 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $2.97 Watch the movie first. Then read the book. Then read the book out loud, in the voices of Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro.
|
 | The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (Harvest Book, Hb 294) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $4.13 Exquisite and thoughtful prose. Essays on Coleridge's daughter, death, Gibbon, death, E.M. Forster, and death.
|
 | Salammbo (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.13 Fun for pomegranite-enthusiasts.
|
 | The Adding Machine: Selected Essays by William S. Burroughs
Buy new: $10.10 / Used from: $3.99 Gets repititious, but a lot of interesting stuff.
|
 | The Symposium (Penguin Classics) by Plato
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $1.66 Read this and develop a greater appreciation for the song "The origin of Love" from Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
|
 | I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.93 Really fun.
|
 | The Custom of the Country
Buy used from: $8.81 Great satire about Undine Spragg, one of literature's worst-named and most insatiable characters.
|
 | Heat and Other Stories (Contemporary Fiction, Plume) by Joyce Carol Oates
Buy new: $26.00 / Used from: $0.01 This is a fun collection by the short story master Joyce Carol Oates.
|
 | Supertoys Last All Summer Long: And Other Stories of Future Time by Brian W. Aldiss
Buy new: $14.52 / Used from: $2.17 Great science fiction stories from Brian Aldiss. Not included is the story "Outside," which is one of my favorites of Aldiss'.
|
 | Edgar Huntley: Memoirs of a Sleepwalker by Charles Brockden Brown
One of the U.S.' first homegrown novelists. Sloppily structured and too many loose ends, but interesting for being full of a lot of crazy crap.
|
 | The Decameron (Signet Classics) by Giovanni Boccaccio
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $3.35 100 stories, more than a few being bawdy, told during the black plague.
|
 | Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Vonnegut is always a great read.
|
 | Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.15 Atwood's story of manmade apocalypse.
|
 | Troilus and Cressida (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $7.00 / Used from: $0.01 Shakespeare debunks the myths of glorious war and romantic love.
|
 | I Lost it at the Movies by Pauline Kael
Buy new: $13.46 / Used from: $6.20 Pauline Kael is a scrupulous examiner of films. All of her collections are highly recommended.
|
 | Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $4.61 Fun stuff.
|
 | The Golem (Dover Mystery, Detective, & Other Fiction) by Gustav Meyrink
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.69 Weird stuff.
|
 | The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $3.89 About a young woman with divided loyalties. Funny ending.
|
 | Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.99 Lethem's homage to Dick.
|
 | Shadows on the Rock (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $3.60 Quebec in the late 17th century. A quiet novel.
|
 | Closer: A Novel (Cooper, Dennis) by Dennis Cooper
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $1.49 The dehumanizing treatment inflicted upon a gay teen.
|
 | The Names by Don DeLillo
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $0.45 More fun from Delillo.
|
 | Our Gang by Philip Roth
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $0.68 Ends with Dick Nixon running for president of Hell.
|
 | In the Land of Time: And Other Fantasy Tales (Penguin Classics) by Lord Dunsany
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.00 Fun fantasy.
|
 | Deadeye Dick: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.70 About a genuinely strang human being.
|
Listmania!
