 | The Code of the Woosters (Everyman Wodehouse) by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy used from: $26.90 Less perfect than Brinkley Manor, but still Wodehouse, which means, still smarter than any comedy in the language. (Shakespeare, naturally excepted)
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 | Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $4.00 Well-researched look at what's wrong with this place, with our bodies, and with our companies.
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 | The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 Cannot be over-praised. The poetic novel completely realized.
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 | Brinkley Manor by P. G. Wodehouse
Buy used from: $2.65 My first Wodehouse did not disappoint. I laughed till it hurt, and came out more articulate for the effort.
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 | Honest to God by John A. T. Robinson
Buy new: $19.46 / Used from: $10.53 This book is the hammer for unseating idols. It's a fork on a dimly-lit path.
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 | The Architecture of Happiness by Alain De Botton
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $3.25 It is unsettling to hear that our sense of ourselves is determined so largely by our surroundings, and yet, there it is. I am someone else in Rome. At least, another version of myself; De Botton explains why.
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 | Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers by David Edmonds
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.35 |
 | Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons by Frederick Buechner
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $3.98 The great prose-stylist at his most engaging.
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 | How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto by Tom Hodgkinson
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $3.99 As though I needed the help...
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 | The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $0.09 I read everything by Bryson; guilty pleasure, I guess.
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 | I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.61 A wonder of research, a construction nearly as grand as the coliseum itself.
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 | Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense by N.T. Wright
Buy new: $17.24 / Used from: $10.06 I never thought anyone could unseat C.S. Lewis (who I admire). This book is the new benchmark, the required reading, Mere Christianity for our century.
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