 | Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 Wonderful autobiography. Hilarious and moving.
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 | And the Sea Will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi
Buy used from: $0.01 Great mystery, excellent courtroom drama, exotic setting.
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 | The Jonah Man by Henry Carlisle
Buy used from: $0.46 This is the book I recommend to friends that noone's heard of & blows everyone away that reads it
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 | The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Wonderful portrayal of the value of ordinary life
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 | Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.46 Not for everyone, but if you like fossils, you'll love it.
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 | A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin
Buy used from: $0.14 The Apollo program, fast moving & a page turner
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 | A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.02 Mark Helprin is on my top five writer list, & this is his best.
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 | The Talisman by Stephen King
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 My favorite "parallel universe" fantasy book. Tightly plotted & written.
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 | The Source by James A. Michener
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 Michener's best, by far.
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 | For the Time Being by Annie Dillard
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $3.00 Breath taking prose. Clouds, and dust, and God. I read it and started it again the same day.
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 | A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book) by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $1.80 You end up loving the hero, even though he has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
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 | South: The Endurance Expedition by Ernest Shackleton
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A great tale of heroism & leadership.
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 | The Cave by Jose Saramago
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.25 Difficult, beautiful prose. The kind of book that lingers with you after you've read it
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 | For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down
Buy used from: $9.79 A wonderful character study.
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