 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) by Betty Smith
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $0.97 my favorite book of all time tells the story of a girl's coming of age in old Brooklyn. Absolutely genuine and infinitely touching
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 | A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.51 My favorite classic. Sydney carton is my kind of hero.
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 | The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $1.87 One of the saddest, yet most romantic love stories i have ever read.
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 | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $5.47 The other half to "A History Of Love"- written by Nicole's husband, and perhaps even more magnificent than the former. the most touching story of 9/11 yet.
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 | Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.30 an excellent mix of interlinking short stories ( fantastic writing, Mitchell is overly literate and puts me to shame) that curiously reminded me of the movies "Crash" and "Babel". A novel quite literally like no other
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 | Prep: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 heartbreaking coming of age.
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 | Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 Mcewan at his best: this novel remained in my head for days and days after i'd finished it
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 | The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.95 something everyone should read about and remember
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 | Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.01 a classic masterpiece.
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 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $3.99 there couldn't be a more eccentric, more inspiring protagonist in the world of fiction.
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $1.23 A whole other world, someone so different from us, yet who can see so much more.
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 | Invisible Monsters: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $4.50 Chuck Palahniuk's psychedelic writing style disturbs me, but then it is so intriguing.
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 | Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 horrifying, entertaining, inspiring.
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 | Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $4.26 not as good as "extremely loud and incredibly close" in my opinion, but profound and thought-provoking all the same
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 | The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri
Buy new: $9.72 / Used from: $1.74 reading this novel is like living a life- experiences everyone can identify with in brilliantly-written prose
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 | Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.92 "The only convincing love story of our century- vanity fair
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 | The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $0.01 this book made me cry so much i almost forgot where i was. i couldn't put this book down, not even for a second. I finished this in 4 hours, but i wouldn't mind reading it forever: it was worth every minute.
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 | A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking
Buy used from: $0.01 This book made me feel so insignificant that I did not want to continue on reading, but then it also made me feel so curious that I wanted to know more about everything.
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 | The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $4.07 brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
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 | The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition) by Douglas Adams
Buy used from: $19.88 hilarious. best entertainment ever.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Buy new: $9.79 / Used from: $3.98 words cannot describe how wonderful this novel is. I could identify with Holden Caufield on so many levels. best narrative in the history of literature.
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 | The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Buy new: $4.50 / Used from: $0.01 i recently discovered kate chopin and her beautiful characterization. Not only is this novel a gem, all her short stories read like little masterpieces. definitely not a book to miss.
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy used from: $1.08 it's hard for me to pinpoint what i felt so appealing about this novel. I just know I read it, and I liked it a lot.
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 | The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Buy used from: $1.39 I cried. this thin volume touches you somewhere deep down inside, and afterwards the memory of the story lingers like an ache.
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