 | Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 A treasure of a book that won a Pulitzer.
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 | The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.08 This book is absolutely amazing and won the Pulitzer Prize. It tells the remarkable story of a slave who becomes a slave owner. The author's abilities to convey the moral complexities of that time is truely profound and moving.
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 | The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $0.41 He captures the range of humanity in each of his characters what it is to be three dimensional; strong, fragile, wise, foolish... He is like a grandfather teaching you the depth of life and makes you think hard about values and what really matters. This particular trilogy is of a man in Jungian therapy.
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 | A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $3.00 The power of unspoken pain & endurance.
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 | The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $0.01 A masterful book that skillfully weaves together three stories that make you think about how to spend the hours of your life. It deserves the Pulitzer Prize that it won. You might want to follow the book up with the movie that was so well done.
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 | Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.05 A trilogy of connection and disconnection in a most original voice. It is a thrilling read and one of the very few I will read again. Brilliant!
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 | American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.93 This book won a Pulitzer Prize. It is about one of the most painful things that can happen to a parent; a good kid goes wrong - way wrong - and is lost. There is a glorious paragraph on what it means to be human and how impossible it can be to understand each other.
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 | Geek Love: A Novel by Katherine Dunn
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.70 This book, though marvelous, is not for everyone. It teaches us about the human condition in a bizarre carnival family.
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 | Red Azalea by Anchee Min
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $3.36 The true story of the author who struggled profoundly growing up in communist China. The opportunity to hear her speak is an unforgetable experience. She authenticly has learned how to make unbearable pain bearable. One of the ironies of her life is that she grew up with the dream of becoming a soldier who would go to Vietnam to kill American soldiers and now she is married to a Vietnam vet.
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 | The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Buy used from: $5.00 Tim O'Brien was a vietnam vet & this is a tremendous book!
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 | Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 Set in WW1 an incredible story of love & war.The New Yorker described this as "Overpowering and beautiful... A great novel."
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 | Anna Karenina (Signet Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $2.46 Astonishingly psychologically astute. If only Kitty or Anna would have recognized that Count Vronsky, in his soul he did not respect her [his mother], which made him emotionally dangerous to both.
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 | Neuromancer by William Gibson
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $13.00 Won all 3 sci-fi awards! Really a treasure.
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 | House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club) (Vintage Contemporaries) by Andre Dubus III
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 A book which is very poignant and heart stopping at the same time.
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 | The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch
Buy new: $13.26 / Used from: $1.90 About self-forgiveness and the process of growing up-not an easy read; and very rewarding if you do.
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