 | The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Buy used from: $1.94 The Lost Generation. A book that is good everytime. Nobody does careful prose like Hemingway. Not a word wasted.
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 | A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.01 Starts out as a book about a marriage failing, turns dark and surprising towards it end.
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 | The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.82 Very sad, the main character stays with you
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 | Stop-Time: A Memoir by Frank Conroy
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 I'm not a huge memoir fan but this one is really great. Good voice.
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 | The Magus by John Fowles
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Twisty, phychological thriller about a man trapped in mind game. Long but well worth it.
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 | The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Brother and sister in love. A family bear. The brilliant writer dwarf and a boy named Egg. This book stays with you. John Irving is one of the best.
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 | Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Two novellas. Each brilliant. Read it again and again like "Catcher in the Rye"
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 | The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $7.35 / Used from: $0.88 Only about 100 pages long but some of the greatest prose ever. Hemingway places you right there.
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 | My Little Blue Dress by Bruno Maddox
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $0.01 Hilarious little known book. Nothing like the cover implies.
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 | Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $0.01 Read it again because the last time you read it was probably junior high. Still just as good.
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 | Pastoralia by George Saunders
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $4.00 Nobody does short fiction like Saunders. He's a funny guy.
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 | Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Buy new: $2.37 / Used from: $0.01 Another great memoir and a quick read. Movie sucked.
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 | The Ice Storm: A Novel by Rick Moody
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $2.16 Moody gets a lot of backlash but he's realy good here. Movie was well done, too.
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 | Fight Club: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $7.84 I'm not a huge fan of Palahniuk. He's usually a lazy writer, but not here. Movie is even better.
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 | You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.99 I love this book. Not a big as Heartbreaker Work but I thin even better.
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $1.01 Deserved all the praise that it got. Haddon really got the kid's voice in this one.
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 | A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics) by Richard Hughes
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $5.73 Children kidnapped by pirates. Wonderfully descriptive prose. Pick it up!
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 | The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $3.40 Twisted, provocative, sick; but really , really good, too. I think McEwan's best.
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 | High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 Great narrator. Hilarious read. Movie was all right, but not as good.
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 | Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series) by Julio Cortazar
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.34 You have to be committed if you pick it up, but well worth it. Its seductiveness really pulls you into its world.
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 | Blow-Up: And Other Stories by Julio Cortazar
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $6.50 I like Cortazar a lot. Pretty much all the stories in this are well done.
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 | The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 Good but not great. It got a lot of hype but did actually deserve most of it. Family dysfunction at its best.
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 | South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $5.86 This is one of Murakami's lesser known books, but i think it's one of his best. Small, touching story.
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 | Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $5.27 Brilliant prose. I don't always love Calvino but he nails it here. Very poetic.
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 | Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $4.50 Not for everyone, but one of the most original, out there books I've ever read.
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 | The Sheltering Sky (P.S.) by Paul Bowles
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $4.91 Maddening, sad, but brilliant. I think Paul Bowles was one of the best writers there is.
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