 | Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: $17.00 / Used from: $5.77 Gatsby is a true classic and now one of my favorites. Should be read by everyone.
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 | The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Buy used from: $0.13 It took less than two hundred pages to find out i'm not Hemingway fan.
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 | The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service by Andrew Meier
Buy new: $14.78 / Used from: $6.75 This was a remarkable true story about one man who was swallowed by Stalins paranoia. Riviting.
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 | Amadeus: A Play by Peter Shaffer by Peter Shaffer
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $1.85 Seeing as I am a long time fan of the film, being able to read the play was a delight. A very funny read.
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 | Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Buy used from: $18.47 This novel left my brain spinning. Like reading several stories at once.
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 | The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1) by Stephen King
Buy used from: $5.00 Great first book of the Dark Tower series.
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 | The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2) by Stephen King
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.98 Fantastic second book of the Dark Tower series.
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 | Three Plays by Ayn Rand
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.00 "Night of January 16th", early Rand play was a great one sitting read. A gifted storyteller.
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 | The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Buy used from: $3.41 A great collection of short stories about man inhabiting Mars.
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 | Across the Great Divide: The Band and America by Barney Hoskyns
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $10.15 Really good biography of one of my all time favorite bands. Also read "Hotel California"
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 | As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Buy used from: $9.29 One of Faulkner's dense family dramas. A hard but rewarding read.
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 | The Hotel New Hampshire (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by John Irving
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.30 Irving is one of the best, and this is one of his best!
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 | Widow for One Year by Irving John
Buy used from: $6.98 A bit too long. Still masterful story telling.
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 | Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics) by Edith Wharton
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $3.00 This dark love/horror story was a great one sitting read.
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 | When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $6.35 Funny, heartfelt essays on life, love, and all that comes with it. Sedaris is great!
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 | Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $6.24 An intersting tale of a massive porno gang bang told from the perspectives of three men waiting to get their turn. Typical Palahniuk.
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 | The Stranger by Albert Camus
Buy used from: $6.90 The Camus classic! I absolutely loved this bleak novel about being damned for one's belief in nothing.
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 | The 158-Pound Marriage (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by John Irving
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $2.72 I just love Irving's novels. This is perhaps his shortest novel but it is so compelling!
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 | The World According to Garp (Modern Library) by John Irving
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $12.12 The Irving Classic. The world according to Garp is the world according to me!
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 | Eyeless in Gaza (Penguin Modern Classics) by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: $38.23 This is one of Huxley's more thought provoking and heartfelt works. The story of a man coming of age at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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 | Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $12.95 Pynchon's new novel was amazing! I just loved Doc Sportello's wierd stoned out search for his missing ex and her real estate tycoon lover, though nothing is as it seems. The best Los Angeles hippie detective story i'v ever read!
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 | A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library) by John Irving
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $9.85 Irving's absolute MASTEPIECE! One of the greatest stories i've ever read. I can't remember the last time I felt for a character like I did for Owen Meany. Just beautiful.
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 | Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.99 I love Sedaris, and this book didn't disappoint. A bit too much about France though.
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 | Bill Bruford: The Autobiography by Bill Bruford
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $10.77 My favorite drummer lays the record straight. Just loved it!
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 | Slapstick or Lonesome No More!: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.25 This novel, though very good and extremely clever, did not wow me.
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 | The Cider House Rules: A Novel (Modern Library) by John Irving
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $5.98 Slower than most Irving novels, it develops into one of his most engrossing. Another Irving classic!
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 | The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $8.85 Perhaps the best story of the sixties psych revolution. Kesey and the Merry Prankster's took the "trip" to a whole new level!
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 | Ragtime: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.08 Historical fact and fiction collide in this brilliant epic. A story of racial injustice in turn of twentieth century NYC.
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 | Homer & Langley: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $11.58 Doctorow's newest novel is the story of Collyer brother of New York. Its Doctorow's version of how they became infamous eccentric hoarders. Bizzare and fascinating.
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 | The Waterworks: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.90 I'm officially a fan. This clever detective story had my guessing to the finish. Very compelling and very well written.
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 | Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel by John Irving
Buy new: $13.47 / Used from: $12.00 Irving's new novel is a remarkable achievement and stands as one of his best books. It also marks a return to some more familliar themes. Amazing stuff!
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 | Under the Dome: A Novel by Stephen King
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $13.99 I've been eagerly awaiting this novel! King's newest behemouth (1100 pages) is staggering. It's his best in years!
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 | Pirate Latitudes: A Novel by Michael Crichton
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $10.98 I will miss Michael Crichton. He is one of my earliest inspirations and one of my favorite novelists.
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