 | Crackpots: A Novel by Sara Pritchard
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $0.01 This is a great book. It was a Breadloaf Writers' Conference's Bakeless Prize for fiction, so I guess it isn't obscure, but I think it should be better known than it is. I love her images and imagination.
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 | Blue Suburbia : Almost a Memoir by Laurie Albanese
Buy used from: $2.63 This is a verse novel. Very good and extremely poignant...
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 | If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $0.25 An English novel about the people in a roominghouse...
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 | A Sense of the Morning: Field Notes of a Born Observer by David B. Hopes
Buy used from: $3.26 Some very nice essays.
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 | The Telling Distance: Conversations with the American Desert by Bruce Berger
Buy new: $20.95 / Used from: $2.47 This one you might have to find used. Nice essays about the desert.
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 | A Full Life in a Small Place and Other Essays from a Desert Garden by Janice Emily Bowers
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $0.01 Some more great essays...
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 | High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01 OK, so Barbara Kingsolver is pretty well known. Her essays are maybe not as widely read. These are great.
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 | Territory by Emma Bull
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $4.19 This is a great book about Wyatt Earp as a (maybe) warlock, or some sort of powerful figure. He drags other people (like Doc Holliday) into his circle to help him. It is an odd book, but it works and is quite fun. Emma Bull is a very good writer...
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 | Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.79 I enjoyed this book very much, even though it is a "teen" book. I like stories dealing with memory and consciousness and this is full of likable characters.
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 | Heat Lightning by Leah Hager Cohen
Buy used from: $0.01 This is a very well written coming of age book about two sisters living with their aunt in a small town, after their parents have passed away. They don't really know the story of their parents death so they make up their own myths about it.
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 | Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $6.95 I don't usually like short stories (because they are so short), but Lorrie Moore is a great writer.
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 | Days Between Stations by Steve Erickson
Buy used from: $0.71 A great dreamlike novel... Filled with very beautiful writing.
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 | To the Lighthouse (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.90 Not exactly unknown, but I don't know that many people read it. It is a great book I return to often.
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 | Joy Comes in the Morning: A Novel by Jonathan Rosen
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.29 A beautiful book about a rabbi who is a hospital chaplain who meets a Holocaust survivor who has suffered a stroke and attempted suicide.
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 | The Seduction of Silence by Bem Le Hunte
Buy new: $12.11 / Used from: $0.01 This is a great book about several generations of an Indian family.
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 | Oral History by Lee Smith
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $0.01 She has a great sense of people, and of life.
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 | The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $0.01 I think I grew up in this town...
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 | Garnethill by Denise Mina
Buy new: $11.19 / Used from: $2.90 A dark mystery, takes place in Glasgow.
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 | Skull Session by Daniel Hecht
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 | The Diagnosis: A Novel by Alan Lightman
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $4.35 |
 | What Have You Lost? by Naomi Shihab Nye
Buy new: $8.79 / Used from: $3.50 All of Naomi Shihab Nye's anthologies are great...
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 | I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven by Naomi Shihab Nye
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $5.45 Wonderful Essays, full of hope
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 | 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye
Buy used from: $0.98 Poignant poems from Post 9/11 Middle East.
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