 | Redbirds: Memories from the South (Panther) by Rick Bragg
Buy used from: $10.96 Great read.
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 | The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers by John Gardner
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $1.49 One of the best books on writing I've read.
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 | The Mountain by Steve Earle
Buy used from: $13.99 Competes with Oh Brother Where Art Thou for best album, Every song a story.
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 | Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Beautiful book, lousey film.
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 | The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $12.00 I've got a PhD in engineering, and this explained a lot to me.
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![Monster in a Box [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/219FEC9NJJL._SL75_.jpg) | Monster in a Box [VHS]
Buy used from: $0.23 I own everything this guy has done. This may be the best.
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 | King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $2.00 There is something to learn here.
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 | As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto
Buy used from: $3.10 Precise, novel length journalism
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 | A Little Yellow Dog: An Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley
Buy used from: $0.01 This is probably this best in the Easy Rawlins series, but you really should start at the beginning, and read them all.
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 | The Complete Gospels : Annotated Scholars Version (Revised & expanded) by Robert J. Miller
Buy used from: $2.23 Fascinating stuff.
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 | Complete Vampire Chronicles (Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the body Thief) by Anne Rice
Buy new: $21.09 / Used from: $18.23 Perhaps only the first two are listable. But don't let the hype blot out the brilliance.
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 | A Distant Episode by Paul Bowles
Buy used from: $0.48 Devastating.
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 | Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 You haven't read this?! Are you kidding me?
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 | Wise Blood: A Novel by Flannery O'Connor
Buy used from: $0.59 Disturbing, comic, disturbing.
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 | Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films by Betty Carter
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $3.43 Had this on vinyl, its in an attic in Alabama, must ship it here someday.
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 | More Fun in the New World by X
Buy used from: $6.97 Hard to believe so few people have heard this. Wish The Blasters' Hard Line was still in print.
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 | Gates of Eden by Ethan Coen
Buy used from: $0.01 This guy could make a great movie a week, given the excess of wonderful ideas he has.
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 | Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head & Other Drawings by B. Kliban
Buy used from: $0.45 Gary Larson's more demented, less cuddly ancestor.
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 | The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry by Ted Hughes
Buy used from: $0.01 A book to never lend, to never let get away.
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 | Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting by Robert Mckee
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $16.90 Great book (but read Peter Elbow, too)
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 | Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process by Peter Elbow
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $2.99 Dave Goldberg first got me to read this: the rest is history.
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 | The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen Series, No. 17) by Joseph Campbell
Buy used from: $2.38 Classic for every writer to read (ever wondered where the plot for Harry Potter was stolen from?). Wish Hollywood would give it a rest, though.
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 | On Writing by Stephen King
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $0.98 If you read this, and don't want to buy Steve a beer, I don't want to drink with you.
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 | Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy used from: $2.65 This is entitled "Non-Fiction" in the UK. It's a great book for writers, or for fans of Palaniuk's other fiction (like Fight Club)
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 | Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International) by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.89 Finished this on the rim at Santorini, as the sunset. Incredible moment.
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