 | Les Misérables (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $1.35 I discovered Les Miserables (unabridged) version in junior high, and was completely blown away. The pages are now yellowed and worn but every time I find something new, something to take away, and that is the best you can hope for in a novel.
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 | Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $2.00 The first Calvino book I read was: If on a winter's night a traveler... a challenge to read but worth the effort.
Invisible cities should make this list, but if I had to choose one Calvino book it would be this one. There's a whimsical surreal beauty to Cosmicomics. You instantly fall into his bizarre magical world.
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 | The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas père
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $5.59 revenge, injustice, forgiveness, hope against all odds...all these themes make for a compelling read.
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 | Strange Pilgrims (Penguin International Writers) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: $1.45 |
 | Wuthering Heights (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Emily Brontë
Buy used from: $5.18 I had an English instructor who once said love could be thought of in two ways: the world described by Emily Bronte in Wuthering Heights or the world described by Charlotte Bronte in Jane Eyre.I would probably fall under the former.
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 | 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.01 |
 | Early Poems, 1935-1955 (New Directions Paperbook, Ndp354) by Octavio Paz
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $3.23 I had bad experiences with English courses, call it overexposure to Robert Frost poems. No offense, he just doesn't do it for me. And then I read Octavia Paz and I suddenly couldn't get enough poetry in my life.
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 | 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $3.25 |
 | A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.10 |
 | Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.47 |
 | The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Buy used from: $8.21 |
 | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy used from: $1.70 |
 | Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Buy new: $8.54 / Used from: $6.76 Not sure if it was appropriate to read @ 13yrs. but my reading was never monitored. I wonder, would it be horrible of me to say I liked the Marquise character the best? A villain you love to hate.
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