 | Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 My new favorite book ever. This was outstanding.
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 | The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $0.01 A book club selection. I've been wanting to read this for a while so I'm glad I was forced to finally do it. Enjoyed the story and learned a lot about Afghanistan.
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 | Beach Music: A Novel by Pat Conroy
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.97 V-Day gift from my lady friend. Taught me a lot about South Carolina. Really liked it.
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 | Roads : Driving America's Great Highways by Larry McMurtry
Buy new: $11.11 / Used from: $0.01 Bought this when I saw it on display at a bookstore. Quick and enjoyable read.
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 | A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
Buy used from: $1.97 Another book club assignment. I don't know what we're going to discuss about this book as it's mostly just a factual recounting of Newby's trip. Not much to talk about.
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 | The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.55 A book club assignment.
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 | Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $2.92 Recommended by a friend of mine who said it was one of his favorites. Orwell discovers everything he's always believed is wrong and must decide whether or not to pursue a new path. I'm eager to tackle this one.
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 | Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $1.86 A book club assignment. Twain said it was his proudest achievement. Not a bad endorsement there.
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 | I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.95 A book club assignment.
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 | Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.99 I've been wanting to read it ever since I saw it on display at the Clinton library in Little Rock as one of his favorite books. Not sure why, though, because I actually don't really like Clinton. Just curious, that's all.
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 | The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Dover Value Editions) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $3.84 Tolstoy's argument for Christ's will for us to turn the other cheek and pursue a commitment to non-violence. If it was good enough for Gandhi, perhaps I can make some use of it.
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 | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $7.91 Took a stab at it last summer. This year, I'm finishing what I started.
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 | Anarchy, State, And Utopia by Robert Nozick
Buy used from: $5.00 Nozick's political opus. He starts from a position of no-state and builds up to his desired minimalist level while discussing other options. Sounds fascinating.
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 | Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion by John Wooden
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $9.61 I read one of Wooden's books in college and really enjoyed it. I'd like to become a coach, so learning about his philosophy is really appealing to me. He was incredibly sucessful as a coach but he takes most of his joy from the way he helped shape young men for their futures - a model I'd like to follow.
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 | Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $0.01 A book club assignment.
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 | The Company: A Novel of the CIA by Robert Littell
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 A book club assignment.
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 | The Shield of Achilles by Philip Bobbitt
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $3.50 Got about 100 pages into this book a couple years ago. Weighty but very interesting. Hopefully in the summer I'll be able to really concentrate on it.
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 | Whistling Dixie: Dispatches from the South by John Shelton Reed
Buy used from: $0.01 I've gotten about 1/2 way through this one and am enjoying it immensely. Reed embraces southern elitism with an academic and humorous flair. Right up my alley.
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 | Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond by Robert D. Kaplan
Buy new: $7.50 / Used from: $0.37 Kaplan's take on assymetric warfare and the US military's response to it. His writing always charges me up, so I'm pumped about this one.
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 | Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.64 My lady friend just read this and highly recommended it. I'd like to be able to discuss it with her, so I'm going to read it too.
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 | Stranger in a Strange Land, New Edition by Christopher Hurt Robert A. Heinlein
Buy new: $21.75 / Used from: $16.50 Trying to broaden my sci-fi horizons and I also heard that this is a cherished fiction work for libertarians.
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 | Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, (Vintage) by Robert A. Caro
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $4.12 The first two LBJ volumes by Caro were marvelous. I can't see why this one won't be as well.
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 | Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus by Robert D. Kaplan
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.87 Kaplan's my favorite non-fiction writer and I've heard good things about this book. I bought it a couple years ago along with a few of his others. I've read the others and am eager to tackle this one.
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 | The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Buy used from: $1.00 I've read a few books by Wolfe and loved them, so I'd like to read another one this year.
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 | Das Kapital, Gateway Edition (Skeptical Reader Series) by Karl Marx
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $6.76 I don't agree with Marx but, to tell you the truth, I don't completely know what I don't agree with yet. I think socialism is a waste of time but I'd still like to know what he had to say.
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 | America's Great Depression by Murray N. Rothbard
Buy new: $29.00 / Used from: $15.50 Rothbard a leading proponent of anarcho-capitalism and this is one of the few books that approaches the Great Depression from the perspective of what the government did to fonk it all up.
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 | The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics) by John Cheever
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $1.90 Got this off of the top 100 fiction works of the 20th century list. Sounds interesting.
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 | The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.08 Got this off of the top 100 fiction works of the 20th century list. Sounds interesting.
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 | Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller
Buy new: $9.74 / Used from: $0.93 I read Miller's "Through Painted Deserts" and enjoyed it. I figured I'd give this a try too.
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 | Shogun by James Clavell
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 I always see this book in the libraries of people I respect. I'm curious to see what it's all about.
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 | The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1) by Stephen King
Buy used from: $54.19 Given to me by a friend a few years ago. I've been meaning to read this for a while.
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 | The Myth of National Defense by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $15.50 Would people be defended by evil-doers in an anarchic society? I'd like to know more.
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 | The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World by Bjorn Lomborg
Buy new: $19.79 / Used from: $2.89 I don't know much about global warming, so I hope this book gives me some objective information on which to build.
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 | Mergers & Acquisitions by Dana Vachon
Buy new: $19.38 / Used from: $0.01 This looks like it could be pretty funny.
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 | The Christian Life: A Doctrinal Introduction by Sinclair B. Ferguson
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $2.87 This dude is one theological Scotsman.
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 | Mexico by James A. Michener
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Read a Michener book in college and really liked it. Saw this at a store for like a buck so I went ahead and grabbed it.
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 | Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.93 I've been putting this one off for far too long.
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 | A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $1.08 Ronald Reagan mentioned this book in one of his old radio addresses I heard recently. I thought it sounded pretty cool.
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 | Diplomacy (A Touchstone book) by Henry Kissinger
Buy new: $16.56 / Used from: $3.87 Kissinger's an interesting dude, so I think it would be cool to read this.
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 | Promise and Deliverance: Volume II, the Failure of Israel's Theocracy by S. G. DeGraaf
Buy used from: $19.99 Read volume I two years ago. Awesome. Hope to read volumes II-IV this year.
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