 | Sophocles I: Oedipus The King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (The Complete Greek Tragedies) by Sophocles
Buy new: $6.20 / Used from: $0.38 this trilogy is a starting point for thinking about desires for knowledge, conquest, and redemption
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 | The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition by Karl Marx
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.37 even rich folks know he was right; just don't mistake him for Nostradamus
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 | Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: $8.57 / Used from: $1.95 archetypal portrait of a person wrestling with himself and his world
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 | The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $0.01 indispensable
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 | Cane by Jean Toomer
Buy new: $9.20 / Used from: $3.56 precise, evocative, perfectly rendered; it's not a slow book but it slows your blood down to the pace of Southern rural life, even as it's subject matter intensifies
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 | 12 Million Black Voices by Richard Wright
Buy used from: $9.95 should stand next to The Souls of Black Folk
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 | Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Paperback) by James Baldwin
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.99 a quietly searing personal voice that will never leave you
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 | Maud Martha: A Novel by Gwendolyn Brooks
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $1.98 luminous and deeply humane
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 | Ficciones (English Translation) by Jorge Luis Borges
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $2.83 dizzying; will take you elsewhere
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 | The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $3.87 incisive, critical perspective on mass culture, social psychology, and media
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 | Mythologies by Roland Barthes
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $3.39 decodes everything; you won't even look at a paper clip in the same way
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 | The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje
Buy new: $9.80 / Used from: $2.99 presents a world that is both ethereal and gritty
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 | Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: $19.76 / Used from: $1.14 an amazing novella that immediately invests you in its past
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 | On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry by William H. Gass
Buy new: $9.56 / Used from: $2.95 language up for grabs
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 | Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $2.95 mystifying; requires, and rewards, patience
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 | Nothing but Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History) by Eric Foner
Buy used from: $0.01 the black Atlantic avant la lettre; like his big book on Reconstruction, which this previews, it somehow brings together politics, economics, and society without losing sight of individuals
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 | American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion (The Tanner Lectures on Human Values) by Judith N. Shklar
Buy new: $23.50 / Used from: $10.50 the history and consequences of myth and reality's uneasy coexistence in America
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 | Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
Buy new: $8.60 / Used from: $0.40 can't look at American literature in the same way after reading this book
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 | Watermark by Joseph Brodsky
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $3.00 portrait of one man's Venice; especially recommended for college and grad students
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 | The Antilles by Derek Walcott
Buy used from: $1.23 a compelling statement of his efforts to demystify and animate a region that, for too many, exists only as a pleasure land
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 | Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures by Edward W. Said
Buy new: $9.20 / Used from: $4.33 an inspiring argument for the intellectual's obligation to stand alone yet speak with those who aren't heard
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 | Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life by Gillian Rose
Buy used from: $4.97 a reflective and profound memoir of a dying person; a brave, Socratic book
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 | Day Of The Dead (Harvest/H B J Book) by F. Gonzalez-Crussi
Buy used from: $0.01 fascinating portraits of and insights to individuals and cultures that live with the dead
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 | Seven Dreams of Elmira by Patrick Chamoiseau
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $0.01 an intoxicating Caribbean reverie
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 | Boggs: A Comedy of Values (Passions and Wonders Series) by Lawrence Weschler
Buy new: $20.89 / Used from: $1.89 serious fun; what is money, anyway?
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