 | Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $10.92 Has one of the best grasps of language of any writer. A professor of mine when I was an undergrad emphatically believed the opening chapter was the best piece of prose writing ever.
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 | Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.27 I picked this one because it is my personal favorite from Vonnegut. "Cat's Cradle" is probably the better book though.
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 | The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
Buy new: $11.22 / Used from: $1.76 My favorite Faulkner. The book is much better on its second reading.
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 | The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Buy used from: $0.01 "Isn't it pretty to think so?"
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 | Heart of Darkness & Other Stories (Wordsworth Collection) by Joseph Conrad
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.01 Chinua Achebe argued that because of the racism in this book it should be excluded from any list of the great novels. I still haven't made up my mind.
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 | Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Buy used from: $0.01 Poetic and powerful. Many people in my class, however, thought the ending was overdone and did little for the beginning.
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 | A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.55 I get tired of people who only think this is a cute love story.
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 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 If you have only seen the movie you are doing yourself an injustice.
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 | The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $7.35 / Used from: $0.30 I feel I should say something about how there is a little Santiago in all of us, but every other list I have read has said something like this so I won't.
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 | Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: $12.96 / Used from: $0.74 I haven't read this, but I think the first word in the title might be the ultimate paradox.
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 | The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition by Norman Mailer
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $3.80 Some of the best war writing around. See Also Tim O'Brien, Hemingway, Dos Passos, etc.
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