 | The Fuck-Up by Arthur Nersesian
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.65 Arthur Nersesian is one of my favorite NYC-based writers. His first novel blew me away the first time I read it and I've been a fan ever since.
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 | Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: $13.00 / Used from: $7.99 Nazis? Masturbation? Bombs? That's Thomas Pynchon in a nutshell. One of the greatest novels of all time.
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 | Hot Water Music by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $6.45 Bukowski is a dirty twisted old codger. And I love every single word that he generated in this collection of some of his best material.
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 | Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: $10.39 / Used from: $6.39 My favorite HST book. As one politician noted, "It's the least factual and most accurate depiction of the 1972 election."
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 | The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda
Buy used from: $0.04 A step into Carlos Castaneda's world is a step towards enlightenment.
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 | The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $8.93 Dharma Bums is one of those books I read every other year. Perhaps Kerouac's most underrated novel.
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 | Swimming to Cambodia by Spalding Gray
Buy new: $11.07 / Used from: $3.89 Spalding Gray's monologues are the best in the business.
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 | A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Buy used from: $67.62 This was not published until after John Kennedy Toole committed suicide. Sad tale but an epic story.
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 | The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $8.82 / Used from: $4.48 An eye-opener
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 | Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $1.46 The man, myth, and legend.
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