 | East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy used from: $14.96 John Steinbeck's best work. Powerful tale about brothers, with the scariest villian around. Biblical history repeats itself. The best writing I have ever seen, bar none. Inspired me to write a novel.
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 | An Indecent Obsession by Colleen Mccullough
Buy used from: $0.01 The cover looks like a cheesy romance, but don't be fooled. Wonderfully written story about severely damaged men in a mental institution made for war veterans.
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 | I Know This Much Is True (Oprah's Book Club) by Wally Lamb
Buy used from: $0.01 Novel about a 40 year old man who is finally coming to terms with who he is, with or without his schizophrenic twin brother. Intriguing characters and powerful prose make this book a wonderful read.
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 | The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $14.82 / Used from: $6.34 Grapes of Wrath is not the nightmare that high school students claim. Quite the contrary. Beautifully written novel about a family that goes through mortal hell.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Wonderful novel about a young girl and a racist southern town...
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 | Jude the Obscure (Signet Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.01 Great English novel... Very dark tale about a young man who becomes disillusioned by the reality of life.
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.25 Black humor and a wonderful insight to war and the military....
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 | A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $0.01 Beautiful prose and an interesting setting makes this novel a wonderful debut for the son of Anne Rice. His writing is so different from hers...it's refreshing.
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 | Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Wonderful book with an intriguing setting in a nightmarish world without books. I shudder to think.
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 | The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.50 Amazing insight into humanity as well as a new outlook on life and ambition.
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 | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy used from: $0.01 A novel about fair-weather friends and high society that will leave you breathless.
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 | The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Buy used from: $599.99 I read this novel at eight years old and I've been reading ever since. It moved me with it's simplicity.
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