 | Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.75 The only book I've read more than once in the past 8+ years.
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 | Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $0.12 The Baroque Cycle as a whole (prequel of sorts to Cryptonomicon) is a masterwork, and even though it's fiction, I learned a lot about history while reading it.
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 | Hardball : How Politics Is Played Told By One Who Knows The Game by Chris Matthews
Buy new: $11.48 / Used from: $0.01 Say what you will about Matthews, this book is very handy.
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 | Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.75 One of the best sci-fi books ever, and the only book on the reading lists of all the US military academies.
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 | Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $1.51 I'd be lying to you if I said this book didn't change my life.
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 | The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by G. K. Chesterton
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $1.11 Chesterton is a great writer, and this is my favorite book by him.
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 | America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It by Mark Steyn
Buy new: $20.12 / Used from: $2.32 Humorous, yet poignant. Steyn is clear headed and gifted.
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 | Old Man's War by John Scalzi
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $0.56 |
 | 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.87 A classic, vibrant and still relevant some 50 years later.
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 | Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
Buy new: $19.40 / Used from: $3.00 The book that sparked my fascination with the Lincoln Assassination and John Wilkes Booth
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 | Libra (Contemporary American Fiction) by Don DeLillo
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.97 Read this instead of watching JFK.
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 | Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $0.01 Brilliant.
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 | Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.01 A great American adventure
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 | I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel by Tom Wolfe
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Great collegiate satire.
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 | Dracula (Penguin Classics) by Bram Stoker
Buy new: $7.92 / Used from: $0.91 |
 | The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | State of Fear by Michael Crichton
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
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