 | 3 AM Epiphany by Brian Kiteley
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $2.25 Although not all of the writing exercises in this book are really wonderful, I have overall found it to be both original and thought-provoking. It's probably the best one I've ever bought.
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 | The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.65 I found this book to be an illuminating treatment of the phenomenon of human pain within the body of the self and the perception that one's pain holds in the mind of others...
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 | Faking It by William Ian Miller
Buy new: $15.59 / Used from: $3.15 A really good book on liars, hypocrites and how we're all guilty.
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 | Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.00 Kafka's vague surrealism will always put him on the top of any list of "Great Writers" in the history of literature.
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 | Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $9.25 While not "vague surrealism," Borges had a true and metaphorical insight on the human nature.
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 | The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm
Buy new: $15.64 / Used from: $5.98 Again, a really illuminating book. This book taught me more about human destruction than my mother ever did. And she is an expert on why I break stuff.
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 | The History of Torture (Sutton History Classics) by Daniel P. Mannix
Buy new: $14.25 / Used from: $6.00 This is the most borrowed book I own.
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 | Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $6.00 Bataille was singly the greatest mind in human history when it came to analyzing the truth of the human condition.
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 | Literary Theory: An Introduction Second Edition by Terry Eagleton
Buy new: $18.50 / Used from: $1.38 If you want to love books, much less write them, I think it helps to understand them.
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