 | Geek Love: A Novel by Katherine Dunn
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.00 Her masterwork-family, love, conformity and lyrical genius. Oh and don't forget the circus, family business and murder suicide
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 | Truck by Katherine Dunn
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.45 If you've been young smart and smartassed and mad, this one's for you
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 | Eureka Street: A Novel of Ireland Like No Other by Robert McLiam Wilson
Buy used from: $0.24 Have emotions of any kind? Like to laugh? This is it
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 | Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy used from: $0.01 this one leaves me speechless
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 | The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy used from: $0.01 Written in the second person so skillfully that you barely notice
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 | Hood by Emma Donoghue
Buy used from: $2.59 Fall in love with a mourning, hilarious, Taurean lesbian and be gad you didl
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 | The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.44 The answer to the question "How could she stay in such an abusive relationship" Honest, pull no punches
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 | The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.12 Like music? Meet the best losers Barrytown has to offer
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 | The Snapper by Roddy Doyle
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.01 The second in the Barrytown series, hilarious, brave story of a girl that's "keeping her baby" and telling the rest of the world to go to hell
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 | Borderliners by Peter Hoeg
Buy used from: $0.01 THIS book is a heartbreaking work of staggering genius
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 | The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 The woman who created smarty pants-sarcasm immaculate
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 | Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
Buy used from: $0.01 not exactly contemporary, in terms of setting, but the theme, letting go of one safe life for a better, wider world-timeles
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 | The Family Markowitz by Allegra Goodman
Buy used from: $0.01 Have a family? Read it
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 | Bee Season: A Novel by Myla Goldberg
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $0.01 Again, if you have a family, this one is a must have
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 | Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.94 The only book that gets close to the truth of american presidential politics
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 | The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things by J. T. Leroy
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.22 Again, this book and his others knocks Mr. Eggert on his rear
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 | Sarah: A Novel by J. T. LeRoy
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $0.47 Ditto
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 | Close Range : Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Annie's got the gift, and here she displays it with razor sharp accuracy
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 | Small World by David Lodge
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.48 If you have ever thought about literature as a career, this series is for you. Laugh out loud quality
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 | Changing Places by David Lodge
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.06 The first of the 3
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 | Nice Work (King Penguin) by David Lodge
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 The last, and perhaps the best. Feminism and Capitalism meet, literally and figuratively
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 | Tempest-Tost (Salterton Trilogy) by Robertson Davies
Buy used from: $0.01 An into to this wonderful writing career, funny and sharply observant of small city life
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 | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (Aladdin Fantasy) by Robert C. O'Brien
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Read it again as an adult and be amazed
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 | A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Buy used from: $0.01 Read all of this series again, and be stark raving impressed
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