 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.01 stunningly imaginative, surreal, compelling and abrupt as always. my favorite haruki murakami who i recommend to everyone, even if they don't seem like haruki murakami readers, or readers, or people for that matter.
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 | The Book of Disquietude by Bernardo Soares, assistant bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon (Aspects of Portugal) by Fernando Pessoa
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $8.98 a collection of dysthymic thoughts, beautifully provoking and profound... prose that drips through your mind smoother than poetry, pooling in crevices, staying with you for the rest of your (un)conscious thoughts. i am a 28 year old woman and i think this 19th century writer may have been my portuguese soul mate... we just missed each other by a century.
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 | Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $0.01 maybe i just loved it because i am an aspiring writer and have dear aspiring writer friends. we aspirers struggle; those who make it struggle. read with lucy grealy's autobiography of a face. before, simultaneously, or after.
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 | Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $0.73 see above.
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 | The Center of Winter: A Novel (P.S.) by Marya Hornbacher
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $1.85 also loved her memoir, wasted, but her novel amazed me as well.
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 | Ariel: The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: $16.73 / Used from: $13.99 poetry is cool.
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 | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.98 mr. genius, genius, genius!!!
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 | The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $1.21 mrs. genius, genius, genius!!!
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 | Beloved by Toni Morrison
Buy new: $6.68 / Used from: $2.39 the only high school required reading that moved and haunted me for years.
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 | Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.50 don't judge the book based on the movie. don't judge the book based on its cover, which is from the movie. krakauer is a storytelling master. he scores high for breaking down the story's events and relating them to his life, our lives, and society's collective life.
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 | Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains by Jon Krakauer
Buy used from: $0.53 i like climbing stories. see? i'm not that predictable.
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 | Zach Galifianakis - Live at the Purple Onion
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.32 wow! bet you didn't see this one coming! random, erratic one-liners dropped on top a soothing piano soundtrack. no sequiturs here. i giggled myself purple onion.
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 | The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Buy used from: $0.01 this is the purple-themed free book association section. i read this book far too late in life. i loved it.
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 | The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $2.99 this book will take up only a cosmic blink of your time. read it while you are wondering what to do with your life... when you're done, you'll still wonder, but with renewed intensity.
i don't know what i mean.
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 | Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.40 nostalgia read.
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: $0.01 one of my favorite books in the whole wide world. maybe i said that already. doesn't matter. it is still true.
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 | Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Buy new: $9.72 / Used from: $0.01 fabulous short story collection.
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 | The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri
Buy new: $9.72 / Used from: $0.01 fabulous novel.
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 | You Remind Me of Me: A Novel by Dan Chaon
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.00 this is my favorite book in the whole wide GALAXY. actually, no, but it's a close second.
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 | Among the Missing (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Dan Chaon
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $2.94 i can't get enough dan chaon.
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 | Succulent Wild Woman by Sark
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 this book inspires me to great succulence. it is hard for me to get in touch with my inner cheese, but this book definitely enables me to take my rampant cynicism down a notch. at least for a few hours. or minutes. whatever.
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 | Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 one of those books where i injured myself trying to read cover to cover without stopping to eat or pee.
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 | I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel by Tom Wolfe
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 TOTALLY AWESOME!!!
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 | You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
Buy used from: $1.75 i keep saying this is one of my favorite short story collections, but i actually don't remember it very well. at the time i read it i remember insisting others must as well. or maybe not. i drink a lot.
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 | The New Moosewood Cookbook (Mollie Katzen's Classic Cooking) by Mollie Katzen
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $9.36 i love many moosewood cookbooks, but this is my bible.
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 | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.76 there is nothing i can say.
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 | Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $1.95 educational and funny as hell. it nearly made me giggle myself into devout veganism. (but also has gory slaughterhouse info.)
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 | The New Earth From Above: 365 Days by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Buy new: $14.35 / Used from: $11.32 saw the real exhibit in paris eons ago, my favorite photographs by far. zoom out, zoom out, zoom out...
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 | Power Thought Cards (Beautiful Card Deck) by Louise Hay
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $9.51 i actually prefer the SARK version, but perhaps they are no longer made. give to friends and mean it.
"i don't believe in god, but i believe in power thought cards." -me
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 | No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories by Miranda July
Buy new: $19.66 / Used from: $2.40 marry me book, marry me and we shall give birth to beautiful novellas with less of a lemon, and more of a cream hardcover color.
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 | Rand Mcnally World Map (Classic Edition World Wall Map) by Rand McNally and Company
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $8.49 know where you are, not where you're going.
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 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.87 i hate dave eggers. he is so AWESOME.
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