 | Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn by Sarah Miller
Buy used from: $2.92 Stellar writing. Miller is the next Meg Cabot, for sure. If you can mix male and female point of view this well, you can do anything.
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 | Feed by M.T. Anderson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.12 "A thought-provoking and scathing indictment that may prod readers to examine the more sinister possibilities of corporate-and media-dominated culture." Publishers Weekly
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 | The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In) by Philippa Gregory
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.10 Gregory is the master of depicting the brilliance of the royal court, and all the love/heartbreak/birth/death that went on centuries ago.
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 | Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics by Anonymous
Buy new: $11.92 / Used from: $0.01 A startling look into the world of political campaigns. Heavily relevant this summer.
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 | The Lovely Bones: Deluxe Edition by Alice Sebold
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $6.85 I love dead narrators.
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 | Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.25 |
 | Splinter Factory by Jeffrey McDaniel
Buy new: $11.92 / Used from: $8.00 Oh, so poetic.
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 | THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by TIM O'BRIEN
Buy used from: $54.97 (Buy the proper edition.)
Required reading for AP English Language.
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 | Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.69 This is required reading. Period.
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 | Shadow of the Giant (Ender, Book 8) (Ender's Shadow) by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.25 Nobody comes close to Orson Scott Card's genius in writing future politics, intermingled with future science and with human emotions that always, always stay the same.
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 | The Basic Eight: A Novel by Daniel Handler
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $0.83 It's freaking Lemony Snicket. Writing a semi-plausible book for my age group. Yes!
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 | Lolita (Spanish Edition) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy used from: $26.55 Lolita (the book) is the light of my life, the fire of my loins.
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 | The Stranger (Everyman's Library) by Albert Camus
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $7.83 |
 | The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.01 his best book.
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 | The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $1.82 |
 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) by Betty Smith
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $4.81 |
 | America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It by Mark Steyn
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.75 but sometimes you have to just live in your own world, even if its about to end. an informative nonfiction selection.
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 | The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.00 There's a reason you've heard so much about this book. There's a reason about 40 subsequent books have been based on it. This is must-read material, and the controversy makes it more so. And now you can do something other than nod retardedly when this book inevitably is brought up.
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