 | A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $8.29 / Used from: $0.20 2/1-2/2 Not the best Hemingway I've ever read (OLD MAN AND THE SEA is better and so are the short stories) but still a good read, especially in comparison to other war novels.
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 | The Unvanquished: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.36 2/2-2/3 My introduction to Faulkner and a nice easy read. There's not much more to say.
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 | As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $0.44 2/4-2/7 Possibly the best novel on this list. It is absolutely amazing, to say the very least. I'm not sure I've ever read anything more interesting and unique.
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 | Main Street (Signet Classics) by Sinclair Lewis
Buy used from: $0.01 2/8-2/10, 2/17 Not a recommedation. I tried twice to battle my way through it and it simply didn't work. BORING!!!
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 | Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $0.01 2/10-2/11 Sinclair Lewis could have benifited from this book's lesson. Keep it short . . . and good! The meanings and such are real easy to pick up on, which is great.
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 | Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe
Buy new: $7.92 / Used from: $1.12 2/12 Sat down in bed to read this and didn't move for four hours. It was that good. The last sentence will make it all worthwhile.
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 | Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.04 2/13-2/16 Fit well here after and African novel, plus I was on a kind of Hemingway kick. Not stellar, but decent "nonfiction."
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 2/25-2/28 A brilliant novel, though you'll think it's pointless if you're not paying good attention. I read it again in May.
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 | Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $1.98 2/28-3/14 To be honest, I thought this would be faster paced and more exciting. Took me a while, and I wouldn't give it more than three stars.
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 | The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $0.98 3/5-3/6 A friend put me on the trail of this thought-provoking nonfiction. Most parts are good, but I'd recommend skimming. Things can get real technical at times.
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 | The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $0.01 3/15-3/21 One of the top five contemporary novels I've read, and in more than a literary sense. A very exciting and interesting book. Not for the faint of heart.
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 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 3/21-4/1 This book has more layers than an onion. Chances are you won't see all of them; I'm sure I didn't. An amazing and positively realistic novel that will make you laugh more than once.
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 | The Cave by Jose Saramago
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $0.01 3/25-4/6 At first Saramago's interesting (lack of) punctuation might throw you off, but everyone gets used to it eventually. A great read. I'd recommend knowing a bit about Plato's REPUBLIC first.
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 3/29-3/30 This is something you can probably whip through in about two hours, and you'll be shocked at how entertaining it is. Learn about autism and love every minute!
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 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics) by Lewis Carroll
Buy new: $3.95 / Used from: $0.30 4/7 & 4/8 This book contains two very short novels, both of which can be read in a day (or at least that's what I did). It is a kid's book but there's so much interesting and funny stuff in there too!
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 | The Jungle Book (Tor Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.01 4/8-4/12 A mildly entertaining book. By no means among the best on this list. Don't get me wrong: It's fun, but if you're not into this kind of stuff, leave it alone.
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 | The Jungle Book II (Tor Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
Buy used from: $1.46 4/12-4/14 Better than the original. Still not amazing, but the stories aren't as familiar, so at least you'll have a good time with them. You don't have to read the first one to understand this.
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 4/14-4/22 Wow. This is an awesome book, even for guys. Even though nothing ever seems to happen, you'll find yourself wishing there were more pages when you're done.
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 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $1.49 4/22-4/29 I had no idea this had anything to do with homosexuality, and I'm sure I wouldn't have known if the introduction hadn't told me. Ignore it if you want and read it as a decent horror story.
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 | The Taming of the Shrew (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.58 5/1-5/5 Absolutely hilarious, even if you're not a huge Shakespeare fan. The references aren't that hard to get, especially if you have an active imagination . . .
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 | Blindness (Harvest Book) by Jose Saramago
Buy new: $9.50 / Used from: $0.01 5/18-5/24 Saramago at his best. I'd recommend this before THE CAVE. Both were good. This was amazing. Again, not for the faint of heart.
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 | The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.50 5/19-5/20 Good solid Shakespeare. Harder than TAMING OF THE SHREW, and not as funny, but a very powerful little play.
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 | Hound of the Baskervilles (Aladdin Classics)
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 5/25-5/26 You're not likely to find any deep literary meaning in this one, but it's a good read, and probably the best that mysteries are ever going to get (which, admittedly, isn't saying much).
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