 | Deliverance by James Dickey
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.96 Shocking and riveting; oh what a trip!
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 | To the White Sea (Delta World War II Library) by James Dickey
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Read it and you'll never look at down filled winter coats the same again.
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 | Mosquitoes: A Novel by William Faulkner
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $1.33 What it feels like to be young and sort of crazy - it itches...
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 | The Cadence of Grass by Thomas McGuane
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $0.01 Literate western.
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 | Nothing but Blue Skies by Thomas McGuane
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $0.01 A fun, semi-literate western.
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 | Oracle Night: A Novel (Auster, Paul) by Paul Auster
Buy used from: $0.01 Will be considered one of the best books of the 21st century.
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Today Show Book Club #13) by Mark Haddon
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $0.90 An autistic boy teaches 'normal' people how to live.
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 | Timbuktu: A Novel by Paul Auster
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $0.01 What all that dog barking really means.
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 | Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $1.29 Coetzee, Nobel Prize winner, very very good writing.
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 | The Brothers Karamazov (Modern Library) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $9.64 This is a good book to read, finally. It's not as dark as you would think.
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 | The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Buy used from: $0.01 Wow, Tom Ripley is sinister. This is compelling reading.
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 | The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.99 Gunther Grass at his best.
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 | The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.56 This book is like a fine carving - I liked it's very careful workmanship.
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 | The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.01 After reading this I actually understand what continues to attract people to opera.
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 | O Pioneers! (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $1.94 This book took my breath away, what a tragedy, and what a well-written work!
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 | Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $0.01 I felt like I was actually in New Mexico. Don't be put off by the title.
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 | The Professor's House by Willa Cather
Buy used from: $0.01 This reminded me a little of A House for Mr. Biswas, only in reverse.
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 | Shadows on the Rock (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $3.70 Shows why Quebec is a world-class city.
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 | My Antonia by Willa Cather
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $0.01 This reminded me strongly of my immigrant heritage.
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 | God's Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell
Buy new: $14.21 / Used from: $3.50 A hard-scrabble exposure of hypocrisy.
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 | Journeyman (Brown Thrasher Books) by Erskine Caldwell
Buy new: $14.78 / Used from: $9.50 This southern preacher is a sinner except when he is preaching - Caldwell was quite a writer.
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 | The Sibyl by Par Lagerkvist
Buy new: $10.55 / Used from: $0.01 Was she possessed, or was it all in her imagination? You decide...
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 | The Train Was on Time (European Classics) by Heinrich Böll
Buy used from: $8.55 It really was on time...really...in a way.
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 | Falconer by John Cheever
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $1.99 Reminded me somewhat of Darkness at Noon, but this prisoner deserved to be there, nevertheless he is human.
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 | A Rage to Live (Modern Library Classics) by John O'Hara
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $5.04 My favorite O'Hara book. It is graphic and harsh yet beautiful and very Pennsylvanian.
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