 | Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.49 Life-altering, philosophical novel best read when young!
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 | The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.55 More novel than philosophy, unforgettable.
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 | She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club) by Wally Lamb
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Unbelievable that it's a novel, it felt so real. Hilarious and upbeat at times, painful and heartbreaking at others. I couldn't put it down and am so glad to have found Wally Lamb.
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 If only one Austen is ever read, please make it this one!
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 | In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.73 True crime expressed with the imagination of a novel. The moment you open this, you are transported to late 1950's rural Kansas , where a respected family was brutally murdered.
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 | Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Like boot camp, this one is excruciatingly painful at times - I am in my darkest of moods when reading books by this author. But after reading, I appreciate my life more and am grateful for it!
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 | Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $0.94 Every spectrum of human emotion is found right here in this incredible novel.
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 | Emma (Bantam Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 Gwyneth Paltrow can't hold a candle to the REAL Emma!
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 | Mansfield Park (Signet Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy used from: $0.01 |
 | Sense and Sensibility (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy used from: $0.84 So wonderful you won't put it down! Buy Kleenex!
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 | Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.01 For those of you who love England, a funny and telling portrait of the "small island".
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 | Scandalmonger (Harvest Book) by William Safire
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 18th century novel about colonial America which is historically accurate. Alexander Hamilton, Franklin, Jefferson - they're all found in here, and it's a FANTASTIC story!
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 | The Secret Garden (HarperClassics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 My favorite book as a child still finds its way onto my grown up bookshelves!
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 | Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 Most of you have already read this, but if you haven't you're in for a real treat!
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 | Amadeus: A Play by Peter Shaffer by Peter Shaffer
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $1.64 If you loved the movie, you have to read the play! ;)
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 | A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.01 If you like stories about heroes, you'll love this short, easy to read play about Sir Thomas More. What a man!
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 | Art: A New History by Paul Johnson
Buy new: $30.36 / Used from: $2.43 I recommend everything Paul Johnson has ever written - he is a true scholar who is so clear, so concise, so artfully written. He's the best!
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 | The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough
Buy used from: $0.01 Really great historically accurate novel of Ancient Rome.
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 | About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Nick Hornby - need I say more?
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 | Les Misérables (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $1.95 You won't ever forget it.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A classic.
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 | The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Buy used from: $7.17 For fun, I pass through the doors of 221B Baker St. - and I am never disappointed!
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 | The Hound of the Baskervilles (Modern Library Classics) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $0.74 My favorite of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.
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 | The Planets by Dava Sobel
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $0.01 |
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