 | The Pearl (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $8.57 / Used from: $2.74 A beautiful short story. This should be taught in all schools. story of greed and envy
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: $0.01 one of the greatest. the sweat latino way of writing....Full of love,pain, sex,patriotism and above all life itself
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 | The Stranger (Everyman's Library) by Albert Camus
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $9.00 A great short story. the common subject of "Who is sick;society or individual" is told and argued in strong scheme.
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 | As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Buy used from: $9.99 one of the best ways to learn about selfishness and greed is to read this novel that looks like a hard read but that is the magic secret of how Faulkner became one of the best. two thumbs up.
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 | The Good Earth (Enriched Classics) by Pearl S. Buck
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.24 Sweet novel about the destructive power of greed and money. about the link to earth that keeps you going till the end.
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 | Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.15 Magnificent psychoanalytic story about what is wrong or right...It is the story of the conscience struggle with logic and emotions.
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 | The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $7.97 similar to camus's "the Stranger" in the sense that the hero is the healthy part in the equation of individual /society struggle..
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 | How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.99 short story about greed that will be a killer. this should make a great movie if not already done
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 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $2.95 great description of the miserable life of siberian prisoner that touches your heart to the core
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 | Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $4.00 Nice story. Nice style. Nice in all
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 | My Childhood by Maksim Gorky
Buy new: $29.20 / Used from: $14.97 Unforgettable tale of russian boyhood coloured by poverty,pain and ride out into the world...
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 | The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $2.98 Pretty engaging with great pros. it is a love story in the middle of religious drama.
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 | The Golovlyov Family (New York Review Books Classics) by Shchedrin
Buy new: $10.10 / Used from: $2.74 a powerful story of a family full of money hunger and greed. The concept of "bad tree will give you worse seeds" is well depicted by shchedrin
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 | Animal Farm: Centennial Edition by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $5.84 Great book. This doesn't just represent the Stalin's Russia,as it was designed for,but the ugly truth of most of politics through history.
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 | Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Buy used from: $4.12 This is NOT a children book. It is the story of every nation in history depicted as kids turning into beasts in the pursuit of greed and love of power...
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 | The Giver by Lois Lowry
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $1.67 Nice work by Lois Lowry that values the human curiosity to rebel,to ask questions and thrive in bad times.
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