 | To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Harper Lee
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $4.59 Finally
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 | Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Re-read while hung over
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 | Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life, Second Edition (Literary Lives) by Linda Wagner-Martin
Buy new: $38.00 / Used from: $3.60 What We Talk About When We Talk About Plath [ourselves]
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 | Eleanor Rigby: A Novel by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $1.34 I got most of the way through before I got bored
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 | Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Buy new: $16.48 / Used from: $15.99 Halfway through before I reluctantly admitted to myself the writing annoyed me
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 | Ida by Gertrude Stein
Buy used from: $16.95 Mmmm
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 | Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $1.25 Cried so hard I could not see
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 | The Mitford Girls by Mary S. Lovell
Buy used from: $1.81 Never a more charming/charmed childhood than theirs. And the one sister, Unity, ended up falling in love with Hitler, shooting herself in the head, and living through both.
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 | Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $1.60 The other side of Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett.
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 | The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
Agnosticism when it was still radical
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 | No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $2.22 Hell is other people
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 | Anastasia on Her Own by Lois Lowry
Buy used from: $0.01 The cover of the edition Amazon carries is frightening.
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| The Changeling by Joy. Williams
Buy used from: $18.00 Out of print, decried, denounced, rejected... and I mean, it wasn't GREAT, but it was never boring either. Many great books are boring.
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 | Breaking and Entering by Joy Williams
Buy new: $17.00 / Used from: $0.27 I loved Joy Williams a lot more before I read Jane Bowles. Williams copied Bowles in style and content to such a degree that I'm surprised she leaves the house without shades on.
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 | Matchbox Labels by Joan Rendell
Buy used from: $7.00 The Swedish ones are best (as usual)
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 | The Journals of Andre Gide: Volume 1 (A Vintage Book K33A) by Andre Gide
Buy used from: $5.00 His insecurity and self-doubt has a sassiness to it that I admire
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 | Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal by Alexandra Johnson
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $4.75 I read this at sixteen and highlighted the parts I liked with a green highlighter. It was a library book. Then I happened upon the same copy again this summer.
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| Jean Rhys: Life and Work by Carole Angier
Buy used from: $1.85 Sadder story than the saddest of her novels
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 | When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Buy new: $17.15 / Used from: $1.98 You know. He's funny.
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 | you are a little bit happier than i am (Farsi and Yiddish Edition) by Tao Lin
Buy new: $12.60 / Used from: $12.19 I read this guy's blog. This book is a lot lot lot like his blog. Which makes the book less special.
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