 | Kon-Tiki Expedition (Bridge) by Thor Heyerdahl
Buy used from: $30.00 Makes me want to build a raft and sail across the Pacific with a parrot
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 | Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.99 Soulful stories in different times different places.
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 | A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $8.25 Haruki Murakami is one of my favorite authors. This is a sad, eerie, funny and compelling book
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 | Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.75 The Sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase
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 | Wanderlust: Real-Life Tales of Adventure and Romance
Buy new: $17.10 / Used from: $0.91 I got the travel bug real bad with these short stories
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| The Kremlin letter by Noel Behn
Buy used from: $0.85 Excellent old skool spy story - personality makeovers, plastic surgery, pretending to be Russian - all that good stuff
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 | Esperanza's Box of Saints: A Novel by Maria Amparo Escandon
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $0.01 She falls in love with a Mexican masked wrestler... what more could you want
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 | Survivor: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $5.49 This is powerful stuff
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 | Geek Love: A Novel by Katherine Dunn
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.23 I read this years ago - One of my absolute favorites. An epic story about a family of carnival freaks. Tim Burton has the movie rights (aaarrggh)
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 | Ocean of Words Army Stories by Ha Jin
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $2.19 Heartfelt stories about life in the Chinese People's liberation army -
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| Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel Clowes
Buy used from: $395.00 Another one bought years ago, but love it. This is a TOP graphic novel. Perverse, bittersweet. Very David Lynch (not that I like David Lynch)
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 | Good-Bye, Chunky Rice by Craig Thompson
Buy used from: $3.13 Sad graphic novel and beautifully illustrated.
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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: $7.00 Parallel realities... surreal... Murakami is a genius.
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| McDougal's Honolulu Mysteries: Case Studies from the Life of a Honolulu Detective by Glen Grant
Buy used from: $0.01 Fun and scary
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 | Let's Get Lost: Adventures in the Great Wide Open by Craig Nelson
Buy new: $24.99 / Used from: $0.73 In spite of the narrator's very White American-centric attitude towards other cultures, this book inspires me to go on tours to an African safari and the Amazon Forest.
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| The Case of the Substitute Face by Erle Stanley Gardner
Buy new: $26.95 I am a Perry Mason addict. I read over 30 Perry Mason titles this year. If anyone wants to trade, I'd be happy to.
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $0.01 A cast-adrift-on-the-ocean story ... I loved this.
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 | Third Culture Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds (Second Revised Edition) by David C. Pollock
Buy used from: $5.73 I can totally relate.
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 | Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life by Steven Johnson
Buy new: $18.25 / Used from: $0.23 Why we feel the way we do (the antithesis of Freudian psychology) It's all about chemistry.
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 | The Blackbirder (Femme Fatales: Women Write Pulp) by Dorothy B. Hughes
Buy new: $12.30 / Used from: $0.88 Spy thriller!
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 | Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories (Love & Rockets) by Jaime Hernandez
Buy new: $32.97 / Used from: $24.99 Xaime Hernandez's women are completely real.
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 | Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things (Comedia) by Dick Hebdige
Buy new: $28.04 / Used from: $8.78 It's a little on the academic side (Pop Cultural Studies).. the section on MOD culture is awesome.
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 | The Purple Decades: A Reader by Tom Wolfe
Buy used from: $1.13 Tom Wolfe on 50's, 60's and 70's subcultures... Very cool.
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 | Pictoplasma 2: Contemporary Character Design (Vol 2) by Peter Thaler
Buy used from: $39.00 Inspiring (... and also Pictoplasma 1)
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