 | The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Ford Madox Ford
Buy used from: $0.03 "The saddest story" and a landmark of modernism
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 | Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3 "Sorrowful Songs"
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $2.25 Musical memorial to the victims of the Second World War
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 | Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera
Buy new: $12.56 / Used from: $3.00 A nation's agony reflected in the foolishness of one young Romantic poet
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 | Bash Latterday Plays by Neil Labute
Buy used from: $4.19 Mamet's "psychological stalker" (The New Yorker)
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 | Days of Heaven
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.47 Malick's masterpiece
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 | Cousin Bette
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $0.97 Weirdly exhilarating
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 | Ironweed by William J. Kennedy
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 A great American novel
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 | The Dying Animal by Philip Roth
Buy used from: $2.72 Powerful coda to his American trilogy
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 | Presumed Innocent: A Novel by Scott Turow
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Turow is the lawyers' Faulkner
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 | The Circus Fire: A True Story by Stewart O'Nan
Buy used from: $1.99 Harrowing true-life story
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 | The Paperboy by Pete Dexter
Buy new: $16.24 / Used from: $0.01 Piercing examination of the "morality" of journalism
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 | Reader's Block (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by David Markson
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $1.28 The culture of death
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 | The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster
Buy used from: $1.07 Auster's tortured memoir of his father
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![Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TVSZMGBWL._SL75_.jpg) | Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate) [VHS]
Buy used from: $3.98 Dark, dark comedy
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 | Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.36 His most hair-raising novel
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![Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (Broadway Theatre Archive) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Z8PK3ZDBL._SL75_.jpg) | Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (Broadway Theatre Archive) [VHS]
Fine version of Chekhov's classic
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![The Hill [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MPK1CNEML._SL75_.jpg) | The Hill [VHS]
Buy used from: $1.59 Shocking and unnerving
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 | The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $1.30 Rocky Mountain noir
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![Vanya on 42nd Street [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51D5KYG27EL._SL75_.jpg) | Vanya on 42nd Street [VHS]
Buy used from: $4.75 My favorite item on this list
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![The Singing Detective [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410PMJQA7CL._SL75_.jpg) | The Singing Detective [VHS]
Buy used from: $3.18 Pain and redemption
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 | Out of the Past: Adventures in Film Noir by Barry Gifford
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $5.99 The American film genre (along with westerns)
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 | A Friend of the Earth by T. C. Boyle
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $0.01 Evelyn Waugh's American heir
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 | Mr. Ives' Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01 A good man confronts evil, and mortality
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 | Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
Buy used from: $2.00 Pitch-black comedy and tentative hope
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 | Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn
Buy used from: $2.26 Mystical novel disguised as noir thriller
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 | The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
Buy used from: $3.03 Unbearably bleak but undeniably true
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 | Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure? by A. D. Nuttall
Buy new: $75.00 / Used from: $13.76 The game of death
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 | In the Bedroom
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $1.00 In the trap
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