 | In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1, Swann's Way (Modern Library Classics) (v. 1) by Marcel Proust
Buy new: $10.92 / Used from: $3.43 How could anyone write "their" novel after this read? Every sentence is a work of great art.
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 | The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $1.91 Get an explanation about the characters before you read it, then soak in the pure genius of William Faulkner
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 | Tournament by Shelby Foote
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $14.25 His first and best novel. Hugely forgotten as a novelist. His Civil War trilogy over-shadowed his wonderful fiction.
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 | All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren
Buy used from: $6.97 Could not put it down, nor stop thinking about it when I did.
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 | You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
Buy new: $11.51 / Used from: $2.00 Nor can you find any better than Wolfe in the 20th Century...
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 | O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.00 All of her books are outstanding, but this one stands out to me as her finest. I used to read it to high school students, and they loved it. When you can hit the adult and teen world with characters that aren't vampires or wizards, you're good!
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 | Jane Eyre (Fine Edition) by Charlotte Bronte
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $17.84 The best of the Bronte's. She constructs sentences that can take your breath away!
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: $9.20 / Used from: $1.99 The same applies to this book as O' Pioneers
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 | The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $7.67 I think this is even better than Gatsby and I loved Gatsby!
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 | The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $4.50 Steinbeck's masterpiece!
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 | Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $5.84 Read after Grapes Of Wrath for a great read and laugh!
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 | Far from the Madding Crowd (Modern Library Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $1.19 All gloom and doom. But the best at gloom and doom.
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 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $0.96 IBID
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 | The Plague by Albert Camus
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $4.00 Camus's masterpiece
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 | Adam Bede (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $8.67 George(ette) is the best!
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 | Middlemarch (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by George Eliot
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $2.99 Her masterpiece
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 | A Pair of Blue Eyes (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy used from: $2.26 Can you tell I love Hardy's wrok?
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 | John Adams by David McCullough
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $4.00 McCullough is a historian par excellence!
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 | Light in August (The Corrected Text) by William Faulkner
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.22 Another Faulkner classic!
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 | The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $5.19 Layers of timeless symbols
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 | Macbeth (Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages)
Buy new: $50.00 / Used from: $59.76 Have to start with the creator!
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 | Sweet Thursday (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.75 More fun from Steinbeck! It's part II of Cannery Row
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 | Love in a Dry Season by Shelby Foote
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01 My first taste of Foote's delicious fiction
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 | Follow Me Down: A Novel by Shelby Foote
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.69 Another of Foote's forgotten fiction
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 | A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library) by John Irving
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $9.84 Irving's best work!
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