If you fancy a change from Richard and Judy Book Club titles or something different and stimulating to tickle your brain cells apart from summer beach reads, why not visit Headingley Library today and check out the new display of modern classics?
There’s a great selection – from cult authors such as Charles Bukowski, Bret Easton Ellis and Richard Brautigan to literary titans like Steinbeck, Hemingway and Nabokov, and more avante garde works by writers like J G Ballard, Samuel Beckett, Alexander Trocchi, Fernando Pessoa and many, many more.
The collection has been bought with money given by local councillors, so we hope you enjoy some of these glorious classics.
The full list is below. These books can be reserved and collected at any library:
| Go tell it on the mountain | Baldwin,James |
| The atrocity exhibition | Ballard,J.G. |
| A kind of loving | Barstow,Stan |
| Malone dies | Beckett,Samuel |
| Molloy | Beckett,Samuel |
| The unnamable | Beckett,Samuel |
| Revenge of the lawn:stories 1962-1970 | Brautigan,Richard |
| So the wind won’t blow it all away | Brautigan,Richard |
| Ham on rye:a novel | Bukowski,Charles |
| Post office | Bukowski,Charles |
| The master and Margarita | Bulgakov,Mikhail Af |
| Junky:the definitive text of `Junk’ | Burroughs,William S. |
| Hard rain falling | Carpenter,Don |
| Burning your boats:collected short stories | Carter,Angela |
| Shadow dance | Carter,Angela |
| What we talk about when we talk about love | Carver,Raymond |
| And the ass saw the angel | Cave,Nick |
| The death of Bunny Munro | Cave,Nick |
| Underworld | Delillo,Don |
| White Noise | Delillo,Don |
| Not fade away | Dodge,Jim |
| Stone Junction:an alchemical pot-boiler | Dodge,Jim |
| A heartbreaking work of staggering genius | Eggers,Dave |
| What is the what:a novel | Eggers,Dave |
| American psycho | Ellis,Bret Easto |
| Less than zero | Ellis,Bret Easto |
| Chronicle of a death foretold | Garcia Marquez,Gabriel |
| The tin drum | Grass,Gunter |
| Dirty Havana trilogy | Gutierrez,Pedro Juan |
| Hunger | Hamsun,Knut |
| Closing time | Heller,Joseph |
| Something happened | Heller,Joseph |
| The old man and the sea | Hemingway,Ernest |
| Siddharatha | Hesse,Herman |
| Steppenwolf | Hesse,Hermann |
| Island | Huxley,Aldous |
| A portrait of the artist as a young man | Joyce,James |
| One flew over the cuckoo’s nest | Kesey,Ken |
| Darkness at noon | Koestler,Arthur |
| The buddha of suburbia | Kureishi,Hanif |
| Babbitt | Lewis,Sinclair |
| Main Street | Lewis,Sinclair |
| Martin Eden | London,Jack |
| Outer dark | McCarthy,Cormac |
| The border trilogy | McCarthy,Cormac |
| The orchard keeper | McCarthy,Cormac |
| The ballad of the Sad Cafe | McCullers,Carson |
| The heart is a lonely hunter | McCullers,Carson |
| Dancers at the End of Time | Moorcock,Michael |
| Lolita | Nabokov,Vladimir |
| Pale fire | Nabokov,Vladimir |
| Complete stories | O’Connor,Flannery |
| Doctor Zhivago | Pasternak,Boris |
| GB84 | Peace,David |
| Nineteen Eighty | Peace,David |
| Nineteen eighty three | Peace,David |
| Nineteen seventy four | Peace,David |
| Nineteen seventy seven | Peace,David |
| The book of disquiet | Pessoa,Fernando |
| Gravity’s rainbow | Pynchon,Thomas |
| City of night | Rechy,John |
| The dice man | Rhinehart,Luke |
| Nausea | Sartre,Jean-Paul |
| Last exit to Brooklyn | Selby,Hubert |
| The case of Comrade Tulayev | Serge,Victor |
| The Illuminatus! trilogy | Shea,Robert |
| One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich | Solzhenitsyn,Alexander |
| Cannery Row | Steinbeck,John |
| Sweet Thursday | Steinbeck,John |
| Fear & loathing in America | Thompson,Hunter S. |
| Helen and desire | Trocchi,Alexander |
| Rabbit at rest | Updike,John |
| Rabbit is rich | Updike,John |
| Rabbit redux | Updike,John |
| Rabbit, run | Updike,John |
| The motel life: a novel | Vlautin,Willy |
| The golden apples | Welty,Eudora |
| Voss | White,Patrick |
| A man in full | Wolfe,Tom |
| We | Zamyatin,Yevgeny |
| Germinal | Zola,Emile |
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