 | Samarkand (Interlink World Fiction) by Amin Maalouf
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.72 Omar Khayyam and the Titanic. A fine combination.
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 | My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.94 One of my favorite books, full stop.
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 | Dissolution by C. J. Sansom
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.39 One of the first historical mystery novels that I actually liked.
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 | Mason & Dixon: A Novel by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $4.90 Historical fiction in his own inimitable style.
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 | The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Umberto Eco
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $9.98 Didn't love this quite as much as everyone else did, but at least I didn't hate it.
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 | Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $0.11 The baroque cycle is huge, sprawling, wonderful. Historical fiction that I love.
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 | A Maggot by John Fowles
Buy used from: $0.50 I very much like the way that Fowles uses distancing techniques to keep from claiming more realism than his books can offer.
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