 | Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.01 Simon Legree's name is in the dictionary. He flogged Uncle Tom to death.
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 | Treasure Island (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy used from: $0.01 I was expecting Blackbeard. Long John Silver was a sort of charming wretch.
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 | Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Hannibal Lector.
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 | Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $4.00 A prideful Satan who insists it's better to "reign in hell than to serve in Heaven."
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 | Lord of the Flies (Perigee) by William Golding
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 Jack, the leader of the hunters.
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 | 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.89 Big Brother.
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 | The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.44 More of a fundamentalist devil.
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $1.85 Miss Havisham
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 | Misery by Stephen King
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Kathy Bates, I mean Annie Wilkes. She's even meaner in the book.
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 | Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (87th Precinct Mysteries) by Ed McBain
Buy used from: $2.33 The Deaf Man toys with Steve Carella and the detectives at the 87th Precinct.
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 | East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $2.94 Pick one. Adam Trask's father is certainly a candidate, but I'll go with that barracuda "Cathy" Ames.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I taught this novel at least sixteen times and never got tired of seeing Bob Ewell get what was coming to him.
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 | In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.70 Perry Smith.
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 | The Case of the Deadly Toy (Perry Mason Mystery) by Erle Stanley Gardner
Buy used from: $1.57 Hamilton Burger is more of a worthy adversary.
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 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 Nurse Ratched
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 | The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories (2 Vol. Set) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Buy new: $59.85 / Used from: $34.99 Moriarity is the measuring stick for villains; he was just as smart as Sherlock Holmes.
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 | Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.56 The God of War!
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 | In the Heat of the Night by John Ball
Buy used from: $4.98 Bill Gillespie sort of redeems himself in the end, but he's still an advertisment for the Aryan Nation for most of the book.
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 | An American Tragedy (Signet Classics) by Theodore Dreiser
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.92 Clyde Griffiths murders his pregnant girlfriend because he has a shot at the boss's daughter.
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 | Les Misérables (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $1.93 Inspector Javert
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 | A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $3.49 Alex. I suppose you could say Alex is a victim of his society.
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 | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: $9.83 / Used from: $0.74 Tom Buchanan
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 | Elmer Gantry (Signet Classics) by Sinclair Lewis
Buy used from: $0.01 Elmer was Jim Baker before Jim Baker.
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 | Sanctuary: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $2.05 Take your pick again, but I'll take Popeye. Faulkner's best-selling novel.
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 | A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.99 Some would say The Misfit, others the grandmother.
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