 | The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $5.00 Atwood is a master, and for me THE HANDMAID'S TALE is the best example of her craft (check out her poetry, too). Despite being written in the 1980s, this chilling, Orwellian-like tale continues to serve as a warning regarding what can happen when religious zealots take control of a society.
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 | The World to Come: A Novel by Dara Horn
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $3.38 Just a stunning novel. Horn weaves a mesmerizing tale that travels back and forth in time, from Chagall teaching in a Russian orphanage to a modern-day terrorist attack on a Jewish art museum. I didn't want this one to end.
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 | The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $0.01 I never would have picked this one up on my own volition, but a friend loaned it to me and promised I'd not be able to put it down. She was right. This feminine take on the Arthurian legend is one of the few books I re-read every few years.
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 | Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Harper Fiction) by Gregory Maguire
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.50 Nothing Gregory Maguire did after WICKED was able to hold my attention, but WICKED was simply brilliant social commentary presented in a sleek and juicy tale.
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 | What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal: A Novel by Zoe Heller
Buy new: $9.80 / Used from: $0.14 LOVE the British writers. I read this long before the movie was out and was immediately taken by Heller's quick, razor-sharp wit.
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 | Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Buy new: $8.76 / Used from: $4.27 Yummy, lusty, 19th-century soap opera. Widely considered one of the finest novels ever written, but don't let that scare you off. MADAME BOVARY is as lively--and timely--a book you're likely to find.
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 | Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-zinn
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.74 I picked up this book sometime around 2000, and still continue to come back to it from time to time. Kabat-Zinn makes mindfulness accessible to everyone, and the book is structured in a way that makes it easy to pick it up and read any one brief chapter . . . and to then feel back on track.
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