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Weaponising Anti-Semitism
Asa Winstanley
Indie Microblogging
Manton Reece
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire
The Blood Never Dried
John Newsinger
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Adania Shibli
The Fraud
Paul Holden
Aftershocks
Marko Kloos
The Son and Heir
Alexander Munninghoff
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
The Last of the Moon Girls
Barbara Davis
Interference
Brad Parks
Human Traces
Sebastian Faulks
Antarctica
Claire Keegan
The Village Against The World
Dan Hancox
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Minor Detail
Adania Shibli
The Fraud
Paul Holden
Aftershocks
Marko Kloos
The Son and Heir
Alexander Munninghoff
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
The Last of the Moon Girls
Barbara Davis
Interference
Brad Parks
Human Traces
Sebastian Faulks
Antarctica
Claire Keegan
The Village Against The World
Dan Hancox
The Spirit Level: Why Equality Is Better For Everyone
Richard G. Wilkinson
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
The Shock of the Fall
Nathan Filer
The Notebook
Roland Allen
The New Rulers of the World
John Pilger
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach
How to Write One Song
Jeff Tweedy
Yesterday's Man
Branko Marcetic
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
Oliver Sacks
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story
Cynthia True
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Oliver Sacks
The Algebraist
Iain M. Banks
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
Kay Redfield Jamison
Martian Time-Slip
Philip K. Dick
Third Wave
Alvin Toffler
Counter-Clock World
Philip K. Dick
Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You & Your World
Robert Anton Wilson
Nature's God (Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, #3)
Robert Anton Wilson
Manchester United
Daily Mail
Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
Matthieu Richard
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach
Cod
Mark Kurlansky
Through a Glass, Darkly
Jostein Gaarder
Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy
Philippa Perry
Flick
Abigail Tarttelin
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Philip K. Dick
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
Aldous Huxley
Civilization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud
SoulPancake: Chew on Life's Big Questions
Rainn Wilson
The Air Loom Gang
Mike Jay
A Spot of Bother
Mark Haddon
Manchester United in the Sixties
graham-mccoll
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
Carl R. Rogers
Closing Time (Catch-22, #2)
Joseph Heller
Shunned: Discrimination against People with Mental Illness
Graham Thornicroft
The Unlimited Dream Company
J.G. Ballard
High Fidelity
Nick Hornby
I Had a Black Dog: His Name Was Depression
Matthew Johnstone
Listen, Little Man!
Wilhelm Reich
For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs
Robert A. Heinlein
Back from the Brink: The Autobiography
Paul McGrath
The Zap Gun
Philip K. Dick
The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Andrew Solomon
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
Jim Turner
Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty
Simon Baron-Cohen
An American Dream
Norman Mailer
Death in the Andes
Mario Vargas Llosa
A Head Full of Blue
Nick Johnstone
VALIS
Philip K. Dick
The Glory Game
Hunter Davies
The World According to Garp
John Irving
Self
yann-martel
The Tenderness of Wolves
Stef Penney
Taking Advantage of Adversity: How to Move from Crisis to Creativity
Gail Carr Feldman
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Robert Shea
On the Road: A Journey Through a Season
Daniel Harris
Reality Is What You Can Get Away With
Robert Anton Wilson
Number9Dream
David Mitchell
The Earth Will Shake: The History of the Early Illuminati
Robert Anton Wilson
Dibs in Search of Self: Personality Development in Play Therapy
Virginia M. Axline
The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Hunter S. Thompson
Confessions of a Crap Artist
Philip K. Dick
Timequake
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression
Frederick K. Goodwin
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
The Widow's Son (Historical Illuminatus Chronicles 2)
Robert Anton Wilson
Lowboy
John Wray
Full Time
Paul Kimmage
My Booky Wook
Russell Brand
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
The Function of the Orgasm (Discovery of the Orgone #1)
Wilhelm Reich
On Human Nature
Arthur Schopenhauer
Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age
Bernard E. Harcourt
Down to Earth (Cosmic Trigger #2)
Robert Anton Wilson
The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer
The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
Mark Vonnegut
About a Boy
Nick Hornby
The Emotional Toolkit: 7 Power-skills to Nail Your Bad Feelings
Darlene Minnini
Glory Glory!: Man United in the 90s
Andy Mitten
Moab Is My Washpot (Memoir, #1)
Stephen Fry
Schizophrenia: A Scientific Delusion?
Mary Boyle
Coincidance: A Head Test
Robert Anton Wilson
The Blood of Flowers
Anita Amirrezvani
Hocus Pocus
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Unfolding Of Language
Guy Deutscher
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Macroeconomics [with Freakonomics]
Olivier J. Blanchard
The Minority Report
Philip K. Dick
Playing and Reality
D.W. Winnicott
Boundary And Space
Madeleine Davis
All Played Out
Pete Davies
God Knows
Joseph Heller
Prometheus Rising
Robert Anton Wilson
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
Narcissism: Denial of the True Self
Alexander Lowen
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Philip G. Zimbardo
An American Dream
Norman Mailer
The Game-Players of Titan
Philip K. Dick
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
Dan Brown
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Something Happened
Joseph Heller
Sophie’s World
Jostein Gaarder
Freedom from Command and Control
John Seddon
The Feminist Papers: From Adams To De Beauvoir
Alice S. Rossi
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
A Long Way Down
Nick Hornby
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Human Traces
Sebastian Faulks
Engleby
Sebastian Faulks
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Black Swan Green
David Mitchell
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Marina Lewycka
Ghostwritten
David Mitchell
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
The Rebel
Albert Camus
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Fiction — 26 books
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer
The End of Mr. Y
Scarlett Thomas
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Paul Torday
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
An American Dream
Norman Mailer
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
Counter-Clock World
Philip K. Dick
State of the Union
Douglas Kennedy
The Damned Utd
David Peace
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Robert M. Pirsig
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
Executioner's Song (Arena Books)
Norman Mailer
The Tenderness of Wolves
Stef Penney
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1
Philip K. Dick
Black Swan Green
David Mitchell
Ghostwritten
David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas
David Stephen Mitchell
The Algebraist
Iain M. Banks
Kids — 20 books
The Uncommoners #1: The Crooked Sixpence
Jennifer Bell
Festergrimm
Taylor Thomas
Frozen Telescope
Jennifer Bell
Running Wild
Michael Morpurgo
Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods
Rick Riordan
Shadowghast (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea Book 3)
Thomas Taylor
Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth
Rick Riordan
Smoking Hourglass
Jennifer Bell
The Bfg (colour Edition)
Roald Dahl
The Butterfly Lion
Michael Morpurgo
Malamander (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea)
Thomas Taylor
Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes
Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Book 1)
Rick Riordan
Gargantis (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea Book 2)
Thomas Taylor
Living in Space
Lucy Bowman
Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony
Eoin Colfer
Fame!
Alan MacDonald
Who Let the Gods Out?
Maz Evans
Sport — 2 books
The Damned Utd
David Peace
