 | Number9Dream by David Mitchell
Buy used from: $1.00 Charming little book, full of lovable imagination. Good one D. M.
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 | Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.49 Another of his books. What can I say... I'm hooked. I especially liked Robert Frobisher (I think I see a little of myself in him).
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 | Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.26 Less good than the other two D. Mitchel novels, but worthy of mention, a good read.
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 | Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks
Buy used from: $31.95 Fantastic Space Opera style sci-fi, a gem, because Iain M. Banks manages to keep the grace and style in his writing, which is something most sci-fi writers abjectly fail at.
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.60 Great stuff; classic book these days, and hilarious whilst being thoughtful. Takes a much deserved comic swing at war.
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 | The Republic (Dover Thrift Editions) by Plato
Buy new: $3.00 / Used from: $0.01 An obvious essential for the itinerant philosopher. Take the ideas in context of greek society, and a look at them through his mouthpeice Socrates. Clever stuff, if broken into modernity.
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 | The Unperfect Society : Beyond the New Class by Milovan Djilas
Buy used from: $1.99 Milovan Djilas was unknown to me when I stumbled on his books, but I'm very glad I did. Full of worthwhile analysis of the culture he helped to construct, and dissented from.
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 | The Business: A Novel by Iain Banks
Buy new: $23.35 / Used from: $0.19 Great little book, roll on the imagination.
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 | Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.94 Nabokov is such a good writer, one for your brain.
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 | Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $4.74 Poetic and charming.
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 | Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy new: $15.64 / Used from: $9.20 That Raskolnikov! Such a scamp.
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.15 Not some some folks' taste, but I rather enjoyed it.
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 | The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
Buy used from: $5.80 Iain M. Banks again. Another author some people don't like, but he has a certain something..
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 | Complicity by Iain Banks
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.95 Ditto, and such.
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 | A SONG OF STONE: A Novel by Iain Banks
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $0.80 And again.. The man writes a lot of books
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 | Espedair Street by Iain Banks
Buy used from: $0.01 I'll stop commenting shall I?
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 | The Wasp Factory: A Novel by Iain Banks
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $4.13 If I can restrain myself.
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 | Excession by Iain Banks
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.80 Which I can't.
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 | USE OF WEAPONS (Bantam Spectra Book) by Iain M. Banks
Buy used from: $2.27 I'm compulsive that way.
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 | Whit by Iain Banks
Buy used from: $0.01 My fingers may get tired soon...
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 | The Crow Road by Iain Banks
Buy used from: $0.01 ....but not likely, I'm a veteran typist.
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 | The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.80 Hooray, end of Iain Banks books. A Nabokov this, yet again.
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 | Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.80 Sinister, bendy, 'tis a book of well executed writing skill.
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 | The Far Side ® Gallery 5 by Gary Larson
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.26 Was going to put an interesting book on the history and evolution of chaos theory here, but couldn't remember the name.. so.. The Far Side! :-) Hilarious.
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 | The Far Side ® Gallery 4 by Gary Larson
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.01 Funny funny stuff.
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