 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Enriched Classics Series) by Mark Twain
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $2.96 Very inventive and very funny.
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 | Milagros de Nuestra Seora by Gonzalo De Berceo
Buy new: $12.80 / Used from: $15.91 There's an English translation out there! Magic in its most basic form--the miracle.
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 | The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $8.10 I just put this here to show I liked the whole thing. But get the good translations.
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 | Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Francois Voltaire
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $4.21 So funny!
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 | The Trial by Franz Kafka
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $6.00 Makes you think. Kafka challenges the imagination.
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 | The Decameron (Penguin Classics) by Giovanni Boccaccio
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.25 Hillarious.
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 | Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.12 El mejor libro del mundo.
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 | Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.50 Murakami is doing more for the growth of the novel than anybody else.
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 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $7.15 He manages to get into your psyche.
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 | Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.61 Lovely.
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 | Lazarillo de Tormes (Dual-Language) by Anonymous
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $3.60 The old writers really knew comedy.
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.68 Before Murakami, there was this. I like his magical realism stuff more in general. A lot of what he writes is realism.
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 | The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.20 Pretty much flawless.
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 | The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $4.94 I was just re-reading The Undefeated--one of his best.
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 | The Family of Pascual Duarte (Spanish Literature Series) by Camilo Jose Cela Conde
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $6.50 He can do violence. You have to read this.
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 | Aura: Bilingual Edition by Carlos Fuentes
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $2.78 Based on the Aspern Papers by Henry James, this story has stayed with me. It is told in the second person, about a man who falls in love with a woman who is both old and young at the same time, and turns out he is too--mind-blowing love novel.
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 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Buy new: $0.25 Obvious. I keep thinking of the Dolphin.
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 | Forty Stories (Penguin Classics) by Donald Barthelme
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $8.32 Very good. Not my style, but much to learn from him, his imagination and the way he strings sentences together.
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 | Sonata De Otono: Sonata De Invierno (Coleccibon Austral) by Ramon Del Valle-Inclan
Buy used from: $15.00 All the sonata stories are cool, pushing limits a hundred years ago, they still have that effect.
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 | The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $5.31 The master.
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 | Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $7.00 I really think Poe is one of the most influential writers in American or world literature. He inspired Southern Gothic, much of horror, invented the detective story, and posed some great questions about murder and insanity. A favorite.
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 | The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $5.60 Haven't finished this one yet, but what I read has stuck with me. I also love Death in Venice.
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 | The Conformist by Alberto Moravia
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $7.23 I read this and Two Women and at least one other I can't remember off the top of my head, but all were great, especially the two I can remember.
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 | Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $4.75 A new discovery for me. A student introduced him to me. I've read most of his stuff, and I'm blown away.
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