 | Any Human Heart by William Boyd
Buy used from: $0.01 depressing yet inspiring; beginning is best part
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 | The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $16.37 / Used from: $6.75 interesting
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 | Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison
Buy used from: $0.19 interesting and educational
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 | Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan
Buy new: $12.53 / Used from: $0.01 makes nice distinction
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $0.01 another depressing yet inspiring book; very creative
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 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J. K. Rowling
Buy new: $17.54 / Used from: $1.04 ok
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 | Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy used from: $1.99 weird
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 | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $0.01 excellent; best book of the summer
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 | The Jane Austen Book Club: A Novel by Karen Joy Fowler
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.01 trashy
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 | Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1) by Christopher Paolini
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $0.01 disappointing and trite
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 | Blue Blood by Edward Conlon
Buy used from: $0.01 good except when the author degenerates into whining and self-pity
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 | Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.24 interesting and refreshing
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 | 1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
Buy new: $20.12 / Used from: $4.48 interesting premise
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 | Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Tradition and Spritual Wisdom by Adeline Yen Mah
Buy used from: $0.01 not gripping
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 | Hunger: A Novella and Stories by Lan Samantha Chang
Buy used from: $1.14 better than the sophomore release
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 | Inheritance: A Novel by Lan Samantha Chang
Buy used from: $0.01 well-written but couldn't hold my attention
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 | Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $0.47 mostly education, except for digressions
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 | Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
Buy new: $18.47 / Used from: $0.67 interesting account of surgical activity
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 | Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions by Ben Mezrich
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $0.01 ok; bringing down the house was better
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 | Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point by David Lipsky
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $0.01 well-written and compelling
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 | Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $2.75 good except for the author's cavalier approach and awful sense of humor
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 | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Buy used from: $0.01 educational
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 | Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl
Buy used from: $0.38 good description of food, but author fails during introspection parts of the book
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 | Trickster's Queen (Daughter of the Lioness, Book 2) by Tamora Pierce
Buy new: $13.46 / Used from: $0.08 lacking sequel; too many characters
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 | I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.95 ok; author's sense of humor only occassionally jives with mine
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