 | The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1) by Lemony Snicket
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $0.01 Morbidly funny--don't expect any happy endings.
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 | A Painted House by John Grisham
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Grisham departs from his usual tales and writes a story with a Steinbeckian flavor.
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 | The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman
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 | The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2) by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: $0.01 The second installment of the "His Dark Materials" trilogy.
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 | The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3) by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: $0.01 Imaginative conclusion of "His Dark Materials"
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 | Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 Anne Lamott fiction: messed up Mattie has a crush on a married man, sleeps with her ex-husband ( who is married again) and makes decisions that are not in her own best interest.
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 | King Lear (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $7.00 / Used from: $0.29 Read this Shakespearean tragedy on its 400th anniversary.
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 | Gotham Writers' Workshop Fiction Gallery: Exceptional Short Stories Selected by New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School by Gotham Writers' Workshop
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.77 I read this for an online writing class and learned to appreciate such writers asT.C. boyle, Jhumpa Lahiri, ZZ Packer and John Cheever.
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 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: $0.23 Scary--many of the things predicted in this book have come true to a certain extent.
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 | The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 I think this science fiction tale is a comment on the dangers of Communism.
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 | The Giver by Lois Lowry
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.99 The theme of this book reminds me of "Brave New World."
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 | The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $0.01 I just visited his home in Key West; that visit helped me appreciate these stories more. I wonder how much of these stories are autobiographical?
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 | Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by John Steinbeck
Buy used from: $2.80 Steinbeck's first novel; a tale that is fun to read as well as thought-provoking
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 | The Pilot's Wife (Oprah's Book Club) by Anita Shreve
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.01 after her husband dies, a woman realizes she knew nothing about him.
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 | Iron and Silk by Mark Salzman
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 The true story of a young man who goes to China to teach English to the Chinese and they end up teaching him about himself.
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 | My Father Had a Daughter: Judith Shakespeare's Tale by Grace Tiffany
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $0.01 A fun, fictional, escape into the family life of William Shakespeare.
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 | Tell Christian I'm Sorry by Mike Smith
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $2.05 The author tells how the education system failed him as both student and teacher.
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 | The Last Juror by John Grisham
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 In the 1970's, a brutal rape and murder rocked the town of Clanton, Mississippi.
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 | Roadkill (Kinky Friedman Novels) by Kinky Friedman
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $0.01 Politically incorrect humor by this country singer turned private eye
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 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: $9.47 / Used from: $2.71 Sounds like science fiction, but it's not. Okay, maybe a little. Mostly, it's a love story.
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 | Frankenstein (Enriched Classics) by Mary Shelley
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.65 Read the real story of Dr. Frankenstein and his monster creation.
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 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J. K. Rowling
Buy new: $19.79 / Used from: $1.55 Rowling makes reading a novel fun.
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 | Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Buy new: $9.72 / Used from: $2.99 There wasn't a short story in this collection that I didn't like.
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 | What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (Oprah's Book Club) by Pearl Cleage
Buy used from: $0.01 A woman copes with learning she is HIV positive.
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 | The Book of Ruth (Oprah's Book Club) by Jane Hamilton
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 None are so blind as those who chose not to see.
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 | Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert
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 | The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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 | Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text by William Faulkner
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 | Ethan Frome (Signet Classics) by Edith Wharton
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 | A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
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 | The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: $0.77 |
 | A Fire Upon The Deep (Zones of Thought) by Vernor Vinge
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.75 |
 | The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics) by Jack London
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
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 | The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Full-Color Collector's Edition) by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Daniel Wallace
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.04 |
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