 | The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.26 A late, great entry into the annals of the sub-genre Catholic Science Fiction. A great read.
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 | Children of God (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Mary Doria Russell
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.67 The sequel to the Sparrow, just as interesting and readable.
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 | Glittering Images by Susan Howatch
Buy new: $17.10 / Used from: $2.20 Previously know for psychologically acute family sagas and gothics, Susan Howatch broke the mold with these nine books of life in the Church of England through the twentieth century. If that sounds boring, I assure you that it is anything but! Try it and see.
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 | Glamorous Powers by Susan Howatch
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Book 2.
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 | Ultimate Prizes (Church of England) by Susan Howatch
Buy used from: $1.65 Book 3
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 | Scandalous Risks (Church of England) by Susan Howatch
Buy used from: $4.94 Book 4
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 | Mystical Paths by Susan Howatch
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Book 5
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 | Absolute Truths by Susan Howatch
Buy used from: $1.66 Book 6
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 | The Wonder Worker (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Susan Howatch
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 This starts a new trilogy in the church of England series, following the exploits of Nicholas Darrow of Mystical Paths. A great stand-alone trilogy lots of mysticism and mayhem.
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 | The High Flyer (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Susan Howatch
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $0.01 Book 2.
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 | The Heartbreaker: A Novel by Susan Howatch
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $3.20 Book 3.
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 | The Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $3.00 More mysticism and academia, Davies shines at everything.
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 | The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $0.03 Davies Masterpiece of Jungian typology and psychology.
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 | Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $5.35 Great space opera.
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 | 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: $0.92 The ultimate in both dysfunctional family sagas and historical fiction.
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 | Claudius the God: And His Wife Messalina by Robert Graves
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.14 The sequel to Claudius
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 | A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Great WWII fiction.
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 | The Raj Quartet: The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion (Everyman's Library) by Paul Scott
Buy new: $21.45 / Used from: $18.73 The beginning of the Raj Quartet which arguably could have been worth a Nobel. An under-read masterpiece.
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 | The Raj Quartet: The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils (Everyman's Library) by Paul Scott
Buy new: $21.45 / Used from: $7.96 Amazing realism and the final two novels to the Jewel in the Crown.
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 | Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics) by Michel de Montaigne
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $9.88 Montaigne is in the room with you for these esseay on the vagaries of life.
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 | Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $6.00 Life and growth through the eyes of an English mystic.
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 | Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Collector's Set (40 discs)
Buy new: $166.99 / Used from: $120.00 What can I say? I love them.
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 | Angel: Seasons 1-5 (Collectors Set)
Buy new: $115.99 / Used from: $67.59 A spin-off of buffy, but stands alone.
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 | The Jewel in the Crown (25th Anniversary Edition)
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $22.94 |
 | The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels by Nancy Mitford
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.86 English aristocracy between the wars, my favorites.
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 | Echoes in the Darkness by Joseph Wambaugh
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Haunting true crime.
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 | Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: $9.74 / Used from: $2.99 More English Aristocracy between the wars. Oh to be born then and born well.
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 | The Golden Compass, Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition (His Dark Materials, Book 1)(Rough-cut) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $2.14 The first in this amazing fantasy series, and appropriate for young readers as the philosophical elements aren't yet so evident.
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 | The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: $7.50 / Used from: $0.01 Book 2 in the trilogy, introduces a new character. Still ok for young readers.
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 | The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: $7.50 / Used from: $0.01 Definitely YA for adults by the time the third book comes around, but love, love, love moral fiction for young readers written from a different philosophical perspective.
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 | Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A great WWII novel from the perspective of European and American women. I only wish she had been allowed to add the planned Russian section, which would have made it even more epic.
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 | Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (Signet Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $3.46 Some of the most beautiful and mythic prose ever. The Fisherman and His Soul is my favorite.
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