 | A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book) by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $1.99 Ignatius Reilly's Bayou Adventures in the Big Easy, where snobbery and eccentricity clash.
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 | The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
Buy used from: $29.57 A collection of Ballard's 'condensed novels.' "Crash" was nothing like this. Or was it?
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 | The Box Man: A Novel by Kobo Abe
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $8.08 Surreal tale about identity, and what to do with that next empty cardboard refridgerator box.
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 | The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $5.65 Myths and fairy tales to read to your cyborg children.
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 | Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad
Buy new: $13.45 / Used from: $0.01 A pre-cyberpunk talk show host with soul? What more could you want? Immortality?
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 | The Fan Man by William Kotzwinkle
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $2.98 Imagine Jeff Spicoli as an adult, add some George Carlin, and, Viola! you got Horse Badorties, man!
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 | The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Penguin Classics) by G. K. Chesterton
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $4.25 An end of times comic detective tale in disguise. Dripping noses and anarchists unite!
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 | Ficciones (English Translation) by Jorge Luis Borges
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $4.95 Perhaps the best short story writer ever.
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 | In His Own Write by John Lennon
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $5.51 Gobs of gibberish goo-goo-goo-ga-goo from the cornflaked sitting eggman..
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 | Long Afternoon Of Earth (USA) by Brian Wilson Aldiss
Was that a whimper? Or just a load of kipple? New wave entropy at its zenith.
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 | Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $6.97 Bugs and drugs, parasites from space, a brilliant cut and paste account of total beat paranoia.
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 | Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.01 One of my favorite reads. Reading this book for me was like watching it on TV. Doesn't get much better than that!
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 | Richard Brautigan : A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and the Hawkline Monster (Three Books in the Manner of Their Original ed) by Richard Brautigan
Buy new: $13.46 / Used from: $3.43 Three brautigans; so why hasn't "The Hawkline Monster" been cinematized yet?
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 | The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 4) by Lemony Snicket
Buy new: $10.18 / Used from: $0.01 Don't read this next sentence; it will make you cry. That evil Count Olaf is after the Baudelaires, again!
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 | Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 A magical, realistic coming of age story.
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 | Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Buy used from: $0.01 Fictionalizad account of Djuna and friends in Paree. And don't forget Fido.
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 | A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Buy used from: $2.03 Not PKD's best, but it begins as one of his funniest.
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 | Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.99 Billy Pilgrim takes several trips through splace and thyme. So it goes.
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 | The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.79 Fact or fiction? Why not "friction"? Ah, just listen to the lizards speak.
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 | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $6.18 A minor classic. 'Nuff said.
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 | Titus Groan (Gormenghast Trilogy) by Mervyn Peake
Buy used from: $0.97 Follow Steerpike, the first ever antihero, as he discovers and deconstructs that edifice known as "Gormenghast."
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 | Vurt by Jeff Noon
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.55 This novel just plain *#^%&ing tickles!
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 | Limbo by Bernard Wolfe
Buy used from: $295.54 This sure beats flagellation! 12 steps beyond either the bionic man or woman.
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| The Nightland: A Love Tale (Classics of science fiction) by William Hope Hodgson
Buy used from: $70.00 Had Lovecraft tried to describe Cthulhu, his description might have resembled this.
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| The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
Buy used from: $2.18 Wolfe turns the fantasy genre upside-down in this first book of the New Sun series.
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