 | A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $10.30 Dull as ditch water, but fun to read when your mind is a blank and nothing but silence surrounds you.
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 | Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $8.97 Chock full of great stories. Essential.
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 | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $7.91 About man's relationship to God and other stuff.
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 | Doctor Thorne (Penguin Classics) by Anthony Trollope
Buy used from: $10.62 You can see where this novel is going after the first hundred pages...Then it goes on for an another 500 pages.
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 | Washington Square (Modern Library Classics) by Henry James
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $0.01 About a young woman treated abominally by her father.
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 | A Thousand Acres: A Novel by Jane Smiley
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.03 An okay novel.
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 | American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.85 About a man who questioned life too late and was disturbed by the answers he finally confronted.
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 | The Best of C.M. Kornbluth by C. M. Kornbluth
Buy used from: $5.64 Kornbluth had a great dark sense of humor and his plots are unique for their time period, the golden age of science fiction. He is largely unknown today, as the unavailability of this book attests to.
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 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.01 The first 3 times i started this i couldn't get past the first half. I finally made it through this time.
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 | Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin Classics) by Thomas De Quincey
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $7.00 A disturbing and genuinely great work.
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 | Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.42 About a woman whose childhood friend still haunts her.
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 | Lord Jim (Penguin Classics) by Joseph Conrad
Buy used from: $0.01 About a real schmuck.
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 | Oliver Twist (Penguin Audio Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy used from: $104.56 Not the best Dickens i've read. Too contrived and Oliver is tiresome.
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| Heat and Other Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
Buy used from: $0.01 My favorite Oates collection. Some really fun stories.
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 | Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text by William Faulkner
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.83 Damn fine!
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 | Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (Signet Classics) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $0.93 Love the tragedies.
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 | Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.50 Atwood revisits the genre of science fiction, extrapolating a horrible future from our miserable present.
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