 | Grendel by John Gardner
Buy new: $9.56 / Used from: $0.72 a brilliant retelling of Beowulf from the monsters point of view; I love this book
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 | Benighted by Kit Whitfield
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $0.24 who said werewolves weren't literary? these are. wonderfully flawed characters who ache--like a Greek tragedy, they can only howl at the gods and blame themselves. great book.
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 | Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $1.90 exquisite and heartbreaking, this story is set in an alternate-1990s reality with clones
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 | Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
Buy new: $19.20 / Used from: $0.59 bizarre and haunting, these stories linger long after you've read them, a beautiful collection of shorts
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 | The Road (Oprah's Book Club) by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.00 stark apocalyptic story that gets under your skin and pulverizes you--a chilling, amazing story
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 | Willful Creatures: Stories by Aimee Bender
Buy used from: $2.21 in clean, striking prose, characters with keys for fingers or teapots for heads, these shorts are thoughtful and often humorous
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 | Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin
Buy used from: $0.01 epic in size but you won't notice in this hilarious tale of familiar royal characters traipsing across America to find themselves
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 | The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $2.90 her best-known collection of short stories with good reason. retellings of fairy tales by a master storyteller: exquisite
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 | The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.48 frightening in its truth, this story is a grim satire of the near-future and a compelling read
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 a strange, beautiful story with one of the best endings in literature
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 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $1.65 it is a love story without sentimentality, an undulating, layered tale told with a precise eye for detail
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 | The Mount by Carol Emshwiller
Buy used from: $2.05 told simply and poignantly, this novel has a lot to say about power roles, control, and friendship in a near-future setting
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 | Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $7.00 poetic and delightful
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