 | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $10.85 Everything you need to know about life is right here.
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 | House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.95 A book that manages to be both wildly entertaining and thought-provoking, in a mindbendingly postmodern sort of way.
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $6.20 "Only for those with true grit."
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 | Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: $11.60 / Used from: $7.60 "A screaming came across the sky."
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 | Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $4.49 My vote for best Vonnegut.
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 | Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $5.99 "Listen: Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time."
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 | Survivor: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $5.16 My vote for best Palahniuk.
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 | Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $8.00 Reptiles and junkies.
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 | Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: $21.87 / Used from: $14.00 A great introduction to one of the best SF novelists ever.
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 | Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell
Buy new: $15.60 / Used from: $14.74 Obligatory.
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 | The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition) by Douglas Adams
Buy new: $17.62 / Used from: $16.00 As is this.
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 | Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: $11.60 / Used from: $7.25 Noirish crime fiction meets postmodern cyberpunk in Japan.
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 | Cryptonomicon. by Neal Stephenson
Buy used from: $37.95 Best science fiction novel of the nineties.
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 | Neuromancer by William Gibson
Buy new: $15.60 / Used from: $14.82 A bit dated now, but still powerful SF.
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 | The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.50 Some of the best prose I've encountered.
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 | In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete) by Marcel Proust
Buy new: $47.25 / Used from: $42.75 Perhaps the best novel of the 20th century...
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 | Ulysses by James Joyce
Buy new: $26.09 / Used from: $12.99 ...if not for this one.
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 | The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $7.00 Kafka's short fiction is his best work.
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 | Borges: Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Buy new: $12.79 / Used from: $8.40 Ditto.
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 | Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $11.71 Complex and rewarding.
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 | The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd Edition by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $88.85 / Used from: $77.10 Can't forget the Bard.
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 | Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton
Buy new: $7.79 / Used from: $5.72 Or the blind poet.
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 | H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America) by H. P. Lovecraft
Buy new: $22.05 / Used from: $17.31 Gotta love xenophobic mama's boy horror writers!
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 | Watchmen by Alan Moore
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $11.03 If you only read one graphic novel, make it this one.
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 | Preacher Vol. 1: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $7.49 If you need to read two, here you go.
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 | The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: $77.62 / Used from: $54.95 Why not make it three?
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