, child killing, and the downfall, both morally and socially, of Gilles des Rais - one time hero of France and comrade in arms of Joan of Arc."