 | Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Richardson
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $3.04 The biggest. Not a novel....more of a monstrously large tome.
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 | War and Peace (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.99 As famous for being long as it is for being great.
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 | Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.50 What a great load of crap this book is. Still, it's looooooong.
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 | A Suitable Boy: Novel, A by Vikram Seth
Buy used from: $0.74 I know very little about Vikram Seth, but what I've heard intrigues me.
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 | Infinite Jest: A Novel by David Foster Wallace
Buy used from: $6.00 Huge, but more than worth it. Hilarious stuff--a fantastic, illuminating read.
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 | The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: $53.55 / Used from: $42.50 Regardless of your opinion on its literary qualities, this is undeniably a one-of-a-kind achievement in literature.
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 | The Stand (Modern Classics) by Stephen King
Buy used from: $2.18 One hell of a ripping good yarn. King's greatest novel.
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 | Gravity's Rainbow (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $2.99 The Big, Scary Novel of the second half of the twentieth century. Don't let that frighten you--this is a dense and beautiful work.
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 | The Recognitions (Penguin Classics) by William Gaddis
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $10.95 One of the more fascinating books I've ever read--doesn't even seem to be 1000 pages.
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 | Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $2.50 The SF tag is a misnomer--there is a great deal more depth and interest in this novel then that label would imply
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 | Ulysses by James Joyce
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $3.98 Best novel of the century? I doubt it. One of the best? Maybe.
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 | Remembrance of Things Past Volumes 1-3 Box Set by Marcel Proust
Buy used from: $49.99 I'm scared to read this--although, like Finnegans Wake, it's one of those I'm going to have to read someday....
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