 | Green Eggs and Ham (I Can Read It All by Myself Beginner Books) by Dr. Seuss
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 My sainted mother read it to me over and over again.
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 | Richard Scarry's Best Storybook Ever! (Giant Little Golden Book) by Richard Scarry
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $0.50 I'd pore over this for hours. Great for expanding young vocabularies.
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 | Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
Buy new: $3.95 / Used from: $1.49 I read it many times as a kid.
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 | Anne of Green Gables (Children's Classics) by L.M. Montgomery
Buy used from: $0.01 The whole set is wonderful. I've just bought it on Audio CD for my daughter to listen to with me while traveling.
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 | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Buy used from: $0.06 Required reading for many young Southern girls
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 | The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 This was a great book to have read before a student trip through Italy.
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 | The Source by James A. Michener
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 In my opinion, Michener's best.
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 | Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
Buy new: $8.50 / Used from: $0.01 Opened my eyes to a different kind of spirituality than I had grown up with.
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $9.49 Intense!
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 | Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.65 Fun and sexy, except for the long passage about the picture on a pack of Camels.
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 | The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy: Or everything your doctor won't tell you by Vicki Iovine
Buy used from: $0.01 I laughed so hard I almost tee-teed in my giant maternity underwear!
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 | The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $0.98 I love everything by Barbara Kingsolver. This was a fascinating novel.
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 | Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.00 I couldn't put it down. I took it in the car in case I had time to read at red lights. The whole series is like that!
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 | Harry Potter Hardcover Box Set (Books 1-6) by J. K. Rowling
Buy used from: $90.58 This stuff's like candy!
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 | The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Another favorite author of mine.
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 | The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love by Jill Conner Browne
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 All the books are hilarious, especially if you hear them read by the author.
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 | The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches) by Anne Rice
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I loved Anne Rice's vampires, but I love her witches more.
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 | Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 If you're an Anglophile at all, you should read Edward Rutherford.
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 | Fat White Vampire Blues by Andrew Fox
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.63 Written by my best pal from college and set in my home town of New Orleans.
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 | The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 A beautiful story of love and loss.
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 | Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
Buy used from: $0.02 Another great author if you enjoy English historical fiction.
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 | Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.98 Listen to it read by the author. "You Can't Kill the Rooster" is funny beyond words.
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 | Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $0.01 My daughter and I have loved listening to this series together.
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 | One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, No. 1) by Janet Evanovich
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I love the Stephanie Plum novels. They're a hoot!
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 | The Horrendous Heap (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Books 1-12) by Lemony Snicket
Buy used from: $75.00 They're great read by Tim Curry. I enjoyed these more than the kids did!
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